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Cried after failing my OpenAI interview (Blind)

• Qeerrt (Meta): If you reached Open AI final rounds, you’ll probably do well enough in your Anthropic loop. I’m kind of the opposite. I didn’t get Anthropic after almost clearing every round. At least you’re brave enough to still try. I think I’m done.
• hiou (Silver Lake): I love how everyone is steering clear from Amazonians now.
• Gregg7 (ex-Dropbox): Ask the recruiter for feedback. OAI sometimes gives it and it’ll help for Anthropic.

Changing spending to save more working in tech in 2026 (Blind)

• ObFI63 (Meta): No american is gonna judge you bro we dont give a fk what you do
• xysotne (Spotify): I did and it’s been great. Spending lots of money on frivolous city stuff didn’t really lead to any long term meaningful benefits. Here I focus on my hobbies, friends, and fitness.
• chat2 (Meta): It’s an ok plan but almost always easier to just earn more instead. You can only reduce costs to 0 whereas you can earn infinitely

Generational opportunity to get out of tech coming up (Blind)

• DYLY82 (Airbnb): The way you pine for driving to customer sites and working in the sun makes me think you’ve never held a real job that requires physical labor in your life.
• nunux (Salesforce): Most small biz is hard work. Owners rarely able to hire more workers to delegate and never take vacations. Most take a single day weekend too.
• GoldMine🏡 (Coinbase): Running a small business is not for everyone.

We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys: Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction. (r/technology)

• callmebaiken: It actually can’t be overstated the degree to which AI investment is being shaped by 20th-century science fiction
• TheAngryCrusader: Let’s not make this sound any better than it is. These are controlling delusional psychopaths who think a strong arm on society is the best path forward. The issue is, their value and belief systems are so far removed from reality it’s impossible to work.
• CautionarySnail: They read the word dystopia, crossed it out, and wrote down “business plan”.

Mozilla launches ad blocking for Firefox on iOS (r/technology)

• Hot_Amount_3584: I want to also work with YouTube
• DctrGizmo: Still not showing up on my end.
• spicypixel: Again? I had it before then it went away.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Find All Anagrams in a String
• Topics: Hash Table, String, Sliding Window

Problem gist

Given a text string s and a shorter pattern string p, the task is to return every starting index in s where a substring is an anagram of p. An anagram may arrange the letters differently, but it must contain exactly the same characters with exactly the same frequencies. Overlapping matches count separately.

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The Brain as an Editor

Human experience arrives as a disorderly stream of sights, sounds, motives and accidents. The brain does not preserve that stream intact. It selects a few events, links them by cause and effect, divides them into episodes and fits them to patterns learned in the past. Ingrid Wickelgren’s article argues that this continuous editing process is why narrative is more than entertainment: story is one of the brain’s basic tools for turning experience into something intelligible.

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Techmeme surfaced KrebsOnSecurity’s September 1 investigation, “FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses.” Its importance is not just the extraordinary headline number. The reporting reconstructs how identity scans collected during ordinary transactions may have flowed into a searchable criminal marketplace, turning a system designed to establish trust into infrastructure for impersonation.

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Daron Acemoglu occupies an unusual position in economics: he is both one of the field’s most accomplished scholars and a target of mounting unease among his peers. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor shared the 2024 Nobel prize for research on how institutions shape prosperity, has produced hundreds of papers and routinely influences public debate. The article’s concern is not that his work is incompetent. It is that prestige, productivity and technical sophistication may have given several contestable ideas more authority than their evidence deserves.

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Argentina’s Lionel Messi retires from international football (r/news)

• rayQuGR: end of an era… glad I witnessed his prime in barca <3
• joe_dirty: Argentina is fuuuuucked
• Moveyourbloominass: I cant believe he even played in this World Cup. Its been 7 years since my Pops died and I still have horrible days. Argentina has been lucky since 2005, to have him play for them.

