Viral news today

/r/all📄  PETA WHY ARE THEY SO UPSET WITH HULK?!!!
📄  ICE agent slipping on ice, circa 2026
📄  It was Career Day, and every child dressed up as what they wanted to be when they grew up. The maintenance worker was his idol
📄  President Trump has been allegedly identified as major client in Epstein trafficking ring by decorated Iraq War veteran William Sascha Riley
📄  BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Donald Trump has fallen asleep again at a public meeting. Wow.
📄  [OC] I’m a dad.
📄  INS/ICE didn’t use to wear masks - most famous immigration photo ever taken, not a mask in sight.
📄  North Side ICE shooting inside a house | “Who did you shoot this time you cosplaytriot f**k? I served in the army 13 years to wear that uniform and your fat ass did 47 days to wear it because you’re a Meal Team Six Gravy Seal motherf**ker.”
📄  Slipping Around
📄  A strange cat came up to me and stood on my shoes!
📄  FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move
📄  Marked down
📄  Karoline Leavitt Eating at Mexican Restaurant While Working to Deport Mexicans
📄  Patriot
📄  She was and useful idiot
📄  Marble race! Which one did you pick?

HackerNews📄  The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible
📄  Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
📄  Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
📄  A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI
📄  The <Geolocation> HTML Element
📄  Z80 Mem­ber­ship Card
📄  Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
📄  Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
📄  Ask HN: Share your personal website
📄  Nao Labs (Open-Source Analytics Agent, YC X25) Is Hiring
📄  New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes
📄  Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
📄  Scaling long-running autonomous coding
📄  Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
📄  Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home)
📄  Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files
📄  Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR

/r/Programming Daily📄  Ken Thompson rewrote his code in real-time. A federal court said he co-created MP3. So why has no one heard of James D. Johnston?
📄  A good test of engineering team maturity is how well you can absorb junior talent
📄  Zero-copy SIMD parsing to handle unaligned reads and lifetime complexity in binary protocols
📄  Rust is being used at Volvo Cars
📄  Pidgin Markup For Writing, or How Much Can HTML Sustain?
📄  PR Review Guidelines: What I Look For in Code Reviews
📄  Caching Playbook for System Design Interviews
📄  How do you build serious extension features within the constraints of VS Code’s public APIs?
📄  Unlocking the Secret to Faster, Safer Releases with DORA Metrics
📄  n8n Feels Fast Until You Need to Explain It
📄  Bad Vibes: Comparing the Secure Coding Capabilities of Popular Coding Agents
📄  The Microservice Desync: Modern HTTP Request Smuggling in Cloud Environments
📄  fundamental skills and knowledge you must have in 2026 for SWE
📄  Using GitHub Copilot Code Review as a first-pass PR reviewer (workflow + guardrails)
📄  Chat is the least interesting interface to LLMs

/r/Technology Daily📄  Use of AI to harm women has only just begun, experts warn
📄  Waymo passenger jumps out of self-driving car after it stops on rail tracks near oncoming train
📄  When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software
📄  Buttons in cars: Australian crash testers are latest to require them
📄  Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK
📄  Verizon gets FCC permission to end 60-day phone unlocking rule
📄  ‘A perfect, wild storm’: widely loathed datacenters see little US political opposition
📄  X to comply with UK law over Grok deepfakes, Starmer says
📄  As New Jersey enacts cellphone ban in schools, survey shows what teens actually think
📄  Beijing reportedly limiting H200 purchases to those with ‘special circumstances’ — sources suggest only university R&D labs can acquire Nvidia GPUs in China
📄  Big Tech is poaching energy talent to fuel its AI ambitions
📄  Anthropic says its buzzy new Claude Cowork tool was mostly built by AI — in less than 2 weeks

Lobste.rs The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
 Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
 European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
 What Happened To WebAssembly
 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&str
 Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak
 Just the Browser
 A data model for Git
 Why We Don't Use AI
 WhatsApp is untrustable
 we rolled our own documentation site
 More assorted notes on Liquid Glass (2025)
 Celeste & TowerFall Physics

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  What’s the most overrated video game of all time?
📄  What unhinged thing did a former teacher do in the classroom?
📄  What’s something people defend way too hard, even though it’s clearly not worth it?
📄  Singles people tell us. What's the most underrated thing about being single?
📄  What is something free from the internet everyone should take advantage of?
📄  People who survived a truly awful physical experience (think kidney stones, major injury, etc.), what's one permanent change you made to your life to make sure it never happens again?
📄  What's the most boring movie you've seen?
📄  What is a socially accepted behavior that people pretend is harmless, but actually makes society worse?
📄  What’s your secret for actually getting out of bed in the morning?
📄  What's a simple thing that makes you feel at peace?
📄  What’s a simple boundary that significantly improved your mental health?
📄  What’s something you stopped explaining to people to protect your peace?

GNews DOH reports travel-related Zika, dengue cases on Oahu - Honolulu Star-Advertiser
 At least 171 measles cases confirmed in 9 states: CDC - ABC News
 Medical Groups Will Try to Block Childhood Vaccine Recommendations - The New York Times
 SC measles outbreak has gone berserk: 124 cases since Friday, 409 quarantined - Ars Technica
 From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation – and competition – will make 2026 an exciting year for space - The Conversation
 SpaceX breaks pad turnaround record at Cape Canaveral with midday Starlink launch - Spaceflight Now
 China Is Over The Moon With Its New Lunar Timekeeping System - Jalopnik
 Wolf’s dinner preserved in Siberia for 14,400 years sheds light on woolly rhino - The Guardian
 With Suárez off the board, let's break down the remaining FA starters - MLB.com
 Divisional Round Injury Report: Seahawks vs. 49ers - Seattle Seahawks
 Darius Garland left Wednesday's game early with injured foot - NBA
 Stanford 95-90 North Carolina (Jan 14, 2026) Game Recap - ESPN

NewScientist A controversial experiment threatened to kill the multiverse in 2025
 The best and most ridiculous robots of 2025 in pictures
 The cassette tape made a comeback in 2025 thanks to a DNA upgrade
 The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished
 Physicists stirred up controversy with scientific cooking tips in 2025
 Star that seemed to vanish more than 130 years ago is found again
 The duo kite-skiing 4000 kilometres across Antarctica for science
 We'll learn about LSD's potential for treating anxiety in 2026
 Three supermassive black holes have been spotted merging into one
 EU carbon border tax will force others to cut emissions from 2026
 The emotion you never knew you had, and how to feel more of it
 Could 2026 be the year we start using quantum computers for chemistry?
 US to fire up small reactors in 2026 as part of 'nuclear renaissance'