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US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns (r/news)

• Salarian_American: In a sane world, asking to be exempted from all future auditing would be a reason to audit someone immediately.
• nickkom: Corruption, plain and simple
• cointoss3: Haha the justice department can’t affect future attorneys general from reverting this. Only way to make this for real for real is a law. Guidelines can always be amended.
• soundisloud: Absolutely ruined the integrity of America

NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights (r/news)

• TurkeyVolumeGuesser: If only this would happen but I don’t see it
• MidnightMoon1331: Can we boycott the IRS and not pay taxes over slush fund and tax immunity too?
• Ok-Replacement6893: Hit them where it hurts them most.
• oldmaninparadise: Michigan, Wisconsin, Maryland, Penn. All great football programs. California, Oregon and Washington too. Problem is there are only 25 new slots per year per team.

Trump Wants Russia and China to Help Combat the International Court That Charges War Crimes (r/worldnews)

• TubeframeMR2: When a guy starts recruiting autocracies to weaken war crimes tribunals, you have to wonder what we don’t know.
• aircooledJenkins: “Trump, a good boy, Is Following The Orders His Leash Holders Have Given Him.”
• nativeridge_: Americans you have a suicidal government at the wheel and you are full speed off the road ploughing through the undergrowth
• Banana-phone15: So Trump wants to start a boy band for war criminals

What is a ‘single person luxury’ that people in relationships completely miss out on? (r/AskReddit)

• Ok-Refrigerator-8664: Never having to discuss plans with anyone. No discussion on dinner, what to watch, what to do, or where to go. You just do what you want all the time.
• LateNightLatin: Knowing things will be exactly where the left them. The amount of time I go looking for the kitchen scissors.
• headcase-and-a-half: Knowing that the piece of chocolate cake you left in the fridge will still be there whenever you want it.
• Fresh-Package5303: Being able to do absolutely nothing all weekend without having to explain it to anyone

TIL After Francis I exchanged himself in spanish captivity in 1526 with his two sons, aged 7 and 8, he annuled everything he signed in exchange for his release, but the kids remained in captivity for nearly 4 years. His eldest son and heir was scarred for life as a result (r/todayilearned)

• GarysCrispLettuce: Father of the Year 1526
• AskAskim: It’s pretty clear to me from all of history that “family” either meant something way tighter than we are familiar with now, or absolutely nothing.
• cometlin: TIL After King Francis I traded himself for his sons to escape Spanish captivity in 1526, he later annulled the agreement, leaving the boys imprisoned for years
• Exact_Touch_4794: This is similar to how Byzantine emperors also thought. Some even killed or blinded their own children. It’s all about how important you think you are and what God wants

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Claude 5=Nuclear bomb (Blind)

• TheRealBoz (Meta): Even when using Claude to write most code, it hasn’t made people much faster. It also can’t function without a SWE. Even if the next model makes less mistakes and has a bigger context, still wont change the real bottlenecks.
• nhci (Amazon): Worst part is, someone with an MBA is going to see this and believe it.
• uqwH11 (Google): Not sure what you are smoking OP. It is still a mid productivity boost for anything reasonably hard, and nowhere close to replace actual SWE. It is not 10x, not even 2x for things which are hard and actually time consuming. Nobody cares how fast it can build crappy CRUD website or another HTML-based game nobody will play.
• AeJP42 (Indeed): The last time I asked Claude 4 to write me some unit tests it wrote tests for functionality that literally didn’t exist and then mocked everything so they would pass anyway, lol

I’m about to get laid off from Meta (Blind)

• muul (JUUL): For Meta you usually get 16 weeks of salary severance and then additional 2 weeks per year based on years of service. Whatever is not vested by your termination date is gone. Both of these are pretty standard stuff for tech.
• mstrchf117 (Google): It’s sad, how long did you work at Meta?? It’s a shitty thing to do after they make you grind leetcode during interviews.
• rWIT40: Just in case, I’d suggest signing up for Blind with your current company before you get laid off. That way you can actually see what’s going on after the layoffs.
• Vh31sK (Airbnb): Your post is confusing. Are you getting laid off or are you getting fired? These are not the same thing.

‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub (r/technology)

• thegooncity: The worst leak they’ve witnessed so far.
• scamdrill: Six months of GovCloud admin credentials sitting in a public repo named Private-CISA, in a file called importantAWStokens, and the official statement is “no indication sensitive data was compromised.” I mean, technically true — nobody needed to compromise it. It was just sitting there. Like a buffet.
• SparkStormrider: I wish I could say I am shocked, but the level of ineptitude in govt. at all levels is astounding. Just like in Trumps last stint as President. Rudy Guliani (sp?) was put over cyber security and they deployed a public facing SQL server with ZERO protections. It got owned in a few minutes after deployment. And that’s just one of what we know about…
• Imoutofchips: They chased away every competent person they had. Just crooks and idiots left.

