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Techmeme surfaced Bill Toulas’s August 4 BleepingComputer report, “Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects hundreds of packages,” about a self-propagating worm moving through widely used JavaScript packages. The incident’s scale is serious, but its mechanics are the more durable story: ChainDrop turned legitimate release pipelines, trusted package metadata, developer tools, and even routine credential rotation into parts of the attack.

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Social media has changed who can give financial advice, but not the forces that shape it. Today’s “finfluencers” can reach millions without a television programme, a radio show or a wealthy clientele. Their best guidance is familiar: build an emergency fund, avoid scams, control expensive debt and invest for the long term. Yet once they move beyond those basics, their advice often reflects the characteristic financial habits of their own countries - sometimes correcting those habits and sometimes reinforcing them.

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RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak (r/news)

• nerfedbeyblade: The smart and responsible people were already doing that
• Harry_Mud: So now RFK Jr changes his mind and tell parents to do what they should have already done. How nice of him… What a dumb ass……………….
• Brease: It’s easy to be anti vaccine when herd immunity is doing its job. These fucking ghouls are seeing the consequences of their bullshit.

Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death (r/news)

• supercyberlurker: I forget what that’s called, where they drop a person off miles from anywhere with insufficient clothes in the freezing cold. It’s purposeful and has a name.
• CedarWolf: This sounds like ‘starlight tours’ are back. History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
• GeorgeStark1: They knew she was suffering from mental illnesses. They should never have left her alone.

For women who NEVER wear makeup, what lead you to that choice? (r/AskReddit)

• jmills23: Laziness, prioritizing sleep over it, the cost, I never had the patience to learn how to do it well, I didn’t see the point in doing make up to make my face look natural, and it made my face and eyes feel gross.
• FluffyProgram9566: Didn’t want to self-enable body dysmorphia. Makeup is a slippery slope when your mind starts telling you you’re ugly without it.
• ApprehensiveMix7312: Sensory issues, I don’t like it on my face it makes me want to peel my face off when it’s on

Former homeless people, what were some of the places you slept at night that were safe? (r/AskReddit)

• ineverbot: Weirdly the best one was this little grassy spot surrounded by bushes on one of those medians in the middle of several busy lanes of a downtown street. It was like a little parkette with a statue or something and because it was in the middle of a busy street no one ever went there to sit or sleep because it was loud af during the day
• pestyfinesty: A man I knew who volunteered at a homeless shelter told me once that a man staying there said the hardest part of it was that there’s nowhere you’re supposed to be—anywhere you are, you can be made to leave. That really stuck with me.
• AfraidComposer7682: Senior year in college I chose to live in my pickup truck with a cover on the box, so I could afford books. I went to school in the Midwest. No heat. I had a sleeping bag and some thick blankets. The coldest nights were below zero Fahrenheit. Graduated and often think of the sacrifices I made to get a college education. Glad I did it, and would not recommend it. Winter was brutal.

How do you feel about Trump selling early access to his social media posts for \$100K per month? (r/AskReddit)

• xXx420BlazeRodSaboxX: Why the fuck is the President of the United States selling ANYTHING!?
• Evil_gEek: Insider trading openly.
• Odd-Elderberry-6137: Grifters gonna grift and so long as Congress acts like his lapdog, nothings going to change.

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Failed Google L7 loop (Blind)

• MyWN48 (Walmart): 12 Month cool off is insane!!
• DAqH86 (Apple): In order to clear Google’s L7/L8 interviews, the most critical thing is to pick the right hiring manager, they will hand pick the panel interviewers, e.g. SRE requirements for Spanner and BigQuery are quite different.
• kidandplay (Walmart): Looks like that one round definitely could have been better.

Leetcode Interview is Dead And That Sucks For Me (Blind)

• rRawRr (Retool): Congrats, you were doing the AI’s job of googling and copy pasting code snippets into codebases and you were scamming your way into jobs by memorizing leetcode questions. You have been automated. Go do something else with your life.
• 🍃 ‘ (eBay): Idk what you’re on about. In July I did 8 technical screenings and they were all DS/Algo puzzles.
• ALXs84 (Intuit): I hear you! I struggle a lot with practical coding rounds too. More than anything, it’s sad that the expectation is still to have flawless code churned in 30 minutes. The questions are long, multi part and not very intuitive. Nobody cares for the approach, all they care is for the final result. How is this any different from leetcode then? Atleast we know what to expect!

