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Congrats to folks at Google / Deepmind (Blind)

• 73hdifii (Meta): This is a lame post.
• mtvma (Google): Yep! Proud of the work. We got little late but came up to quality
• notG3 (Google): Ain’t shit yet. Not releasing to the general public and benchmaxxing it seems odd.

LLMs are not hype (Blind)

• wd40s (Amazon): PayPal about 6 years late to the party.
• lzvu2s (Amazon): How often do you work on projects “from scratch”? Most of us work on codebases written over several years with live production customers. Are you noticing the same LLM performance when you add features on top of legacy code base?
• JXaK48 (Oracle): Deploy it and get the customers

Landed an OpenAI Offer! I MADE IT!!!! (Blind)

• allev (Rubrik): That’s some mad TC. Congratulations!! How tough was it to get in?
• fakkmidyud (SailPoint Technologies): But you’re causing unemployment with AI.. you’ll goto hell.. is that fine for you?
• LpPF22 (Amazon): Congratsss my guyyy!!!! Thats a crazy jump for ur yoe. Care to share ur journey?

Monthly AI coding limit (Blind)

• dragunov (Google): You guys get limited quota?
• sentryy (Intuit): 5000 monthly Claude and Cursor
• IBYh04 (HPE): HPE is unlimited, but if you go over \$3k, they start to ask questions.

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee (r/technology)

• my_third_account: It’s kinda wild that they’ve been doing this for 9 years in near secrecy.
• evolutionxtinct: Don’t worry most of those employees selling this crap are x cops. Flock will implant ex-employees back at police agencies to help keep them in the environment. Flock is evil but the employees aren’t great either.
• Rakefighter: Cry me a river. Everyone there is involved in doing evil.

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The phrase “before the big bang” may contain its own contradiction. If time began with the universe, there was no earlier moment in which anything could happen. Yet cosmologists are no longer limited to philosophical speculation about that boundary. Sarah Scoles surveys three proposals that turn the universe’s origin into a scientific question by connecting radically different beginnings to observations that researchers could, at least in principle, make.

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Techmeme surfaced arXiv’s October 1 announcement, “Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy”. The research repository is imposing a universal ceiling of two submissions per person per calendar month, plus no more than three active submissions at once. What looks like a narrow moderation rule is also an early institutional response to a larger shift: AI has made producing plausible research prose much cheaper, while evaluating whether that work is worthwhile remains stubbornly human.

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Rich countries spent years treating debt as cheap and forgiving. That era is ending just as their borrowing needs are reaching historic highs. In “Bonds-and-chain”, The Economist argues that rising bond yields, persistent deficits and shorter debt maturities are combining into a dangerous feedback loop: higher interest bills enlarge deficits, which require more borrowing, which can push yields higher still.

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Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says (r/news)

• coolon23: This is partially why most states have outlawed it, Jesus Christ. Good job Tennessee
• Wubblz: Wasn’t her final appeal, which had granted her a stay before the SCotUS stepped in, been on the grounds that exactly this could happen? That the state was fundamentally unprepared to competently administer the execution?
• bobnuggerman: I’m pretty sure Republican states do cruel things out of the sake of being cruel rather than incompetence

Cocaine worth more than \$10m replaced with flour in Fiji drug trial (r/news)

• Random_182f2565: Your honor, there was never any cocaine my client was just transporting flour
• meninblck9: “Fiji Police Assistant Commissioner Mesake Waqa told the ABC earlier this year that the force was “not a corrupt institution”.
  
  More than \$10 million worth of cocaine stored at a Fiji court as evidence in a long-running drug-trafficking trial has been replaced with flour, in yet another apparent example of internal corruption that has plagued Fiji’s authorities.
  
  The ABC has confirmed 32 kilograms of cocaine stored at the Suva High Court for the long-running trial of Fiji-Canadian national Joshua Aziz Rahman had been replaced and is now effectively missing, with police investigating the incident.
  
  Fiji Police issued a statement Tuesday afternoon confirming that “forensic tests” of the drugs came back negative. “The exhibits were all tampered with, and the investigation is focused on those directly charged with the management of the exhibits at the High Court Registry,” the statement said.
  