Google Search as you know it is over (r/technology)

• bitskewer: How are they paying for this? Seems like they’re cannibalizing their ad referral business while providing zero-cost AI services. Surely this isn’t sustainable?
• jmonschke: The “enshitification” of Google search is not an accident. It was an intentional decision made within Google, because when you find what you are looking for on the first page, they can’t serve you as many ads.
• willieb3: The problem is that google is scraping websites and bypassing ad revenue that should go to websites. I used to want google to reach my website, but now there is legitimately nothing in it for me so I am actively blocking Google’s bots.
• NicolasCageFan492: We really had a good thing going before algorithms.

Gen Z’s AI backlash is getting louder (r/technology)

• Samski877: Gen Z graduating into a job market where companies want “entry level candidates” with 5 years experience while simultaneously replacing half the entry level work with AI is genuinely brutal timing.
• chriskot123: I don’t think this is specific to Gen Z…as a millennial, there is a TON of backlash from us (and even Gen x) as well.
• ischickenafruit: “AI is going to replace you and make me rich” is not exactly a winning message.
• SNTCTN: I love getting emails from people who clearly didn’t read what I sent and just had AI write a response for them.

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What happened

Google DeepMind’s official blog published Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research, a May 19, 2026 post about a Gemini-based multi-agent system for generating, criticizing, ranking, and refining scientific hypotheses.

The post is interesting because Co-Scientist is not framed as a single chatbot that happens to know a lot of biology. It is an orchestration system that tries to copy part of the scientific method: generate candidate explanations, expose them to adversarial review, compare them against alternatives, revise them, and hand the researcher a stronger proposal. That makes it a useful example of agent design in a domain where a fluent final answer is not enough. The system has to manage uncertainty, novelty, evidence, and downstream experimental cost.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Sequence Reconstruction
• Topics: Array, Graph Theory, Topological Sort

What the problem is asking

The input gives a target sequence nums and a list of shorter sequences. Each shorter sequence says, “these numbers must appear in this relative order.”

The task is not just to ask whether nums can be built from those constraints. It asks whether nums is the only shortest sequence that satisfies every constraint. If another sequence of the same shortest length can also satisfy the constraints, the answer is False.

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Darkness that makes stars

Phil Plait’s column begins by turning away from the spectacular images that usually define modern astronomy. The universe is full of exploding stars, colliding galaxies and glowing nebulae, but some of its most important objects are visible because they are dark. The article focuses on Bok globules: small, dense clouds of gas and dust that can look like holes punched into a starry background.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 20, 2026 story in its Techmeme cluster, and the original report is Sergiu Gatlan’s BleepingComputer article, GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension.

The developer toolchain is the target

The breach is striking because it did not start with an exotic cloud exploit or a direct attack on GitHub’s production systems. According to BleepingComputer’s report, GitHub said roughly 3,800 internal repositories were exfiltrated after one employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension. GitHub removed the malicious extension version, isolated the affected endpoint, and began incident response.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 Science & technology article listed in the contents as Grouse and chairlifts and published under the headline Last resorts.

The article turns a small Alpine conservation problem into a useful lesson about design. Black grouse have been flying into chair-lift cables at ski resorts for years, often fatally. Resorts tried to help by hanging warning markers from the cables. The trouble was that many of those markers were red, and new research suggests red is precisely the wrong signal for the birds.

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Trump says he’s postponing ‘scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow’ at Middle East leaders’ request (r/worldnews)

• Leather_Net_3330: its not even tuesday yet.
• Flimsy_Category_9369: This feels like Groundhog Day at this point
• lastpassonright: This idiot has absolutely no way out of this mess.
• Temporary-Canary-346: Sorry there were attacks scheduled for tomorrow?!?

Bodies of missing Italian divers found in Maldives (r/news)

• ScottScanlon: Sad situation all around, but you can’t pay me enough to be going deep into caves in the ocean.
• Tyrrox: The had an improper gas mix for the depth they went. It’s a sad story but unfortunately even tenured diving professionals get complacent with the dangers.
• ThriftyMegaMan: New YouTube video from like 12 different content creators coming in 3, 2, 1,
• Hefty_Anywhere_8537: I’m a diver, and very nearly died on a 50m nitrox dive in French Polynesia. Traumatic experience, this is so sad and tragic.

Active shooter reported at Islamic Center of San Diego: Police (r/news)

• lostroadrunner22: Its over, both shooters are dead.
• YOSHIMIvPROBOTS: Police say shooters appeared to have killed themselves.
• Brilliant-Concern620: People are celebrating it on YouTube. We are living in sick times.
• Jamie00003: Can you just stop for 5 minutes America?

