Viral news today

HackerNews📄  Microgpt
📄  Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
📄  10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)
📄  We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
📄  Switch to Claude without starting over
📄  Show HN: Terminal-Style Portfolio on the Internet
📄  An ode to houseplant programming (2025)
📄  Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS
📄  The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)
📄  The happiest I've ever been
📄  Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
📄  Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?
📄  Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields
📄  H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery
📄  Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” Alerts
📄  Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet
📄  Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust

/r/Programming Daily📄  Yes, and...
📄  Understanding RabbitMQ in simple terms
📄  A Rabbit Hole Called WebGL (8-part series on the technical background of a WebGL application w/ functional demo)
📄  MQTT: The Protocol Behind Every Smart Device (Golang)
📄  Segment Anything with One mouse click
📄  Low-Latency Python: Separating Signal from Noise
📄  Simple Made Inevitable: The Economics of Language Choice in the LLM Era
📄  A system around Agents that works better
📄  Bringing Claude Code Skills into Neovim via ACP

/r/Technology Daily📄  "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes big after OpenAI's latest move
📄  Anthropic's Claude hits No. 2 on Apple's top free apps list after Pentagon rejection
📄  YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science
📄  Claude hits No. 1 on App Store as ChatGPT users defect in show of support for Anthropic's Pentagon stance
📄  Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’ / Everything is gambling now, even human suffering.
📄  Lawmakers Demand DHS Define ‘Domestic Terrorist’ As It Uses Vast Array of Surveillance Tools | Rep. Bennie G. Thompson and other Democrats made the demand in a letter to DHS Kristi Noem. “Your actions are abhorrent, blatantly unconstitutional, and corrosive to the functioning of a peaceful society.”
📄  DeepSeek to release long-awaited AI model in new challenge to US rivals
📄  Alaska House passes bill limiting AI sexual imagery and child social media use
📄  A new US military task force just used its cheap Shahed lookalike drones for the first time to strike Iran
📄  WA lawmakers advancing bill restricting employers from microchipping workers
📄  Warning: Facebook Ads for Free Windows 11 Upgrade Will Infect PCs With Malware
📄  Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull

/r/Gaming Daily📄  New Mission: Basic Literacy
📄  Our son’s Nintendo themed nursery
📄  390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives
📄  I bought Jedi Survivor for 7€ and it might be the best deal in gaming i ever made.
📄  Update: For 90 days we have tracked 2,500+ unique players in a Minecraft world with no rules or admins. Here is how the political map shifted.
📄  This is the saddest physical PlayStation section I’ve ever seen
📄  Games that I can finish within a day?
📄  On this last day of Feb I will finally finish......
📄  Anybody got a smell that reminds them of a game? I swear that yellow baby shampoo reminds me of Super Mario Bros 3
📄  10 Months Ago I Made A Post About SWAT 4 Turning 20, Well Today So Does The Expansion
📄  War game that helps you calm down, not get more angry
📄  Xbox Family Account Question

Lobste.rs An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android
 x86CSS - An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS
 Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148
 New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes
 How my side project got banned from the internet
 Mothlamp Problems
 Yes, and
 Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
 “Just a little detail that wouldn’t sell anything”
 So I've Been Thinking About Static Site Generators
 Git in Postgres
 snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh
 Permacomputing

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  What is some shady info about a celeb that everyone seems to have forgotten about?
📄  What’s something your body does that you’ve never told a single person about?
📄  What is a "gut feeling" you had that turned out to be 100% accurate, even though it made no logical sense at the time?
📄  What is THE funniest movie you have ever seen in your whole life?
📄  What's a scientific fact that sounds made up but is 100% real?
📄  What Is The Most Embarrassing Thing You Did At School?
📄  What’s the biggest lie society collectively agrees to ignore?
📄  What’s something you didn’t expect to enjoy more as you got older?
📄  What's the most ridiculous thing someone said in a job interview and still got the job?
📄  "The worst she can say is no" - Guys, what's the worst "she" ever said?
📄  What is the best reveal of all time in cinema?
📄  What would be your last wish before you die?

/r/LocalLLaMA Weekly📄  Anthropic: "We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax." 🚨
📄  Distillation when you do it. Training when we do it.
📄  OpenAI pivot investors love
📄  Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is a gamechanger for agentic coding.
📄  Back in my day, LocalLLaMa were the pioneers!
📄  so is OpenClaw local or not
📄  Which one are you waiting for more: 9B or 35B?
📄  Anthropic's recent distillation blog should make anyone only ever want to use local open-weight models; it's scary and dystopian
📄  People are getting it wrong; Anthropic doesn't care about the distillation, they just want to counter the narrative about Chinese open-source models catching up with closed-source frontier models
📄  Fun fact: Anthropic has never open-sourced any LLMs

GNews 13 Measles Cases Reported at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas - The New York Times
 Recommendations for influenza vaccine composition for the 2026-2027 northern hemisphere season - World Health Organization (WHO)
 Giant Study Reveals The Secret to Heart Health, And It's Not Low-Carb or Low-Fat - ScienceAlert
 Column | New dietary guidelines promise science over bias — but come up short - The Washington Post
 Could Mars soil block Earth microbes? 'Water bears' offer a clue - Phys.org
 Heavier hydrogen makes silicon T centers shine brighter for quantum networks - Phys.org
 Back to the repair shop for NASA’s lunar ambitions - The Washington Post
 The Rubin Observatory’s alert system sent 800,000 pings on its first night - The Verge
 What Rick Barnes said about Nate Ament's injury in Tennessee basketball loss vs Alabama - On3
 Match Awards from Bayern Munich’s thrilling 3-2 win over Borussia Dortmund - Bavarian Football Works
 NASCAR at COTA, St. Petersburg: Key information, links, results throughout race weekend - NASCAR.com
 Brenen Thompson runs a blazing 4.26-second 40 - NBC Sports

NewScientist Royal Navy returns to wind power with trial of robotic sailboats
 This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables
 The surprising origins of Britain's Bronze Age immigrants revealed
 Why I'm still an environmental optimist – despite it all
 Endurance brain cells may determine how long you can run for
 Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time
 RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be key to life's origins
 Why self-expansion is the key to long-lasting love and friendship
 Gene editing that spreads within the body could cure more diseases
 New Scientist recommends Hamnet, and its look at our links with nature
 CAR T-cell therapy may slow neurodegenerative conditions like ALS
 First ever inhalable gene therapy for cancer gets fast-tracked by FDA
 Accidental discovery hints at mystery structures within our brain