  Aziz Rahman was convicted in 2021 and sentenced to 23 years in prison, but later appealed the sentence and walked free in February 2026. Fiji’s public prosecutor appealed that and won, and the conviction was reinstated with Aziz Rahman returning to jail. “
• Room_Temp_Coffee: I wonder if they replaced it all at once or a gram at a time

What screams “I am depressed”? (r/AskReddit)

• mrknight234: I cannot speak for others but when I become depressed I enter a “survival mode” I basically only engage in things that keep me alive. Work food shower bed maybe, or a routine very similar I would stop trying to actively experience things
• ralo229: Constantly sleeping because being unconscious is the only time you feel at peace.
• almost_famous03: When everything feels like a chore and you start avoiding people you actually wanna talk to

What’s the most overrated tourist attraction in the US? (r/AskReddit)

• Srirachashawtyesq: Hollywood Walk of Fame. The stars are not well-maintained and the area itself is sketchy. My mom, sister, and I were all like “this is it?”
• petehutch54: Plymouth rock.It’s a rock in a cage.
• Veneboy: Mt Rushmore. Quite a way to get there, you see it for 5 minutes, then nothing else to do. Plus it looks better in pictures in all due honesty.

If your pet could talk for 10 minutes what’s the first thing you’d ask them? (r/AskReddit)

• Conscious-Movie2298: Why do you like Chunky Chicken in Gravy today but turn your nose up at it tomorrow?
• Phalharo: If they have any pain
  
  Two of my dogs died too early of cancer. When they showed signs it was already too late.
  
  *early signs can be any change in the dogs behavior like not touching food, being less active/playful or gaining/losing weight.
• LauraaMarissaa: I’d tell her she’s safe now and I’ll always come back home to her.

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Is OpenAI having layoffs? (Blind)

• PXnP14 (OpenAI): No
• Glinda (Corum): All companies are continuously making organization adjustments but small layoffs don’t become public knowledge.
• goofball95 (Google): This is such slop. Best of luck to the guy, but in an AI company, it seems quite trivial that the things he describes below can be done…. by AI…. Makes sense to switch resources to shift to people that actually build robotics instead of talking about it. This is from LinkedIn role profile: Led 0-to-1 product discovery and user research for emerging robotics products, identifying unmet user needs, deployment environments, workflows, pain points, and adoption barriers across a range of industries. Translated findings into product requirements, principles, and strategic recommendations. Developed a human-robot interaction taxonomy, guiding principles, and development approaches, defining key dimensions of interaction, prioritizing critical and desired system behaviors, and shaping requirements and evaluation criteria in partnership with hardware and software teams. Led development of ethics and values principles to guide product and system design decisions for emerging robotics capabilities.

Regret not focusing AI (Blind)

• pwdsales (Salesforce): Languishing at almost 1M nw you’re crazy, also it’s still early lol there’s a lot more to do with AI. We’re still in the early dogshit phase of it
• ksjshdydh (Amazon): My neighbor has worked at Nvidia for 18 years. No real ambition. Internal tools team. He is in high 8 figures. I regret not focusing on internal tools.
• null90 (NVIDIA): Why don’t regret about missing Bitcoin? You could easily be a billionaire.

Why do we still need CEOs with super intelligence? (Blind)

• IlIIl|lIIl (Roku): Super intelligence? Bro have you seen some of their raw dog decisions?
• chat2 (Meta): Si cannot sign financial docs or testify
• feebreeze (ByteDance): Half the job of the ceo is to attract capital investment.

Asked my friend what he got asked in his Anthropic loop and he told me to eff off. (Blind)

• bBhhu7 (Meta): he’s not your friend anymore. throw him under the bus. he’ll learn to value his friendships better
• Top SWE (Apple): He doesn’t want you to succeed.
• mx6gf3 (Microsoft): Translation: I didn’t get in and if I can help it, neither will you.

RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the “tyranny” of medical facts, expertise (r/technology)

• Modem_Sound_67: > he claimed would free us from the “medical tyranny” of doctors and health experts.
  
  Who does he think AI got its medical knowledge from…?
• OePea: That’s.. quite a statement. I find it harrowing that in this political climate, someone in his position can say something like that and it not be a complete career-ending move.
• fmcortez: Man spent two hours jailbreaking Claude just to get it to say ‘worms in the brain can be beneficial, actually.’

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Cryptographic migrations begin with an inventory problem: organizations must find not just algorithm names, but the runtime purpose, dependencies, and upgrade path of each use. A text search for RSA may count dead tests while missing a TLS default selected in another repository. Cloudflare built CryptoLabe to turn that ambiguous code archaeology into structured migration work, using agents to trace evidence across source, configuration, documentation, and internal systems.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced its September 30 episode, “Distributed databases with Peter Mattis”, a conversation with the Cockroach Labs co-founder and CTO about building storage systems at Google, turning Spanner’s ideas into a commercial database, and using AI agents without abandoning engineering judgment. The most useful thread is not a prediction that databases or programmers disappear. It is that durable abstractions and fast verification let one expert explore far more designs than before.

