Digest — 2025-09-16:

In the glow of the candle

11 things I like about my job

september 16 etc

Slow social media

Slop comes for everything you love

Why self-understanding is your most valuable leadership asset

Neuroscience shows that speed reading is bullshit

Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: How to handle disruption without hitting an iceberg

Science’s answer to the ultimate question: Where do we come from?

How to Use AI Without Becoming Stupid

The Heart of the Andes and the Invention of Virtual Reality: Frederic Edwin Church’s Immersive 19th-century Paintings of Natural Wonders

The Perils of Using AI to Replace Entry-Level Jobs

How Lyft’s CEO Got the Company Moving Again

Supercharging Innovation with “Flash Teams”

The Hidden Cost of Rushing into Emerging Markets

What Disruptive Innovators Do Differently

Fun logic puzzle game called Clues by Sam. “Your goal is to...

A 16-Hour Video Series on Everything that Happened in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s

Photographer Upends His Whole Life to Chase Auroras Around the Arctic. “Prior...

Incredibly Realistic 3D Models of the Moon’s Surface (From 1874!)

How Climate Scientists Saw the Future Before It Arrived. “‘The goal of...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: ‘Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause’....

A McSweeney’s list that’s not that funny: How to Tell the Difference...

A Clock: An Online Remake of Christian Marclay’s The Clock

“Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in...

Ok, I think I have to move back to NYC (at least...

Pac

Monthly Roundup #34: September 2025

LLM AGI may reason about its goals and discover misalignments by default

Was Barack Obama still serving as president in December?

“If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” release day!

I Vibecoded a Dispute Resolution App

I have divided (and partly uninformed) views on OpenTelemetry

When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow

Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

Rupert's Snub Cube and other Math Holes

Just for fun: animating a mosaic of 90s GIFs

Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2509

Godot 4.5 release

In Defense of C++

Claude Can (Sometimes) Prove It

A detailed review of macOS 26 Tahoe

Swift 6.2 Released

ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised

Task v3.45 released

How to implement the Outbox pattern in Go and Postgres

Java 25

How I Use AI

Be Careful When Assigning ArenaAllocators (2024)

Map Room: A Radical Reading List on Cartographic Power, Perspective, and Possibility

Inside the Very Expensive, Extremely Overwhelming, Engineered Fun of Theme Parks

Madness on a Mountain: For 15 Years, My Mom was Trapped in a Mutual Psychosis

The New Hotness

Inside Beirut’s Fight To Save Its Reading Culture

The Dinos’ Demise Gave Rivers Their Shape

Long Lives Helped Early Humans Thrive

These Aren’t Your Pharoah’s Mummies

Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years (2019)

I’m Not a Robot

Safepoints and Fil-C

Show the Physics

If all the world were a monorepo

The Sagrada Família Takes Its Final Shape

Infinite Mac: Resource Fork Roundtripping

U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

Development of the MOS Technology 6502: A Historical Perspective (2022)

Implicit ODE solvers are not universally more robust than explicit ODE solvers

Should we drain the Everglades?

CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room

Micro-LEDs boost random number generation

Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

The Linux Process Journey (2023) [pdf]

Plugin System

I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story

When the job search becomes impossible

Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync

A new experimental Google app for Windows

Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO

Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware

Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out

How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter

Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)

Linux phones are more important now than ever

The awe keeps dropping

Where are you on the ‘happiness curve’?

What to do if your picking or pulling get out of hand

The Modern Makeover of Assam’s Centuries-Old Stilt Houses

Before we learn a new skill

Gen Z’s Gambit: Can Nepal’s New Prime Minister Deliver?

What Singapore’s Poseidon Purchase Tells Us About Its Foreign Policy Worldview

Prime Minister Modi Finally Visits Troubled Manipur

From Scam Centers to Scam State: The Road to Myanmar’s Scam Election

Peru’s ‘Active Neutrality’ Between China and the West

Sri Lanka’s Development Financing Crossroads: Lessons for a Post-Aid Era

What Are China and Central Asia’s Shared Interests in Afghanistan?

BNP Could Win Bangladesh’s National Elections for the Same Reason Shibir Is Sweeping Campuses

The AI Race: How China Inherited (and the West Lost) the Apollo Blueprint

Cambodia’s Decline Under 2 Years of Hun Manet

The Devil Is in the Details: US and South Korea Seek Alliance Modernization, But How?

Internal Party Politics Roil Taiwan’s Main Political Parties

Why Do University Students and Locals Keep Clashing in Bangladesh?

