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Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80 (r/news)

• UndergroundHQ6: I come from a very rough neighborhood where graffiti is pretty much everywhere, and I think it really said something when the ONE billboard that was pristine and untouched… was the one Dolly Parton was on.
• Minneapolis_W: What a punch to the gut. An amazing, incredible woman and a huge, huge loss to the world. RIP Miss Dolly.
• Sandman1990: Oh damn. The Dolly Parton Imagination Library has given my kids dozens of great books over the years. What a legend.

Two people in Pennsylvania have died from measles (r/news)

• NekoBlueHeart: Well thank God they avoided autism and cancer. /s. Can we please stop dying of preventable viruses? This is horrifying.
• xXplainawesomeXx: We genuinely need to consider it child abuse to let your kid go unvaccinated in the same way its considered child abuse to let your kid go malnourished
• Dull_Job_6372: 35 years without a measles death in Pennsylvania. Fuck me man.

Doctors, EMTs etc of Reddit, based on your experience with other peoples injuries, what is one hobby you would never practice yourself? (r/AskReddit)

• aardwolffe: Squats within a 1 mile radius of any cylindrical object without a flared base.
• Squat_erDay: Motorcycles. Man they look like fun, and I trust myself with them - but I do not trust the other drivers on the road. I was a paramedic/firefighter for years and I never saw a motorcycle accident go “well.” Almost always dead or missing body parts/substantial amount of skin and blood.
• milee30: No ER doc I’ve ever known has allowed their kids on a trampoline.

What is a common luxury that is actually a massive headache to own? (r/AskReddit)

• dedinthehed: Boats
• Crittsy: A Horse, a horse doesn’t eat hay, a horse eats money
• Clothes404: A swimming pool. Congratulations, you now own a part-time chemistry job.

What is a logical paradox that completely breaks your brain the more you think about it? (r/AskReddit)

• d183: We’re build of entirely inanimate parts. They stacked together in exactly the right way and somehow are aware of themselves
• SophieUnfilteredc: The Ship of Theseus. If you replace every single wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same ship?
• HeistGeist: Shoreline paradox. The idea that technically a shoreline’s perimeter is infinite if you measure infinitely close.

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Engineering work is not fun anymore (Blind)

• sFLy34 (OpenAI): Feel exactly the same!
• mdoqnfq (Google): Just put the prompt in the terminal bro
• BvDaEE84 (Microsoft): I love ai coding

Anthropic valued at 2T. We will have hundreds of new billionaires (Blind)

• A444444 (Anthropic): I am happy :)
• rn17d (Discord): Only matters if they can sell.
• CEOInCA: The math doesn’t math.

Did nothing today so far (Blind)

• slackerswe (Microsoft): Calibrations done?
• dhjelle (Roku): TC or GTFO
• bonbonB (Apple): I’m feeling nostalgic 🥺

Australia’s music industry bans AI songs from charts (r/technology)

• Willtology: What next?! Are we going to disallow robots from competing in human sporting events? Hopefully obvious sarcasm.
• SmartaHari: GOOD. Everywhere should
• Son_of_Atreus: Good. Its all trash theft.

Sony reminds players they don’t actually own the PlayStation games they purchased (r/technology)

• Key-Leader8955: They shouldn’t be allowed to use the word buy then. Let’s stop letting companies redefine words to suit them.
• techdog19: I know Sony doesn’t care but they have lost my business. I own a PS1, PSP, and PS4. The PS5 didn’t really interest me I was waiting on the 6 to jump in again and now I won’t be.
• Maleficent_Ad_1979: if purchasing isn’t owning, piracy isn’t theft

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Large language model serving has an awkward failure mode: a software process can die while its GPUs, node, and model weights are still perfectly usable, yet the replacement process must behave as if it were starting from nothing. Reloading weights into high-bandwidth memory, compiling kernels, rebuilding communicators, and capturing CUDA graphs can take minutes. During that interval, the remaining replicas inherit the traffic and often miss latency or throughput targets.

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When Rules Replace Guesswork

An auction can look like a simple contest over price, but its rules quietly determine how every bidder behaves. In an ordinary first-price sealed-bid auction, bids remain private, the highest bidder wins, and the winner pays exactly what was offered. That structure creates a strategic problem: bidding a full personal valuation risks paying more than necessary, while bidding too little risks losing an otherwise worthwhile purchase. Success depends partly on predicting everyone else.

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Public hostility toward billionaires is rising just as the way extreme fortunes are made appears to be improving. Drawing on a new analysis of about 7,000 billionaires over 25 years, The Economist argues that a growing share of billionaire wealth now comes from founders competing to sell useful goods and services, rather than from inheritance, political connections or protected industries. That shift does not erase concerns about concentrated power, but it changes which remedies make sense.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced Ramp’s internal coding system in its August 25 deep dive, “Why Ramp built its own in-house coding agent, Inspect.” The headline number is striking: Ramp says Inspect now originates 75% of the pull requests merged at the company. The more important result is architectural. Inspect is not a better foundation model. It is a model-agnostic agent wrapped in a remote developer environment, connected to Ramp’s internal systems, and required to verify its work with the same tools an engineer would use.