Lots of money and no friends (Blind)

• railroad19 (Microsoft): Have kids and then you won’t have time to think about anything. Also you will make some friends.
• cola654t (Tesla): Join a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gym (BJJ) you will find tons of great friends, nice hobby, learn self defense and get in shape.
• Romanpuss: I would start with finding groups/clubs or things you enjoy doing. Definitely keep you financial situation out of making friends (I.e: most people here are not trying to be your authentic friend) and just meet people naturally through common traits like a running club. Or if you’re a gamer there’s plenty of online communities. You will have to put yourself out there which will be uncomfortable, but how else do you expect to grow as a person?

New York files \$36 billion lawsuit against Kalshi, alleging it’s running an “illegal gambling operation” (r/technology)

• Mysterious-Oil-7094: I think there’s a fair chance it’s also money laundering as well. Not just illegal gambling.
• mostdope427: Flew into LaGuardia in January. Every screen in that airport had a kalshi ad on it at one point. Even the small screens by the gate that have information would show the logo in between other things.
• Glittering-Quail5848: Kalshi and Polymarket are GAMBLING websites. This is NOT commodities futures trading.

YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’ (r/technology)

• veracity8_: I think this story should highlight not that Hank Green is actually a hack. But instead it should highlight how easy it is to become reliant on AI chatbots if you aren’t really careful. And how being a smart and thoughtful person doesn’t make you automatically immune from the pressures to automate and outsource your work to AI.
• justbucoff: Everyone must interact with AI on a topic they’re an expert in. You’ll quite quickly see how confidently wrong the model sometimes is. It’s a great tool but can’t be relied on for everything.
• MattofCatbell: Hank is one of the smartest, influential educational content creators out there. If someone like him can fall into the trap of over-reliance and dependency on AI it really goes to showcase how insidious the technology can be.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Linked List Cycle II
• Topics: Hash Table, Linked List, Two Pointers

Problem gist

A singly linked list may eventually point back to an earlier node instead of ending at None. The task is to return the exact node where that cycle begins, or None if the list has no cycle. The list must not be modified.

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The Spaces That Speech Does Not Contain

Spoken language feels as if it arrives already divided into words. Acoustically, it usually does not. People pause about as often inside words as they do between them, and an unfamiliar language can sound like one continuous blur. The clean boundaries a fluent listener hears are therefore not simply present in the sound. The brain has to construct them.

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Techmeme surfaced the Qwen Team’s August 3 release, “Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork”. Alibaba presents the 2.4-trillion-parameter model as a system for finishing complex work over hours or days, not merely answering prompts. Its most consequential promise is that the weights of both Qwen3.8-Max and a smaller 27-billion-parameter model will be released the following week. If that happens on usable terms, one of the largest models positioned near the commercial frontier will become inspectable and deployable outside its maker’s API.

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Kevin Warsh wants to reshape the Federal Reserve, but he is beginning with advice rather than decrees. The new chair has assembled five public task forces to examine how the Fed communicates, manages its balance-sheet, uses alternative data, understands artificial intelligence and diagnoses inflation. The panels bring impressive expertise into the open. Their harder task will be turning divergent views into recommendations that the Fed’s consensus-driven leadership will actually adopt.

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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues’ racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping (r/news)

• Drox88: Prime example of what happens when a “good cop” does the right thing.
• Biggle_fuzz: Well, just more evidence that even if we got good people to join the police to change the system from within, we couldn’t.
• Calm-Maintenance-878: Hmm…facing 13 years? So if the officer wanted to correctly report it, he should provide no proof, from a legal standpoint? In the event he simply told HR and HR spoke to them…what’s next? They deny the comments and HR can interview…but only use word of mouth? I feel like there should be a loophole to record without consent, since I don’t get this. I get how it can help but clearly, I see how it can hurt.

Colorado declares town abandoned amid water and leadership crisis (r/news)

• legitimate-criminal: A 56-person town lost its entire government because four women threw hands at a board meeting over tap water. Peak local politics.
• Fuck-WestJet: They should reach out to their congressional rep, Lauren Boebert, for support. I’m sure she will be effective in resolving their governance problems….
• AstronautInitial3642: A town of 56 people turned a clean water emergency into a feud so toxic that even the people sent to help walked away. Losing municipal status may be the first functional decision made there in years.