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Family of Texas pregnant woman who died sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleges denied abortion led to death (r/news)

• MandoFett117: Now why would that be? 🤔 Oh that’s right, it’s a Democrat ploy!
  
  /s
• Common_Poetry3018: As someone who developed preeclampsia during labor, I know that the condition is life-threatening and that delivery or termination of the pregnancy is the only cure. It’s criminal that she was discharged after the diagnosis was made. Republicans are criminally hostile to women.
  “Walker was diagnosed on Dec. 27 with pre-eclampsia at the University Health emergency room, according to the complaint. Her health deteriorated rapidly and, after being discharged, she was found unresponsive at home by her teenage son on Dec. 30, according to the complaint.”
• wirez62: What a horrible preventable way to go. That’s so sad. Rest in peace to this poor woman.

House holds billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress over Epstein investigation (r/news)

• DialecticEnjoyer: this dude is cooked.
  
  Trump knows americans are waiting to see anyone prosecuted from the epstein list.
  
  Midterm elections are coming fast and he needs a fall guy to keep his name out of the media and salvage whatever slim chances his party might have in november.
  
  this dudes getting tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated at least until the end of trumps term (when he gets pardoned.)
• Wandering_butnotlost: I wonder if the fine was a billion dollars a day, if that would help with his attitude?
• PhamilyTrickster: That’s pretty surprising. Now let’s see what comes of it.

What actor did such a good job with an accent that you were shocked to hear their real accent? (r/AskReddit)

• Witty-Dragonfruit-10: Christian Bale in pretty much everything he’s ever done.
• bbbbbbbssssy: Gary Oldman in every movie ever.
• mnetml: Jodie Comer with pretty much any accent.

Which profession do you refuse to date? (r/AskReddit)

• Knight_Glint: Anything with a lot of public attention. It causes a whole host of problems with a few benefits.
• CleverUserNameB: Military. It’s actually not about them; it’s about me. I’m not equipped to be a military wife. The distance, inconsistency of lifestyle, emotional rollercoaster of them coming and going, shitty places a lot of military bases and posts are located, etc.
• smedlap: I work in family law. Don’t date corrections officers.

What’s a movie that never came out that you’re still upset about? (r/AskReddit)

• Silver-DudeHD: Spider-Man 4
• NastyLittleBagginses: Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness
• Ash_is_Robot: I guess it’s technically in development hell but Devil in the White City

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Apple’s New CEO Seeks to Make Company Run Faster and Leaner (Blind)

• EditConfig (Google): That would mean getting rid of management layers. When I worked there, 80-90 percent of managers were clueless and completely derail any projects you worked on that were interesting and could make money or increase dev velocity if that project wasn’t attached to their name as the owner.
• microMage (Microsoft): LETS GO! Apple layoffs
• izeb46 (Bloomberg): Oh dear. All those middle managers at apple need to be woken up from their slumber.

What does Anthropic want? (Blind)

• bbh67 (Meta): Is this Blind? Why is everyone nice and encouraging… thx all
• 4599f332 (PayPal): It’s only wasted if you wish you hadn’t done it. Instead, take your learnings and kick some ass in another interview. You got this.
• MomDonny (Disney Streaming Services): They want good vibes

Are walls of AI-generated text/emails disrespectful? (Blind)

• Ch1pM0nk (Microchip): This is exactly the corporate communication now.
• j7!hqo (Uber): You’re absolutely right, and it’s good to push back about this.
• Snow Moon (Snowflake): Use AI to decipher AI

Penny counting Google only let employee fly non-refundable economy for 12-hr flight (Blind)

• Strive 🌍👔❤️ (Amazon): Amazon lets us expense seat selection. I’d say your travel policy is objectively worse than ours. Maybe sell some of the free food to pay for a better seat.
• marinaraaa (Meta): Troll
• Tand31 (Zillow Group): Google treats you well, your org treats you shitty. Misleading post

Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan (r/technology)

• HG21Reaper: If I am going to be forced to watch ads, why pay for the service in the first place?
• xmagusx: Enshitification once again proving that piracy stems from service failure.
• RubberScream: Death to all streaming services.