Viral news today

HackerNews📄  Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
📄  Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless
📄  14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
📄  AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet
📄  Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary
📄  Rise of the Triforce
📄  Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
📄  Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers
📄  Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox
📄  What your Bluetooth devices reveal
📄  Visual Introduction to PyTorch
📄  Show HN: Andrej Karpathy's microgpt.py to C99 microgpt.c – 4,600x faster
📄  State of Show HN: 2025
📄  PascalABC.net
📄  Turing Labs (YC W20) Is Hiring – Founding GTM Sales Hacker
📄  Suicide Linux (2009)
📄  PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf]

/r/Programming Daily📄  Why “Skip the Code, Ship the Binary” Is a Category Error
📄  PostgreSQL Bloat Is a Feature, Not a Bug
📄  One of the most annoying programming challenges I've ever faced
📄  Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (but is slow in Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, …)
📄  Dolphin Emulator - Rise of the Triforce
📄  How I cheated on transactions. Or how to make tradeoffs based on my Cloudflare D1 support
📄  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
📄  Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer
📄  Test your PostgreSQL database like a sorcerer
📄  Common Async Coalescing Patterns
📄  Petri Nets as a Universal Abstraction
📄  Synthetic data in 2026: separating the legitimate use cases from the expensive mistakes
📄  Final Fight: Enhanced - Final Edition - Complete breakdown
📄  StackOverflow Programming Challenge #16: Change is the only constant

/r/Technology Daily📄  AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital
📄  Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead
📄  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’
📄  Japan Has Created the World's First Engine That Generates Electricity on 30% Hydrogen
📄  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
📄  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.
📄  X Goes Down: Social Media Site Not Working for Thousands of Users Worldwide
📄  AI surgery tool blamed for injuring patients instead of helping heal them
📄  ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator sparks Hollywood outcry after viral clip
📄  PS6 could reportedly be delayed while Switch 2 might get even more expensive as Sony and Nintendo reckon with brutal AI-led memory chip shortage

/r/Gaming Daily📄  One of the most violent racing games ever. Burnout 3 (Playstation 2)
📄  Ah yes, the small Indy developers Disney and Gameloft
📄  Bloomberg claims 'rampant AI demand for memory' is forcing Sony to consider pushing back the launch of its next-gen PlayStation as far back as 2029
📄  Ashes of Creation Lawsuits Expose Massive Fraud (Fast Facts) [Legal Mindset]
📄  What's a unique game that really broke your perception of what games can do?
📄  Ladies and gentlemen, battery operated GameCube.
📄  Castlevania Veteran Koji Igarashi Vows to Finish Making Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement to Honor Deceased Director Shutaro Ida's Vision - IGN
📄  How has the price increase of Gamepass affected the membership numbers?
📄  If there's one thing the Far Cry franchise excels at it's creating great villains
📄  .hack//Z.E.R.O announced this morning!
📄  Suddenly remembered Monday Night Combat today and now I miss it
📄  What’s easily in your top 5 favorite video game cinematics of all time?

Lobste.rs An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
 The Missing GitHub Status Page
 How I Cut My Google Search Dependence in Half
 A programmer's loss of identity
 Go 1.26 is released
 I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
 How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate
 I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
 microgpt
 Evolving Git for the next decade
 Do not apologize for replying late to my email
 Zig landed io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations
 Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  "The worst she can say is no" - Lads, what was the worst "she" ever said?
📄  What’s something that 99% of people can do but you can’t?
📄  What was the dumbest game you and your friends made up as kids?
📄  What is a memory you have that is 100% vivid, but you have physical proof that it never actually happened?
📄  Why has the attitude towards alcohol changed so much among the younger generation?
📄  What’s the most unexpected way a woman has done to get your attention?
📄  How would you feel about a law that permanently bans members of Congress and their immediate families from trading individual stocks, with the penalty being immediate forfeiture of their seat and a lifetime ban from public office?
📄  What’s a company that used to be amazing but completely fell off?
📄  What's something young people see as a green flag that is actually a red flag?
📄  What's a company that ruins everything it acquires?
📄  What’s the most unexpectedly expensive thing you’ve ever had to pay for?
📄  What made you walk out on a date?

GNews The health swap I thought would save me but instead put me into a coma with 'crispy' lungs that tore when I breathed - Daily Mail
 Cardiologists Share 6 Surprising Lifestyle Habits That Boost Heart Health - AOL.com
 Doctor reveals the frightening words patients hear in the moments after their body dies — while the brain hangs on - AOL.com
 Can flickering lights and sound slow Alzheimer’s? A researcher seeks that answer - CNN
 Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole.' Now we know how it got that way - Phys.org
 Astronomers observe a star that quietly transformed into a black hole - KSL News
 SpaceX Hits New Milestone with Starlink Launch Amid Weather Warnings - The Daily Galaxy
 Space Station returns to a full crew complement after a month - Ars Technica
 Mets, Mike Tauchman Agree To Minor League Deal - MLB Trade Rumors
 Nate Diaz lists 3 opponents for possible UFC return; Dustin Poirier responds - MMA Fighting
 Albert Breer’s Takeaways: How the Raiders Landed on Klint Kubiak As Head Coach - Sports Illustrated
 French hockey player who fought Tom Wilson suspended - ESPN

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 The best new science fiction books of February 2026
 Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain
 Elon Musk is making a big bet on his future vision – will it work?
 Can we genetically improve humans using George Church’s famous list?
 The daring idea that time is an illusion and how we could prove it
 A remarkable book on quantum mechanics reveals a really big idea
 Ancient humans were seafaring far earlier than we realised
 Bored of snakes and ladders? Some maths can help bring back the fun
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 Nobel prizewinner Omar Yaghi says his invention will change the world