Olive Garden employees, what do you do if someone doesn’t say stop when you’re grating their cheese? (r/AskReddit)

• nondescriptun: We used to have contests to see who could grate their entire block the fastest. At some point I’d just keep speeding up until I was cranking it like Tarantino in a shoestore.
• ImSoCul: the cheese doesn’t actually just spawn from the grater btw. I’ve had a friend sit there for a while and the block ran out. then they grabbed another block and politely resumed. I assume at some point they’d be “oh we ran out of blocks let me go to the kitchen” and they’d disappear and never come back.
• shamo0: The room fills with parmesan. There are no survivors.

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year? (r/AskReddit)

• JubbsJB: I quit smoking so Marlboro lost my business hopefully forever
• iuxv_: Doordash, the driver stole my order and they refused to compensate me
• bekmoto: Safelite- technician fixing a rockchip on my car at my house fell off my porch. Gave him first aid, took him to the er. He clearly broke his pinky. I have a normal porch with steps. A month later they sent me a lawsuit. Wasn’t even the technician suing me, Safelite was suing me for workers comp. We were deep in cancer treatment for my 10 year at the exact same time. They made an estimated \$2.5 billion last year. Scumbags!

People who lost a significant amount of weight, what piece of common diet advice turned out to be complete BS? (r/AskReddit)

• Local-Copy4401: The eat small meals all day thing was total bs for me bigger meals with long breaks between them worked way better for my hunger
• Possible-Egg5864: Breakfast being the most important meal of the day. I find I personally do best just drinking coffee until lunch time. If I eat breakfast I get way hungrier throughout the day 🤷‍♀️
• Anencephalopod: The eating 5 small meals a day thing. It makes it much harder to stay in a deficit, and it becomes like 5 really small sad meals instead of 2 - 3 more satisfying ones.

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Has AI permanently eroded the US job market for Software Engineering? (Blind)

• sa40087 (Google): Coding is the most difficult part of SWE. If your coding skills are worse than an overseas worker or AI then SWE isn’t for you.
• iPadKid (Zillow Group): You clearly haven’t worked with many offshore teams. I’ve worked with several and the quality has often been poor. Whether it’s differences in training, incentives, or engineering culture, the standards I’ve seen have generally been lower. Interestingly, people from those same regions often produce much stronger work after joining U.S.-based teams, which suggests the environment and expectations matter more than geography. AI doesn’t solve that problem either. It can accelerate execution, but it doesn’t replace strong engineering judgment, solid processes, or experienced people who know how to steer the ship.
• Meta-101 (Meta): I have 8yoe and have been in the job market couple of times. I have been applying for the past 1year and have sent about 1000 applications, got 20 interviews and 0 offers. This has been the hardest job market I have experienced. Getting a job for me was hard after graduation, it’s even harder today after 8 years of experience and a phd.

Bloomberg has to be best place to work in tech (Blind)

• regale (Bloomberg): If only you knew how bad things were 😬
• IworkInHR (Bloomberg): All true, except we have raised the bar in recent years. We have never had layoffs and developed a bit of a coaster culture for some. You have to perform now or risk pip. But even so, you have to really suck to get pip.
• westbound (Bloomberg): bbg used to be a chill place to work, and TC was good for that wlb. Things changed around 2023 or so. Instead of layoffs they raised the bar (which is nowhere to be published) and if you are one of the chosen ones they will mentally drain you by pointing out all the negatives without any sense of encouragement or support, until they have enough documentation to put you in pip or you quit yourself. In a way its worse than layoffs really

I hope everyone in tech gets laid off at least once in their life (Blind)

• lllIIll (Coinbase): Wishing bad things on people is bad karma
• pilapi (Google): Mostly the weak ones do though. Strong people can sense something wrong and move internally
• santaclawd (Klaviyo): Laid off 3x during and from COVID revenue impacts. You’re an asshole.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly (r/technology)

• tc100292: Imagine pivoting away from the Metaverse and somehow that blowing up in your face too
• GreenFox1505: They literally renamed the company meta for a product that does not exist.
• SlapThatAce: Even with his pervert glasses he didn’t see that coming.

One California town found Flock’s license plate cameras were wrong 71% of the time (r/technology)

• classick_4: I’ve noticed how more and more states are offering all black plates with white letters. I used to think they were just for looks but now I’m starting to think it’s a cunning way to make things easier for traffic/AI/Flock cameras…
• Keellas_Ahullford: Flock should be sued every time this happens
• -Casey-Diaz-: That’s scarier than if they were accurate. Dystopian tyrannical government surveilling their citizens’ every move is bad, but imagine if that you could get got simply by the government fucking up. That’s Robocop-level dystopian.