Viral news today

/r/all📄  The sketches are taking me out 💀
📄  Caught my youngest escalating the Nerf war after his older brother “was mean”
📄  For the past 6 years, my previous dermatologist told me the spot behind my ear was “nothing to worry about”.
📄  A nice mug shot on my county’s arrest report
📄  HR is upset we didn’t grow up wanting to be customer service reps
📄  A woman held her wedding in the hospital so her dad, who was in the terminal stages of cancer, could be there for her big day. He passed away just two days later, but he got to see her get married.
📄  Size Of The Marble Quarry
📄  Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot can now do a full roundoff back-handspring and land it flawlessly
📄  What does this say😭
📄  ‘No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed’: Video From Olympics Blocked on X
📄  Man gets sued for opening a lock with just a can
📄  Truth for All or Nobody Survives
📄  Meirl
📄  Isaiah Martin dismantling a man supporting something without logic behind it.
📄  The voice actor of the character responds to the post
📄  A Family Of Wild Pallas's Cats living In the grasslands of Qinghai Province, China.

HackerNews📄  I am happier writing code by hand
📄  AI fatigue Is real and nobody talks about it
📄  RFC 3092 – Etymology of "Foo" (2001)
📄  GitHub Agentic Workflows
📄  Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing
📄  Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin
📄  Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it
📄  The Contagious Taste of Cancer
📄  Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox
📄  Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600
📄  Dave Farber has died
📄  DoNotNotify is now Open Source
📄  Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks
📄  Slop Terrifies Me
📄  Beyond agentic coding
📄  Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser
📄  Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

/r/Programming Daily📄  Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget.
📄  The silent death of Good Code
📄  Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
📄  AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder
📄  Let's compile Quake like it's 1997!
📄  SectorC: The world’s smallest functional C compiler
📄  The OpenClaw Security Disaster: What Happens When 100K Devs Give AI Root Access
📄  Netflix Engineering: Creating a Source of Truth for Impression Events
📄  How to Design Systems That Actually Scale? Think Like a Senior Engineer
📄  Deep dive into Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds
📄  How to Reduce Telemetry Volume by 40% Smartly
📄  FOSDEM 2026 - Hacking the last Z80 computer ever made
📄  ScottT2-spec/grid-pathfinder: Mobile-built implementation of BFS, DFS, and A* pathfinding algorithms with real-time grid visualization in a cloud-based Python environment.
📄  Technical writeup: Implementing Discord’s rate limiting, gateway management, and “clarity over magic”
📄  One API to Rule Them All: Migrating from zod-openapi to ConnectRPC

/r/Technology Daily📄  ‘No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed’: Video From Olympics Blocked on X
📄  Gran, 82, loses $200k retirement savings in AI deepfake doctor scam
📄  Breakthrough: Scientists Created a 'Universal' Kidney To Match Any Blood Type
📄  Steam is giving some players refunds for Ashes of Creation, which had the biggest MMO Kickstarter campaign ever, after leadership resignation and mass layoffs
📄  Waymo admits that its autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines
📄  The backlash over OpenAI's decision to retire GPT-4o shows how dangerous AI companions can be
📄  Australia’s grid now relies on renewable energy as much as coal. Those who doubted it look foolish
📄  US Supreme Court to decide if 1988 video tape privacy law applies to internet uses
📄  Laid-off Big Tech workers are haunted by one question
📄  Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
📄  The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else
📄  Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

/r/Gaming Daily📄  Update: I tracked 1,200+ unique players in a Minecraft world with no rules/admins for 60 days. Here is how the political map has changed.
📄  Jason Schreier says Horizon 3 is still a long ways away as most of Guerrilla is working on the recently announced Horizon Hunters Gathering
📄  It’s disappointing when your character pulls out moves in cutscenes you can’t do in gameplay
📄  Found this GameStop receipt from 13 years ago
📄  Are there any games you like, but the character you have to play as is just annoying?
📄  Me and my baguette
📄  Loving replaying Lego Racers!
📄  I need to rant. It is unacceptable to me for a game to have stick/camera acceleration but no setting to change it
📄  If you could choose a cartoon series to make an ambitious video game from, which one would it be?
📄  A meta from a game you play with which you have a love/hate relationship and/or just cannot forget?
📄  What’s the one game you adored as a kid, but can’t stand to play now?
📄  What are the best rpg/progressive games that are for a casual audience?

Lobste.rs zig libc
 Maple Mono: Open source monospace font
 Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
 GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team
 Competence as Tragedy
 Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
 Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
 The RCE that AMD won't fix
 What’s up with all those equals signs anyway?
 My AI Adoption Journey
 Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist
 (Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"
 Stories From 25 Years of Software Development

/r/AskReddit Daily📄  If you could pass one law that would make most normal people furious at first, but would clearly make society better in 10 years, what would it be?
📄  What actor or actress stupidly left a movie franchise or tv series thinking they were too good for it, only to be never popular again?
📄  What would have been the public reaction had Hillary Clinton made a movie about herself while First Lady?
📄  What are the signs of a weak man?
📄  What is the most disturbing thing you've heard said casually?
📄  Who is filling the gap that Epstein left in making things happen for billionaires and politicians ?
📄  People who sit in their car for over 20 minutes before going inside, what are you doing in there?
📄  What yearly salary would you say would be perfect for a decent life ?
📄  Why hasn't edible tape been invented yet to stop burritos from falling apart?
📄  What’s your take on Ricky Gervais saying celebs shouldn’t lecture the public about politics?
📄  Which disease poses highest threat to humans right now?
📄  What’s something fun that you’ll never do again?

GNews RSV is spreading in N.J. See which counties have the highest levels. - NJ.com
 Mecklenburg officials issue measles exposure warning for 2 Charlotte locations - WCNC
 Second measles case connected to Disneyland visitor reported by Orange County officials - cbsnews.com
 Measles Outbreak in South Carolina Linked to Brain Swelling in Kids - Gizmodo
 'Invisible scaffolding of the universe' revealed in ambitious new James Webb telescope images - Live Science
 Andromeda Is Heading Straight for the Milky Way, and Scientists Finally Know Why - The Daily Galaxy
 Can apes play pretend? Scientists use an imaginary tea party to find out - PBS
 SpaceX launches return to flight Falcon 9 mission following brief stand down - Spaceflight Now
 Kentucky's comeback win over Tennessee made Rupp Arena history - On3
 Inside James Harden’s Cavs debut that showcased the team’s championship vision - Cleveland.com
 Andrei Arlovksi bludgeons Ben Rothwell in bloody BKFC heavyweight title fight at Knucklemania 6 - Yahoo Sports
 Lindsey Vonn's Olympic medal hopes dashed after just 13 seconds - NBC News

/r/CryptoCurrency Weekly📄  BTC 69k with different energy
📄  It was Good Boss. Thank You Boss
📄  With Bitcoins drop below 73k, Bitcoin has erased all gains since the 2024 Trump election win.
📄  Bitcoin just dropped 50% below it's 2025 ATH after dropping from 90k to 62k in the last week. Without any market certainty of what's going on.
📄  Here we go again
📄  Jeffrey Epstein allegedly attempted but failed to "trap" Vitalik Buterin, after which Masha Drokova claimed to have found a "better Vitalik" in Russia as an alternative
📄  This is so real
📄  Justin Bieber Paid $1.3 Million for a Bored Ape NFT. It's Now Worth $12K
📄  Help A Brother Out.
📄  Bitcoin just experienced it's worst day since the collapse of FTX, dropping 14%, (and it's worst EVER dollar loss -$10,218) on Feb 5th 2026. Raising potential questions about the Binance Solvency Rumors.

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