Viral news today

HackerNews📄  Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
📄  Making RSS More Fun
📄  UniFi 5G
📄  Most technical problems are people problems
📄  Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond
📄  Nimony (Nim 3.0) Design Principles
📄  Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything
📄  BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
📄  Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring
📄  Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
📄  Jolla Phone Pre-Order
📄  I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years
📄  Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks
📄  After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death
📄  Show HN: Tacopy – Tail Call Optimization for Python
📄  Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional
📄  Ephemeral Infrastructure: Why Short-Lived Is a Good Thing

/r/Programming Daily📄  Distributed Lock Failure: How Long GC Pauses Break Concurrency
📄  Why WinQuake exists and how it works
📄  Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
📄  I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
📄  Avoiding space leaks at all costs
📄  When to Use Which Design Pattern? A Complete Guide to All 23 GoF Design Patterns
📄  A critical vulnerability has been identified in the React Server Components protocol
📄  Factoring With Two Large Primes in Python and CUDA
📄  Try Out JEP 401 Value Classes and Objects
📄  Code editor Zed adds long-awaited rainbow brackets for improved nested code readability
📄  What I learned from launching my first open-source tool
📄  Implementing Your Own Atomics - Ben Saks - CppCon 2025
📄  🐳 Built a CLI to track Docker image size across your git history
📄  Concrete syntax matters, actually
📄  JDK 26 Rampdown Phase One. Feature Complete

/r/Technology Daily📄  YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with a viral cloning technique
📄  State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
📄  It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion
📄  A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code | Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you
📄  Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers
📄  CDC vaccine panel realizes again it has no idea what it’s doing, delays big vote | Today’s meeting was chaotic and included garbage anti-vaccine presentations.
📄  Microsoft will raise prices of commercial Office subscriptions in July
📄  YouTubers Are Making AI Slop for Babies | As if usual content for children isn't bad enough.
📄  ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says | Podcaster Brett Michael Dadig currently faces up to 70 years and a $3.5 million fine for ChatGPT-linked stalking.
📄  Feds ask Waymo about robotaxis repeatedly passing school buses in Austin
📄  Republicans drop President-ordered block on state AI laws from defense bill | “Widespread and powerful movement” keeps President from blocking state AI laws.
📄  Contractors with hacking records accused of wiping 96 govt databases

/r/Gaming Daily📄  Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto 'Fallout' season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh: 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian'
📄  The cast of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 have called on The Game Awards to add more award categories highlighting motion capture performers and supporting actors.
📄  What video game did you find to be unexpectedly tough?
📄  Outer Wilds drawing I've made
📄  A few Expansions were better than endless DLC and skins.
📄  Future Total War games can come to PlayStation and Xbox, Creative Assembly confirms
📄  What is your favorite case of a boss becoming a playable character or Vice-Versa?
📄  Total War Medieval 3 announced. In VERY early pre-production.
📄  Shooters Focused on Single Player Experience?
📄  What game changed your life?
📄  The God Slayer - Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer (looks like avatar the last airbender powers)
📄  Remember spending hours playing Ultima? Whatever happened to Origin Systems?

Lobste.rs Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
 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
 Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
 Advent of Code 2025
 Self-hosting my photos with Immich
 Boing
 Don't Click Here
 zmx: session persistence for terminal processes
 Go proposal: Type-safe error checking

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  You wake up in your teen years again. What is the first thing you would do?
📄  What is the biggest “bullet” you’ve ever dodged without realizing it at the time?
📄  What’s something everyone pretends to enjoy, but you secretly think is miserable?
📄  What is the most boring thing you have ever experienced?
📄  What did you have in 2016 but not 2026?
📄  What was the most mind blowing skill someone you know just busted out unexpectedly?
📄  Cops who have arrested other cops…what happened?
📄  What’s something you only realized was a ‘green flag’ once you got older?
📄  Have you ever seen a billionaire in real life? If so: where was it and what was the situation?
📄  When you were a teen, what was the one thing your parents did or said that really made you think about the bad choices you were making?
📄  ​​A brief inquiry into the history of the 2-point conversion by Dos Equis. Go For Dos™.​
📄  What's a 'gamble' you took in your life that paid off?

GNews Volcanic eruption triggered 'butterfly effect' that led to the Black Death, researchers find - Live Science
 His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent - statnews.com
 Cervical cancer screening guidelines just changed. Here’s what it means. - The Washington Post
 Key US panel to vote on changing infant hepatitis B vaccine recommendation - The Guardian
 Vandenberg’s Next Mission: SpaceX Rocket Launch on Thursday - Noozhawk
 Northern Lights Forecast: Here’s Where The Aurora Could Be Visible On Thursday Night - Forbes
 Photos show the last supermoon of the year shining in December skies - The Boston Globe
 More than 16,000 tracks found at a ‘dinosaur freeway’ in Bolivia - CNN
 RECAP: Lions vs. Cowboys - DetroitLions.com
 Winter Meetings wish list: Kyle Tucker to the Yankees, Tarik Skubal to the Dodgers and more - The Athletic - The New York Times
 LeBron James says his assist was ‘the perfect way’ for scoring streak to end - The New York Times
 World Cup 2026 draw: updates as the teams await fate in Washington DC – live - The Guardian

/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
📄  I built a complete AWS Data & AI Platform
📄  AWS announces Lambda Managed Instances, adding multiconcurrency and no cold starts
📄  AWS is moving faster than my brain can upgrade… anyone else?
📄  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!!
📄  Found this gem in Production. Have you ever seen an SCP written like this?
📄  Amazon Announces Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases
📄  Thanks Werner

NewScientist The forgotten women of quantum physics
 Mathematicians say Google's AI tools are supercharging their research
 We can finally hear the long-hidden music of the Stone Age
 Four-fifths of the world's population now live in urban areas
 Kissing may have evolved in an ape ancestor 21 million years ago
 Quantum computers that recycle their qubits can limit errors
 Google's Gemini 3 model keeps the AI hype train going – for now
 Climate heating has reached even deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean
 Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing
 Who finds dad jokes funniest? The answer might not astonish you
 An ambitious look at quantum physics is fun – but overdoes it a little
 Vanishing Y chromosomes could aid or worsen lung cancer outcomes
 Physics of light and magnetism rewritten after almost two centuries