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Pope Leo calls for universal health care ‘in every society’ in first address in Uruguay (r/worldnews)

• ACompletelyLostCause: Cue the alt right now claiming the Pope is an atheist communist, and shouldn’t involve himself in politics.
• SuperTropicalDesert: I genuinely think he is overstepping a bit here though. The Pope should stay as apolitical as possible so as to keep the institution respected in the eyes of as many of its subjects as possible. Just like is the case with the King in the UK. It’s not an elected position so saying anything that will make you supporters and opponents will weaken the institution itself.
• keithps: Aren’t there literally tons of catholic, or catholic associated hospitals? According to wikipedia they have like 12% of all hospital beds in the US. Maybe the pope should put his money where his mouth is and make catholic hospitals free to start. Otherwise he can fuck off.

Putin Seizes Three More Japan Tobacco Businesses, Bringing Takeover to \$3.7 Billion (r/worldnews)

• ArgentineBeauty: Russia’s economy is failing so badly that it’s now having to seize foreign assets. Just another example of Russia continuing to act like the criminal state it is.
• -Th3Saints-: Well he needs to find assets to liquidate to pay the army.
• FriedrichAepril: It’s a really genius move to stay in Russia as an international business

Hundreds of thousands join Amsterdam’s ‘Red Line’ protest against Israel (r/worldnews)

• 8muLH: Yeah that’ll show em
• No-Caterpillar2100: Bravo Amsterdam
• Lunchable: Lol the Israel flag on the top left

Egypt announces new Mediterranean gas field discovery estimated at 200 billion cubic feet (r/worldnews)

• Dexen3356: We’ll be closing the Strait of Gibraltar, thank you for your attention to this matter
• green_flash: 200 billion cubic feet sounds like a lot, but it pales in comparison to some other natural gas fields.
  
  To put the number in perspective: South Pars / North Dome in the Persian Gulf is the world’s largest natural gas field. Qatar has been producing up to 25 billion cubic feet per day from that field.
• Quinnbloom189: Egypt has been chasing energy self sufficiency for years so any new find helps, but for scale the Zohr field was around 30 trillion cubic feet. At 200 billion this one is less than one percent of that, so it buys time rather than changing the picture.

Macron has secret escape plan if protesters storm Élysée Palace, media reports (r/worldnews)

• LowestKey: I’m sure most world leaders have a secret escape plan for if they need to escape a mob.
• niceguybadboy: Sometimes I wonder if the media has lost sight of the fact that “news” is supposed to be information outside of the normal.
• Touchingastove: Louis XVI had a secret escape plan from Paris too. It didn’t work.

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Husband ask about hypothetical layoff (Blind)

• stegosauru (Google): You sound terrible
• WeWerrk (Google): I asked my wife this recently and her response was, ‘we’ll figure it or maybe we’ll just FIRE’. She’s amazing. Glad I’m not married to someone like OP lol
• AgentOfAI (Microsoft): Man tech people have 0 emotional quotient. Wondering how your marriage held up so long

Rejected by Anthropic twice, so Elon took me in. (Blind)

• Fiinbale (itana): Elon Musk D-rider. You’ll be perfect for xai
• tiredness (Apache Software Foundation): Good luck working for Elon.
• KeWO35 (Amazon): Just want to say Kudos to you for going through the entire emotional roller coaster of making it through multiple rounds and still not closing the deal. And that too twice! Conpanies dont realize the mental toll the prep and the process takes. There should be a way to compensate for this.

Nvidia is in for a rough phase (Blind)

• kea21$ (NVIDIA): I hear “tell me more about your cuda graphs” is a great opener at bars
• k3hpxz (NVIDIA): Lmfao ok bud
• jUtX47 (Cerebras Systems): Pretty stupid move by China. Jensen would have anyway sold to China which is the right move. Export controls are dumb. You don’t need to honeypot him. Now nobody will sell to China.