More Than 10,000 Cases of Tofu Recalled in New York and 28 Other States (r/news)

• espoirhope: SERIOUSLY. Can we eat anything?!
• ProductIntegortion: That sucks but that’s a pretty small amount of one specific line of tofu that is potentially contaminated by ink. Recalls like this happen all the time.
• ratchetcoutoure: To be specific, only one tofu brand is recalled (Hodo Chili Crisp Fried Tofu)

What’s a skill almost everyone thinks they’re good at until they meet someone who’s actually great at it? (r/AskReddit)

• heretoseewhats: For a lot of dudes: fighting
• 1tacoshort: Acting. It looks all natural and straight forward. I’ve done some self-tapes and done some acting and discovered that it’s really hard to appear natural.
• Stinky-Camel: Teaching. You don’t only need to be well versed in the subject matter. You have to be able to effectively explain that information based on the specific audience in front of you

People who own multiple pets, what is the current drama going on between them? (r/AskReddit)

• MudiMom: My cat is slowly walking towards me right now so the dogs don’t notice and start herding her before she can get me to sit on me.
• zarkon: There is a strange truce between my dog and my cat. They’ve realized that my toddler is the greater enemy.
• blueclouds55: I have 3 rabbits and 2 dogs. The current household drama is that the rabbits have learned that the dogs are terrified of them, so the rabbits like to lie by the dog’s water bowls to assert dominance.

What’s the most addictive book you’ve ever read? Like the kind keeps you are thinking about non-stop until you finish? (r/AskReddit)

• LieutenantWeinberg: Into Thin Air
• DocSewer: Project Hail Mary
• Hehe_hilarious: Lonesome Dove. Didnt want it to end.

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My first company and my first layoff how lucky am I? (Blind)

• feebreeze (ByteDance): It’s a blessing to have layoff experience so early in your career. I’m not joking either
• failer (PayPal): Sorry to hear that. It’s natural to feel angry, hurt and sad. But realize that any layoffs are a reflection of the leadershit and their incompetence and not you.
• cal123ai (SambaNova Systems): Don’t look at it as bad luck, but good luck. A lot of new grad don’t get a big name like PayPal on their resume. You are already ahead. Layoff is normal nowadays, your next employer won’t think much, just say you are impacted by company restructuring. The hardest one to land is the first job and you already have that under your belt. Again, congrats on being ahead of most new grad. Now focus on landing your next.

150K is now reality for Tech workers (Blind)

• SatanY (ex-Microsoft): 150k is a very good pay. About 5x the national average. If unhappy, go home.
• ArNoooo (Block): No they aren’t. You just work at a shit company that doesn’t pay.
• ㄨㄨ (ex-Google): Hate to break it to you: companies are still offering really good packages for senior level, it’s just the market is flooded with people trying to find a job.

Feel depressed looking at people’s TC here (Blind)

• ktgD25 (Google): You are 25 years old. Put things in perspective
• TUSF66 (Google): You’re only 25 though. I didn’t start making the kind of money you’re talking about until much later in my career. How many 25 year olds do you think make 300k in America? You’re crushing it!
• lamdaq (NVIDIA): Comparison is the thief of joy.

MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario (r/technology)

• Otaku-Scientist: We may have abandoned MapQuest years ago, but MapQuest never abandoned us
• Vig_2: For anyone who is trying MapQuest out, do know that they have a very small development team and all of this new attention has sent them into a frenzy. They are trying to address all of their shortcomings and they are trying to add android auto as well.
• robodrew: Honestly it’s only right that a map app that actually tells you the real names of places on the map should be at the top of the list of map apps. It’s literally the most important thing a map can do.

Amazon Workers on Food Stamps Nearly Tripled, While Company Spends \$200 Billion on AI (r/technology)

• icanruinamoment: We have failed as a nation and it’s the fault of the greed of corporations and government and they’ve been working together for too long. We’ve been far to complacent with the status quo.
• Scoobydoodle: Working class subsidizing Amazon.
• ZipNasty007: Tear these companies apart.

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The difficult part of automating research is not generating plausible ideas. It is building a loop that can test those ideas, reject attractive failures, prevent shortcuts, and produce improvements that survive outside the metric being optimized. Anthropic’s latest alignment experiment treats that loop as an engineering system rather than a long prompt.

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A Lucky Number of Cards

The standard deck was not engineered for modern poker. Its 52 cards and four suits emerged through history, long before anyone could calculate how well that structure supports the game. Yet Emma R. Hasson’s article describes a surprising mathematical result: the familiar deck sits almost exactly at a sweet spot where poker’s traditional hand rankings agree with the hands that players are most likely to show.

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Techmeme surfaced CNBC’s September 1 report, “SB Energy IPO: AI data center play backed by SoftBank, Nvidia, OpenAI.” The underlying IPO filing describes a company whose present business is renewable power but whose valuation story depends on becoming a vast landlord for artificial intelligence. Its most revealing numbers are not the proposed share price, which remains blank, but the distance between what has been promised and what has been built.