Ola Electric rolls out 1M vehicles in under 4 years at Tamil Nadu Futurefactory

Pelocal raises $5M in Series A from UNLEASH Capital, Unicorn India

From IT to chips: India is poised to become a global hub for semiconductor talent

Pitri Paksha: The Sacred Power of Pind Daan in Gaya Ji Explained

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (September 16, 2025)

Almost a month after ban, online real-money gaming companies chart new course

Nothing raises $200M from Tiger Global, Nikhil Kamath, others at $1.3B valuation

How to write a CV that beats job application filters

Consumer electronics startup Indkal Technologies bags $20M funding

New RBI rulebook opens agent-assisted KYC route for payment aggregators

Groww IPO: Broker eyes fresh issue of Rs 1,060 Cr, lines up large offer for sale

IndiQube lands Rs 410 Cr BlackRock deal, cementing its place in Bengaluru’s office space boom

How cost crunch is rewiring grocery shopping habits of Indian consumers

PhonePe’s Indus Appstore is now on 10 crore devices

Sabre’s playbook for building a future-ready GCC beyond the metros

Sustainability claims fall flat with Indian shoppers

Pine Labs’ profit signals a good omen; Building a design brand without funding

Outspark wants to put job seekers back in control

Construction meets AI: This startup uses real-time data and analysis to streamline projects

Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era

Live CEOing Ep 923: Language Design in Wolfram Language [ChartStyle and PlotStyle]

What He Does With ₹1 Cr Revenue Every Year?

Kisi Disco Mein Jaaye Song Recording 😂😂 #vikkals #songrecording

See the Milky Way's stellar nurseries in this amazing animated 3D fly-through video

New imagery of M87's black hole shows polarity flip - ESO explains

NASA workers protest steep cuts to science funding in DC protest

Can Taji Become The Dark Prince of Puerto Rico Goths? | Island Classified w/ Taji Ameen

MS Subbulakshmi | Live at Srinivasa Perumal Temple, Singapore, 7.2.1979 | 109th Birthday Special

Lalgudi G Jayaraman Violin Duet | Live at Nellai Sangeetha Sabha, 15.8.1964 | 95 Birthday Tribute

GST Impact On Car Tyre & 2-wheeler Tyre!

Top 25 Best-Selling Cars in India August 2025

What if JS was like C?

The podcast is back this Thursday! 🔥

‘The Bengal Files has made sure Kolkata dusts history books to find out real Gopal Mukherjee'

A UP minister’s son’s ‘fan moment’ with Rahul Gandhi & EC’s media blitz amid ‘vote chori’

US negotiator Brendan Lynch arrives at Commerce Ministry in Delhi for trade talks

Cloudburst triggers flash floods in Dehradun, Uttarakhand: Rescue Operations underway

LIVE : HM Amit Shah at 2nd National Conference of ANTF Heads of States/UTs, New Delhi

'Deportation & extradition of fugitives very important', says Home Minister Amit Shah

'Transferred Hindu land to suspicious individuals for money': Assam CM Himanta on officer's arrest

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives in Qatar, days after Israel's strike in Doha

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets Qatar's Emir in Doha

Orphaned & waiting: A family in Bhaktapur reels under crushing loss after Nepal’s Gen Z uprising

LIVE: Prashant Kishor addresses public rally in Sakra, Muzaffarpur |Bihar

'India playing Pakistan, but skipping handshake was grandstanding. There's no sport without spirit'

'US has reached a deal with China on TikTok, will speak to Xi on Friday', says Trump

Funeral procession of those who died in Gen Z agitation held in Nepal's Kathmandu

LIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel faces questions over Charlie Kirk investigation & Epstein case

How 'Upstairs' is reviving Delhi's 'Baithak' culture,bringing intimacy back to Indian classicalmusic

Cloudflare in trouble

क्या अंग्रेज़ी सेक्युलरिज़्म की भाषा बन गई है? | Wire Samvad

Southern States Being Penalized, Both Economically & Politically, for Success in Population Control

Political Interference and Impunity Prevent Gaza War Crimes Accountability: Chantal Meloni

Why Nepal’s Gen Z is Angry & What It Means for India

Supreme Court ने Waqf संशोधन कानून खारिज नहीं किया मगर विवादित हिस्से पर लगाई रोक

Collapsing Bridges, Crumbling Infrastructure- The Reality of Modi’s Corruption Free India

PM Modi के दौरे के बाद: Manipur में शांति या नाराज़गी?

