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Calling someone a Luddite usually ends an argument. The word suggests reflexive fear of technology: people smashing useful machines because they cannot understand progress. The original Luddites were more complicated. Their story, and a later struggle over computers in India, suggests that resistance from workers rarely determines whether a technology spreads. The decisive force is usually the state.

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Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial postponed indefinitely amid double jeopardy fight (r/news)

• XfinityHomeWifi: This guy will spend years locked up before he’s actually sentenced for anything. Going to an actual penitentiary by that point will feel like a hotel
• CMG30: He’s got a smart attorney. She’s working all the angles here.
• CleverInternetName8c: I was wondering why he would plead guilty given there didn’t seem to be much of a concession in exchange but it being as part of a strategy to make a double jeopardy argument makes total sense.

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristian Tate arrested in Miami, US Marshals service tells AP (r/news)

• BitOfPoisonOnMyBlade: In the midst of all that is bad in the news, this is SUCH a great thing to see on my feed
• centaurquestions: “Social media influencers” is a weird way to spell “rapists.”
• PatientSt0n3r: Good. Fuck those dudes.

What job do people over-romanticize? (r/AskReddit)

• RareConclusion38: Opening a cozy cafe or bookstore. People picture themselves calmly sipping espresso while chatting with friendly regulars, but in reality, it’s 80-hour workweeks, brutal profit margins, inventory management, and endlessly cleaning espresso machines or dusting shelves.
• GlenGraif: Reading the comments, all jobs suck 😂
• TwoThinPete: Working for yourself. Everyone pictures the freedom, setting your own hours, being your own boss. The reality is you never actually clock out, there’s no one to hand a problem to, and the discipline it takes to sit down and grind when literally nobody is making you is brutal. People romanticize the freedom and completely underestimate the part where the whole thing lives or dies on you showing up every single day.

What’s a sound that immediately triggers pure, instant rage for you? (r/AskReddit)

• milan0570: That ai voice in YouTube shorts
• bowz3rr: Loud chewing
• ExerciseBeautiful144: The default Apple ‘Radar’ alarm

What’s a stereotypical “guy approaching 30 years old” hobby? (r/AskReddit)

• DogusEUW: Running, cycling or espresso coffee machines
• Bennieplant: Stuff that doesn’t involve other people
• LikeBigTrucks: Smoking meat

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If you left tech, what are you doing now? (Blind)

• k1ngG (LinkedIn): Seriously considering leaving tech. That means likely retirement. Just a bit scared to pull the plug.
• fItf61 (Thomson Reuters): I would buy a business currently run by a boomer and add my technical skills to it and hopefully get an edge over competitors. The businesses I really like are simple service ones. Power washing driveway, cleaning gutters, window cleaning, pest control, etc. Putting those services under one LLC and scaling it with tech.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): I am looking at nursing personally. Can’t go to school so long for being a doctor. Burn out rates for nurse is pretty bad but I won’t be criticized and told to “focus on your own impact” when I help people. Also don’t have to come up with metrics or send broad emails about what I do every 4 months or whatever

People who work around extremely wealthy colleagues (Blind)

• sopsi (Microsoft): There are ppl in Microsoft who own 5 rental houses in prime Bellevue locations and they still live like they’re penniless Costco clothes, beat up car
• chat2 (Meta): Why surprised? Where else would your nanny or house manager live?
• BIcy84 (Google): Probably not the most expensive thing to spend money on, but I’ve worked with someone who bought tickets to Epstein Island. He was a VP at a company with 3000+ employees.

Am i stupid for rejecting quant offer? (Blind)

• TdGu50 (Capital One): Quants will take over your life. You will find yourself working TG and Christmas eve. Stay with apple and then navigate tech, you will eventually catch up on money.
• auqhzu (NVIDIA): What role / area? Unless it’s Hardware, System Software you are not gaining anything by being at Apple with that TC. You are essentially wasting time
• pKjz62 (Apple): From a hiring manager I’ve worked with at a previous company, only staying at Apple for a year looks a bit odd and may turn hiring managers off later on in your career fwiw

Bethesda workers: Microsoft turned a no-layoff culture into yearly tradition of cuts post-acquisition (r/technology)

• hard2resist: Job security became a legacy concept the moment acquisitions started. Workers build studios, executives cut costs, that’s the cycle.
• Franco1875: Not restricted to Microsoft, either. Quarterly layoff rounds feel like the norm at a lot of large orgs now.
• IntelArtiGen: Some companies don’t understand how valuable it is to have trusted and reliable employees.

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility / The shipment was found at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books (r/technology)

• Brick_Cabin2529: 404 is pretty great aren’t they? hope they keep up this quality of work
• Waidawut: An appalling desecration in the name of “progress” – it’s the American way.
• bryguypgh: We need a law against destroying the last known physical copy of a book with astronomical penalties. This is a crime against humanity.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Find K Pairs with Smallest Sums
• Topics: Array, Heap (Priority Queue)

Problem gist

Two sorted integer arrays are given. A pair is formed by choosing one value from the first array and one from the second, and its cost is their sum. The task is to return the k pairs with the smallest costs, or every possible pair when fewer than k pairs exist.

