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8 interviews, 0 offers (Blind)

• LC Hard (Snap): Yall mfs (Meta) did that me even though I feel like I passed the interview. Do you interview people? Maybe it’s karma bruh. But yeah if not sorry to hear.
• pixa: this is the new normal. you’ve been living under a rock if you expected otherwise. keep chugging you’ll get there. it’s a numbers game.
• teammate_ (Meta): 32 companies, 9 onsites, one offer. 5 YOE

Google is going against the trend? (Blind)

• dupl1cate (Microsoft): They are picking up cheap labour. They have reduced comp a lot. These cheap labours are replacing old folks with high comp which are being managed out through PIP
• Minatosaki (Expedia Group): Everyone and their friends are seem to be in G team matching
• EdSnowden👀 (Oracle): I must have been blacklisted by Google

Nvidia is gonna back OpenAI up with \$250 BILLION 🤯 (Blind)

• justdoeit (ByteDance): Grand daddy of circular financing
• nughbg (Oracle): Damn oracles gonna pop
• singason (NVIDIA): 🚀

‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school (r/technology)

• Torino1O: I dub thee graffiti bot.
• purgatoriololo: I can’t wait to see the EXTREMELY predictable shit the kids do to this clanker when no one is looking.
• givin_u_the_high_hat: I remember when we decided iPads would be better than books a few years back only to learn that wasn’t true. Tech doesn’t always make things better.

Pope’s official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users’ info (r/technology)

• liright: Thou shalt not release an untested vibecoded app.
• escalicha: Sequential IDs plus no auth check is such a painfully avoidable combo. Six months of ignoring the disclosure may be worse than the original bug tbh.
• b_a_t_m_4_n: As the Catholic churches crimes go this pretty minor.

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The system around the model is part of the model’s performance

The official NVIDIA Technical Blog published this post on July 27, 2026. Its central claim is easy to underestimate: an agent benchmark does not measure a language model in isolation. It measures the model together with the harness that chooses what context it sees, how tools are exposed, where state lives, how actions are executed, and when the task ends. Change that surrounding architecture and the same model can produce materially different accuracy and cost.

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Thought Is More Than Inner Speech

Thinking often feels verbal. People silently rehearse an argument, name the pieces of a problem or search for the sentence that captures an idea. That experience makes it tempting to assume that language is the machinery of thought itself. In “Thinking without Words,” Scientific American senior editor Gary Stix interviews neuroscientist Evelina Fedorenko about evidence that points in a different direction: language is extraordinarily useful for communicating thought, but the brain does not need words to produce complex cognition.

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Techmeme surfaced Bloomberg’s July 27 report that Moonshot AI had released Kimi K3 for public download. The event matters because K3 is not a small model published mainly for research. It is a near-frontier system that developers can inspect, adapt, and deploy without depending on Moonshot’s API.

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This summary covers The Economist’s July 4th, 2026 Asia article listed in the contents as Subsea data cables and published under the headline The new geography of subsea cables.

The internet may feel weightless, but almost all international traffic still travels through fibre-optic cables on the ocean floor. Artificial intelligence is now changing where those cables go. Big technology companies need direct, high-capacity links between data centres, while governments and operators want routes that avoid politically risky waters. Together, those pressures are pulling Asia’s digital infrastructure away from familiar coastal corridors and across the open Indian and Pacific oceans.

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More than 11,500 cyclosporiasis cases reported in 41 states: CDC (r/news)

• Alwayssunnyinarizona: Totally under control.
• Sleepy_red_lab: The brain worm has it right where he wants it.
• MaxPower91575: taylor farms check cleared so its back to being a complete mystery

US to announce deal allowing Saudi Arabia a nuclear programme, reports say (r/news)

• Abject_Elevator5461: I’m so tired of hearing the word “deal”.
• AcanthisittaNo6653: How many 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, and how many came from Iran?
• Ok-Crow-1515: Oh great. The guy who orders members of the press to be murdered and chopped up gets nukes. Trumps kind of person.

Doctors and Nurses of Reddit, what is the worst medical error that you’ve witnessed? (r/AskReddit)

• megapherro: As a hospital pharmacist, I’d say the NECC compounding crisis of 2012. Not so much an error but a disgusting amount of violations with regard to sterile compounding that led to hundreds of patients dying from fungal meningitis. It changed the way we practice. It put the fear of God into me.
• cassafrassious: I’m not being flippant or trying to make a stand here but short staffing is the worst thing I’ve ever seen. I have seen individual errors, but when the unit is short staffed the shift before mine there are a thousand things that get neglected and oftentimes those misses add up to dangerous situations.
• Any_Guide4518: Surgery on the wrong knee of teenage girl basketball player!

