Viral news today

/r/all📄  Me irl
📄  I cut a potato exactly in half.
📄  This is so accurate
📄  Wolfdog invades Winter Olympics Women's cross country skiing race
📄  W 🫡🌟
📄  Why are all history teachers left-wing
📄  meirl
📄  man was yeast
📄  Let that sink in !
📄  After CBS released a statement without Stephen Colbert's knowledge denying that it had pulled an interview with Texas Democratic James Talarico from his show, Colbert responded by crumpling up the statement and treating it "like dog crap"
📄  Kaitlan Collins Responds to Donald Trump Saying 'I Don’t Think I’ve Ever Seen You Smile': "You shouldn’t smile when you’re asking questions about a sex trafficker."
📄  Love her response
📄  Rick Moranis left Hollywood at the peak of his fame to raise his children after his wife passed away. A true father figure
📄  The Atherstone Ball Game, held annually on Shrove Tuesday, took place yesterday. The ball is thrown into the crowd at 3 pm, and the winner is the person holding it at 5 pm.
📄  “American Dream” Man sleeping on sidewalk under American flag. [OC]
📄  Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA): “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations — allegations — of Donald Trump r*ping children and threatening to kill children.”

HackerNews📄  Sizing chaos
📄  27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates
📄  15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern
📄  Cosmologically Unique IDs
📄  Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed
📄  Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
📄  Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
📄  Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010)
📄  Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (2024)
📄  How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing
📄  Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
📄  A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts
📄  DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
📄  Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole' – how it got that way
📄  Fff.nvim – Typo-resistant code search
📄  Stoolap/Node: A Native Node.js Driver That's Surprisingly Fast
📄  All Look Same?

/r/Programming Daily📄  Poison Fountain: An Anti-AI Weapon
📄  AI, Entropy, and the Illusion of Convergence in Modern Software
📄  The fundamental contradiction of decentralized physical infrastructure
📄  Oral History of Michael J. Flynn
📄  Practical Reflection With C++26 - Barry Revzin - CppCon 2025
📄  Volume Scaling Techniques for Improved Lattice Attacks in Python
📄  2d FFT Demo Video in Octave Terminal Mode.
📄  Why I Just Use A Website Builder, As An Experienced Programmer
📄  Fork, Explore, Commit: OS Primitives for Agentic Exploration (PDF)
📄  Coding Agents & Language Evolution: Navigating Uncharted Waters • José Valim
📄  Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?
📄  The programming language coding agents perform best in isn’t Python, TypeScript, or Java. It’s the functional programming language Elixir.

/r/Technology Daily📄  After Censoring CBS, Trump Will Go For CNN: I’ve learned Trump will kill Netflix’s bid for Warner and help Paramount win, giving him control of Fox, CBS, CNN, and TikTok. But as Colbert showed, we can fight back.
📄  Discord is trying to defend its ridiculous age verification rollout, but it's too little too late, as users flock to Nitro cancellations
📄  Leaked Email Shows Dystopian Plan for Ring ‘Search Party’ Feature
📄  Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs
📄  X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find
📄  You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief
📄  Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails
📄  'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School | The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that sometimes do "more harm than good."
📄  Texas DOT Says I-35 Overpass That’s Obviously Splitting Is ‘Structurally Sound’
📄  6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom
📄  CIOs are telling companies that AI capex spending has gone too far
📄  Scientists Spotted Particles in Another Dimension. They Could Change Fundamental Physics.

/r/Gaming Daily📄  It was a struggle at times but he persevered.
📄  Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free thanks to its fan community, and they've even updated the game for modern PCs: 'This is the first public patch for Unreal Tournament 2004 in over 20 years'
📄  It's 2001 and I'm playing the brand new expansions of my two favorite games
📄  Todd Howard says 'The Elder Scrolls VI' will run on Creation Engine 3 (upgraded from 'Starfield') and is going back to the feel of a 'classic Bethesda game' ala Oblivion and Skyrim
📄  I can't think of a lot of situations that are THIS stressful in gaming (Dead Space 2, 2011)
📄  Developer at Wildlight insists that Highguard isn't dead and more content and updates are on the way. Website will be back eventually but is a low priority as "reputational damage is already done."
📄  Kristen Bell Joins ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 4’ as Amy Rose
📄  I hate lockpicking
📄  I finally found time last night between, family, kids, work, etc to grab an hour to game. It was a blast.
📄  Become - Official Announcement Trailer
📄  The “Shadowrun Fever” achievement from Shadowrun (seriously underrated game), from 2007, was gained by teabagging a downed player who already had the achievement.
📄  Microsoft raises rewards points cost for Xbox gift cards — UK, US and more affected

Lobste.rs An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
 Plasma 6.6 released
 15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
 Gentoo on Codeberg
 A programmer's loss of identity
 I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
 Rise of the Triforce
 How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate
 Evolving Git for the next decade
 Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
 microgpt
 Ditching Discord
 Zig landed io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  What are some VERY creepy facts?
📄  What's a sign from your body you should never ignore?
📄  What if Earth is basically the galaxy’s version of an uncontacted tribe - like everyone out there knows we exist, but there’s some cosmic group chat agreement that says, “Don’t interfere. They have to figure it out themselves.”?
📄  What’s one “type” you’ll never date again?
📄  What movie will you never watch again because it was too heartbreaking?
📄  What Happens to Retirees If They Run Out Of Money?
📄  What is a gaming memory from the 90s or early 2000s that kids today will just never understand?
📄  What's a trend from the early 2020s that died out so fast we all collectively forgot it ever happened?
📄  What is a 'dead giveaway' that someone is not a good person, even if they are acting nice?
📄  What’s something from the 2000s that disappeared without anyone noticing?
📄  What is a small thing that makes you happy instantly?
📄  What’s the best story ever told in a song?

GNews Can You Get Measles if You’re Vaccinated? And Everything Else You Need to Know About the Disease’s Terrifying Resurgence. - Slate Magazine
 Measles is 'actively spreading' in Salt Lake County as Highland High reports exposure - KSL News
 This form of mental exercise may cut dementia risk for decades - NPR
 Suspected bird flu investigated after dozens of geese found dead in South Jersey - 6abc Philadelphia
 Deep-sea fish break the mold with novel visual system - Reuters
 Scientists Reveal a New Record-Breaking Spinning Structure in the Universe - The Daily Galaxy
 SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket plume blossoms over Florida | Space photo of the day for Feb. 18, 2026 - Space
 Physicists recreated the first millisecond after the Big Bang — and found it was surprisingly soupy - Live Science
 3 takeaways from BYU’s loss at No. 4 Arizona - Deseret News
 Texas Tech star JT Toppin receives heartbreaking injury diagnosis - On3
 Jordan Stolz pursues 1500m gold, sprint sweep as speed skating continues in Milan - NBC Olympics
 What we learned from Day 1 of the second Bahrain test - Formula 1

NewScientist Why people can have Alzheimer's-related brain damage but no symptoms
 It would be a mistake to rush into an under-16 social media ban
 A huge cloud of dark matter may be lurking near our solar system
 Melatonin gummies as sleep aids for children: What are the risks?
 Ants attack their nest-mates because pollution changes their smell
 Neanderthals and early humans may have interbred over a vast area
 Why did SpaceX just apply to launch 1 million satellites?
 The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm
 Dutch air force reads pilots' brainwaves to make training harder
 Treating cancer before 3pm could help patients live longer
 Forever chemical TFA has tripled due to ozone-preserving refrigerants
 Record-breaking quantum simulator could unlock new materials
 A social network for AI looks disturbing, but it's not what you think