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Company tiers for SWE in 2026 - yes another try (Blind)

• IkYV84 (Autodesk): I don’t get why people keep posting the so-called “tier list”, is it really important? Why does prestige even matter? Why would you care what other people think? I went from FFANG to my current company and I couldn’t be happier. The best company will always be individual specific and not some list based on someone else’s opinion.
• fscP66 (TikTok): Netflix erasure. Also Nvidia gets glazed despite paying like it’s Microsoft for SWEs 🤡
• exFrontier (xAI): Any tier list that doesn’t attempt to rank hft/quant is not serious. You lack knowledge of the world around you

He regrets the layoffs. (Blind)

• l5sn94ns (Microsoft): He also takes full responsibility.
• desRt24 (Meta): Morale inside the company is crazy down. Almost everyone is not interested in work, looking for jobs outside. So he is saying these things to gain some trust, but not working.
• finlandd (Blend): If he regrets it, he can always hire them back. But he won’t because he doesn’t actually regret the decision.

Anne Hathaway says she was spammed with ChatGPT-written thank you notes after hiring for a recent role: “Nobody on that list gets that job” (r/technology)

• Grammaton485: Dunno if anyone else had this growing up, but my parents tried to force thank-you notes into almost everything.
• procrastinarian: Imagine how much better the world would be if we all did away with all this artifice.
• Madness_Quotient: Thank you notes are inherently lies, it’s no wonder people turn to AI to relieve them of the burden of applying intelligence to the task.

Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies (r/technology)

• Just-Grocery-2229: Claude out here doing the heavy lifting while the human takes all the credit in prison.
• Nepalus: I think it’s definitely something that is becoming more prevalent. Worse yet, good luck trying to extradite or get to people in some of these remote places in the world. Cutting edge AI tooling in the hands of just a single rogue actor half way around the world is one thing, what happens when it’s a whole office building working in concert to attack companies, electric grids, etc?
• Icy_Yam_9951: If I ever decide to use Claude to hack a company, I’ll make sure to ask it for help improving the resume of an african guy. And replace my IP with an african one.

Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads (r/technology)

• cheesesteakhellscape: Every time it shows me an ad for something, i’m taking it out of my cart out of spite.
• Bunkerman91: The person who came up with this needs to be…well…you know. Same goes for whoever thought to put advertisements in gas station pumps. You have to be absolute filth of a person to even have those sorts of ideas in the first place.
• discgman: It will also adjust the price

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A Science Built around Private Evidence

Allison Parshall’s article begins with the difficulty at the center of consciousness research: consciousness is the most immediate fact of a person’s life, yet it is directly available only to that person. Scientists can observe behavior and brain activity, but they cannot independently inspect another individual’s pain, inner speech, sense of self or experience of color. The field must therefore study a real phenomenon through indirect evidence.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 13th, 2026 Science & technology article listed in the contents as New test for lung cancer and published under the headline Predict and prevent.

Cancer prevention has usually meant reducing exposure to known risks, such as smoking and air pollution. A new study points toward a more targeted approach: use a blood test to identify people whose biology suggests that lung cancer is beginning to develop, then give them an existing anti-inflammatory drug before a tumour forms.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this piece in its June 17 episode, CI/CD with Robert Erez, a conversation between Gergely Orosz and Octopus Deploy principal engineer Robert Erez about how modern teams ship software safely.

The episode’s central argument is that deployment practice should optimize for recoverability and control, not for maximal automation. Continuous deployment—sending every successful change directly to production—is useful in some environments, but continuous delivery is often the more practical goal. A team can keep every change tested and ready to release while retaining a deliberate production gate when its risk profile demands one.

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What happened

Cloudflare’s official engineering blog published Build your own vulnerability harness, a June 18, 2026 post about turning frontier-model security review from one-off agent sessions into a persistent, model-agnostic vulnerability discovery and validation pipeline.

The post is interesting because it treats the model as the least durable part of the system. Cloudflare’s argument is that enterprise-scale security scanning cannot depend on a single prompt, a single coding agent, or a single model provider. Models change, context windows fill up, and different models see different bug classes. The durable asset is the harness around them: state, task isolation, adversarial validation, deduplication, production reachability checks, and a path from evidence to reviewed patches.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Triangle
• Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming

Problem gist

The input is a triangle of numbers. A path starts at the top and moves down one row at a time. From position (row, column), the next value must be either directly below at (row + 1, column) or diagonally below-right at (row + 1, column + 1).