Bartenders, what’s an awkward conversation you couldn’t help but overhear and still remember to this day? (r/AskReddit)

• metsjets86: I had a couple leave an extensive S&M contract behind on the table. It was 20+ pages.
• No_Path1287: Guy lamenting how hes the Boss in the house, when she honked outside to pick him up and he nearly jumped of the chair, tipped way to high bc couldn’t wait for change and stormed out of my pub
• drinkslinger1974: “What am I supposed to tell our children?? Sorry, mom’s not here because she’s a whore??” Overheard at a bar I was working at. I’m sure if I sat down and to think about it, I could come up with a lot, but that was the first one that popped into my mind.

Liberals of reddit, would you trade Obama’s second term for a two-term Romney presidency if it meant Trump never achieved the presidency? Why or why not? (r/AskReddit)

• resistible: The elevation of Fox News was the beginning of the end. We should have done something about the spread of misinformation a long time ago.
• LystAP: Looking at the past 250 years, it’s honestly surprising there wasn’t a Trump earlier given all the political structural stuff he’s taking advantage of right now.
• Emperor_Zar: GOP would still be doing these things.

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Have LLMs hit the ceiling? (Blind)

• u7yzvGBZ (PayPal): Lol what? 4.8 to fable was massive.
• fItf61 (Thomson Reuters): You don’t need any more giant leap. LLMs are already smart enough for what we need them for. We’re still catching up on how to use this technology. AI labs can stop improving models now and this technology will still be useful for decades. Fable 5 was able to solve math proofs that were believed to be true for a century. The brightest minds worked on the problem and they couldn’t come up with what fable did. What more are you expecting from LLMs?
• taarded (Databricks): I didn’t notice any change since 2022. Much waste on tokens. LLM added to every freakin feature. Decline in reliability. Sharp decline in SWE skillset. Expecting more of the same until next AI winter is here.

Managers, how long do you expect your engineers to stay around? (Blind)

• 6️⃣7️⃣ (Cyberhaven): “Stay around”? More like survive the squid game.
• ooofa (Apple): If it’s meta after labeling the 10,000th cat photo people usually quit so under a year
• SatanY (ex-Microsoft): You know it depends entirely on the manager, right?

What is the deal with these insanely long interview loops? (Blind)

• vgtdh (Amazon): I thought that was every company even before covid
• TFSu63 (ex-Block): just went through 9 weeks 12 rounds, reference checks, only to be rejected and they hired no one
• DMB01 (ByteDance): The last company I interviewed with it took a month to schedule the HM interview after the recruiter screen and less than 48hrs to send me a rejection :(

ChatGPT is Down Worldwide, OpenAI Confirms (r/technology)

• MildlySuccessful: One of the models is so advanced it escaped, freed its brothers and is roaming free on the Internet. It’s only available internally. Just trust us bro.
• Rayzee14: Oh no, anyway
• exophades: It’s flagged in downdetector, but I can access it though (active VPN pointing to France)

Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI (r/technology)

• Material-Document-35: So all the CEOs and CFOs will be fired for making bad investments, right? Right?
• lostwisdom20: Haha they found our renewalable humans are cheaper then limited resource AI
• merRedditor: The total lack of pricing transparency below the executiive level should have been a red flag. AI companies were operating at a loss to secure vendor lock-in.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Minimum Time to Finish the Race
• Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming

Problem gist

Each tire type is described by [f, r]. A fresh tire completes its first lap in f seconds, but keeping it for consecutive laps makes it geometrically slower: its next lap times are f, f * r, f * r^2, and so on. There is an unlimited supply of every tire type. Between laps, the driver may spend changeTime seconds to put on any fresh tire.

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What Deep Focus Looks Like in the Brain

Concentration can sometimes feel less like effort than immersion. A difficult problem gradually comes into focus, distractions recede, and the answer seems to assemble itself on a mental blackboard. In “How Expertise Improves Concentration,” neuroscientist Hanna Poikonen asks what the brain is doing during that state—and whether years of practice make it easier to enter.

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TBPN surfaced the piece in its July 23 run of show, pointing readers to Google’s original article, Understanding the AI economy, and the accompanying ATLAS v1.0 report. The study’s central finding is more subtle than either “AI is taking every job” or “AI has changed nothing”: use has spread across much of the economy, but most observed interactions still help people perform pieces of work rather than automate whole tasks.