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A deadly brain-swelling illness spread by mosquitoes is on the rise in the US (r/news)

• Not-Not-Oliver: For anyone wondering, its west nile virus 🦠
• SnooRabbits6869: I had this last year and almost died. Was intubated and medically sedated. Lost vision, suffered paralysis, had to learn how to eat and walk again. I am immunocompromised but have made a full recovery, miraculously. Take precautions
• CaptainFrah: Encephalitis is no joke, a co-worker of mine got it from a mosquito bite and it completely changed her personality and ability to work. She was forced to retire early

Hayden Panettiere dies at 36 (r/news)

• judgyjudgersen: Oh my goodness. She had opened up recently about making the hard decision to give up custody of her child due to past substance abuse issues. RIP.
• grimace24: I know she has had her ups and downs but 36 is just way too young.
• baristabean: Oh man that’s really sad to hear. She would always come into my coffee shop with her brother way back when. She was always so sweet and kind.

What’s a “common knowledge” fact that you genuinely had no idea about? (r/AskReddit)

• BricksFriend: I was probably in my 20s before I learned that ponies are not baby horses.
• 30phil1: Apparently you need to clean the filter in your dishwasher regularly or it gets gross. Also, there’s a filter in your dishwasher.
• aerialpoler: I didn’t realise that birds don’t live in nests all year round. They only nest to lay eggs and raise young. The rest of the time they just sit around on branches.

What’s embarrassing at 18 but, attractive at 30? (r/AskReddit)

• sewagesmeller: Genuine enthusiasm. Teenagers think liking things isnt cool. Adults dont. Even if you dont share a passion, passion is attractive.
• Calm_Ad7405: Safety. I grew up in a world where we were embarrassed to wear helmets and knee pads. Now I find it embarrassing that older people will risk their health and safety for a bit of shallow vanity.
• MichiganGeezer: Having a calm, stable existence.

What is a dark or unethical industry secret that you can finally share because you no longer work there? (r/AskReddit)

• Sapphire_Dreams1024: Wash your clothes from department stores. So many rats in the back where new shipments come in and they definitely piss and shit on them
• Cuddarfish: Not really “dark” but the markup you’re paying on prescription eyewear is absolutely criminal. Lenses + frames is a few dollars worth of materials.
• JahRoddenberry: There is mold, a LOT of mold, in the ice machine. All of them, all of the time, everywhere.

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getting paid peanuts despite working my ass off msft (Blind)

• poopeepee (Google): Just leave dude, MSFT sucks. I basically doubled my comp when I left and I did not get a title bunp. My work life balance is way better at G.
• pUgk54 (Microsoft): I was one of the top contributors in ADO in the MSAzure subscription, submitted 4 patents, got 2 awarded from previous year submissions, saved the company multiple times on contractual issues…all in the last year and they gave me 100/100 and a 0.7% merit…I’m officially switching to lazy employee mode for the next year and i’m going to tell all of our customers I work with to consider alternatives because this company is doomed to fail.
• uqat51 (Oracle): Life is short and tech career is limited. Go for the highest pay always. There’s no long term strategy here. Cash in when you can

when did Google stop being everyone’s dream company? (Blind)

• FtuW62 (Google): Never been treated worse or have seen lower morale than at Google. Started when they embraced the Musk culture, bringing in management from Oracle and AWS to inject those work cultures.
• PearAttack (Amazon): When google search ai tell me to put pebbles and stones in my pizza to boost my mineral intake. It was that exact day.
• BbTR32 (Johnson & Johnson): Started when they removed the “don’t be evil” motto

My son was laid off and wants to come live with me (Blind)

• bpav (Meta): He doesn’t seem that smart based on your description. At least not financially smart.
• cdtvvgg (Google): Him and his gf ? Wtf ? Charge rent
• CCpH77 (Cisco): If it was my son. I would take him back cause this is what fathers do (take care of family and keep it together). I would also be very honest about how I feel regarding his attitude towards his parents. Talk to him man to man

The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a “personalized price” (r/technology)

• mwax321: Didn’t delta just announce they are doing personalized prices? Sounds like the opposite of cracking down..
• PhiNeurOZOMu68: No they aren’t this is sensationalized garbage
• aimhelix: I will stop shopping or buying anything from anyone adopting this ‘dynamic pricing’ bullshit. Period.

Uber hit with a nearly \$1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe (r/technology)

• SkippySkep: I wonder if Uber has ever considered, you know, not being evil?
• Key-Individual1752: Fuck Uber. Also I don’t get why Europe cannot have an open source equivalent and let each city/region regulate its drivers.
• Presently_Naked: I hope they dont squirm out of this with a lowered penalty.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Bulb Switcher
• Topics: Math, Brainteaser

Problem gist

There are n bulbs, all initially off. The process runs for n rounds. On round 1, every bulb is toggled; on round 2, every second bulb is toggled; on round 3, every third bulb is toggled; and so on. The goal is to count how many bulbs remain on after the final round.

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One Mystery behind Thousands of Hard Problems

Computers have become vastly faster, yet many ordinary-looking tasks remain stubbornly resistant to efficient solutions. Finding the cheapest route through many cities, packing boxes into trucks, identifying tightly connected groups in a social network, predicting protein folds and solving generalized Sudoku puzzles can all become unmanageable as their inputs grow. The obstacle is not merely that large cases take longer. The number of possibilities can expand so rapidly that checking them one by one becomes impractical even for powerful machines.