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What do Israel and Hamas really want from a ceasefire in Gaza?

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✨ Explore this awesome post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: News / Q. & A. 📌 Key idea: Earlier this month, Israel and Hamas announced a ceasefire in the two-year-old war in Gaza. The United States partially mediated the agreement, but American officials are concerned, according to New York timesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may try to end the matter. Indeed, since the ceasefire began, nearly a hundred Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers have been killed. (In the first phase of the deal, Israel still controls approximately 53% of the Gaza Strip.)I recently spoke by phone with Michael…

The man who makes artificial intelligence descend by hand

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💥 Read this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Business,Made in China ✅ Main takeaway: Mo isn't the only comedian trying to imitate the style of AI-generated videos, but he really nails all the elements: the awkward physical movements, the off-kilter facial expressions, and the unexpected plot twist. Many viewers, myself included, were shocked by how accurately it captured the essence of AI-driven videos.Mo told me that the six AI imitation videos he has filmed represent only a small portion of his acting career. He has wanted to be an actor since he was in university and spent the…

Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 Results: India vs Bangladesh No result after rain

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🚀 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Rain prevented the result between Bangladesh and hosts India in the final group stage match of the Women's World Cup as persistent rain had the final say in Navi Mumbai.Chasing a revised target of 126 under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method after reducing the match to 27 overs a side, India were 57-0 when the match umpires had to call off the dead rubber.Smriti Mandhana, the tournament's highest run-scorer, hit an unbeaten 34 to keep the purple patch alive, but an in-play injury to her opening partner…

How We Saved $500,000 Per Year by Rolling Our Own “S3” | by Miedwar Meshbesher | Oct, 2025

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💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: 12 min read·Oct 19, 2025tl;drPress enter or click to view image in full sizeCamera → N3 → S3 FallbackWe used S3 as a landing zone for Nanit’s video processing pipeline (baby sleep-state inference), but at thousands of uploads/second, S3’s PutObject request fees dominated costs. Worse, S3’s auto-cleanup (Lifecycle rules) has a 1-day minimum; we paid for 24 hours of storage on objects processed in ~2 seconds. We built N3, a Rust-based in-memory landing zone that eliminates both issues, using S3 only as an overflow buffer.Result:…

Vienna Open final: Jannik Sinner fights for the title

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✨ Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Jannik Sinner fought back from a set down to claim his fourth title of the season by defeating Alexander Zverev in the Vienna Open final.The top seed, who is currently on a 21-game winning streak on indoor hard courts, suffered a hamstring cramp early on. To win 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 in less than two and a half hours.It is Sinner's second title this month, after winning the China Open at the start of October, while he also added to his Grand Slam tally with…

What’s Hollywood missing about artificial intelligence?

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💥 Check out this insightful post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Culture / On Television ✅ Key idea: In 2025, artificial intelligence appears to be appearing on television almost as often as it does in real life. In the hospital satire series Saint Denis Medical, a curmudgeon doctor expresses his dissatisfaction with a patient's unwavering trust in an artificial intelligence diagnostic tool. In the high school comedy "The English Teacher," an idealistic teacher campaigns for "smart" garbage cans, only to discover that the new bins equipped with cameras are part of an elaborate data-collection scheme. In the Hollywood…

The White House staff could not have cared less about demolishing the East Wing

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💥 Explore this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 Category: Politics,Politics / Politics News,Tear Down ✅ Main takeaway: White House staff You don't seem to care much about the ongoing demolition of the East Wing that's happening in the middle of the government shutdown.“It doesn't affect me at all, to be honest,” a White House aide told WIRED. This source, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press, adds that they “didn’t think about it” and that they “probably only heard a handful of people talking about it.”President Donald Trump is moving forward with the…

Wolves: Fans revolt and turn on Vitor Pereira as Wolves struggle winless in the Premier League

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💥 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: It has been just 38 days since Pereira signed a new three-year contract, and sources have told BBC Sport that he is not in immediate danger. Xi and the officials still feel that his experience will be crucial in the battle for survival, having taken them from second place to safety last season. Although his predecessor O'Neill signed a four-year contract on the eve of last season and only lasted another four months. The arrival of Domenico Tite as manager of professional football in the…

How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: 2025-10-26 I’ve been watching the Zig language for a while now, given that it was created for writing audio software (low-level, no allocations, real time). I never paid too much attention though, it seemed a little weird to me and I didn’t see the real need. Then I saw a post from Andrew Kelley (creator of the language) on Hacker News, about how he reimplemented my Chromaprint algorithm in Zig, and that got me really interested. I’ve been planning to rewrite AcoustID’s inverted index for a…

Gideon Lewis Krause talks about “The Crown Versus William Joyce,” directed by Rebecca West

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Magazine / Takes 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: The sign of maturity, for the genre, is the anxiety of influence—the compulsion an aspiring writer feels to urinate on a fire hydrant that a former celebrity par excellence has urinated on. Rebecca West, the goddess of unfairly neglected “fiction” reporting, would have approved of the triteness of this trope. In the 1941 masterpiece “The Black Lamb and the Gray Falcon,” in which an image is drawn on a fire hydrant in Yugoslavia for twelve hundred wonderfully discursive pages,…