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HackerNews📄  FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
📄  A faster heart for F-Droid. Our new server is here
📄  Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming
📄  Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
📄  A Vulnerability in Libsodium
📄  Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems
📄  Sabotaging Bitcoin
📄  Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels
📄  OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
📄  Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
📄  Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig – 5x faster than MuPDF
📄  Professional software developers don't vibe, they control
📄  Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016)
📄  Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
📄  Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo
📄  Non-Zero-Sum Games
📄  Escaping containment: A security analysis of FreeBSD jails [video]

/r/Programming Daily📄  PSA: Be aware when opening "take home challenges" from untrusted recruiters
📄  Rich Hickey: Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability
📄  Good technology blogs: a reading list for the holidays
📄  no strcpy either
📄  The Poison Pill Request: How One Bad Request Can Kill Your Entire Fleet
📄  Maze algorithms sonified
📄  An Introduction to Jackson 3 in Spring 7 and Spring Boot 4
📄  Turning Dafny Sets into Sequences [video]
📄  eclipse collection vs JDK collection
📄  Your interview process for senior engineers is wrong
📄  RSYNC but in java with jpm
📄  Data as a Product is a Promise
📄  Advice for new tech bloggers
📄  I built “2025 Year of Code” — a privacy-first GitHub Year-in-Review that runs entirely in your browser
📄  This is a detailed breakdown of a FinTech project from my consulting career.

/r/Technology Daily📄  Leonardo DiCaprio Says AI Can Never Be Art Because It Lacks Humanity: Even ‘Brilliant’ Examples Just ‘Dissipate Into the Ether of Internet Junk’
📄  Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years
📄  Disney's embarrassing AI-generated Star Wars video of scrambled-up animals was the opening salvo in a year full of AI humiliation
📄  China drafts world’s strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence | China wants a human to intervene and notify guardians if suicide is ever mentioned
📄  Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US
📄  Softbank has fully funded $40 billion investment in OpenAI
📄  IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market
📄  700Credit data breach exposes 5.8 million people's Social Security numbers
📄  Aflac data breach affects 22.65 million: SSNs, health info, and claims exposed
📄  The people building humanoid robots say the hype is running ahead of reality
📄  China is using American AI against the U.S.
📄  2025’s Second Most Censored Story

/r/Gaming Daily📄  The 20 most critically acclaimed games of the half-decade (2021-2025)
📄  4 decades of collecting
📄  Michał Kiciński, the original co-founder of GOG and co-founder of CD PROJEKT, has acquired GOG from CD PROJEKT
📄  "Requiescant" - Showing my love and excitement for Resident Evil Requiem through my own take on Leon Scott Kennedy! - Digital Illustration/Fan Art by Me (Vamkire C. Trannel - My Artist Pseudonym)
📄  My 6 yr old daughter and I just finished Stray together - she wanted to share a drawing of her favourite characters!
📄  Games that are at first or second iteration, but will continue into greatness [like Fallout/Elder Scrolls, Fromsoft, Baldur’s Gate]
📄  What’s something from the world of gaming that you wish was in real life?
📄  Are there any other games like Chernobylite? I've seen games with bits and pieces of the mechanics, but nothing that puts it all together like Chernobylite does
📄  KCD2 for ps5 - is it worth it or is it better on PC ?
📄  Ideas for a non-traditional nerdy themed NYE party?
📄  Games Completed in 2025
📄  about pre-game disclaimers (especially horror games)

/r/Midjourney Daily📄  Utilities Main Corridor
📄  I looked back on image generation. The overwhelming drawing power and quality were too wonderful.
📄  Black Diamond
📄  London bridge
📄  I think this poor avocado is ready for the compost
📄  Admiring national costumes from all over the world. The world is wonderful. There are many challenges, but the power of people to create is valuable.

Lobste.rs What an unprocessed photo looks like
 Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
 Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
 How uv got so fast
 LLMs Are Not Fun
 Curl removes all calls to strcpy
 Replacing JS with just HTML
 TIL: serde's borrowing can be treacherous
 39C3: To sign or not to sign: Practical vulnerabilities in GPG & friends
 Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?
 Gleam v1.14 - the happy holidays release 2025
 loss32: let's build a Win32/Linux
 Ruby 4.0.0 Released

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  What complicated problem was solved by an amazingly simple solution?
📄  People who had undercover cops come to their school posed as fellow students, how did you know?
📄  What's the creepiest display of intelligence you've seen by another human?
📄  Whats the best monologue in movie history?
📄  What’s something society treats as embarrassing that really shouldn’t be?
📄  When did you figure out that Co-Workers are not really your friend?
📄  What’s an opinion you had 10 years ago that completely changed?
📄  What's the craziest cheating story you know in real life from your circle of people?
📄  What movie scene made you laugh uncontrollably?
📄  What’s something extremely unpopular that people end up loving once they try it?
📄  whats a really weird smell that you secretly love?
📄  What difficult truths, the sooner you accept them, the better your life will be?

GNews The US has seen nearly 28,000 whooping cough cases this year. Here’s what you need to know - CNN
 ADHD Meds Used By Millions Of Kids And Adults Don’t Work The Way We Thought They Did - IFLScience
 New measles cases in South Carolina put U.S. on the verge of losing elimination status - NBC News
 Flu cases are surging and rates will likely get worse, new CDC data shows - NPR
 The year's first meteor shower and supermoon clash in January skies - ABC News
 Artemis 2 moon astronauts rehearse for launch day (photos) - Space
 Full Moon January 2026: Exactly When To See A ‘Wolf Supermoon’ Rise - Forbes
 If 3I/ATLAS is a Comet, then Its Anti-Tail Jet Should Not Include Streaming Gas Beyond ~5,000… - Avi Loeb – Medium
 Premier League as it happened: Arsenal cruise to win over Villa - ESPN
 Duke lands prized PG Rippey; '26 class now No. 1 - ESPN
 Pats' Diggs faces strangulation, assault charges - ESPN
 NFL Power Rankings, Week 18: Red-hot Jaguars soar to No. 3, while 49ers replace Bills in top five - NFL.com

/r/CryptoCurrency Weekly📄  Binance, Trump’s USD1, and Wintermute allegedly collude to manipulate markets, sending BTC/USD1 to $24k for a brief moment, making over $100 million in liquidations
📄  Bitcoin hits 90K for the 420th times this year
📄  Financial Summary of 2025
📄  No Bull Run Xmas Dinner
📄  Trust Me Babe, This Is The Last Shake Out. Then BTC Right To $200K
📄  Ex-girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried set to be released from prison EARLY - two years after she brought down the disgraced FTX founder
📄  FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been quietly moved out of prison
📄  We've Been Naughty Boys This Year
📄  Updating your LinkedIn after buying $10 worth of crypto
📄  Jim Cramer Dumped All His Crypto Three Years Ago, Vowed Never In A 'Million Years' — Bitcoin Surged 416% Since That Proclamation

NewScientist The surprising longevity lessons from the world’s oldest animal
 2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in human evolution
 Dinosaurs like Diplodocus may have been as colourful as birds
 Australia's social media ban faces challenges and criticism on day one
 What the evolution of tickling tells us about being human
 Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early humans in Britain
 Genetic trick to make mosquitoes malaria resistant passes key test
 Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits
 We may finally know what a healthy gut microbiome looks like
 Donald Trump and Elon Musk put science on the chopping block in 2025
 Best acronym? Best use of AI? We present our end-of-year awards
 Earth and solar system may have been shaped by nearby exploding star
 Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may have same root causes