Viral news today

/r/all📄  The Bondi hero awake and recovering in hospital after saving countless lives
📄  im a 6'9"/205cm tall woman
📄  President Obama rewriting his speech moments before the Sandy Hook memorial service.
📄  meirl
📄  No, no he's got a point
📄  Tilt shift farming
📄  This package for this "yard" of snickers is incredibly misleading
📄  In Australia, after his team won the championship, the football captain went into the stands to bring Sammy, their waterboy who has Down's Syndrome, to celebrate with them.
📄  A crossing guard blocks the way of an aggressive driver while children and their parents are crossing the street
📄  Grandpa teaches kitten how to swim
📄  When the follow-up comment is the real holiday tragedy.
📄  Lady Gaga’s dancer accidentally fell off of stage and she paused the show to check on him at her concert
📄  Meet one of the most disturbing animals on earth: the amphibian Atretochoana eiselti
📄  A decade later and still my baby
📄  Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot
📄  This installation at a church in Charlotte.

HackerNews📄  DNA Learning Center: Mechanism of Replication 3D Animation
📄  Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’
📄  Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
📄  Unscii
📄  Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets
📄  If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
📄  Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
📄  Invader: Where to Spot the 8-Bit Street Art in London
📄  Largest U.S. Recycling Project to Extend Landfill Life for Virginia Residents
📄  Optery (YC W22) Hiring CISO, Release Manager, Tech Lead (Node), Full Stack Eng
📄  Wall Street Sees AI Bubble Coming and Is Betting on What Pops It
📄  $5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop
📄  AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
📄  The Java Ring: A Wearable Computer (1998)
📄  Rob Reiner has died
📄  John Varley has died
📄  The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963)

/r/Programming Daily📄  🦀 Rust Is Officially Part of Linux Mainline
📄  The Case Against Microservices
📄  I killed a worker mid-payment to test “exactly-once” execution
📄  Rejecting rebase and stacked diffs, my way of doing atomic commits
📄  Lessons from implementing a crash-safe Write-Ahead Log
📄  xreferee: Enforce cross references across a repository
📄  Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers
📄  I built a real-time ASCII camera in the browser (60 FPS, Canvas, TypeScript)
📄  Writing Code vs. Writing Prose
📄  What are the real challenges of automating with AI agents?
📄  Excel: The World’s Most Successful Functional Programming Platform By Houston Haynes
📄  How Mindset Shapes Engineering Success at Startups
📄  Zyn 0.3.0 – An extensible pub/sub messaging protocol for real-time apps
📄  Jubilant: Python subprocess and Go codegen
📄  Part 2 of backend driven badge system

/r/Technology Daily📄  Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot
📄  Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years
📄  Fake ‘One Battle After Another’ torrent hides malicious PowerShell malware loaders inside subtitle files that ultimately infect devices with the Agent Tesla RAT malware.
📄  Russian media finally admits Putin is under fire from angry citizens, but it's for the recent Roblox ban — Kremlin says kids have written 63,000 complaint letters, half said they wanted to leave Russia due to the ban
📄  Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
📄  Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting / xAI’s chatbot has repeatedly misidentified video of the incident and the hero who disarmed a gunman
📄  5D glass storage 'memory crystals' promise up to 13.8 billion years of data storage resilience, which is also the age of the universe — crams 360 terabytes into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser
📄  Wall Street Sees AI Bubble Coming and Is Betting on What Pops It
📄  Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Has Been Using Custom $2 Bills for Over 30 Years
📄  Install MAX, Russia’s big brother surveillance app or face repression in occupied Ukraine
📄  Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments | Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.
📄  Podcast industry under siege as AI bots flood airways with thousands of programs

/r/Gaming Daily📄  Came across this relic of missed opportunities while cleaning today:
📄  Leon’s new design aims to appeal to male gamers by showing that, like many of us, he too can’t grow decent facial hair
📄  ‘Great pride for France’: President congratulates Clair Obscur after historic night at The Game Awards
📄  Good Gaming Moment - I Had to Tell My family today, "Everybody Find a Save Point." As a Dad/Husband I've never felt more Blessed.
📄  Can we please get a setting in games to turn off having companions tell us how to solve puzzles?
📄  'They have no idea who was in this Discord' Rockstar comments on GTA 6 developer firings again
📄  22 Years later, on the exact day, I played The Two Towers
📄  The PS2 had an absolute banger of a launch year.
📄  What’s the best husband-wife game?
📄  Now that TGA are over, what’s your most anticipated 2026 release
📄  "I wish I had the Katamari Damacy IP": To a T was meant to counter the "downer" vibes of 2019 America, but Keita Takahashi says it "didn't sell well" and fears it "just wasn't a good fit"
📄  Gang

Lobste.rs Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
 Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
 How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
 Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
 I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype
 bidicalc: a bidirectional calculator
 Announcing Rust 1.92.0
 Size of Life
 Zig asserts are not C asserts
 Installing Every NixOS Package
 Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
 Go proposal: Secret mode
 Maybe we don't need a server

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  What’s something that completely changed your life, but seemed insignificant at the time?
📄  What quality that is considered conventionally attractive do you not find attractive at all?
📄  What "golden age" or "heyday" were you lucky enough to experience that you know won’t ever come back?
📄  What word do you mispronounce on purpose (for fun) and why?
📄  What’s the most confusing mixed signal you’ve ever received while dating?
📄  What’s something about you that sounds fake, but is 100% true?
📄  What jobs pay extremely well but people don’t realize it?
📄  What were you doing during the peak of COVID?
📄  Who's the stupidest person you've met and what story sums it up?
📄  What’s something society romanticizes, but is actually exhausting in real life?
📄  What’s the one app you deleted that instantly made your life better?
📄  Who is the most famous person in history?

GNews At least 197 children were fathered by sperm donor with cancer-causing gene. Some have already died - WLFI News 18
 RFK Jr. has turned the CDC into ‘a zombie organization’ - thehill.com
 They’re medics, social workers, neighbors and 911. Meet the health care workers who do it all. - The Washington Post
 New clues about long covid’s cause could unlock treatments - The Washington Post
 Why interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS' close Earth approach is an early Christmas gift for astronomers - Space
 How to watch the Geminids meteor shower in Colorado, where over 100 meteors per hour could be visible - CBS News
 Scientists Discover Giant Structure Deep Beneath Bermuda Unlike Anything on Earth! - Indian Defence Review
 Falcon 9 launch of 29 Starlink satellites from the Kennedy Space Center delayed to Tuesday - Spaceflight Now
 Seahawks Show ‘We Don’t Really Flinch’ In Dramatic Finish To Beat Colts - Seattle Seahawks
 The Winners and Losers of the NFL Week 15 - The Ringer
 Gardner Minshew explains game-ending interception, reflects on Mahomes’ injury - Kansas City Star
 Schottenheimer on loss to Vikings: 'I'm better than that' - Dallas Cowboys | Official Site of the Dallas Cowboys

/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 is moving faster than my brain can upgrade… anyone else?
📄  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!!
📄  Thanks Werner
📄  Amazon Announces Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases
📄  AWS introduces Graviton5—the company’s most powerful and efficient CPU

NewScientist 'Horrific and beautiful' whale rescue image wins photography prize
 Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder
 Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
 Our verdict on sci-fi novel Every Version of You: We (mostly) loved it
 Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years
 Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb
 Origin story of domestic cats rewritten by genetic analysis
 Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may be behind tooth loss
 Why Google’s custom AI chips are shaking up the tech industry
 Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago
 The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops
 A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping cure deadly diseases
 The quick and easy ways to stay fit this holiday season