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If you’re young and in CS, switch tracks (Blind)

• not fiona (Google): Back in my day, every young man was motivated to do a hard job. 68% of males ages 14-21 were working, but now that number has fallen to just 38%. Today’s young men waste away their physical prime and thus their peak earning years. They want to be a couch/computer potato. They spend ten hours a week chatting with AI instead of learning social skills. Some of them want a vacation so they apply for a visa abroad. It is because of the irresponsible parents who raise such lazy kids.
• Barney S (Airbnb): SWE will reduce significantly and FDE will increase significantly. Salary will still keep up but desirable skill sets will change. Bottom line: if you are autistic, anti-social but not IQ 150 you should pivot
• TzCEen (Klaviyo): As if every other career isn’t fucked. If you work at a desk, Claude is coming for you in the same way that it came for SWE. Eventually there will be some agentic workflow to do every other job and employers will cut as many employees as they can to milk their margins. Sure, you can become a nurse or plumber, but that would suck in its own ways.

Offers from OpenAI Anthropic and Nvidia. Which to choose? (Blind)

• yegv (Google): Vote for anthropic. OpenAI is toxic and full of meta mates
• frotoge (OpenAI): What a crazy coincidence to not only line up offers from all 3 at the same time, but to also be too much of a bozo to make your own decisions. Must be one in a billion!
• staffMLE? (LinkedIn): Fake, TC can’t be equivalent. Nvidia new offers don’t compare with OAI and Anthropic. Why don’t you go ahead and add xAI as well

‘It’s like we don’t exist’: Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers (r/technology)

• ShiftyUsmc: Man, this whole data center thing seems like it might not be such a good idea
• Nice-Mixing: So people are going without power so the aristocracy can take all our jobs away, is that right…
• Random_Man-child: My favorite thing is how Republicans claimed our grid could not support electric cars, but data centers perfectly fine.

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains (r/technology)

• NOT_EVEN_THAT_GUY: corporate is rotting my brain
• scraplocator: if only the business and tech bros in every industry could have that kind of self awareness.
• BezosLazyEye: Problem is, if you’re not using AI you’re outperformed by developers who are. So in the eyes of the managers you’re worth less, since they only care about delivering something that works not how it works. This is going to bite us in the ass so badly in the future.

Tech Layoff Wave Has Already Hit 100,000 Jobs This Year (r/technology)

• Harkonnen_Dog: Stop buying their products.
• GimmeNewAccount: So you’re saying now is not the time to quit my stable, but highly stressful, tech job?
• Alan4Bama: I was one of those today

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Longest Balanced Subarray II
• Topics: Array, Hash Table, Divide and Conquer, Segment Tree, Prefix Sum

Problem gist

The input is an integer array. A subarray is balanced when the number of distinct even values inside it equals the number of distinct odd values inside it. Repeated copies of the same number only count once, so [3, 2, 2, 5, 4] has two distinct odd values, 3 and 5, and two distinct even values, 2 and 4.

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What happened

OpenAI’s official engineering blog published Building a safe, effective sandbox to enable Codex on Windows, a post about the operating-system engineering needed to make local coding agents useful on Windows without giving them unchecked access to a developer machine.

The problem is specific to agentic coding tools. Codex runs on a user’s laptop through the CLI, IDE extension, or desktop app, while the model itself runs in the cloud. The local harness can ask the operating system to run shell commands, read files, write files, run tests, invoke build tools, install dependencies, or create Git branches. By default, those commands inherit the real user’s permissions. That is powerful enough to be useful and dangerous enough to need an OS-enforced boundary.

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A crowded system comes into focus

Saturn used to look like a planet with a few dozen known moons and one spectacular ring system. The rings still dominate the view, but the moon count has changed dramatically. In this Scientific American Q&A, senior news reporter Meghan Bartels talks with astronomer Edward Ashton, whose work helped push Saturn’s official satellite tally to 274. Ashton and his collaborators have identified 192 of those moons, most of them small, faint objects only a few kilometers across.

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This summary covers The Economist’s April 25th, 2026 China article listed in the contents as Chinese satellites over the Middle East and published under the headline Offering alternatives.

The article argues that China’s rapidly improving commercial satellite industry is changing the politics of wartime intelligence. During the conflict involving Iran, Israel and America, Chinese satellite firms have released images of military sites, damaged infrastructure and deployed weapons at a moment when American providers have become more constrained. That has given China a way to help America’s adversaries indirectly while advertising a fast-maturing space industry.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this May 12, 2026 essay: Revisiting “No Silver Bullets” in the age of AI.

The old question returns

Gergely Orosz uses Frederick Brooks’s 1986 essay “No Silver Bullet” as a way to test the AI coding moment against a harder standard than demo output. Brooks argued that no single technology or management technique would create a tenfold improvement in software productivity, reliability, or simplicity, because the hardest parts of software are bound up with complexity, judgment, coordination, and changing requirements.

