Viral news today

HackerNews📄  What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)
📄  Niantic announces "Large Geospatial Model" trained on Pokémon Go player data
📄  Show HN: Self-Host Next.js in Production
📄  AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers
📄  AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing
📄  Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts
📄  SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems
📄  Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope
📄  Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"
📄  How good are American roads?
📄  La Basilica Di San Pietro
📄  Distro (YC S24) Is Hiring a Head of Marketing (B2B)
📄  Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs
📄  Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships
📄  Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke
📄  How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment
📄  Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM

/r/Programming Daily📄  AAA - Analytical Anti-Aliasing
📄  Fargate vs EC2 - When to choose Fargate?
📄  The Stride engine is embracing SPIR-V
📄  BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96
📄  How to cope with technology FOMO
📄  Can you translate code quality into business impact?
📄  DBSP: Automatic Incremental View Maintenance for Rich Query Languages
📄  The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade
📄  This repository contains a comprehensive summary of foundational Linux concepts and core tasks.
📄  Spineless Traversal for Layout Invalidation [pdf]
📄  What to expect from CHICKEN 6
📄  Conversation with author of book "High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails", on Talking Postgres podcast Ep21
📄  12 Logging Best Practices in 12 minutes
📄  Hyrum's Law in Golang
📄  I built open-source boilerplate for browser extensions

/r/Technology Daily📄  Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season
📄  Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you | Data caps reflect "highly competitive environment," cable lobby tells FCC.
📄  Bluesky Sees Greatest Sustained Growth So Far in the US and UK
📄  Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money
📄  X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit
📄  Novo Nordisk sells hit weight-loss drug in China—at fraction of US price
📄  'Ouest-France' becomes first French newspaper to stop posting on X
📄  Danish Navy boards Chinese ship suspected in European undersea cable sabotage — Sweden’s Defense Ministry put freighter at the time and place of the disruption | Internet cables connecting Finland to Germany and Lithuania and Sweden were cut
📄  Joe Biden Just Trump-Proofed His Hallmark CHIPS Act
📄  Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany - More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
📄  AI photos showing girl students with nude bodies roil private school in Pennsylvania
📄  Comcast will announce the spinoff of cable networks Wednesday, CNBC source says

/r/Gaming Daily📄  French billionaire showed up outside a supermarket to 1V1 Call Of Duty gamer that called out his internet company for a laggy connection
📄  In App Purchases Has To Stop. $70 game and the first screen after downloading is a push for a $30 limited Battle Pass - COD: Black Ops 6
📄  Reforged 2.0 classic HD screenshots were just mock-ups. In-game just uses AI texture upscaling
📄  FromSoftware parent company Kadokawa has confirmed that it has received a letter of intent from Sony to acquire it, but stresses that "no decision has been made" yet.
📄  This franchise desperately needs to comeback
📄  S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl releases with 77/100 average review scores worldwide on OpenCritic
📄  Acknowledgements from Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne by David Gaider (2009)
📄  I modded RDR2 so thousands of strangers can voice the NPCs in my game in real-time. Mistake.
📄  Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review
📄  PlayStation Portal system update launches today with cloud streaming beta and audio refinements
📄  Game recommendations for a non gamer with broken wrists
📄  Probably the most wholesome mission load screen I've seen [Pharaoh: A New Era]

Lobste.rs MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
 I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)
 What To Use Instead of PGP
 On "Safe" C++
 Gleam v1.6.0 released
 An Unreachable Hidden XKCD Easter Egg inside CPython
 Stop Making Me Memorize The Borrow Checker
 The Secret Behind Valve's Flickering Lights
 Maybe Bluesky has “won”
 VictoriaLogs v1.0.0 release
 Paged Out! #5 - hacker zine release
 A Linux Desktop for the family
 Announcing Prometheus 3.0

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  What’s something most Americans have in their house that you don’t?
📄  For those in their 40's, what do people in their 20's not realize will affect them later in life?
📄  What’s the first thing you do when you wake up?
📄  You can permanently lose one of your five senses in exchange for $10 million, would you and which sense would you pick?
📄  Which movie or show have you watched an embarrassingly number of times?
📄  People on the West Coast, how is the bomb cyclone?
📄  What’s the worst pain you have experienced?
📄  If Teleportation Was Available For Free, What Hard-To-Get-To Destination (On Earth, Not The Moon) Would Suddenly Become A Tourist Trap?
📄  What is something most people are scared of but doesn’t bother you at all?
📄  Who are some despised people that you feel are misunderstood?
📄  What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to you at work?
📄  What are you craving right now?

