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This summary covers The Economist’s May 9th, 2026 Science & technology article on a hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius, published under the headline Troubled waters and listed in the contents as Handling a hantavirus outbreak.

The article describes a small but unusually worrying outbreak. MV Hondius left Argentina on April 1st with around 150 passengers and crew, bound for Cape Verde. By May 6th, when The Economist went to press, three people on board had been confirmed as infected with hantavirus and another five cases were suspected. Three of those eight people had died.

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Lead prosecutor on former FBI Director Comey’s ‘seashells’ case withdraws without explanation (r/news)

• Zaius1968: Umm…because there is no case maybe?
• JohnnyGFX: Probably worried about being disbarred for bringing an absolutely frivolous piece of “lawfare” to court to waste everyone’s time and money on.
• strolpol: The whole DoJ is just spinning plates. Shop for a favorable judge, make up bullshit charges, drag things out until discovery

Photos show protesters and ICE agents clashing outside a New Jersey detention center (r/news)

• onarainyafternoon: God damn, the pictures are gnarly. Good for the protesters. People should read about the conditions in this facility. Horrific.
• zzztoken: Lots of focus on the protestors and not what they’re protesting about, the conditions on the inside or the hunger strike. Know it’s not a mistake.
• nygdan: “photos show…” is another way the media distances itself from actually talking about the events happening. “ICE agents attack protesting citizens”, while being the trith, is too much for them to say. but why have the media in the first place if all they can say is what photos from other sources like social media show?

Iran’s president offers resignation, citing total takeover by IRGC commanders (r/worldnews)

• Jonathan13211: Aren’t the IRGC even more hardline anti peace?
• zombiezero222: It was obvious the IRGC were running things. I doubt Mojtaba is even aware what is happening.
• Foreign_Cable_9530: This is from Iranian opposition media. It may be true but independent confirmation is lacking. This may just be the IRGC trying to gain more legitimacy.

Anyone who used a computer between 1985 - 2010, what’s the one game you still think about today? (r/AskReddit)

• forever_backordered: Oregon trail and number munches. Or space cadet pinball
• bordomsdeadly: Where in the world is Carmen San Diego
• troetenheini: Age of Empires 2

TIL Mary Ann Franco in 1993 lost her vision after being in a severe car accident and suffered a stroke as well. 23 years later she tripped and fell over her home tiles and had to get surgery on her spine. When she woke up she could fully see, and no one fully knows why. (r/todayilearned)

• GovernorSan: Percussive maintenance, same reason why hitting your TV or computer or car can magically get it to start working again.
• ShoutoutsWorldwide: falls down a well, her eyes go crossed. She gets kicked by a mule. They go back to normal. I don’t know.
• spark_this: Dont show this to chiropractors. They’ll start telling everyone they can cure eyesight

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Golden Handcuffs vs. Generational Wealth (Blind)

• Ka’iana (ex-Google): Get off Blind.
• vojzdz (Apple): Troll post, microsoft pay is shit. 400k is senior director’s TC at microsoft.
• Ikk95hYt (Block): Be like me. Have no friends to compare to. LOL

After 4 layoffs I’m starting to think I’m the problem (Blind)

• OqsE80 (Meta): Actually pretty competent to be hired 3 times during this period.
• OLui64 (Stripe): Don’t confuse correlation with causation. Honestly, this is just the shittiest tech marked in nearly 3 decades. Don’t be too hard on yourself.
• pehu: Not your problem buddy, its just that’s how tech works now

Erin Brockovich says people are angry because data centers are being ‘shoved down their throats’ in secrecy (r/technology)

• Inside-Yak-8815: Public officials shouldn’t even be allowed to sign NDAs to keep them silent about data center projects. Their jobs are to serve the people, what the hell kind of dystopian shit is this?
• rockerscott: Or the fact that a small group of people are socializing their costs while privatizing their profits.
• FunOpportunity7: NDAs in relation to public anything should be illegal. Things can be coded secret or such, but the public good outweighs ANY corporate protective measure.

Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI” (r/technology)

• arriesgado: Kind of a bs headline. Not that it is not true but not naming Cheng who is a well known comedian and calling his speech a “profanity-laden tirade” makes it sound like it was a random crazy person.
• mooncrow: And so begins the Butlerian Jihad
• BunRabbit: By Harvard Graduation Speaker you mean the Daily Show host and comedian Ronny Chieng, right?

The people who trained Tesla’s self-driving AI won’t ride in it (r/technology)

• SpaceOhSpace: I’ve heard the same thing from several people who work on autonomous driving. And it’s the way they say no. It’s like an absolutely not. Yet these things are just for public use. We are the guinea pigs
• charlie2135: I also never trust a cook who won’t eat what they make.
• CPNZ: Looking at Waymo cars covered in sensors and doing just OK…Tesla’s problem is they really cannot detect enough of what is around them.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Car Pooling
• Topics: Array, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue), Simulation, Prefix Sum

What the problem is really asking

A car has a fixed number of seats and only travels east. Each trip is described as [passengers, pickup, dropoff]: the passengers enter at pickup and leave at dropoff.

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What happened

NVIDIA’s official Technical Blog published DynoSim: Simulating the Pareto Frontier, a May 29, 2026 post about a discrete-event simulator for the NVIDIA Dynamo LLM-serving stack.

The post starts from a practical problem: tuning an inference deployment is not a matter of maximizing a single kernel benchmark. Operators choose a model backend, tensor-parallel shape, prefill and decode layout, worker count, scheduler policy, router, KV-cache hierarchy, autoscaling thresholds, and topology. Those choices interact. A routing change that improves prefix-cache reuse can create more decode pressure on a subset of workers. A planner that reacts quickly to bursts can still fail if new workers take too long to start. Testing every plausible combination on a real cluster consumes expensive GPU time before the team even knows which configurations are worth validating.

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When satellites stop inspiring wonder

Phil Plait begins with a change in perspective. As a teenager, he felt awe when he first spotted a satellite sliding across the night sky. Today the same sight fills him with dread. The difference is scale. Satellites are no longer occasional visitors overhead. Companies and governments are building constellations of thousands of spacecraft, and proposals for much larger swarms could turn low-Earth orbit into industrial infrastructure.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 31, 2026 launch, and the original is NVIDIA’s announcement, NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI. Microsoft’s companion post is Introducing a powerful new chapter for Windows PCs, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX Spark.

The headline is that NVIDIA is entering the Windows PC processor market with RTX Spark, an Arm-based system-on-a-chip developed with MediaTek. The more consequential story is that NVIDIA and Microsoft are trying to redesign the PC around local AI agents rather than bolt a chatbot onto familiar hardware.

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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.