The real science of the nuclear age: behind Oppenheimer - with Frank Close

How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey

Margot Robbie was such a brat! 😈

Margot Robbie & Colin Farrell Go On 'A Big Bold Beautiful Journey' On The Graham Norton Show

Welcome to the deficit-populism doom loop

Stray Dog In Peru Refuses To Leave Tourist’s Side | The Dodo

One Minute You're Asking For Her Number... | The Pack

Raccoon Cub Spends The Night In A Fox Den | The Dodo

Terrified Coyote Stuck in Pond For Days Finally Gets Rescued | The Dodo

Puppy Found With Mouth Sealed Shut Finds The Perfect Mama | The Dodo

The Labrador Cannot Go One Day Without Seeing Her Best Friend | The Dodo

Elusive Stray Pittie’s Weeks-Long Escape Ends In A Heartwarming Rescue | The Dodo

Feral Cat Rescued Before A Snowstorm Falls In Love With Foster Kittens | The Dodo

India Becoming The Cancer Capital Of The World? | How To Beat This Cruel Disease | Akash Banerjee

Trump's rebranded "Department of War" turns out to be just a scary nickname #DailyShow #Trump

Grace Kuhlenschmidt asks some emissions experts whether or not the government should tax cow farts

These spot-the-difference games are getting really hard #dailyshow

How to find your singing voice | Think Like A Musician

Broken systems are not inevitable — here’s how to enact change #TEDTalks

Answering Questions About Virtual Particles, Moon Bases & Negative Gravity

Alien life isn’t just about oxygen

My Life As a Speedball Addict-Bardin

John Joseph

Derrida's Deconstruction ll டெரிடாவின் கட்டுடைத்தல் ll பேரா.இரா.முரளி

History’s Worst Friendly-Fire Disasters (Reupload)

Another (bad) Magic Trick! | #shorts

There Are Too Many Ways to Make a Mummy

Physicists find a Dark Matter Clump near us!

Rick Beato Live in Berlin on Oct 25! #rickbeato #berlin #music #shorts

An Engineer's Perspective on the Texas Floods

How Did Hispanic Communities Shape U.S. Cities?

ஒரு Photo எடுக்க முடியுதா Cha | Parithabangal #shorts

KOI FISH EASY ORIGAMI TUTORIAL | DIY KOI FISH FROM PAPER | ORIGAMI FISH EASY CRAFT

EASY ORIGAMI KOI FISH TUTORIAL | HOW TO MAKE ORIGAMI KOI FISH STEP BY STEP PAPER FOLDING

एक Style Icon होने के साथ साथ भयंकर Cricket प्रेमी भी थे Sankarshan Thakur

NDTV में पैर पसार चुका सूतक

Erratic rainfall patterns on the rise...

On the what, how, and why of Nepal's GenZ protest...

Gurugram : चमकदार मगर लाचार मिलेनियम सिटी | Ground Report

पेट्रोल में एथेनॉल की मिलावट से किसे फ़ायदा ?

राजस्थान #anticonversionbill की जड़ें कहां तक जाती हैं?

We’re Obsessed These Issue 4 Articles! 😍 #nevertoosmall #shorts #NTSMag #magazine #colour

The stakes are high, but the pressure is even higher. #TopGunsTheNextGeneration

Lecture 4: Prototyping

Lecture 19: Abstraction and Simulation

Lecture 2: Iterative Design

Lecture 12: Knowing Your Players

Lecture 9: Strategy, Skill, and Chance, Part 2

18. Trap of Routine Assessment

02. How People Learn: Cognitive Load Theory

03. How People Learn: Situated Learning

12. Interest-Driven Learning

20. The Toxic Power of Data and Experiment

16. Start-Up and the Curse of the Familiar

14. Learning Games

10. Intelligent Tutors

09. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

07. EdTech Before the Internet

Why do we have Fingerprints?

Virginia Class Submarines: The Greatest to Ever Do It?

Maithreem Bajatha | The Indian Choral Ensemble | ‪@theindianchoralensemble‬

How fathers can safely meet their children during divorce proceedings

Mutual consent divorce fails without full agreement

How wives claim flats they never lived in

Can Humanity Stop A Planet-Killing Asteroid?

Books meant nothing to me | Krishnamurti

How Vantara Got Clean Chit From Supreme Court? | Jist

FSEX : The Free Speech Experiment | EPISODE 6 | SUMIT KAUL & ABHIGYAN JHA

When you’re in the middle of something

My Prince has arrived | ALOTO | Jack Whitehall

Hindustani Gayan By Sniti Mishra #icmvocal #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Train Sound On Tabla By Nishit Gangani #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Classical Dance Bharatnatyam By Shreya Balaji #icmdance #classical #dance #icmtabla #music #shorts

DMs people send me asking, is this You ? Multiverse of Sadness Part 2

India's largest producer of oleochemical-based additives

Flow Engineering • Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis

Cycling Indoors Isn't Getting Expensive...RESULT! 😦⁠

Cycling's Weight Obsession - Does It Actually Matter? | GCN Show Ep. 662

Cycling Trainers UNDER $300! 💰

The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way

Indian Fake Pastors மகிமைகள்🤪😱 Fake Pastor & Superstition Videos Reaction🤣🤣 Tamil Troll

