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Leave AI startup after 2 months? (Blind)

• AI_ML_FUN (New): Join us at Scale AI. We can’t hire fast enough!
• 4geff (Oracle): Definitely leave

How many of y’all quit to start ai startup? (Blind)

• .xxxxxxxx. (Tata Consultancy Services): I don’t think people with successful ai start-ups will be roaming around on blind.
• MagicBall (ex-AMD): It’s over for ai startups lol, build something people aren’t already crazy about.

Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day (r/technology)

• loko3084: Tech companies treating humans like disposable apps delete, update profits, repeat.
• Neat_Trust3168: Who do they think is going to buy their shit if people don’t have money?

AI Leads All Reasons For U.S. Job Cuts In March, Report Says (r/technology)

• VincentNacon: No… Greed, greed is the real reason why they’re doing the layoff. They wanted to save money, so they valued that more than the person… and ironically, more than their products.
• Just-Install-Linux: I’m in IT and just don’t see AI really taking over at all. We use it, but not in a way that it replaces people. I think the economy just sucks and companies avoid tanking their stock by saying it’s due to the increased productivity of AI instead of the reality of hard times.

Announcement: Temporary LLM Content Ban (r/programming)

• standing_artisan: Yes finally no more LLM related content. Thank you ! Please don’t be April fools’ joke !!!
• johnnybgooderer: LLMs are a part of software engineering now. And eventually everyone is going to be using them for programming in some capacity.

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The article argues that the debate is framed the wrong way

Liam McGee’s “Online or In-Person?” starts with a question that sounds simple and familiar in modern outdoor education: if backcountry skiers can learn from videos, Zoom courses and polished online modules, how much does old-fashioned in-person instruction still matter? McGee answers by putting himself in the middle of both systems. Before joining an introductory ski-mountaineering course in Idaho’s Sawtooths, he studies online material from mountain guide Mark Smiley, practices knots at home and shows up with a decent store of concepts already in his head. On the bootpack, though, he quickly discovers that knowing the words is not the same thing as understanding how they live in terrain. Niels Meyer, the Sawtooth Mountain Guides co-owner leading the group, keeps answering McGee’s questions with some version of “it depends,” because every answer changes with angle, snow texture, partner position and immediate hazard.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Largest Rectangle in Histogram
• Main tags: Array, Stack, Monotonic Stack

What the problem is really asking

Each bar in the histogram has width 1, and the goal is to find the largest possible rectangle that can be formed by taking one or more adjacent bars.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: LRU Cache
• Main tags: Hash Table, Linked List, Design, Doubly-Linked List

What the problem is really asking

This problem is not mainly about storing key-value pairs. It is about building a data structure that can answer two different questions at the same time:

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Find Peak Element
• Main tags: Array, Binary Search

What the problem is really asking

This problem does not ask for the maximum value in the whole array.

It only asks for any index whose value is greater than its neighbors. That is a much weaker requirement, and that weaker requirement is exactly what makes the binary-search solution possible.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Product of Array Except Self
• Main tags: Array, Prefix Sum

What the problem is really asking

For each index, the answer should be the product of every number except the one currently sitting at that index.

If the input is [1, 2, 3, 4], then:

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Longest Repeating Character Replacement
• Main tags: Hash Table, String, Sliding Window

What the problem is really asking

The input is a string and a budget k. One operation lets us replace any single character with any other character. The goal is to find the longest substring that can be turned into a string of all one repeated character using at most k replacements.

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What this article is really about

This article traces a recurring pattern in the search for life beyond Earth: confidence rises when a new discovery makes alien life seem plausible, then falls when better evidence strips away an attractive illusion. The central argument is not that scientists are close to proving the existence of intelligent extraterrestrials. It is that the case for life elsewhere has become stronger in a different and more modest way than many people once imagined.

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Selected problem: TinyURL

Scope: Design a highly available URL shortening service that creates compact aliases, resolves them with very low latency, and records click analytics without putting the redirect path at risk.

Also see https://wiki.derricklin.net/software-development/System%20Design%20Interview/#url-shortener

Problem framing

This is the classic URL shortener problem: map a short code to a long URL, make redirects fast, and survive a very read-heavy workload with occasional viral hot keys.

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced this story on its April 22, 2026 page, and the original article is TechCrunch’s SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60B.

At the center of the story is a deal that is much bigger than a normal infrastructure partnership. TechCrunch reports that SpaceX told investors it is working with Cursor on a next-generation coding and knowledge-work AI effort, and that the agreement gives SpaceX a choice later this year: either pay Cursor $10 billion for the partnership or acquire the company for $60 billion. Even in a market that has become numb to giant AI numbers, that structure is startling. It treats the collaboration itself as enormously valuable while also creating a path to full vertical integration if the training work goes well enough.