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US inflation jumped to 3.8% in April (r/news)

• NeofelisNight: Wait till we see May, i know they cook the numbers, but Im seeing it with my own eyes on the front lines
• Jonestown_Juice: Hold on to your butts. This roller coaster ride is just getting going.
• McCloudX: 3.8% might still be on the low end

Grocery prices jumped more in April than they did in nearly four years (r/news)

• runnerup1: Cheaper on day one boyssssss
• killerparties: She had a weird laugh though
• Oceanbreeze871: Food isn’t affordable thanks to Donald and his country fools

CIA escalates secret war on cartels with deadly operations inside Mexico (r/worldnews)

• maxsmart01: It ain’t much of a secret if I know about it so maybe let’s quit calling it a secret.
• Actaeon_II: Didn’t the cia spend decades working with the cartels?
• crashorbit: Somehow powerful people always think that this time violence will work.

What famous person chose to step away at the height of their fame? (r/AskReddit)

• Montag_311: Bill Watterson, the cartoonist who did Calvin and Hobbes.
• roygbiv-it: Barry Sanders. Feel so sorry for him he was on shit teams. What a talent.
• Similar_String9573: one of the most notable is J.D. Salinger. dude wrote a classic and just dipped from the public eye totally. wild choice but kinda legendary.

TIL about firefighter Donald Herbert. After lapsing into a coma following a firefighting accident he awoke a year later unable to recognize friends or family. He then lapsed into a minimally conscious state for over 9 years. Miraculously, he awoke again and his first question was about his wife. (r/todayilearned)

• Greene_Mr: SPOILER ALERT: He died just months after that. :-(
• Technical_Chair_3641: i wonder how much of his 9 years in a minimally conscious state he was actually aware on some level. there’s been some fMRI studies showing some PVS patients can follow commands mentally even when they show zero outward response
• PartsUnknown242: So what what exactly happened with his brain here?

Why don’t we get a discount for using self-checkout? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

• Run-And_Gun: Because they got rid of the cashiers to increase their profits. Not to save their customers any money.
• comrade_zerox: You do, if you know how to use it ;)
• DIY-exerciseGuy: Do you get a discount for pumping your own gas?

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Rumor: Possible Linkedin Layoffs Tomorrow 5/13 (or 5/14) (Blind)

• fjwoxhaba (LinkedIn): Rumors are saying directors were notified earlier today so quite likely
• tlLd05 (LinkedIn): Yep confirmed 50% layoff
• ouhfgfgyn (LinkedIn): 5/13 confirmed by multiple sources

Amazon is laying off in “secret” RIGHT NOW and it’s strategic. (Blind)

• rasesh (Amazon): BS … no silent layoffs are happening … I see lot of silent hiring infact
• –author (Google): Google has been doing this for years.
• nkrtf (Amazon): I can confirm layoffs are happening

AI isn’t paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds (r/technology)

• Dr-Moth: Workers with salaries you control, have been replaced by AI agents with costs you can’t control. The short term gains are replaced by long term dependency.
• KyuubiW1ndscar: the people who needed to lose their job, didn’t.
• antrage: Heres a radical idea, maybe use the AI to make your workforce put less time on menial tasks so they put more energy on tasks that are creative and will make your company more profitable in terms of innovation.

Amazon employees are inflating AI usage to top leaderboards and impress managers (r/technology)

• Square-Bluejay3476: This is what happens when companies start measuring “AI usage” instead of measuring whether the work actually improved. People will optimize for the metric they’re judged on, even if the metric itself is meaningless.
• Frequent-Test-3012: Your work performance is judged now not on how good your work is, but instead on how much you can use the slop machine.
• pr1aa: When a measure becomes a goal, it’s no longer a good measure

4 engineers now doing the job of 12 at my friend’s company because AI agents handle the rest (r/cscareerquestions)

• DeusSapien: When Bill Gates said AI would introduce 2 day workweek, this is what he meant. 8 engineers are not going work 2-day work week, instead there will be 4 engineers working 5-day work weeks while trying to output the work of 8 engineers
• Ill-Independence6422: cool so we’re all just speedrunning ourselves out of a job
• BiIlEGoat: How has no one mentioned this post is written by ai

Kickstarter bans all NSFW content from the website (r/technology)

• LittlestWeapon: I’m assuming at the pressure of the credit card processors?
• physical0: Anyone wanna kickstart my new payment processor?
• Biggu5Dicku5: They had NSFW content?

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Quick facts

• Problem: Kth Largest Element in a Stream
• Topics: Design, Heap (Priority Queue), Data Stream

Problem gist

Design a collection that supports two operations in any interleaving:

• insert(num) — add a number to the collection.
• find_kth_largest(k) — return the k-th largest element currently in the collection.

The twist versus the original LeetCode 703 is that k is a parameter of every query and may change from call to call. The classic min-heap-of-size-k solution relied on k being fixed at construction so it could safely discard everything below the running k-th largest. Once k can grow on a later call, no element is safe to throw away, and the whole strategy has to change.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Custom LeetCode-style prompt: Encode Any Input to JSON String
• Topics: Serialization, Depth-First Search, Hash Table, Graph, Design

Problem gist

The task is to write an encoder that accepts an input value and returns the same kind of string a normal JSON serializer would return: