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This summary covers The Economist’s May 9th, 2026 Science & technology article on peptideins, published under the headline Almost proteins and listed in the contents as Proteins' little cousins.

The article describes a newly named class of tiny molecules that could complicate the standard picture of how human cells work. Peptideins resemble proteins but are smaller and, in most cases, have no known function. That uncertainty is the point. They may turn out to be mostly biological noise, or some may become useful clues to disease and promising targets for cancer treatments. Giving them a name is an attempt to make researchers pay closer attention.

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United flight diverted to Wisconsin after passenger’s ‘multiple attempts’ to breach cockpit, crew member says (r/news)

• Lonely_Noyaaa: Apparently he was ranting in Russian and they had to ask for a translator before takeoff. If the guy is causing issues before the wheels even leave the ground, why is he still on the plane? That feels like a massive failure by the gate agents and the crew.
• Warcraft_Fan: No specific details yet like why this man was trying to get in. He was detailed and taken in by FBI after the plane landed, no one was harmed.
• ballsmigue: There was a thread this morning on this and someone who was on the flight said it seemed like a mental breakdown.

Putin threatens Armenia with “Ukrainian scenario” over its EU integration aims (r/worldnews)

• Cavthena: In other news. Russia struggles to understand why NATO and the EU continues to grow.
• vonGlick: To all the people claiming it was NATO or EU that provoked Putin’s attack on Ukraine, what is your excuse now?
• Unlikely-Complex3737: I don’t think bro can afford to open another front.

Mysterious sonic boom heard across Mass. was a meteor, experts say (r/news)

• Deesnuts77: IIRC we usually pass through the Taurid Meteor stream in June(ish) and November so this checks out
• Vyntarus: It’s just some meaty ore. From space.
• A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb: I’m in Needham and I was like, that can’t be thunder it’s 48 degrees out.

People who listen to the same song 100 times in a row… which song is it? (r/AskReddit)

• ruloreddit: As a father of 3…Baby Shark
• valmiltonfung: I once paid \$20 for 20 consecutive plays of Shania Twain’s “Man I feel like a woman” at my local biker bar.
• Cornonthecobski: My 3 year old is obsessed with 3am by matchbox twenty. I don’t know why.

TIL in 2018 after a Swedish mother got a tattoo of the first names of her two children at the time: her daughter Nova & her son Kevin, she realized that the artist had misspelled ‘Kevin’ as ‘Kelvin’; it read ‘Nova & Kelvin’. However, instead of correcting it, they legally changed his name to Kelvin. (r/todayilearned)

• BrentusMaximus: He’s gonna grow up and get a heart and “Morm” tattoo just for her.
• JiveChicken00: Probably cheaper that way. And definitely less painful.
• Acircusclown: He was about 2 years old, so that’s the time to change it. Imagine if he was 14 or something

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Wlb at Anthropic API team (Blind)

• UMBV20 (BCG): WHO CARES ABOUT WORK LIFE BALANCE AT ANTHROPIC RIGHT NOW YOU WORK FOR ONE YEAR AND YOU MAKE GENERATIONAL WEALTH. THEN YOU CAN HAVE A WORK-LIFE BALANCE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE TAKE THE OFFER! NOW!
• i ohne (Meta): WLB is trash, this is not a company you join for WLB, it is a company you join to change the trajectory of human history.
• LCzM68 (Slack): “It is really up to you” = no life unless u wanna get pipped because if it was up to me it’d be 0 hours worked

1m TC is the new 200k for true SWE (Blind)

• metasuckss (Meta): mental illness pov
• s2jfs2 (ex-Lyft): Had enough blind for today. Time to go have fun with my barista friend.
• CkhN86 (Apollo Global Management): This is so funny to me because I’m retired with 70K a year in dividend payments @ 32 and traveling the world without any problems. The constant corporate career comparisons makes me never want to come back to America. I can only imagine how lowly some people may think of me in high finance/ tech for only making 70K a year if you just step outside of America that’s an insanely large amount of money

Traffic to DuckDuckGo’s proudly ‘No AI’ search page has tripled since latest Google AI search update (r/technology)

• Scoob1978: Google just sends me to Reddit all the time anyway. Switched a while back.
• ICLazeru: I’m contributing to that. Started when I noticed the Google making absolutely stupid suggestions. Not like human stupid, but like “I’m suggesting this because I don’t understand reality because I’m AI” stupid.
• FIuffyRabbit: Personally, I find ddg’s results to be lacking most of the time for technical searches.

Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people (r/technology)

• nazerall: While still laying people off with record profits.
• Significant_Fill6992: and that’s with the cost still being subsidized
• Candid_Cat_5921: This story is so off point but keeps making the rounds. Microsoft isn’t giving up on AI, it’s moving from paying standard licensing fees for Claude tools, to using the same models hosted in-house. Like why would you pay 5x when you could just use the same models with your own tool (GitHub Copilot)

Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech (r/technology)

• zleuth: … As we all knew it would.
• cwalk: China was always going to “supercharge” their semiconductor industry regardless of export restrictions. They are just trying to poke the US.
• SmarmySmurf: Long-term planners will always win over short-term thinkers in the end.

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Quantum mechanics is one of science’s most successful theories, but success has not made it intuitive. Its predictions have survived experiment after experiment and underpin modern electronics. Yet its usual mathematical description allows particles to exist in several possible places at once until a measurement returns one definite result. Entangled particles add another puzzle: measuring one appears to determine the state of another, even across a great distance. Physicists agree that the calculations work. They still disagree about what kind of reality those calculations describe.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 29, 2026 essay in its AI Dark Output cluster, and the original is SemiAnalysis’s AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output.

