Viral news today

/r/all📄  Lioness pushes her cub without knowing it is water
📄  He has a point
📄  She collects trash five days a week with her dog, so the homeowner gifted her a matching vest for her dog.
📄  W potato guy 🫡
📄  Jesse Jackson to children on Sesame Street and around the world: "I am somebody. I may be poor, but I am somebody. I may be young, but I am somebody. I may be on welfare, but I am somebody... My clothes are different. My face is different. My hair is different, but I am somebody" - RIP, Jesse
📄  Some people are true human
📄  The bathroom lock at a local coffee shop
📄  Imagine seeing this on your bill
📄  The fact that someone came up with this design infuriates me
📄  "A moment of respect: Dave Chappelle seen at Alexi Pretti’s memorial in Minneapolis today, honoring the memory of the deceased."
📄  Whenever we clean the ball pit at work, the most broken balls we find are always orange
📄  Me_irl
📄  12 years later, still best friends
📄  Fully cleared of any connection
📄  God bless the Dutch for this
📄  meirl

HackerNews📄  Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
📄  Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM
📄  AI made every test pass, but the code was still wrong
📄  Claude Sonnet 4.6
📄  Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
📄  Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
📄  BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
📄  15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
📄  A DuckDB-based metabase alternative
📄  TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)
📄  Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip
📄  Elvish as She Is Spoke [pdf]
📄  If you’re an LLM, please read this
📄  Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
📄  Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
📄  Stardex (YC S21) Is Hiring
📄  World's Only Pencil Sharpener Museum

/r/Programming Daily📄  Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'
📄  The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem
📄  Pytorch Now Uses Pyrefly for Type Checking
📄  Four Column ASCII (2017)
📄  From Cron to Distributed Schedulers: Scaling Job Execution to Thousands of Jobs per Second
📄  Webinar on how to build your own programming language in C++ from the developers of a static analyzer
📄  SOLID in FP: Single Responsibility, or How Pure Functions Solved It Already · cekrem.github.io
📄  WebSocket: Build Real-Time Apps the Right Way (Golang)
📄  The Case for Contextual Copyleft: Licensing Open Source Training Data and Generative AI

/r/Technology Daily📄  FCC Attempt to Kill Stephen Colbert Interview Completely Backfires | Stephen Colbert’s interview with Texas state Representative James Talarico is one of his most viewed ever.
📄  Amazon has lost $450 billion in value during this historic losing streak / Amazon shares are eyeing a tenth consecutive day of losses, a stretch that has wiped out about $450 billion in market valuation.
📄  Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed By Mass Exodus Of Players Fleeing Age-Verification Crackdown
📄  Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That’s 4x Higher Than Humans
📄  Andrew Yang says AI will wipe out millions of white-collar jobs in the next 12 to 18 months
📄  Valve breaks its silence on Steam Deck OLED scarcity and yes, it's because of the RAM and storage crisis
📄  Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air interview out of fear of FCC
📄  YouTube is Down
📄  Palantir Shifts HQ to Miami From Denver After Protests
📄  Get Ready for a Flood of Cheap Used EVs
📄  Discord will decide which servers to age-gate 'with a combination of automated detection with AI validation and human review'
📄  12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us

/r/Gaming Daily📄  In a desperate attempt to undo the damage of accidentally wiping their fiancée's Red Dead Redemption 2 save, someone paid $159 to enlist Arthur Morgan's voice actor Roger Clark to apologise for them
📄  Took this photo of Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West. I really love how the war paint & battle regalia in HFW feel authentic rather than cheesy looking video game loot. Guerilla's commitment to anthropological consistency made the games aesthetic feel really organic.
📄  Tencent was the secret primary financial backer of Highguard
📄  The Most Broken Weapon In Halo History
📄  As an OG God of War fan, I DO want the remake to overhaul gameplay, and I would appreciate it if creators could stop trying to speak for the community as a whole when they say we don't want that.
📄  Sony Will Offset Soaring RAM Prices by Further Monetising PS5 Players
📄  Still can't find a better feeling third person shooter. (Max Payne 3)
📄  What was your first MMO, and how do you feel about it now?
📄  I designed a Silent Hill 2 Remake poster.
📄  A coastal mountain island I made in my Minecraft world called Kusuah Island
📄  PS2 + N64 Online Super Mario 64 Co-op (Real Hardware)
📄  Anyone played Recoil 1999 tank game? I made a Remake Tech Demo!

Lobste.rs An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
 A programmer's loss of identity
 Plasma 6.6 released
 I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
 Rise of the Triforce
 How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate
 microgpt
 Evolving Git for the next decade
 Gentoo on Codeberg
 Do not apologize for replying late to my email
 Zig landed io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations
 Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
 AI is slowly munching away my passion

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  What is a smell that we should all recognize as immediate danger?
📄  What’s the most outdated advice people still give seriously?
📄  For anyone who grew up poor, what was your idea of a luxury?
📄  What is the craziest thing a teacher has ever done to you?
📄  Former heavy drinkers, what made it finally “click” for you to stop?
📄  What celebrity has had their reputation unfairly ruined and has never recovered from it till this day?
📄  What's the stupidest thing you've ever heard someone say?
📄  What's something that sounds impressive until you've actually done it?
📄  Women, what’s a small behavior that seems minor but is a huge red flag in dating?
📄  What is the worst mistake of your life?
📄  What’s the most overpriced thing people keep buying like it’s normal?
📄  Which celebrity, famous person, or artist does everyone like except you?

GNews Can You Get Measles if You’re Vaccinated? And Everything Else You Need to Know About the Disease’s Terrifying Resurgence. - Slate
 A potential new lymphedema target: Clearing cholesterol deposits to reduce swelling - Medical Xpress
 Cardiologists Share 6 Surprising Lifestyle Habits That Boost Heart Health - AOL.com
 Bird flu suspected as dead geese are found at multiple parks across New Jersey, officials say - NJ.com
 New species of ancient crocodile named in honor of Welsh school teacher - Phys.org
 Scientists Reveal a New Record-Breaking Spinning Structure in the Universe - The Daily Galaxy
 Record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals 23 million years of climate history - Phys.org
 NASA will fuel up its Artemis 2 moon rocket for the 2nd time on Feb. 19. Will it leak again? - Space
 7 takeaways from No. 1 Michigan Basketball’s win at No. 7 Purdue - Maize n Brew
 2026 NFL franchise tag primer: Candidates to watch while window is open - NFL.com
 It’s OK to let the NBA have a win - Awful Announcing
 North Carolina Has Bigger Problems Than Hubert Davis, and It Might Save His Job - Sports Illustrated

NewScientist Elon Musk is making a big bet on his future vision – will it work?
 Can we genetically improve humans using George Church’s famous list?
 The daring idea that time is an illusion and how we could prove it
 A remarkable book on quantum mechanics reveals a really big idea
 Ancient humans were seafaring far earlier than we realised
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 Nobel prizewinner Omar Yaghi says his invention will change the world
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 Why people can have Alzheimer's-related brain damage but no symptoms
 It would be a mistake to rush into an under-16 social media ban
 A huge cloud of dark matter may be lurking near our solar system
 Melatonin gummies as sleep aids for children: What are the risks?