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When Geometry Entered the Statehouse

For more than 2,000 years, mathematicians tried to “square the circle”: given a circle, construct a square with exactly the same area using only a compass and an unmarked straightedge. Thousands of supposed solutions appeared, but in 1897 one false proof escaped the usual mathematical channels and reached the Indiana legislature.

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Techmeme surfaced NVIDIA and MediaTek’s August 31 announcement, “NVIDIA and MediaTek Deepen Long-Standing Partnership to Build AI Edge to Cloud Computing Platforms.” The headline transaction is NVIDIA’s investment of \$3.5 billion in MediaTek convertible bonds. The more consequential part is a technical bargain: MediaTek will help customers build their own AI accelerators, while NVIDIA supplies much of the system that makes those chips usable at data-center scale.

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The landing that never came

For much of the early 2020s, central bankers described the fight against inflation as an attempt to land an aircraft. A “soft landing” would bring price growth back under control without causing a recession. A “hard landing” would crush inflation by damaging the economy. The supposedly unserious third possibility was “no landing”: growth and inflation would both remain strong, leaving policymakers permanently aloft.

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Palestinian woman and NBC News team reportedly attacked in West Bank (r/news)

• unique0130: They were attacked.. by WHO? SAY IT.
• BulldogMoose: By Israelis. Complete the damn headline!
• Cameronbic: But, I was assured that the only news crews they were attacking were those that were aiding terrorist cells.

States can regulate prediction markets as gambling, federal appeals court rules (r/news)

• TailRudder: Stop calling it a prediction market. It’s literally gambling at best, rigged gaming at worst.
• Nayko214: Good. Because they are gambling. Plain and simple.
• techman710: If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it’s gambling, obviously.

People who can fall asleep 10 seconds after your head hitting the pillow how the heck do you freaking fall asleep 10 seconds after your head hitting the pillow?? (r/AskReddit)

• 3ull5hit: Force yourself to think of things that does not matter to you. Good imagination helps as much as it is obstructing. Try to imagine that you are a bird and fly over endless forest. That’s my thing.
• Appropriate_Tap_1863: I don’t know, I can just stop thinking and shut down my brain. And bam, I sleep.
• ridicalis: The trick is waking up at 4:00 AM.

What’s the wildest thing you’ve ever seen happen at a wedding that you still can’t believe actually happened? (r/AskReddit)

• MusaEnsete: The bride ran down a bowling alley lane (it was adjoining the event space), in her dress, and dove headfirst into the pins.
• BikingVikingNYC: 3 hour nuptial mass, all in Latin
• Colalbsmi: Father Daughter dance was to the song Candy Shop by 50 Cent. Super weird and turns out the father was like estranged from the family and popped back in their lives when she got engaged.

What was the millennial equivalent of today’s generation “6 - 7”? (r/AskReddit)

• Emotional_Fan_7011: Wazzzzzzzuuuuuuuppppppp
• TattedGal92: Replying “your mom” to everything.
• arty_ficial: The level of nostalgia in this thread… ughh take me back

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H-4EAD (work authorization for H-1B spouses) to be eliminated (Blind)

• 0-,-club (Uber): Instead they should restrict what kind of jobs H4 EAD can have.
• poojeeta (TransferWise): What is my wife supposed to do? This is unfair
• fjrfnf (Intel): Finally

[Megathread]: WORST company you’ve worked for in your career (Blind)

• k5a78gy (Microsoft): Microsoft. No career growth
• Tekoh (Safaricom): AWS- That place almost sent me to ICU
• buxRev (Lucid Motors): Lucid. I’ve paid more in taxes on my stock than it is worth.

Staff SWE -Multiple Offers but no longer enjoying the work (Blind)

• kartman. (Google): Take a break
• dive-bar (Google): It seems all of us are burnt out!
• lsmon714: Go touch grass!!

Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging “blatant theft” of intellectual property (r/technology)

• Whatever801: Where’s my cut? I have contributed multiple valuable reddit comments to the collective
• Tengo_Caldero: Begun, the corpo wars have.
• BlueShell1312: Well well well, how the turn tables. Never thought I’d find myself cheering for the giant copyright holders.

‘Clearly, people hate data centers’: Sam Altman admits Americans hate what he’s wrought as his own data centers head quits (r/technology)

• UpstairsArmadillo454: Build better tech that doesn’t need water cooling- you’ve got a few billion to solve the problem idiot
• Coneder: Gee, if only we approached AI from a point of view where they were a tool and not a means to replace human labor?
• basketballsteven: Well to be fair I hate/fear the dangers the data centers bring with them and equally hate/fear the tech oligarchs and their motives and vision.

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Logic in a Picture

The familiar picture of overlapping circles began as a serious tool for reasoning. John Venn introduced his diagrams in 1880 to visualize logic, and they were soon adopted in set theory, the study of collections of objects. Each closed curve represents a set; every overlap represents objects that belong to several sets at once; and the space outside the curves represents objects that belong to none of them.