Viral news today

HackerNews📄  Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
📄  Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
📄  First Website (1992)
📄  How will OpenAI compete?
📄  Out of Light Adjust Share: Caravaggio, La Tour, and the Art of Attention
📄  The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)
📄  RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
📄  Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
📄  Making MCP cheaper via CLI
📄  Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer
📄  Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective
📄  Self-improving software won't produce Skynet
📄  Writers and Their Day Jobs
📄  Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
📄  Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
📄  The First Fully General Computer Action Model
📄  What Pressure Does to an Athlete's Body

/r/Programming Daily📄  “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time” still the best reminder that time handling is fundamentally broken
📄  Fake Job Interviews Are Installing Backdoors on Developer Machines
📄  curl security moves again [from GitHub back to hackerone; still no bug-bounty]
📄  I rendered 1,418 Unicode confusable pairs across 230 system fonts. 82 are pixel-identical, and the font your site uses determines which ones.
📄  Code Mode with Skills
📄  The React Foundation: A New Home for React Hosted by the Linux Foundation
📄  Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism
📄  Recursive Make Considered Harmful [2006]
📄  My most frequently used Jujutsu VCS commands
📄  Computer History Museum Recovers Rare UNIX History
📄  About memory pressure, lock contention, and Data-oriented Design
📄  Understanding Bill Gosper's continued fraction arithmetic (implemented in Python)
📄  Time-Travel Debugging: Replaying Production Bugs Locally
📄  Testing Super Mario Using a Behavior Model Autonomously
📄  Passkey PRFs for end-to-end encryption

/r/Technology Daily📄  Scoop: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic
📄  Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon
📄  Amazon Wishlist change doxxes users and shares your delivery address
📄  New York sues video game developer Valve, says its 'loot boxes' are gambling
📄  A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account
📄  Goldman Sachs says AI's impact on the US economy was "basically zero" last year
📄  Report: Data centers’ air pollution associated with lung issues, death
📄  FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn
📄  Attorney General Bonta Exposes Amazon Price Fixing Scheme Driving Up Costs for Americans, Asks Court to Immediately Halt Illegal Conduct
📄  Spain Orders Criminal Investigation Into X, Meta, and TikTok Over Alleged AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material
📄  Discord Co-Founder Admits Age Check Privacy Missteps, What’s Next
📄  Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

/r/Gaming Daily📄  Someone at Xbox testing in production, brave
📄  Ubisoft Suffers Major “Talent Drain” Because They’re “Allergic” To New Things, Says Insider
📄  No contraband
📄  'RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM' - Review Thread
📄  What game had the best “first few hours” that immediately hooked you?
📄  14 years later and I am not over this and what it could have been.
📄  “Loot Box Litigation” New York Attorney General Brings Case Against Valve Alleging Criminal Violations of Gambling Laws
📄  Mortal Kombat II | Official Trailer II
📄  What video game weapon or armor looks cool but it's terrible to use?
📄  Living human brain cells in a dish can play DOOM
📄  Which video game do you think has the best soundtrack?
📄  Which game is a joy to watch playthroughs of, but absolutely miserable to play yourself.

Lobste.rs x86CSS - An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS
 The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
 Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148
 Turn Dependabot Off
 Lobsters Interview with steveklabnik
 So I've Been Thinking About Static Site Generators
 New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes
 “Just a little detail that wouldn’t sell anything”
 The Fastest Way to Board an Airplane
 Paged Out! #8
 Fix your tools
 Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
 Reducing the size of Go binaries by up to 77%

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  What's one 'boring' career that's actually a goldmine if you play it smart?
📄  What is the absolute fastest 'yeah, we are definitely NOT going to be friends' moment you've ever experienced with someone?
📄  People that are childfree by choice, what’s the weirdest reason someone has given you as to why they think you ‘should have kids’?
📄  What's something you saw with your own eyes that you still can't explain?
📄  How would you feel if someone offered you $10,000 because you’re ugly?
📄  What’s something harmless that gets people weirdly upset?
📄  What’s an impressive “wow” skill that’s actually very easy to learn?
📄  Larry Summers resigned from Harvard today over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. What consequences do you think are needed beyond his resignation?
📄  What was something that ended your crush on someone?
📄  What is the most interesting rabbit hole you’ve ever been down?
📄  What's the craziest reason you've cut someone off for (cold turkey-radio silence type cut off)?
📄  What made you start going to the gym?

/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.
📄  they have Karpathy, we are doomed ;)
📄  Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is a gamechanger for agentic coding.
📄  so is OpenClaw local or not
📄  Which one are you waiting for more: 9B or 35B?
📄  Deepseek and Gemma ??
📄  Pack it up guys, open weight AI models running offline locally on PCs aren't real. 😞
📄  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

GNews Scientists Found a Protein That Could Keep Your Brain From Growing Old - Yahoo
 Rainier Beach High School confirms active tuberculosis case, 130 people possibly exposed - KOMO
 Florida uses emergency rule to cut patients off AIDS medication - Tampa Bay Times
 Why heart disease and stroke are projected to rise significantly in women, even younger ones - NBC News
 Convergent MurJ flippase inhibition by phage lysis proteins - Nature
 NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Launches Real-Time Discovery Machine for Monitoring the Night Sky - Rubin Observatory
 The Password That Lets Caterpillars Hide in an Ant’s Lair - The New York Times
 Space Force pauses national security launches on Vulcan - Breaking Defense
 Alysa Liu is back in the Bay Area. Here's what her 1st day home was like. - SFGATE
 Player Ratings: Real Madrid 2 - 1 Benfica - Managing Madrid
 Two-round 2026 NFL Mock Draft rocked by Browns-Cowboys blockbuster trade - NFL Mocks
 Raiders want two first-round picks and a player for Maxx Crosby - NBC Sports

NewScientist Statins don't cause most of the side effects listed on their labels
 Personalised medicine is yet to deliver, but that must start to change
 Physicists can now take control of 'hidden' friction in devices
 Jeff Goldblum should make a film about this legendary mathematician
 'Hidden' group of gut bacteria may be essential to good health
 Is this carved rock an ancient Roman board game?
 Specific cognitive training has 'astonishing' effect on dementia risk
 How clinical research is still failing underrepresented communities
 Why 1.5°C failed and setting a new limit would make things worse
 Old EV batteries could meet most of China's energy storage needs
 Time crystals could be used to build accurate quantum clocks
 Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?
 Newborn marsupials seen crawling to mother's pouch for the first time