Viral news today

/r/all📄  Guy does a frontflip
📄  FedEx delivery driver organizes packages that were haphazardly dumped on someone's porch 🤝
📄  Freeing a stuck crow… with a crowbar
📄  My college roommate sets our thermostat to 80°F every single night
📄  Merry Christmas you filthy animals
📄  Well this is something you don't see everyday. At least I don't. It's a steel door in the side of a mountain...outside of Ouray Colorado
📄  The audacity
📄  I woke up to this... I don't have a cat
📄  Peacock thanks a lady after she feedes him but opening the wings.
📄  One time a person (after we had been dating for three weeks) told me it was either them or my cats.
📄  ''Dozing Donny'' during Cabinet meeting (Donald J. Trump, 45th & 47th U.S. President), Dec 4th 2025
📄  My neighbors cat has dementia and keeps forgetting he doesn't live with us
📄  Olive (politely) asking for snacks. 😋
📄  just a concept
📄  TIL that the non-profit that runs Wreaths Across America is owned by the same family that runs the Worcester Wreath Company, the for-profit supplier for Wreaths Across America, and the family’s non-profit use their donations to purchase wreaths from the family’s for-profit business
📄  All the time

HackerNews📄  Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now
📄  PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
📄  If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
📄  Mistral Releases Devstral 2 (72.2% SWE-Bench Verified) and Vibe CLI
📄  Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites (2019)
📄  Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
📄  10 Years of Let's Encrypt
📄  So You Want to Speak at Software Conferences?
📄  Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor
📄  LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090
📄  Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Designer
📄  My favourite small hash table
📄  Launch HN: Mentat (YC F24) – Controlling LLMs with Runtime Intervention
📄  Donating the Model Context Protocol and Establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
📄  Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns
📄  Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops
📄  The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn

/r/Programming Daily📄  How do you modernize a legacy tech stack without a complete rewrite?
📄  How (almost) any phone number can be tracked via WhatsApp & Signal – open-source PoC
📄  2 years with Shape-Up, and why we switched back
📄  Lessons learned while applying for developer jobs abroad
📄  Using a piece tree to implement a lazy-loading text editor, and where this idea comes from originally
📄  Talk on strategies on how to make C++ safer over the years by John Lakos.
📄  Solving the n+1 Problem in Postgres with psycopg and pydantic
📄  Really fast SPSC
📄  How well do you really understand C++ type deduction?
📄  Quick reference cheatsheet for Go developers
📄  Badge System Evolution: Building From Simple to Scalable (Part 1)
📄  Improving my flutter daily-recap app via hive caching, regenerate flows, error cards, and GH actions
📄  Imagine if writing were only for contracts & legal stuff. That's how we treat programming these days. Sam Aaron shows you the creative side of coding through code-based music (SonicPi).
📄  Django Tenants Complete Guide: Build Scalable Multi-Tenant Applications
📄  OAM, OIM & OID, Integration Oracle Access Manager & Oracle Identity man...

/r/Technology Daily📄  Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins
📄  Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem sued for pushing Apple to block anti-ICE app
📄  In 1995, a Netscape employee engineer Brendan Eich wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet | Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.
📄  Woman hospitalized after Pluribus ad on smart fridge triggers psychotic episode
📄  Tesla Barely Beats Jeep for Least Reliable Used Car, Owner Survey Says
📄  Apple pulled the ICEBlock app, and now its creator is suing the government
📄  Tesla Optimus's fall in Miami demo sparks remote operation debate
📄  GameStop Says Its 'Trade Anything Day' Led Customers to Bring In a Goose, a Bobcat, And a Wii Netflix Disc
📄  China's open-source models make up 30% of global AI usage, led by Qwen and DeepSeek
📄  Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source (Schleswig-Holstein)
📄  Scientists create a "cassette tape" made of DNA that can store every song ever written
📄  A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready. | Apps like OpenAI’s Sora are fooling millions of users into thinking A.I. videos are real, even when they include warning labels.

/r/Gaming Daily📄  Seeing it for the switch 2 reminds me of this meme.
📄  Do I need to play Cities Skylines 1 to understand the plot of Cities Skylines 2?
📄  Remember Need for Speed? Someone built a real-life Mini Map from the game to use in your car (and it's Open Source) | "Getting this to work on a $20 microcontroller meant processing the entire UK into 2.5 million map tiles, totaling 236GB of data"
📄  Pixel Art Appreciation: KH Chain of Memories has some of the best pixel art of all time
📄  Astro Bot is one of the best games I've ever played
📄  CAPCOM updates the cover of Resident Evil: Requiem in the PS Store featuring old Leon S. Kennedy
📄  The Mystery of The Game Awards 'Statue' Teasing A New Game Announcement Seems To Have Been Solved - It Is For Divinity: Original Sin 3
📄  What would be the worst job in any given video game world?
📄  Best boss fights where the boss is literally "just a guy"?
📄  "BAHN" is the first game I ever played back in ~1994 and is still receiving updates.
📄  My 1:12(6in) Mad Max themed Wario and Waluigi
📄  Been replaying The Devil Inside (2000) lately, what a cool obscure survival horror game, it plays well enough, good art direction, good usage of magic spells, and minimal HUD for better immersion. The player can also switch between 2 protagonists at certain stages.

Lobste.rs Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
 Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
 Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
 SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
 Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
 Perl's decline was cultural
 GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
 Using LLMs at Oxide
 In defense of lock poisoning in Rust
 How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
 Vanilla CSS is all you need
 Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
 Super-flat ASTs

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  Professionals who enter people's homes (plumbers, electricians, cleaners): What is something the condition of a house tells you about the owner that they don't realize they are revealing?
📄  If you Had to Waste $30 Million in a month to Inherit $300 Million, How would you do it?
📄  What was your “could never be me” but did indeed become you?
📄  What's that one car you WON'T drive because of the stereotype associated with it?
📄  What's a "dead meme" from 5-10 years ago that you still find genuinely funny, even if no one else does?
📄  What’s a “bare minimum” adult skill more people fail at than you expected?
📄  Cheaters who didn't get caught, how do you feel about it now?
📄  What is the most annoying sound in the world when you are trying to sleep?
📄  What's something people Hate because the Internet told them to?
📄  Boomers in the US hold $17 trillion dollars in assets. What happens to the younger generations when they die and leave all that wealth to us, the younger generations?
📄  What’s the worst adult animated show?
📄  If you could pass one single, simple rule that all 8 billion humans had to follow to make the world less annoying, what would it be?

GNews Man dies of rabies after kidney transplant from donor who saved kitten from skunk - The Guardian
 Social Media Is Absolutely Nuking Children’s Brains, New Research Finds - Futurism
 Why Some Doctors Say There Are Cancers That Shouldn’t Be Treated - The New York Times
 Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B - CIDRAP
 Record-breaking cosmic explosion challenges astronomers' understanding of gamma-ray bursts - Phys.org
 Russian Soyuz capsule lands on Earth to return crew of 3 home after months on International Space Station (video) - Space
 The best meteor shower of the year is peaking, and the weather in Oregon might actually be perfect - OregonLive.com
 In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars - Ars Technica
 Jalen Hurts had an unprecedented two turnovers on one play - NBC Sports
 Notre Dame Recruits See Playoff Snub As Fuel For Future Success - 247Sports
 NFL Power Rankings, Week 15: Bills and Steelers surge back up the board; Eagles and Colts plummet - NFL.com
 Sources: QB Rivers unretiring to sign with Colts - ESPN

/r/CryptoCurrency Weekly📄  Horrifying New Details Emerge In Case Of Crypto Scammer Found Dismembered With Wife In Dubai
📄  Eric Trump’s cryptocurrency firm loses half its value in half an hour
📄  Bitcoin just got completely absorbed by traditional finance and it happened in like nine days.
📄  What Do You Want For Xmas?
📄  Student 'tortured and burned alive by thieves for dad's cryptocurrency riches'
📄  Michael Saylor's Strategy buys another 10,624 bitcoin for $963 million as treasury holdings reach 660,624 BTC
📄  Manhattan federal judge declared a mistrial in the case against MIT-trained brothers who were accused of stealing $25 million in cryptocurrency during a 12-second transaction
📄  Be Your Own Boss They Said...
📄  We are back
📄  Boss in the market, but an intern in housekeeping

/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
📄  Found this gem in Production. Have you ever seen an SCP written like this?
📄  Amazon Announces Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases

NewScientist Common type of inflammatory bowel disease linked to toxic bacteria
 New Scientist recommends the Society of Wildlife Artists' annual expo
 Quantum computers need classical computing to be truly useful
 Ancient tracks may record stampede of turtles disturbed by earthquake
 Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf
 Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the biggest stars ever seen
 The vital, overlooked role of body fat in shaping your health and mind
 Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe discuss their new spacebound album, Liminal
 Why quasicrystals shouldn’t exist but are turning up in strange places
 Is there any evidence that playing music to plants is beneficial?
 Extinct animals in Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age make it a must-watch
 How a new way of thinking about fat could transform your health
 COP30 keeps climate cooperation alive but hanging by a thread