Viral news today

HackerNews📄  Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
📄  Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
📄  1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long
📄  MinIO is now in maintenance-mode
📄  Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
📄  Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
📄  RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js
📄  Prompt Injection via Poetry
📄  How to Synthesize a House Loop
📄  Stop Talking
📄  Rocketable (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer to automate software companies
📄  You Can't Fool the Optimizer
📄  Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks
📄  Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
📄  GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles
📄  Boston's subway system replacing 1890s-era wooden catenary system
📄  Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?

/r/Programming Daily📄  Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
📄  Amber the programming language compiled to Bash, 0.5.1 release
📄  The 50MB Markdown Files That Broke Our Server
📄  100000 TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
📄  Booting a Linux kernel in qemu and writing PID 1 in Go (to show the kernel is "just a program")
📄  Constructing The Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine
📄  GitHub - codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x: Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.
📄  Event Sourcing: What, Why, and How — Explained on a Real Project
📄  Everything You Need To Know About CORS in 5mins
📄  Modular Monolith and Microservices: Modularity is what truly matters
📄  The development process of my new Python book Computer Science from Scratch
📄  Durable Executions, defined
📄  Generalizing the Shunting Yard Algorithm Part 4
📄  Postgres CDC in ClickHouse, A year in review
📄  Implementing a Framework for Closed-Loop Control Algorithms in Modern C++

/r/Technology Daily📄  ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations dissapeared for users
📄  Cosmonaut removed from SpaceX's Crew 12 mission for violating national security rules: report
📄  Meta buried ‘causal’ evidence of social media harm, U.S. court filings allege
📄  Windows 11 growth slows as millions stick with Windows 10
📄  Supreme Court leans toward internet service providers in copyright battle with nation’s music industry
📄  AT&T commits to ending DEI programs
📄  Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn | Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country.
📄  Toyota Doubles Down on Hybrids in the U.S. With $14 Billion Battery Push
📄  Nearly a billion PCs are still running Windows 10, and half are too old to upgrade
📄  Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware
📄  Windows 11 needs its own Windows XP SP2 moment without AI or bloat, says former Microsoft dev who created Task Manager
📄  Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals

/r/Gaming Daily📄  It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it
📄  I'm gonna finish it I swear, and this time NOT as a stealth archer
📄  So I got to visit the statue!
📄  One small game mechanic you wish more studios copied because it simply works.
📄  Shovel Knight studio Yacht Club Games is ‘make or break’ and relying on its next game’s success
📄  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Is the Biggest New Third-Party Game Launch on Xbox Game Pass of 2025
📄  Indie dev Chequered Ink puts together $10 10,000 game assets pack so developers "don't feel the need to turn to AI"
📄  Playing GTA on a PSP is such a vibe!
📄  Every Winner of a Major "Game of the Year" Award since 2013 (TGA, TGJ, BAFTA, Steam, GDCA, and DICE) by Year
📄  Elden Ring Nightreign's DLC is "definitely a little bit harder" than the main game, "but it's not ridiculous", says director
📄  Lord of the Rings Online - new expansion Kingdoms of Harad has officially launched!
📄  RDR still looks ridiculously good for a 15 year old game.

Lobste.rs Migrating The Zig Organization from GitHub to Codeberg
 Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea
 Gitmal - a static pages generator for Git repos
 How good engineers write bad code at big companies
 Migrating Dillo from GitHub
 Zigbook is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
 Self-hosting my photos with Immich
 Advent of Code 2025
 Boing
 Don't Click Here
 The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
 Why xor eax, eax?
 NixOS 25.11 released

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  What's the clearest sign that someone is genuinely doing well in life?
📄  What happened to the smartest person you went to school with?
📄  What's an "Insider's secret" from your profession that everyone should probably know?
📄  If you died and everyone said “They died doing what they loved.” What was it that you were doing?
📄  What’s something you thought every family did… until you grew up and realized they absolutely didn’t?
📄  What was the last straw that completely broke a friendship you thought would last forever?
📄  What the most physically painful thing you ever experienced?
📄  What is the point investigating people, trying them in court, only to have Trump pardon them?
📄  How do y’all do the whole 8–5 grind and only have weekends to yourselves without feeling like life is just… passing you by?
📄  Why some people need alone time to feel normal again after socializing?
📄  What experience made you re-evaluate your own attractiveness?
📄  What is something more traumatizing than people realize?

GNews Madonna Calls Trump's World AIDS Day Decision 'Unthinkable' - HuffPost
 Shingles vaccine may actually slow down dementia, study finds - The Washington Post
 Owning a Smartphone at Age 12 Is Linked to These Health Issues in Kids - ScienceAlert
 What to know about the hepatitis B shot — and why Trump officials are targeting it - AP News
 'An extreme end of human genetic variation': Ancient humans were isolated in southern Africa for nearly 100,000 years, and their genetics are stunningly different - Live Science
 'Cold Supermoon' 2025: Why the final full moon of the year also towers highest - Live Science
 NASA discovers 'space gum' and sugars 'crucial to life' in asteroid Bennu samples brought to Earth (video) - Space
 Sterile Neutrino Prediction Muddled by Latest Experiments - The New York Times
 Why the Packers Are Poised for a Super Bowl Run - Sports Illustrated
 NFL Week 14 Power Rankings: Bears rise, Ravens slip - PFF
 College football national signing day live: Top commits, flips, moments - ESPN
 Clippers send Chris Paul packing in a stunning, late-night move - The Athletic - The New York Times

/r/AWS Monthly📄  Turns out out our DynamoDB costs could be 70% lower if we just... changed a setting. I'm a senior engineer btw
📄  cut our aws bill by 67% by moving compute to the edge
📄  India's largest automaker Tata Motors demonstrated how not to use AWS keys
📄  I built a complete AWS Data & AI Platform
📄  AWS announces Lambda Managed Instances, adding multiconcurrency and no cold starts
📄  AWS CodeCommit is back from the dead - returning to GA
📄  AWS Lambda adds support for Rust
📄  Amazon DynamoDB now supports multi-attribute composite keys in global secondary indexes - AWS
📄  AWS Lambda Durable Functions - wait for async results, poll on an endpoint, or sleep with no CPU charges
📄  AWS API Gateway Now Supports Streaming Responses!!
📄  S3 Incomplete Multipart Uploads are dangerous: +1TB of hidden data on S3
📄  AWS announces Fastnet, a dedicated high-capacity transatlantic cable connecting the US and Ireland

NewScientist Oldest ever RNA sample recovered from woolly mammoth
 Cuts and scrapes may be slower to heal in redheads
 Why giving up on goals is good for you, and how to know which to ditch
 Breaking Bad showrunner uses sci-fi for smart dive into happiness
 Is a deadly asteroid about to hit Earth? Meet the man who can tell you
 Women have supercharged immune systems and we now know why
 The 19th-century maths that can help you deal with horrible coffee
 Finally wrangling with the complexity of female bodies benefits us all
 Rapid melt from Antarctica could help preserve crucial ocean current
 Parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their queen, then usurps her
 Neanderthals' hefty noses weren’t well adapted to cold climates
 Ancient figurine may show sexual encounter between woman and goose
 Vast Bronze Age city discovered in the plains of Kazakhstan