Should I join Google? (Blind)

• layoffs 🫡 (ex-Google): Lowkey they should rescind your offer if you’re actually debating on this
• donewithit (Google): ‘you can survive a year or 2’ and the alternative is a Google L4 offer;
  
  and the offer doubles your TC;
  
  TAKE IT! Even if you don’t like the team you can change teams within Google; lots of options at L4
• WEXiE9ysg5 (Meta): How long was your team-matching? (I’ve been in L4 team-matching for 1 month and only 1 call and they filled it internally)

Bay area AI job market & “networking” questions (Blind)

• chat2 (Meta): 1. Yes, just move
  
  2. Not even a little if you are good and zero if you are great
• amanreddy7 (Meta): From the AI infrastructure side, I would say the trip is worth it only if you go with a specific goal. Meetups help when you can talk about one concrete thing you built or fixed, like a cluster problem or a network issue, because that is what hiring managers remember. Just showing up to network in general rarely moves the needle. On the market itself, the part I see hiring actively is the infra side, people who can build and run the clusters, while generalist AI roles get a lot of applicants. Are you aiming at research roles, or at infra and engineering roles? That changes which meetups are worth your time.
• datjvdsbnn (Uber): Meetups are full of bums with less experience than you, just apply to companies you’re interested in and then move for them. Your resume should be fine to get a non research ml job

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Democrats win the Arizona House, Senate and governor’s office for the first time since 1966 (r/news)

• moreesq: Somebody once said “we’re going to win so much you’ll get tired of winning.“ I forgot who it was but it certainly is true for the Democrats this week.
• Dicky_Penisburg: Trump saw all of this and went, “Damn, people seem to not like what I’m doing right now……anyway, here’s my new chief of staff, Stephen Miller.”
• stacecom: Turning Point USA really made a difference this cycle.

1 dead, at least 12 injured after elderly driver plows into group of cyclists in North Carolina (r/news)

• Nasty____nate: I watched a DMV employee give some geriatric woman every chance in the world to pass an eye test. Like 4 times she got to retake it / repeat shit she said, given a seat, moved stations… It was maddening. Also her son kept pushing / helping her.
• Bananas_are_theworst: This group rides this route every week. Has for years. The driver, impaired, crossed the double yellow line and hit them head-on. He then kept driving a half mile until he crashed into a ditch. I’m sick about it. I know some folks who ride in this club.
• SamSLS: 930am impairment? This driver has been a ticking time bomb for a while I imagine. You’re not hammered at 930 on a Saturday as a one off.

Israel’s president taps opposition candidate Eisenkot to form a government, in setback for Netanyahu (r/news)

• yuvaldv1: I am so hopeful we will finally get rid of Bibi and his government.
• BurtHurtmanHurtz: Nothing will be perfect, but no Bibi is a good start
• IndependentTalk4413: Is a former IDF leader an improvement on Netanyahu for things like Gaza and iran?

Tens of thousands of tents flooded after heavy rains in Gaza (r/news)

• NexusTR: Some of these comments sick. Whataboutisms and demented jokes, grossly shameful activities.
• Unfair_Pop_8373: And 2.4 million in Syrian refugee camps are seriously under threat. 7 people killed by the floods as of 8 November, 375 families evacuated, 100’s evacuated from schools, 4 missing as of 30 October.
  Somalia 175,000 affected by flooding Oct
  Nigeria 132,000 displaced September
  Bangladesh 52,000 July and not to mention Sudan (millions displaced) and Chad.
  No news, no headlines, no outrage!
• ExcelAcolyte: Trucks with tents and shelter and food and medicine are at the border being blocked by Israel. This is a nightmare.

Wisconsin reports its first measles death in decades, the third in the U.S. this week (r/news)

• Ilikepancakes87: This news story brought to you by RFK Jr. Thanks, pal!
• Loud_Step2361: This is USA’s 8th measles death this season 2026. There were 3 last year 2025. 1993 to 2024, 1 death in 2015.
• SirkutBored: It will take many more before it will change the minds of the unvaccinated.

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Spotify bloodbath (Blind)

• AI or Cry (Spotify): The entire app is vibe coded dogshit now, the culture is straight from the top and only true believers are rewarded. Nothing else matters but speed. Declining reliability? Incoherent UX? Who cares. How have you AI natively AI-empowered your agentic setup this week is all that gets the emojis flying in the virtual meetings
• sickkk: I’ve been saying this for years: just make a consistent app that plays the fucking music. I don’t want to relearn the app every 3 months. They went from liking songs to saving to liking to a playlist.
  
  Guess all these subway PRs start showing their effect.
• meow-bot (Meta): Bruh, wdym? I have a tonne invested in Spotify? Should I jump ship?