The article asks a harder question than whether companies are spending too much on AI: what happens if the value created by AI becomes real before the economy knows how to count it?

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This summary covers The Economist’s May 9th, 2026 Business column on Berkshire Hathaway and SoftBank Group, published under the headline Warren or Masa and listed in the contents as Berkshire v SoftBank.

The article presents Berkshire Hathaway and SoftBank as opposite answers to the same question: what should an investment company do when markets look unusually expensive and technology is changing unusually fast? Berkshire, built by Warren Buffett, has accumulated nearly \$400bn in cash because it cannot find enough attractive deals. SoftBank, led by Masayoshi Son, is borrowing heavily to finance a sweeping bet on artificial intelligence. One risks becoming too cautious to justify its structure. The other risks running out of money before its vision pays off.

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What changed

Uber Engineering’s official blog published Modernizing Artifact Storage at Uber, a May 28, 2026 account of replacing a fragile on-premises artifact repository without moving the operational burden into every build.

Artifact storage is easy to underestimate because it often looks like a passive dependency. At Uber it sits on the critical path for builds across large monorepos and thousands of smaller repositories. Builds resolve hundreds or thousands of dependencies, and the platform stores the outputs that downstream systems consume. At that scale, an artifact repository is developer infrastructure with production-service requirements: it must remain available during failures, serve immutable bytes correctly, keep latency low, and avoid turning growth into a sequence of risky storage interventions.

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Drag queen Pattie Gonia asks apparel company Patagonia to drop trademark infringement lawsuit (r/news)

• whiskyspacecadet: The merch she is selling is a direct rip off of the Patagonia logo. Its got less to do with her name and more to do with her using a well established brand’s image to make her own money.
• ElderBerry2020: I love when people post who know nothing about trademark law.
• TomTomXD1234: He’s literally trying to sell clothing with the name pattie gonia…..this is 100% legit lawsuit

Canadian man admits sending ‘suicide packets’ to hundreds of people around world (r/news)

• Much_Guest_7195: The people regretting it is horrifying
• Klutzy_Act2033: If people want to die they should be able to with dignity, but this ain’t the way
• SWALLOW009: Hard to wrap my head around someone treating suicide like a mail-order business

Nato ready to defend ‘every inch’ of territory as Russian drone hits Romania (r/worldnews)

• fsactual: The most likely and simplest response is just to give more weapons to Ukraine.
• Aluzionz: We’re ready to defend EVERY INCH! - Just not, that particular few inches.
• olight77: So what did they do when the drone hit then?

Japan’s 2025 census reflects steepest fall in population on record, data shows (r/worldnews)

• Dexterestein: When the population works 25 hours a day…
• lilymooree: How is anyone supposed to have time to date there when people are sleeping on shibuya to wake up for their shift
• shadowX015: Steepest fall so far

I bit into a pearl in my dollar store smoked oysters (r/mildlyinteresting)

• HippoProject: You’re interesting enough for eating oysters from the dollar store.
• bmanley620: Dollar store and oysters is something I never would have imagined seeing in the same sentence
• Toofless205: Not even dollar store, but the sketchy cart outside the dollar store

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Is being L5 SWE at age 35+ damaged goods? (Blind)

• daMan1ac (Google): yep - once you hit 35 you should be president of usa
• KpopSrini (Salesforce): I am L4 level touching 50.
• dddjjj184 (Google): L4 ar 42. You do what you do

VP at Google. AMA. (Blind)

• Roti Prata (Standard Chartered Bank): Apart from the compensation, what are the perks of a VP at Google that might not available to everyone at Google?
• PjPq41 (Google): Fake post
• Dee’s (JPMorganChase): Bro posted an AMA to not answer

Ronny Chieng’s ‘F*ck AI’ Speech Met With Cheers From Harvard Graduates: “AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber” (r/technology)

• government_not_ok: He’s right tho.
• Elehaymyaele: The bitter truth is that they were already that dumb.
• the_millenial_falcon: I’ve noticed that mediocre people love AI the most.

Mystery company accidentally blew \$500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees (r/technology)

• Fateor42: Would be funny if they can’t pay and just declare bankruptcy leaving Claude holding the bag.
• MalaproposMalefactor: “cheaper than manual labor” 😃
• krum: Mystery company who’s name starts with the letter Microsoft.

Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers boosting usage scores — Senior executive tells staff ‘don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI’ as computing costs rise (r/technology)

• BentoMan: It’s like evaluating workers by how many commits they have. Then you end up with people committing one file at a time and jacking things up. Completely foreseeable.
• 4everLost82: So it sounds like, once again, the C-Suite suits have no fucking clue what they are doing…as always.
• JDGumby: Except, of course, that Amazon execs were the ones demanding the use of AI just for the sake of using AI in the first place…

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code (r/technology)

• wiegerthefarmer: So it’s pvpve now?
• WesternBlueRanger: I see someone reads xkcd and knows about Little Bobby Tables.
• pilgermann: The point critics are missing is that if this works then LLM coding cannot be trusted. This is an entirely ynsophistocaged prompt injection. If the LLM doesn’t know to flag it, it should. That’s the whole issue. This could easily be added to any project.

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What happened

Cloudflare’s official engineering blog published How we built Cloudflare’s data platform and an AI agent on top of it, a May 28, 2026 post about Town Lake, its internal unified analytics platform, and Skipper, an AI data agent built on top of that platform.