/r/LocalLLaMA Weekly📄  Open source projects/tools vendor locking themselves to openai?
📄  Chinese company trained GPT-4 rival with just 2,000 GPUs — 01.ai spent $3M compared to OpenAI's $80M to $100M
📄  Nvidia presents LLaMA-Mesh: Generating 3D Mesh with Llama 3.1 8B. Promises weights drop soon.
📄  I Created an AI Research Assistant that actually DOES research! Feed it ANY topic, it searches the web, scrapes content, saves sources, and gives you a full research document + summary. Uses Ollama (FREE) - Just ask a question and let it work! No API costs, open source, runs locally!
📄  all solved by qwen 2.5 32B
📄  Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference - Cerebras
📄  Gemini Exp 1114 now ranks joint #1 overall on Chatbot Arena (that name though....)
📄  Mistral Large 2411 and Pixtral Large release 18th november
📄  vLLM is a monster!
📄  mistralai/Mistral-Large-Instruct-2411 · Hugging Face

GNews Researchers estimate 136M Americans eligible for Ozempic - The Hill
 It's a virus you may not have heard of. Here's why scientists are worried about it - NPR
 Human Cases of Bird Flu Confirmed to Be Occurring Undetected in The US - ScienceAlert
 Most say they probably won’t get updated COVID vaccine: Survey - The Hill
 Findings by dark energy researchers back Einstein's conception of gravity - Reuters
 Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say - ABC News
 Solar Orbiter spacecraft captures sharpest views yet of sun's surface (images) - Space.com
 The International Space Station adjusts its orbit to avoid space debris - NPR
 DeVito 'sticking to football,' trying to avoid hoopla - ESPN
 NFL Fantasy 2024 Start 'Em, Sit 'Em: Quarterbacks for Week 12 - NFL.com
 Unrivaled rosters revealed: Full teams, coaches, TV information for upstart women’s league - The Athletic
 LeBron James Happy Other NBA Teams 'Fu--ed Up' By Passing On Dalton Knecht In The Draft - Outkick

/r/CryptoCurrency Weekly📄  Satoshi Era Bitcoin Whale moved 2,000 BTC for the First Time Since 2010, he held from $0.06 to $90,000
📄  Satoshi Bitcoin wallets now worth over $100 billion making Top 20 richest people
📄  Don’t quit your jobs because of crypto gains
📄  Ethereum falls to 4-year low against Bitcoin as BTC breaks above $94k
📄  Ethereum just hit a brand new 3.5 year low against Bitcoin.
📄  Plans to eliminate capital gains taxes on cryptocurrencies issued by U.S.-registered companies
📄  Bitcoin Critic Peter Schiff who sees BTC as resembling the tulip mania bubble, responds to Michael Saylor’s $100k BTC Party Comment with “Am I Invited?”.
📄  Romania to impose 0% crypto tax until July 2025
📄  XRP Surpasses $1 Mark After Over 1000 Days
📄  Bitcoin Holdings on Exchanges are close to an All-Time Low, only 2.33M BTC left on Exchanges, Indicates Increased demand for Self-Custody, Potentially Reducing the Supply and Increases Buying Pressure

NewScientist Ancient Egyptians shaped sheep's horns – and we don't know why
 More people are living with pain today than before covid emerged
 What preparing for an asteroid strike teaches us about climate change
 What is the price of genius, asks biography of Roger Penrose
 Knots made in a weird quantum fluid can last forever
 Conspiracy theorists are turning their attention back to HPV vaccines
 Could seaweed be the ultimate carbon capture solution?
 Chinese rover finds further evidence for an ancient ocean on Mars
 Carbon emissions from private jets have exploded in recent years
 Marmots could have the solution to a long-running debate in evolution
 Bird flu antibodies found in dairy workers in Michigan and Colorado
 Slick trick separates oil and water with 99.9 per cent purity
 Why hairy animals shake themselves dry