Germany’s skilled labor shortage - Helping migrants find work | DW Documentary

Imperial Receipts with Dr Shashi Tharoor | Episode 3: Destruction

Scientist Create Better Solar Panel Using Red Onions

400% Increase in Lightning Strikes Across India: New Climate Threat Emerges

Heavy and Extremely Heavy #rainfall in #himachalpradesh and other #himalayan States of #india

Parker Schnabel’s Million Dollar Gold Nugget Dream! | Gold Rush S8 E6 | Discovery Channel

The Race for Elusive Underwater Gold! | Gold Rush: White Water S1 E5, E6, E7, E8 | Discovery Channel

Mysteries of the Legendary Library! | NASA’s Unexplained Files S4 E7 | Discovery Channel

Shadows Rising in Blackwater Swamps! | Dual Survival S5 E3 | Discovery Channel

Tiger Beetles Bite First, Ask Questions Never | Deep Look

பெண் போலீஸ்க்கு கஷ்டமான யார்டா போறாது | வடிவேலு குஷ்பூ Movie

பெண் போலீஸ்க்கு கஷ்டமான யார்டா போறாது | வடிவேலு குஷ்பூ Movie

பெண் போலீஸ்க்கு கஷ்டமான யார்டா போறாது | வடிவேலு குஷ்பூ Movie

பெண் போலீஸ்க்கு கஷ்டமான யார்டா போறாது | வடிவேலு குஷ்பூ Movie

பெண் போலீஸ்க்கு கஷ்டமான யார்டா போறாது | வடிவேலு குஷ்பூ Movie

The Sun: The Ultimate Energy Machine ☀️ #shorts #sun

The Secret Language of Cults: Crash Course Lecture

The perfect ketchup to your crispy fries 🥫🍟

This New Train Drives Itself

Carlsen's Grand Prix Attack* Crushes Lu Shanglei

Goosebumps Moment!! National Anthem Played for Vaishali | Women's Grand Swiss Winner

Pragg & Mom PROUD of Vaishali 😭❤️ #chess #praggnanandhaa #vaishali

The absolute finale | Anish Giri vs Hans Niemann | FIDE Grand Swiss 2025

Delivering under Pressure | Tan Zhongyi vs R. Vaishali | FIDE Grand Swiss 2025

World Champion's final outing in Samarkand | Gukesh vs Volokitin | Grand Swiss 2025

Anish Giri is the Champion of FIDE Grand Swiss 2025! | Final moments + Full Interview

He qualified to the Candidates without a coach | Matthias Bluebaum, Runners up at Grand Swiss 2025

ANISH GIRI Qualifies for the Candidates Tournament!!!

The First EVER Chess.com Video... 🥹

तंदूर जैसा लच्छा पराठा और मटर मसाला । Chur Chur Paratha with Matar | नायाब मटरा पराठा | Chef Ranveer

A Bangalore House That Responds to Land, Light, and Life (House Tour)

Alternative Midback Stretch

The case for free speech (even when it’s harmful)

3 problems with jobs today | Josh Bersin #BTPlus

Life Behind Bars: Inside Britain's Most Notorious Prison

Don Letts, the Legendary Rebel of British Counterculture

Beijing Spring: Chinese Artists Against Power

Nigerian chef breaks world record for largest jollof rice dish. #GuinnessWorldRecord #BBCNews

Google owner reveals £5bn AI investment in UK ahead of Donald Trump's state visit | BBC News

Chinese teens to pay $300,000 for urinating in soup. #Haidilao #Shanghai #BBCNews

Robert Redford, Hollywood actor and director, dies aged 89 | BBC News

Heavy security in UK ahead of Donald Trump state visit | BBC News

'Framework' for American ownership of TikTok in US agreed with China, says Washington | BBC News

Donald Trump to deploy National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee | BBC News

FBI Director Kash Patel and Democrat Senator Cory Booker clash during hearing. #USNews #BBCNews

Utah attorney seeks death penalty for Charlie Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson | BBC News

Utah attorney seeks death penalty for Charlie Kirk suspect Tyler Robinson. #CharlieKirk #BBCNews

'My wife and child died after Donald Trump cut US aid for our clinic' | BBC News

South Korean detained in US Hyundai factory raid speaks to BBC | BBC News

US President Donald Trump lands in UK for historic second state visit. #BBCNews

US President Donald Trump and wife Melania land in UK for historic second state visit | BBC News

Israel accused of genocide in Gaza by UN commission | BBC Newscast

Qatar holds Arab-Islamic summit over Israeli attack | BBC News

A Beaver Mother's Race Against Time | BBC Earth

It’s hunting season!

"He finally accepted what he'd known since the beginning."

How He Passed the MODEL TEST

We are so IN SYNC to make this japanese dessert

15-Year-Old Andy Takes Down the Giants

Magnus Wins Everything... Again!

Famous Chess Games || 1834 || La Bourdonnais vs MacDonnell, A., 21st Match Game