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/r/Programming Daily📄  PostgreSQL Bloat Is a Feature, Not a Bug
📄  Peer-reviewed study: AI-generated changes fail more often in unhealthy code (30%+ higher defect risk)
📄  Dolphin Emulator - Rise of the Triforce
📄  One of the most annoying programming challenges I've ever faced
📄  Writing a native VLC plugin in C#
📄  Runtime validation in type annotations
📄  One of the most annoying programming challenges I've ever faced (port process identification)
📄  Read, then write: batching DB queries as a practical middle ground
📄  SOLID in FP: Single Responsibility, or How Pure Functions Solved It Already · cekrem.github.io
📄  Common Async Coalescing Patterns
📄  Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer
📄  State of Databases 2026
📄  Petri Nets as a Universal Abstraction
📄  Final Fight: Enhanced - Final Edition - Complete breakdown
📄  Synthetic data in 2026: separating the legitimate use cases from the expensive mistakes

/r/Technology Daily📄  Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person’s account to keep posting and chatting
📄  Trillion-dollar AI market wipeout happened because investors banked that ‘almost every tech company would come out a winner’
📄  The Pentagon Just Sent a Terrifying Message to AI Companies
📄  Best Buy worker used manager’s code to get 99% off MacBooks, Florida cops say | Employee Matthew Lettera, allegedly exploited Best Buy’s discount system for months.
📄  Goodbye to nuclear submarines: Australia signed a $368 billion deal with the United States to receive them, but a new congressional report makes it clear that they may never arrive
📄  Scientists restore knee cartilage using targeted injection
📄  How dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
📄  Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction
📄  Mazda Finally Admits Its Infotainment System Is the Worst
📄  Bots are taking over the internet and AI users are to blame
📄  Average Korean YouTuber income surpasses $52,000
📄  “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes

/r/Gaming Daily📄  Valve breaks its silence on Steam Deck OLED scarcity and yes, it's because of the RAM and storage crisis
📄  Ah yes, the small Indy developers Disney and Gameloft
📄  I tried Star Citizen so you don't have to! (and will tell you why you shouldn't)
📄  Western Digital confirms having sold out all manufacturing capacity of Hard Drives for 2026, and that most of 2027 and 2028 are already pre-sold, adding further instability to the gaming PC market.
📄  Ladies and gentlemen, battery operated GameCube.
📄  If there's one thing the Far Cry franchise excels at it's creating great villains
📄  To any Cyberpunk 2077 fans, i HIGHLY and i do mean HIGHLY recommend the Cosmopolitan Night City mod
📄  Castlevania Veteran Koji Igarashi Vows to Finish Making Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement to Honor Deceased Director Shutaro Ida's Vision - IGN
📄  Suddenly remembered Monday Night Combat today and now I miss it
📄  Dead or Alive 6 Last Round will not support crossplay
📄  Gaming social systems should all have a 'Notes' section for each friend on your list. It's hard to remember everyone you add over the years and why.
📄  One composer scored all of these epic games

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 Zig landed io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations
 Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  Women, what is a near-universal "ick" in the dating world?
📄  What’s something that 99% of people can do but you can’t?
📄  What is shockingly safe to eat?
📄  What is the weirdest thing your doctor has ever said to you?
📄  What is far more lethal than people realize?
📄  Women, what is universally agreed “green flags” while dating men ?
📄  What is a memory you have that is 100% vivid, but you have physical proof that it never actually happened?
📄  What’s the most “main character energy” moment you’ve ever witnessed in real life?
📄  Why did you stop participating in a sub you used to enjoy?
📄  What’s the one thing you started doing in the last few years that quietly made your life 10× better, but nobody talks about?
📄  What’s a habit that seems harmless but slowly ruins things?
📄  What’s the fastest way to lose respect for someone?

GNews Diet and routine stool tests could help predict IBD flares, large study suggests - AOL.com
 Cardiologists Share 6 Surprising Lifestyle Habits That Boost Heart Health - AOL.com
 Adult with measles possibly exposed others in Fairfax County - WTOP
 Measles Outbreaks Are Increasingly Common. Here’s What You Need to Know. - Slate
 Scientists Crack a 50-Year Tissue Mystery With Major Cancer Implications - SciTechDaily
 Early Mars was warm and wet not icy, suggests latest research - Phys.org
 What Happens When You Capture Light Speed in a Photo? Scientists Have the Answer! - The Daily Galaxy
 Astronomers observe a star that quietly transformed into a black hole - KSL.com
 ESPN Expert Predicts Where Travis Etienne Signs in Free Agency - The Clemson Insider
 Lindsey Vonn returns to US after Winter Olympics crash - BBC
 Olympic skier throws poles, heads for woods after skiing out with gold in reach - The New York Times
 2026 NFL franchise tag window opens today - NFL.com

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