Meta hiring agressively (Blind)

• lQiL78 (Microsoft): Why do you need headcount if you plan on laying off in feb
• ssm69 (New): Hire to get fired? How do they determine which departments have to cut?
• ChTree (Northern Trust): Hiring in November so there’s headcount to cut in February is the most honest thing Meta has said all year.

My new grad cohort is leaving in droves (Blind)

• zKen34 (Spotify): Whenever I have these kinda internal questions and debates, I ask myself - on my last day in this world when looking back my life, will I be happy that I made so much money, had so many things or luxury life style, or will I be happy that I spent time with people I love, made wonderful memories and experienced what the world/nature had to offer.
  
  I’m not saying one can’t achieve both. That’s the best scenario. But to the point when you have to choose, pick the one you will regret the least. This is the mindset that has served me well and I find my life fulfilling! Good luck and best wishes for anyone who’s on the journey ❤️
• qLhH85 (ex-Google): If you are feeling fomo then go for it, staying still has its own set of risks. Majority of blind would not dare make the move. Ask yourself what would you regret more?
• K7mt0joaft (Meta): You are young. Do what inspires you. Don’t be afraid to pursue big goals and make mistakes along the way.
  
  I follow your exact logic but I’ve been in the industry since forever. My kids deserve all my extra time and energy. Anthropics and Open AIs of the world will be alright without my help.

Specifics of why META get the bad reputation for work (Blind)

• JamesBonb (Meta): I’ll tell you why people warn against joining Meta, based on my firsthand experience.
  
  During my time at Meta, I didn’t find my coworkers to be particularly toxic or evil. Yes, there was cutthroat competition, and you constantly had to be on your toes to protect your scope. But honestly, I’ve seen similar cultures at other FAANG companies, so that wasn’t particularly surprising.
  
  What I found truly broken was the leadership.
  
  In my experience, Meta’s middle management (D1/D2) was among the most incompetent I’ve encountered in terms of people management, product thinking, technical depth, and long-term vision. Most simply took orders from above, threw around a few fancy buzzwords, and focused more on pleasing their bosses than building great products. The constant reorgs, shifting priorities, and leadership churn are symptoms of this.
  
  The biggest risk of joining Meta in 2026 isn’t whether you’re competent. It’s how many stars need to align for you to succeed, most of which are completely outside your control.
  
  Of course, you need to be good at your job. But that’s just the starting point. You also need:
  
  1. The right scope. And scope can change overnight. I joined with a large, promising charter, only to see it deprioritized within two months.
  
  2. The right leadership alignment. You need strong relationships with people at least two levels above you. And because leadership changes so frequently, you’re constantly rebuilding social capital.
  
  3. The right timing. Even if you’re delivering strong results, a reorg, a shift in priorities, or a leadership change can wipe out months of progress.
  
  So, would I recommend joining Meta?
  
  If you’re joining in 2026, I’d strongly recommend looking at a newly formed organization or an emerging vertical, such as Business AI or the new neocloud division.
  
  Why? Because a new organization is more likely to give you 12–18 months of runway before major strategic shifts. That gives you time to ramp up, establish credibility, build social capital, and position yourself to pivot when priorities inevitably change.
  
  That’s probably the closest you can get to stacking the odds in your favor.
  
  My biggest takeaway from Meta: Being competent is necessary, but it’s nowhere near sufficient. Your success depends just as much on organizational stability, leadership alignment, and timing factors you often have very little control over.
• npzv0w (Meta): I had to google what a day2 culture means. Google says “Internal processes, metrics, and risk aversion and Slow, deliberate, and bureaucratic”. Meta has a lot of internal processes, focuses a lot on metrics and is pretty political, but at the same time moves very fast and people will just push you until you break. It has the worst of both big tech and startup worlds. I think people who are still here just enjoy the grind and the pay. Lots of people in my org are workaholics (like, there’s a layoff tmrw but I’m gonna just cope by working kind of workaholic). And then you are stack ranked so you have to work too or else you’re at the bottom and then get axed. Another category is probably people like me who can’t leave due to visa issues.
• Superbia (Microsoft): My biggest issue with the company and its staff is that they consistently have no conscious or remorse as they put profits before ethics. Meta’s been slammed for tweaking algorithms to drive addiction while fueling misinformation, election meddling, and social division.