An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth (r/worldnews)

• Catchphrase1228: It’s the bugs again!
• orangelity: Am I to understand that our entire planet’s radar capabilities to provide us with radar information on these types of objects were dependent on only one telescope (which collapsed 6 years ago) and one antenna (which is currently down for extended maintenance)?
• TheOriginalBroCone: Why are redditors so weird about wanting people to die from asteroid strikes? 
• RandomPantsAppear: Getting hit by an asteroid feels like it would fit right in with the 2020s itinerary. 

What is something you’ve officially stopped buying in 2026 because the price has become genuinely insulting? (r/AskReddit)

• xxleoxangelxx: Fast food
• myotheroneders: Fast food. The prices are so stupid that I can go to my locally owned sports bar and get much better food for a comparable price. I can’t justify spending that same amount of money for shitty food.
• garej: Food delivery. Buying a taxi for a burrito is too expensive.
• queenmellyy: Beer/wine/liquor at a restaurant. The drink shouldn’t cost as much as a meal.

TIL that the son of the man who welcomed the puritans and fed them when they were starving had his head cut off and put on a spike for 20 years at the same location as the first thanksgiving. (r/todayilearned)

• Gargomon251: Wait his SON? What the hell did HE do?
• SeaBearsFoam: And that’s where the Thanksgiving tradition of killing one of your family members and putting their head on a spike came from.
• LAAccountant: He was killed by another native.
• Porlarta: Deeply misleading way to talk about King Phillips war.

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META PLANS LAYOFFS IN 3 BATCHES GLOBALLY WEDNESDAY: RTRS (Blind)

• vNFr16: H1bs prioritized?
• xytcyiuo (eBay): Is anyone getting any work done with all this anticipation?
• UQu4gs6Z (Meta): Feeling anxious…
• GasonJ (Marqeta): Are debelopers affected though?

Is AI actually helping you ship faster? (Blind)

• rkigxvwkfi (Netflix): Only slightly in corporate setting because of review/planning/alignment/etc. much much faster for my side projects because i dont need any approval
• mXsM13: Everyone tells me how productive it has made them. I see 5000 line PRs left and right. But what is really being produced? Do any of the big tech sites have anything new and great? Are your releases bigger or better than before? I am just not seeing the end result.
• Ysbsbrb (Google): No because I just work less
• mUEm22 (eBay): coding is only a small part of software engineering. And most people don’t like AI documentation slop.

Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix (r/technology)

• EntireBig7258: building data centers in phoenix and then being surprised they make it hotter is like building a fireplace in a sauna and wondering why it got warm
• justmitzie: Great idea. Build something that raises temps and also sucks up water. In the desert.
• torgofjungle: Ahh I see we want to remove what little water was left in Phoenix
• Slippery-ape: In Phoenix at that. Where Asphalt remelts.

Senator Adam Schiff Proposes Bill Requiring Data Centers to Pay for Own Power (r/technology)

• mattreyu: Sorry, what now? Why on earth would power-hungry private companies not have to pay for their own power?
• alchemyDev: How the hell isn’t this already a thing?
• Decimit-: What is this magical idea of the business paying for the things they use??!!!
• FriedWhy: This is outraging! What’s next? Making companies pay taxes? Pay workers livable wages? The left just does not know when enough is enough. /s

314 npm packages just got compromised, 271 @antv, echarts-for-react, size-sensor, timeago.js (r/programming)

• SupermarketAntique32: Just another tuesday for NPM
• Maybe-monad: the s in npm stands for security
• dark_mode_everything: Why does this keep happening to us asks only package manager where this keeps happening regularly.
• Independent_Image_59: Is it just me or major CVEs got way too frequent now?

Creator of C++: “AI-generated code isn’t ready - it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate” (r/singularity)

• OrkWithNoTeef: It would take at least two singularities for AI to understand C++ variadic template metaprogramming compiler errors
• jferments: Code that people write using AI tools is not “impossible to validate”. You validate it exactly the same way you validate code written by humans who aren’t using AI tools.
• SgtChrome: Love Bjarne, but mentioning specific problems like that will look shortsighted when, two models down the line, AI will inevitably not make those mistakes anymore.
• AddingAUsername: As someone that (for some reason) likes C++, I can definitely say that using AI is much harder for it and much more micro-intensive. It’s much harder to vibecode etc. so I understand where he is coming from.

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What happened

GitHub’s official engineering blog published From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance, a production writeup about making GitHub Issues feel fast by changing the client/server navigation architecture rather than treating the problem as a narrow backend-latency optimization.

The core idea is that a developer tool’s perceived performance is dominated by the loop between intent and visible feedback. Opening an issue, jumping to a linked thread, returning to a list, and scanning the next item are not isolated page loads. They are part of a triage workflow. GitHub therefore measured the work around Highest Priority Content, or HPC, an internal metric aligned with Largest Contentful Paint that tracks when the main issue content, usually the title or body, is rendered. The team bucketed navigations into instant, fast, and slow using HPC thresholds, then optimized the distribution rather than focusing only on the worst tail.