Viral news today

HackerNews📄  An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
📄  GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
📄  Starship's Twelfth Flight Test
📄  Flipper One Tech Specs
📄  Google Declaring War on the Web
📄  How fast is N tokens per second really?
📄  Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
📄  Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
📄  PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play
📄  Why is Inkwell stuck in review
📄  SpaceX S-1
📄  Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)
📄  Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects
📄  Saying Goodbye to Asm.js
📄  Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'
📄  Map of Metal
📄  SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014)

/r/Programming Daily📄  Virtual Museum with Every Operating System You Can Think Of
📄  New NGINX Vulnerability Allows Unauthenticated RCE
📄  the top 10 ways to scam the modern american programmer, by Zed A Shaw
📄  Smoke tests for fun and profit
📄  hybrid quota-linear rate limiter – Tony Finch
📄  Annotate-in-Place Notes with Emacs and org-remark
📄  https://neciudan.dev/github-actions-poisoning

/r/Technology Daily📄  After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban / A Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits" and “a total termination of all internet services."
📄  An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted
📄  AI Is Too Expensive: AI is, as it stands, not economically viable for anybody involved other than the construction firms, NVIDIA, and the surrounding hardware companies benefitting from the irrational exuberance of a data center buildout that doesn’t appear to be happening at the speed we believed
📄  The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem in Utah
📄  Driver intentionally drove Cybertruck into lake to use vehicle’s ‘Wade Mode,’ police say
📄  The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam - Booed commencement speakers, blocked data centers, plummeting poll numbers: Fast-growing industry has a faster-growing crisis
📄  Lyft driver caught blatantly using Gemini AI (with watermark) to fake damage to his car and charge riders extra for cleaning fees
📄  The AI bots are coming and the young are booing, not applauding
📄  Billionaires are trying to lull us into AI complacency. Don’t let them
📄  Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs | WIRED
📄  Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI
📄  Meta Begins Laying Off 8,000 Employees Amid A.I. Transformation

/r/Gaming Daily📄  Warhorse Studios Confirmed That They Are Working on a LOTR Open World RPG
📄  Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 both have genuinely impressive interiors, best I’ve seen in gaming
📄  I love musical performances in games <3
📄  Subnuatica 2 Letter to the Community on Feedback to the Predator Balance Situation
📄  Capcoms eye for detail is insane (RE: Requiem)
📄  Valve insists Counter-Strike 2 cases are fine and "people enjoy surprises" in move to dismiss New York lawsuit
📄  Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
📄  State of Play returns Tuesday, June 2
📄  Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream tops April US sales | Hardware revenue grew 34% to $261 million, thanks to strong Nintendo Switch 2 sales
📄  Conkers Bad Fur Day was edgy 3D platformer with great adult humor and clever movie parodies. My parents banned it, but luckily a friend of mine had a copy. Great times!
📄  What non-fishing game had the most fun fishing mini-game?
📄  Man....gaming on a Rear Projection TV was so mind blowing back in the day.

Lobste.rs Ascetic Computing
 Type out the code
 Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations
 The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
 linux 0-day, access root-owned files as an unprivileged user
 OpenBSD 7.9 released
 New design for the FreeBSD website
 Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged
 Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
 Researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker
 Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now
 Native all the way, until you need text
 Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  What's something that feels "good" but is actually really bad for your body?
📄  For people who grew up in low-income households, what’s something middle-class people say that shows they’ve never struggled financially?
📄  What physical feature is extremely attractive for you?
📄  What is a minor, unwritten rule of society that absolutely infuriates you when people break it?
📄  What actor or actress could you tell had an absolute blast playing a specific role?
📄  What’s something the middle class used to enjoy easily that now feels out of reach?
📄  What is a harsh realization about life that you had to learn the hard way, but you're ultimately glad you learned it?
📄  For those of you who had a more alternative style in your youth, but gave it up in adulthood….. was it a natural transition or a conscious decision and why?
📄  Whats the craziest, quickest money you have ever made?
📄  What’s the most useless fact permanently stuck in your brain?
📄  What’s something people do that instantly reveals they are deeply insecure?
📄  What's the most beautiful quote you have ever heard?

GNews Why a deadly, massive measles outbreak in Bangladesh has some U.S. health experts concerned - CBS News
 Patients of Philadelphia dentist urged to test for HIV and hepatitis, Smiles at Rittenhouse Square closed - CBS News
 Ebola Crisis Sparks Debate Over Global Health Double Standards - The New York Times
 White House resisted letting doctor with Ebola return to U.S. - The Washington Post
 NASA's Psyche probe takes awesome images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid - Space
 Some plants have a genetic superpower that may help them survive a cataclysm - NPR
 A European-Chinese spacecraft just launched to photograph something nobody has ever actually seen — the invisible shield that keeps the solar wind from sterilizing Earth - Space Daily
 Astronomers believe Neptunian moon is lone intact survivor of ancient collision - CNN
 Dricus du Plessis mocks Khamzat’s ‘ridiculous’ UFC 328 weight cut excuse — ‘Take your loss like a man’ - MMA Mania
 Kenny Atkinson never considered benching James Harden — and it cost Cavs Game 1 of Eastern Conference finals: Chris Fedor - Cleveland.com
 Fox wants a 24-team College Football Playoff. ESPN’s pushing back. No one knows who is paying - The New York Times
 Aaron Rodgers says he will retire after the 2026 NFL season: ‘This is it’ - NBC News

NewScientist Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
 Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
 Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
 Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts
 Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease
 The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch
 An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is
 300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector
 Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere
 Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?
 Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet – with help
 Man destined for Alzheimer's may have been saved by accidental therapy
 The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it