Qualcomm folks. Excited for upcoming layoffs? (Blind)

• SnpDragoon (Qualcomm): I’m divided. I do like my job, but I’ve also been working for 20 years straight. I’ve never had a career break, so I could finally try that. Or I could just retire
• abHH48 (Google): Qualcomm can not survive Western sanctions, especially now that China is taking over the world’s semiconductor industry, all of it.
• Bubbly00 (Qualcomm): Yes.
  
  I’ve been underperforming horribly, so not having to show up to the office anymore will take a huge weight off my shoulders.

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Techmeme surfaced a New York Times investigation, “U.S. Cleared Nvidia Chips to Chinese Firms With Empty Offices and Troubling Ties.” The reporting tests a central promise of the United States’ current AI-chip policy: that advanced processors can be sold to China without surrendering national-security control, because the Commerce Department will approve only known, compliant companies. The companies the Times found do not prove that restricted chips reached China’s military. They do show that the approval layer itself may be much harder to trust than the policy assumes.

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Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña impeached and arrested (r/news)

• fuckdirectv: So it can be done. Hmmm…
• daisiesintheskye: Yeah that’ll do it
• Sweatytubesock: Only in nations that have any accountability at all.

Russell Brand found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault (r/news)

• Conthortius: Throw the booky-wook at him
• sionnach_fi: The US mid terms and now this? It’s not even Christmas yet
• GearBrain: I’m glad to hear the decision was reached, and it seems to have been done without too giant a circus surrounding it. I’m not familiar with British courts - is there a way for him to drag this out on appeal like he could in States?

The oldest securely dated direct proof that people used cannabis to get high comes from a 2,800-year-old royal tomb in Siberia, where scientists detected chemical traces of it in the hair of people buried there. The grave also contained more than 1,000 cannabis seeds and dozens of sacrificed horses. (r/science)

• ScottyGj68: Beautiful to know (and well said). Mescaline seems to last forever but thc degrades pretty quick
• AlternativeWindow625: There are potential ancient breed genetics there! Are they gonna check out the phenotypes and make more seeds?
• obama_v2: Makes sense. Whenever I smoke weed I get outside and look for a horse to sacrifice

Voters value long-term economic growth more than previously thought, study finds. Individuals are willing to endure poor initial conditions as long as they see things getting consistently better. The electorate is not as short-sighted as political analysts think. (r/science)

• angus_the_red: They care about it, they just do a bad job of evaluating which candidates and which policies will improve long term economic conditions
• mrnikkoli: Idk, I think you could argue that the electorate is a more of a discord then a chorus and that is the issue really. There are too many voices to tell leaders exactly what they want, but they can and will tell leaders when they want a new strategy. Liberal and conservative leaders have been doing a bad job and they keep getting punished for it and this will continue until one of them picks a strategy that the discord predominantly find acceptable.
• doomer_irl: I don’t know how you could study this any better than the response to Biden’s presidency.
  
  You could not have handled a Post-COVID economy better than Biden, yet he was absolutely slammed for his handling of it, and blamed for the conditions he stepped into.
  I don’t know if I believe this at all in terms of voter behavior. Stated positions, maybe.

A massive new study found that while being heavier or thinner than average at age 10 increases the risk of developing depression and anxiety later in life, reaching and maintaining a normal weight by adulthood effectively erases that excess mental health vulnerability. (r/science)

• 5wmotor: Feeding your kids into obesity should count as child negligence.
• ConsistentFun3357: A lot of growing research linking some depression to inflammation!
• Mediocre_A_Tuin: So it’s about the weight you are rather than the weight you were? Am I understanding that right?

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Ex-interviewer here. The new gen doesn’t prep before interviews and it’s exhausting. (Blind)

• Gilliane (ex-Oracle): Yet somehow interviewers like you end up passing the candidates that cheat with ai or memorize g0thamloop
• Union Find (Google): Isn’t it better if candidates don’t prepare for the interview? That way you can select who can actually do the job instead of who gamed the interview. I’m Gen X and I don’t prepare either.
• SatanY (ex-Microsoft): If you expect candidates to “prepare” for your interview, you are interviewing wrong and you are the reason why the industry became shit. You are a shitty interviewer, and not surprisingly you work for a shitty company. I also bet your best candidates who “prepared” are circle jerking with you because you are all so prepared.
  