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When Lightning Reaches into Space

The Scientific American Advances article “Killer Electrons” describes an unexpected link between ordinary thunderstorms and the radiation environment around Earth. Lightning does more than flash through the lower atmosphere: the electromagnetic waves it produces can travel along Earth’s magnetic field and disturb extremely energetic electrons trapped far above the planet. Some of those particles then escape their usual paths and rain into lower regions of near-Earth space.

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Techmeme surfaced Matt Kapko’s CyberScoop report, “How software development’s speed obsession enabled TeamPCP’s chaos crusade”, a June 18 investigation into a threat actor that has turned the software industry’s most convenient distribution paths into a large-scale credential-stealing system.

The headline number is difficult to ignore: in less than four months, TeamPCP has compromised or poisoned more than 1,000 software packages. CyberScoop says those packages collectively account for roughly 500 million weekly downloads, although exposure does not mean every download became an exploited machine. The campaign has touched npm, PyPI, GitHub Actions, VS Code extensions, security scanners, AI infrastructure, and cloud tooling. Its claimed or attributed victims include projects associated with Trivy, Checkmarx, LiteLLM, Telnyx, Bitwarden, TanStack, SAP, Mistral AI, Microsoft, and Red Hat.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 13th, 2026 Science & technology article listed in the contents as When AI builds itself and published under the headline Over and over.

Artificial intelligence is no longer merely helping people use software. It is increasingly helping researchers build better AI. Anthropic says its Claude system wrote more than four-fifths of the code the company published in May, up from a negligible share before Claude Code launched in early 2025. Independent benchmarks also suggest that leading models can now complete software tasks that would occupy a human engineer for more than a working day.

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Voters reject effort to hike Oklahoma’s minimum wage (r/news)

• TimothyMimeslayer: Not escaping those 50th in education results.
• zeusomally: Oklahoma motto: “We may be poor, but we are dumb.”
• compuwiza1: You can always count on Americans to vote against themselves to screw over the next guy.

Winnipeg-born Canadian released from U.S. immigration detention after 7 months in ‘hellhole’ (r/news)

• IckySweet: Herman teared up when describing seeing his cats Poquito and Butters, for the first time in seven months. On Monday, Herman returned to his home in Ojai and reunited with his two orange cats
• upvoter222: For clarification, the “hellhole” was the detention facility, not Winnipeg.
• Lonely_Noyaaa: it took this long to release someone whose citizenship was never in question tells you the system is designed to warehouse people, and it doesn’t care if you’re a neighbor from Manitoba or an asylum seeker from Honduras.

Finland tears up nuclear weapons ban in NATO shift (r/worldnews)

• vincedarling: Can’t blame them since if US is pulling back from Europe, you need the one deterrent against invasion.
• Venttish: To be clear, this does not mean we are going to acquire nukes. This is just a shift in legislation to be more compatible with NATO.
• nzerinto: Incoming meltdown from Medvedev….

Russia’s War Toll Hits Up to 1.4 Million Casualties, NATO Says (r/worldnews)

• FaithfulNihilist: It’s not just the 1.4 million casualties, it’s also the 1 million young people who fled Russia in 2022 to avoid the war, most of whom were skilled professionals with valuable job skills (which allowed them to emigrate). That is devastating to an economy.
• BeeKayDubya: Russia was already going through a population crisis. Poo-tin has single handily destroyed Russia’s birthrates even if their future was shit to begin with.
• Virtual-History-6099: All they have to do is leave. But hey if their stupidity means a bled out Russia that’ll be neutered for generations, then so be it.

What was ruined because too many people discovered it? (r/AskReddit)

• Parada484: Literally thrift shops. They went from a source of necessity/deals to a viral little game with inflated prices.
• SolarSmileKit: Early internet forums and communities that were chill until they got mainstream attention.
• Elegant_Sentence_197: A lot of nice quiet beaches got totally ruined once they started blowing up on social media