Viral news today

/r/all📄  Irresponsible parents taught by Man dressed as Mickey Mouse
📄  Thomas Massie: "I Am Not Suicidal"
📄  My grandmother has seen a little too much Winter Olympics
📄  TIL a Burger King cook (who'd worked there for 24 years) was fired for taking home a sandwich, fries & a drink after her manager claimed she had only asked permission for a sandwich & accused her of stealing. However, a judge ruled that the cook did not intend to steal the food & awarded her $46,000
📄  Meirl
📄  Fishing tip of the day:
📄  A couple dancing by the Bosphorus gets the cutest photobomb ever
📄  Age of Artificial intelligence
📄  MAJOR W 🫡🌟
📄  Just remember, their entire life is time with us.
📄  The “Melted” Stairs of the Temple of Hathor
📄  One question just dismantled the whole narrative.
📄  JIMMY KIMMEL: "I propose that we should think about adding his name to the Epstein files... it will heretofore be known as the Trump-Epstein Files."
📄  Why do cats do this?
📄  A man driving in Norway and accidentally spotting Tom Cruise on a train. Apparently he was filming "Mission: Impossible 7."
📄  My neighbor's dog came over to visit me today while I was having coffee in the sunroom. (Yes, I let him in.)

HackerNews📄  Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed
📄  Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL
📄  The Three Year Myth
📄  Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986
📄  YouTube as Storage
📄  Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker
📄  Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide
📄  How the Little Guy Moved
📄  Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action
📄  GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
📄  Building a TUI is easy now
📄  Cogram (YC W22) – Hiring former technical founders
📄  Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
📄  Font Rendering from First Principles
📄  Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
📄  NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry
📄  Gradient.horse

/r/Programming Daily📄  Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
📄  Recovered 1973 diving decompression algorithm
📄  What happens inside Postgres when IOPS runs out
📄  New Architecture Could Cut Quantum Hardware Needed to Break RSA-2048 by Tenfold, Study Finds
📄  Rendering the visible spectrum
📄  Allocators from C to Zig
📄  Design Decision: Technical Debt in BillaBear
📄  Micro Frontends: When They Make Sense and When They Don’t
📄  My Business as Code
📄  In a relationship with Git — a Valentine’s Day story every developer will understand
📄  Dave Farley on AI, Modern Software Engineering, and Engineering Discipline
📄  AI usage in popular open source projects
📄  Why aren't we all using neuromorphic chips yet? Turns out there's more to the story...
📄  Tired of broken Selenium scripts? Try letting AI handle browser automation

/r/Technology Daily📄  Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
📄  FTC wants Apple News to promote more Fox News and Breitbart stories
📄  The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
📄  UN approves 40-member scientific panel on the impact of artificial intelligence over US objections
📄  Detroit Automakers Take $50 Billion Hit as EV Bubble Bursts
📄  Zazie Beetz Says ‘We Need to Rally the Troops’ Against AI: ‘Get People Mad About It and Do Something’
📄  A Laser Weapon Targeted Suspected Drones. It Hit Party Balloons Instead.
📄  Windows 11 update KB5077181 is causing critical boot loops for some users
📄  Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation. Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
📄  Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted
📄  Meta says it won't chop the bottom 5% performers this year
📄  Spotify claims that its top engineers haven’t needed to write any code since December, all because of AI.

/r/Gaming Daily📄  Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize
📄  High on Life 2 might have the best character creation I've ever seen.
📄  Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, the recently revealed (and long awaited) new mainline entry in the Castlevania franchise is priced at $39.99 (USD). Konami has just been making all the right moves since their return to the traditional games industry.
📄  [Halo] Two birds strapped together is pretty unconventional for a weapon design.
📄  Which video game franchise took a big risk that ultimately paid off?
📄  Are there any games where you "can't" win?
📄  Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Next-Gen Update - Launch trailer
📄  A French Gothic building I made in my Minecraft city
📄  My biggest pet peeve is when games let you use a health item when you already have full health
📄  You guys helped us get into game dev, and now we're making a game where turn-based tactics meets rhythm called WARDRUM!
📄  I knew something was up when everyone kept going to Yoshi's Island [Paper Mario TTYD]
📄  Akali and Senna revealed as next champions for 2XKO as Director discusses future of the game

Lobste.rs An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
 Don't Get Distracted (2017)
 The Missing GitHub Status Page
 How I Cut My Google Search Dependence in Half
 Offpunk 3.0
 Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
 Go 1.26 is released
 (Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"
 I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
 Do not apologize for replying late to my email
 Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
 Stories From 25 Years of Software Development
 Hare 0.26.0 released

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  What’s a sound everyone should recognize as immediate danger?
📄  What was your “never meet your heroes” moment, when you realized someone you looked up to wasn’t special?
📄  What is extremely unhygienic but everyone seems to do it anyway?
📄  What is an underrated weight loss tip?
📄  What is the greatest reveal in cinematic history?
📄  Whose death arguably saved the most lives in history?
📄  Men who got out of the 'Manoverse/Alpha Male/Toxic Masculinity' world, what realizations helped?
📄  What is a 'gut feeling' you had that ended up saving your life?
📄  What is one thing you're tired of telling/explaining to people?
📄  How would you feel about a law where every politician must live in public housing and use only public transportation for the duration of their term, with their salary capped at the median income of their district?
📄  What’s the funniest excuse you’ve heard someone use to leave work early?
📄  What’s a GREEN FLAG in a workplace that people often overlook?

GNews Experts who worry about child vaccination need to look in the mirror - The Hill
 Mehmet Oz's vaccine call is 'too little, too late' - DW.com
 Measles Outbreak Hits Ave Maria University in Florida - The New York Times
 WHO slams US-funded newborn vaccine trial as "unethical" - Ars Technica
 Rocket Report: Say cheerio to Orbex; China is getting good at booster landings - Ars Technica
 Saturn’s Rings Came From a Two-Moon Collision About 100 Million Years Ago, Study Says - Gizmodo
 Discovery in ancient Alaskan 40,000-year-old permafrost could help US military survive in extreme cold - Yahoo
 NASA Selects Vast for Sixth Private Mission to Space Station - NASA (.gov)
 2026 Daytona Speedweeks pit stall assignments - NASCAR.com
 Penn State Dominates Ohio State, 36-5, In Battle of Nation’s Top Two Teams - Eleven Warriors
 NBA All-Star 2026: Live updates, highlights through the weekend - ESPN
 'Quad God' Ilia Malinin falls twice in Olympic disaster, allowing Mikhail Shaidorov to claim gold - AP News

NewScientist Think of a card, any card – but make it science
 How your health is being commodified by social media
 Faecal transplants could boost the effectiveness of cancer treatments
 Polar bears are getting fatter in the fastest-warming place on Earth
 Our lifespans may be half down to genes and half to the environment
 AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggressive breast cancer
 Fascinating but flawed book explores how sickness shapes our lives
 This doctor is on the hunt for people with first-rate faeces
 This virus infects most of us – but why do only some get very ill?
 The universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowable quantum secret
 New Scientist recommends pioneering artist Ryoji Ikeda's new work
 Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dystopia as an opiate'
 Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton