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Rudy Giuliani Is in ‘Critical Condition’ in Florida Hospital (r/news)

• xandrodas: May he long be remembered for Four Seasons Total Landscaping
• drinkduffdry: Has there ever been a greater downturn in opinion of an individual?
• Frequent-Client1508: Oh no. Has he finished paying Ruby Freeman the millions he owes her yet?

The US is no longer the leader: Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world (r/worldnews)

• LGDJackal: I feel like I’ve seen this one before!
• IczyAlley: As a vaguely left American, I think its actually good that the world is more multipolar. But I am 100% sure that Republicans will claim this multipolarity they have actively pursued by policy and action is exactly what they will pretend to hate within 5 years.
• fallsstandard: Rheinmetall has wares if you have coin.

Fugees rapper Pras reports to prison to begin 14-year sentence (r/news)

• RMRdesign: This is exactly Elon did for Trump by the way.
• Arponare: So when is Elon’s sentencing?
• Inca-Vacation: gone til November 2040

Parents in other countries than the US, what is your kids’ equivalent of “I don’t want that for dinner, I want chicken nuggets”? (r/AskReddit)

• Zealousideal-Sea8957: grew up in the philippines. my kids reject whatever i cook and just want plain rice with soy sauce. i spent 45 minutes on adobo and they’re over there eating sad rice.
• brooke360: Poutine. My daughter wants it every night if she could lol.
• Mindless-Toe-9912: Here in Mexico, my 7 year old wants butter on bread (toasted on the stove) or he wants scrambled eggs with butter.

The moment Cherie DeVaux became the first woman trainer to win the Kentucky Derby in its 152-year history. (r/sports)

• karthikulo: I love that she doesn’t have a fancy hat.
• fhota1: Now lets see the horse’s idol concert after the race!
• romulan267: Women dominate the equestrian scene. Why’d it take this long? Old money?

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OpenAI is going DOWN (Blind)

• i!ii!;!::i (Zoom): but, codex is better than claude code.
• daris (NVIDIA): ChatGPT is still the best consumer app. Codex > Claude.. it’s stupid to make these claims every month
• Zuckerbrug (Samsung): They had the first mover advantage, just like Netscape, Lycos, AskJeeves, and Pets.com. It was fun while it lasted!

Extremely frustrated with job market (Blind)

• chaitanye (Adobe): Why were you laid off? Were you a low performer during that cycle?
• nkajr55 (PayPal): The fact that you say IT industry says a lot about your prior experience and tech mindset.
• ‘ (ex-Zscaler): Could it be that no one wants Amazon managers?

Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has ‘zero percent’ market share in China — says US export policy ‘has already largely backfired’ (r/technology)

• alchemyDev: Womp womp. I guess spending a ton of money to elect a demented pedophile didn’t work out, huh?
• Wyciorek: Next step will be nVidia losing marketshare outside China and US
• Shiftymennoknight: Better donate more to the ballroom fund, you know how it works Jensen

Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed (r/technology)

• DogsBeerYarn: And who was it that overstaffed them? Hm? The employees who are driving doordash now to feed their kids? Is that who did it?
• flowing42: Overstaffing my ass. Fortune 500 company worker and I’ll tell you that we are not nearly staffed well enough.
• radioactivecat: The shit thing is a bunch of the over staffing is at the middle management layer and those won’t be the people affected by layoffs.

AI becoming more expensive is music to my ears (r/webdev)

• Triggerscore: Was only a matter of time.
• CantaloupeCamper: Genie isn’t going back in the bottle.
• AShar911: It is not becoming more expensive, only top models are expensive. If you can get a good hardware or a cloud with a good open model it’s quite cheap and works very well.

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Boy, 14, shot dead by Israeli settlers in West Bank amid escalation in violence (r/news)

• Spirited_Childhood34: Terrorists, not settlers.
• AsherahEnd: “Settlers” you mean invaders?

US Justice Department can use military lawyer to prosecute civilian, judge rules (r/news)

• RenoRiley1: Because all the competent lawyers that could say no have been fired or quit they’ll bring in their military toadies who can’t say no. (They can actually but we know no one in our military will)
• Babylon4All: “There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people”

Trump says US will reduce number of troops in Germany ‘a lot further’ than withdrawal of 5,000 (r/worldnews)

• hornswoggled111: … After a recent phone call with Putin.
• wwhisler: Is he going to reduce the number of troops by 1200%

It’s official: No woman in England or Wales can be prosecuted for an abortion any more (r/worldnews)

• Cynical_Classicist: Actually good news from Britain for once!
• Mother_Airline_6276: Hooray common sense!

Teacher who told pupils ‘this class terrifies me’ chugged gin from a water bottle before vomiting in toilet (r/nottheonion)

• Mikeavelli: Teenagers scare the living shit out of me.
• darkoopz43: I’m not saying she’s right, but I get it.

What is an industry that is currently on fire (in a bad way) behind the scenes, but the general public hasn’t noticed yet? (r/AskReddit)

• Ok_Outcome_6213: I work in retirement savings and pensions. The number of people cashing out their pensions, including people who are at retirement age, just to be able to afford to live, is staggering.
• thisisrita: This thread has been great for my anxiety

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Anthropic is going to acquire Workday! (Blind)

• xelent (InMobi): Workday level ui in claude? 😇🤣

I HATE being oncall as a software engineer - advice? (Blind)

• metaduck (Meta): Fix your shit so it doesn’t break during the night

HOT TAKE: Firing is just as hard as getting fired (Blind)

• vesbr& (Amazon): What a narcissist shares with their therapist:

Ask.com shuts down after nearly 30 years, marking the end of Ask Jeeves (r/technology)

• enry: TIL: ask was still around
• taylorjosephrummel: End of an era.

Developer re-enables 3D printer features that Bambu Lab disabled, firm promptly threatens legal action — OrcaSlicer-BambuLab project now shuttered (r/technology)

• Cheetawolf: Bambu is definitely planning to enshittify.
• EverNeko200: Bambu continues to prove they hate their community.

Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come | The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage (r/technology)

• explicitlarynx: Of course they do, they are power trippers that never face consequences for their actions.
• FanDry5374: “Love” interests? Yeah, that’s what it is.

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US gas prices reaching new heights as war in Iran drags on (r/news)

• Affectionate_Tip_934: Gas prices don’t just hurt at the pump. Every product that gets trucked, shipped, or flown becomes more expensive within weeks. This isn’t just a fuel story, it’s a silent tax on everything you buy for the next 6 months.
• The_Frozen_Inferno: US gas prices? You mean WORLD gas prices. A lot of us that have absolutely nothing to do with this BS war are going to suffer as well.

Court restricts abortion access across the US by blocking the mailing of mifepristone (r/news)

• Mediocre_Ad_4649: I thought nationwide injunctions can’t be issued anymore? So wouldn’t this “only” apply to the fifth district?
• Grant_Winner_Extra: The 5th circuit is the most-overturned circuit and they’ve tried this a half dozen times already. It will get overturned and even if it doesn’t, it only applies in the 5th circuit.

Trump says he will raise tariffs on EU autos to 25% (r/worldnews)

• Qrimesz: Honey, it’s friday again!
• tri170391: He seems to forgot the supreme court ruled his tariff illegal lol.

Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected position days before an exoneree was set to take office (r/nottheonion)

• braumbles: Not shocking. This is what Republicans do.
• ComprehensiveHavoc: A good man’s redemption scared them so much that they needed to find a new way to be corrupt.

US birth rates just hit another record low, what do you think is the leading cause of this? (r/AskReddit)

• LunaraVibe: It turns out that when ‘starter homes’ cost half a million dollars and childcare is basically a second rent payment, people start treating having a kid like a luxury hobby they can’t afford.
• AvleeWhee: gestures vaguely at everything

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Amazon INTENSIONALLY leaks layoffs (Blind)

• nthin2lose (SentinelOne): Amazon knows how to keep everything toxic.
• Jefry (Salesforce): They also stack rank by spelling performance.

Mass Layoffs Have Consequences (Blind)

• RowdySWE (Block): Elon basically gave CEOs permission to start doing this when he ripped apart twitter and it was still functioning.
• crazzak (Microsoft): Employees don’t feel invested in companies that throw them away like trash the second it saves them a buck; this leads to less innovation and decline in quality.

Congratulations Google (Blind)

• HypeOS (Apple): Pretty sure this revenue is a bit of a faff. GCP is charging Gemini and recording this as revenue for serving Google Gemini responses?
• Zuckerbrug (Samsung): Listen to the earnings call. Not only cloud but they are owning AI. OpenAI better get that IPO done soon before Google eats their lunch…

Meta contractor fires 1,100 AI trainers after they revealed Ray-Ban glasses recorded private and intimate footage (r/technology)

• CanvasFanatic: Note that some of these contractors came forward to blow the whistle on what they were being asked to do (despite how little they were being paid) and were punished for it.
• bigkoi: The glasses with camera thing is creeping. It’s the modern equivalent of the guy wearing mirrors on his shoes.

Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps (r/technology)

• BeMancini: “Okay, how about we plant a story in the media that you all feel really really bad about it? Will that get you to stay until your stock is vested? Will that get you to stay until we unceremoniously lay you off?”
• zhaoz: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it”. Upton Sinclair.

Sam Altman No Longer Believes In Universal Basic Income (r/singularity)

• Lankonk: I mean, he’s not wrong. UBI would be insufficient if 20 people owned everything. A broader, collective ownership of the world’s enterprises would go a long way towards preventing a catastrophic concentration of power.
• revengeofwalrus: He’s a narcissistic sociopath. Of course he’s changing his tune.

Why does it feel like tech has no middle ground at all? (r/cscareerquestions)

• Bulbasaur2015: interview process is harder than the job
• Loupreme: You’re in a reddit bubble, people are getting paid in all ranges. However I will say 80-110k for a senior would be robbery (in the US at least) so not sure what middle ground you’re thinking of, for non seniors sure those exist too

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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence (r/news)

• Infinite_Theory3453: yeah it is kinda wild, company basically gets shut down but no real jail time for anyone behind it.
• PM_ME_YOUR_EYELASHES: So they shut down then pop up later with a new name and CEO selling a similar product?? Justice served?

Louisiana governor plans to suspend May primary to redraw US House map, Washington Post reports (r/news)

• MannequinWithoutSock: Nothing says democracy more than suspending elections to redraw maps
• EightGlow: Remember like 3 days ago when R’s were bitching that the Dems had the gall to redraw a map in response to R’s initiating this fight?

JD Vance ‘helping Russians’ by supporting halt to Ukraine aid, Zelensky says (r/worldnews)

• gummilingus: How do you say “thank you” in Russian?
• luisa65-L: Zelensky’s crossed arms and absolute death stare in this photo perfectly summarize how most of the world feels listening to JD Vance.

Church of Scientology is mad teens keep running through their centers and filming it for TikTok (r/nottheonion)

• emongu1: If it was pretty much anybody but them, i would have compassion, but no, not them.
• Packman87: “Cult angry at people getting in and out of their building in under 9 hours” 

What hobby or habit or vice do you know is shortening your life but you don’t care because it’s worth it? (r/AskReddit)

• satansfloorbuffer: Butter, sugar, flour
• Slawth_x: I’m here for a good time not a long one

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My Apple Interview NIGHTMARE (Blind)

• aysi (Google): The fact that you literally just got caught cheating and are considering doing it again blows my mind
• redin (Apple): I literally catch at least one person per month using interview coder. It’s hotkeys are blatantly detectable. Blows my mind how stupid people are not only to cheat but to pay almost a grand for something a college student vibe coded

Do NOT work for Meta (Blind)

• AI on weed (Google): Sounds like skill issue. Lots of high performing ICs I know enjoy working at Meta.
• VlOzD89% (Meta): It’s a bit exaggerated. But I guess 80-90% true, but a lot of it is true elsewhere too.

FYI Jassy’s Amazon layoff email leak is BS (Blind)

• pyplpglu (PayPal): I just hope i find some better career like farming or trading which is profitable and leave this shit.
• pfnqft (Amazon): If he hit reply all, it means those people were part of the thread already.

Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI (r/technology)

• dylboii: We’ll never see this in the US unfortunately
• BayouBait: America is so far behind. Good on China.

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it (r/technology)

• Ruddertail: Isn’t this true for everyone? The first time you use it it’s like “wow this technology is kinda cool” but then as you keep using it, you flaws start to show. You start getting extremely irritated at all the hallucinations and errors and often even the way it phrases things. Especially if you ask it about something you’re an expert at.
• ocw5000: AI is great for making untalented people feel talented, so you can understand why executives love it

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Trump evacuated after security incident at White House correspondents dinner; no sign of injuries (r/news)

• PersianAztecs21: Did they lower the flag and have everyone pose for a photo shoot?
• A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb: There will be an arrest next week for someone who made $500K on this.

MrBeast employee alleges she was harassed for years and fired after maternity leave in a new lawsuit (r/news)

• Drabulous_770: I love how we’re all counting down the clock until this guy’s run is over.
• EkorrenHJ: I had no opinion on MrBeast until I saw him om a podcast where he kept talking about how much he despised “mediocre people.” That made me recognize he probably fostered toxic working conditions.

U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’ (Gift Article) (r/news)

• Cultural_Meeting_240: nothing says freedom like laundering cartel gold into liberty coins.
• Fecal_thoroughfare: If I was any country that owned gold in US vaults I’d be gtfo yesterday

What’s a recession indicator that you’ve noticed lately? (r/AskReddit)

• monkeypickle8: It seems like everything at the grocery store starts at seven dollars now
• motorcitydevil: Door Dash drivers in their 60s.

What’s the fastest way you realized you were in the wrong friend group? (r/AskReddit)

• Darth-Skvader: They started having a conversation in front of me about how excited they all were for the upcoming beach trip. I hadn’t been invited.
• Key_Benefit_7465: They wanted to do a “prank” where they threw rocks over the highway overpass

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OpenAI is going DOWN (Blind)

• daris (NVIDIA): ChatGPT is still the best consumer app. Codex > Claude.. it’s stupid to make these claims every month
• Zuckerbrug (Samsung): They had the first mover advantage, just like Netscape, Lycos, AskJeeves, and Pets.com. It was fun while it lasted!

Everyone is vibecoding everything (Blind)

• thatonem3 (Autodesk): Yes, leadership are asking non tech folks to take work all the way to POC then hand over to engineering. Seems engineering may turn into architectural cleanup and review services org vs solving problems if we continue down this path.
• fdgkud (ByteDance): Put them on on-call, they will stop the next day

WTF. Zuck in earnings call: AI will not result in people losing jobs (Blind)

• cUGg82 (Oracle): The layoffs are mainly due to justify the capex and to impress the investors that they are being efficient. Layoff will be a norm until the capex keeps going high.
• gkdnwodrnn (ex-Amazon): They should ask point blank how come you’re contradicting your own actions when you’ve been laying off thousands under the name of AI

A founder says Cursor’s AI agent deleted his startup’s database, causing chaos for customers (r/technology)

• TripsOverWords: Yah, but *who* granted the hallucination machine the requisite privileges to take such actions?
• smiley_x: He embraced the idea of move fast and break things a little bit too much

My company has stopped product work to become AI-ready and I think a restructuring is coming (r/developersIndia)

• feelin-lonely-1254: What happens when the pricing isnt as sustainable as now and is comparitively much more? Ig faangs etc might not care but im assuming an avg tech company might not be willing to spend like 2k-3k dollars in AI codegen tools per dev per month? And you dont mind turning your codebase into a clusterfuck? what happens when you have to debug something non obvious?
• Schroeter333: My previous org did something similar and ended up firing most of the dev team and data science team. In addition they spent millions with a vendor to make us AI ready. One year down the line, they have next to nothing to show and most of the clients have dropped out due to issues arising in the product. Most recently I heard that the CEO has been fired along with most of the top brass by the PE firm which owns the company.