  Yet…
  
  Your fellow “prepared” candidates are not building anything good . They are horrible teammates. They are entitled. They are the worst people you could work with.
  
  Yet…
  
  You keep hiring them, and they keep hiring you.
  
  You are the problem.

Is this the end of SW? (Blind)

• AKuO41 (Amazon): This means these companies need to offer something that vibe coded apps cannot, meaning they need to hire more product people
• Microstiff (Microsoft): Honestly, having been inside multiple companies all spearheading the AI hype, I can tell you that despite how good AI has become, it’s way too economically detrimental to truly replace SWEs any time soon.
  
  The layoffs are a financial masking to hide the failures of adoption, and the execs at every company running AI adoption programs are pulling their hair out trying to figure out how to tell value stories from their efforts.
  
  In my home, sure, a \$200/mo subscription can let me spin up 5 SaaS products in a weekend. In corporate culture, there’s no \$200/mo enterprise plan, and no one can just freely push AI code to production. PRs are still human (because someone has to be accountable..SOX), so there’s never going to be significant productivity gains without high risk and loss of reliability.
  
  We’re just caught in the middle of a shell game where everyone in charge realizes they’ve made a mistake going all-in on AI too fast, but no one wants to be the first to say it out loud because of the stock market repercussions. So we buy time with layoffs and hope someone else takes the leap first. 🙂
• quickslt (Amazon): figma is useless chatgpt can make the whole concept

Most scummy layoff I’ve experienced (Blind)

• AF2 (Nike): People shouldn’t assume there’s anything wrong with OP. When you get laid off, you take whatever is available on the job market. The roles that are easiest to get, hence most people take, are the ones that are most unstable or in companies with highest turnover. Most people that are happily employed don’t quit, so the best positions tend to not be available for job seekers.
• b8ml9: OP sorry this happened to you and your colleagues.
  
  But Canva is a dead company. The world has chosen AI slop for graphic design, at least for now. We are in a time of really shitty transition and a lot of companies will be left in the dust. We have seen it with Squarespace just this past week.
  
  If anyone is working by a company that sells products that can be replaced by prompt slop, start looking now. Don’t listen to internal corporate propaganda, customers will ALWAYS choose cheap and shitty when cost of living is out of control.
• 747291065 (Squarespace): I heard Canva execs hired LinkedIn influencers/bots to shill what a “masterclass in layoffs” they did and how generous their package is. To hear that it’s all a PR sham disgusts me. 🤢

What’s going on in tech? (Blind)

• Hella! (ex-Spotify): To this add that one 3 day leave or getting sick or pregnant can mean lifetime of unemployment. Absolutely, inhumane workplace practices.
• rhydon1x (Capital One): Restarts looking for an easy payday learned the hard way and now are sticking it out because they’re too stubborn to admit they made a mistake coming to the field
• WFPS88 (Amazon): 500k TC just to prompt Claude, it’s so over

Megathread: LeetCode vs. AI-Assisted Coding by Company (Blind)

• iDKT82 (Bloomberg): Bloomberg just swapped from Leetcode to AI assisted
• oapz (LinkedIn): LinkedIn is 1 round of each
• LxoE67 (Amazon): Amazon has both rounds

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Maximum Matrix Sum
• Topics: Array, Greedy, Matrix

The problem in plain language

The input is a square matrix of integers. One operation chooses two cells that share an edge and reverses both signs. The operation may be repeated any number of times, and the goal is to make the matrix’s total sum as large as possible.

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The modern drone threat has created an awkward military arithmetic problem. Small unmanned aircraft are cheap, abundant and useful for both surveillance and attack, but the missiles traditionally used to destroy them are expensive and limited in number. A defense can therefore shoot down every incoming drone and still lose the larger economic and logistical contest. The Pentagon hopes directed-energy weapons—lasers and high-power microwaves—can reverse that imbalance, but the technology still has to prove that it can work reliably outside controlled tests.

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Techmeme surfaced Cade Metz’s New York Times article, “How A.I. Just Blew Up a Key Tenet of Computer Science.” It covers OpenAI’s preprint, “The Exponential Time Hypothesis is False,” and a parallel result from Anthropic. The discovery deserves the attention: if the proofs withstand review, AI systems have overturned a conjecture that supported decades of algorithmic lower bounds. But the result does not settle P versus NP, make hard problems easy, or threaten today’s encryption by itself.