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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s October 16 research note, “Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins”. The discovery does not crack elliptic-curve cryptography. It instead reconstructs how some of the world’s most familiar cryptographic parameters were generated in the late 1990s, replacing an unexplained choice by the NSA with a reproducible trail back to timestamps and an ordinary C library random-number generator.

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Panama declares state of emergency as powerful quake aftershocks rattle communities | 7.7 and 6.6 in magnitude (r/news)

• ButterscotchTall4836: Damn, Latin America is really being hit hard by these earthquakes.
• Advanced_Book7782: It is surprising that the US decided to pledge \$5 million in aid. I half expected sanctions against Panama for having a quake that could have damaged the America Canal.
• Bobinct: Imagine the impact if a quake disabled the canal.

Halloween candy prices rise as Americans prepare to spend \$13.5 billion this season (r/news)

• Benwa3535: If we can just stop Buying it would force these companies to lower prices. I wish everyone would just boycott all shopping for the holidays
• SubwayHero4Ever: Not only has it become more expensive, it also doesn’t taste as good. The quality of the product sucks balls.
• RiddleoftheSphynx: Better yet, exchange baked goodies with people you TRUST (being the important part) and stop feeding these corporations. I have fond memories of our neighbors making popcorn balls tossed with caramel. Cheap to make, and much appreciated. Again, if you trust the source.

Pope Leo says he will undergo surgery to remove a nodule on his lung (r/news)

• Random-Generation86: They really gotta get a young pope.  I want a nice, shelf stable pope that’ll last for at least 30 years.  Too many pope elections.
• SufficientBottle7057: I’m not Catholic or affiliated with any religion. I sincerely want this gentleman to pull through surgery with flying colors and no complications after. He’s young-ish, for a Pope, though, so my hopes are high. Also, as others have noted here, he surely has the highest quality of care. I’ll keep kind, healing thoughts for him.
• ncfears: Why did God do this to him? Can’t he just ask him personally to remove it?
  
  But for real the last two popes have been the most Christ-like in decades and I wish him a successful surgery and quick recovery

New speed cameras in Malibu detect more than 100,000 violations on PCH in 9 days (r/news)

• MealDramatic1885: People going 66 instead of 65 mph.
• fakeknees: People absolutely LOVE to speed down stretches of PCH. It’s bad.
• Forsaken_Area_6690: There is a four lane, rural divided roadway near me in Tennessee with a 40 mph speed limit. Right by it is a narrow, winding county road with a 45 mph speed limit. I’m a traffic engineer and can comfortably say that half of the roads you drive on do not have what should be the correct speed limit posted.

Wildlife park confirms tiger will not be euthanised after man mauled to death | Yorkshire (r/news)

• benfok: This news is yet another reminder that the only reason I am still alive with two cats at home is that I am much bigger than my cats.
• Saamari: The tiger seemed to be very freaked out by the dude and he was waving and pointing at it, basically challenging it
• dBlock845: Good, wasn’t the fault of the tiger who was just defending the small amount of area it has at the zoo.

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People with > 10 years in tech (Blind)

• sergum (PayPal): 32+ yrs in tech in SV. I am not very smart, but i survive like a cockroach. Never ass-kissed. But there were moments when i should have spoken up, but chose to stay silent. Never attempted to climb too high, but accolades came every now and then. Cordial but strictly professional relations with coworkers. Was cocky in my 20s, but mellowed over the years. Hard work, timely delivery, excellent written communication since pre-AI days. I think my biggest asset is being stupid and not having a strong/passionate opinion about anything in tech. Like when people fight about Windows vs Linux or Android vs iOS, I find it mildly amusing. Just tools for a techie to make money. Life’s joy lies elsewhere.
  
  But this AI thing + my age may be my last gasp. Still singing my swan song though!
• speedboats (Palo Alto Networks): Perspective. Many people in the US don’t know where their next meal will be. This job market is apocalyptic. Trying to remain grateful for what I have in these trying times. Sometimes I have to remember the grass may not be greener somewhere else, the entire field might be burned to a fucking crisp.
• puppy18 (Meta): Some level of enjoying the job does matter. While I wouldn’t say I jump out of bed every day, I would find it hard to be a lawyer, for instance, relative to swe.
  
  Tech used to be more fun tbh. Harder to love it now.

Most Microslop “products” are garbage that are shoved into the throats of employees (Blind)

• lb5fh6 (New): I can’t wrap my head around the success of Teams. It’s the worst chat app I have ever used. Hundreds of people that don’t look at “Teams and Channels” section due to how clunky it is. Basic shit like copy and paste is difficult. Following conversations is way harder than it should be. Chats flood the UI.
  
  I could go on and on. It’s so shit yet so ubiquitous.
• 3rdmoon (ServiceNow): It’s the problem of enterprise sales. Someone at your company buys a thing. They get talked into a bundle for all it will save them. It takes a year to install the product and get it configured, and it’s a 3-5 year contract.
  
  The people who have to use the product don’t have a voice in saying it’s crap, or shopping for something different.
• KtAJ87 (Microsoft): This is the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value

Anthropic’s Q3 Revenue Soars to \$16.8B Pre-IPO – A New AI Benchmark? (Blind)

• PornSpot (HubSpot): I can think of millions of ways to come up with 1 trillion quarterly revenue if I’m allowed to have 2 trillions in costs….. this proves nothing
• SatyasYot (Microsoft): Growth is already slowing. It’s a bad sign.
• phrubc (Undisclosed): Lol they were claiming 100bil annualised revenue earlier. This is a disaster

Amazon Bee devices. Dead on arrival. What a bunch of morons. Seriously (Blind)

• Shift<Left (Amazon): More Amazon garbage that’s destined for a landfill near you.
• groove-eng (Amazon): Not sure who approved the acquisition of Bee, and why we spent money on developing these products.
• LtJQ13 (Amazon): It’s that time of the year. Amazon announcing a bunch of new consumer devices and offering deals on .com around thanksgiving to tric customers into buying them once the hype wears off..

Surrounded by coworkers who don’t like AI (Blind)

• 0G ‎ (Meta): Yolo and unleash the agent swarm
• 582!! (Amazon): They are protecting their jobs and I agree they should refuse to use AI everywhere without any purpose
• 0G ‎ (Meta): I literally don’t reply to humans now. Agents responds to my XFN and fix issues autonomously. Sometimes it’s shit but mostly works just fine

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Quantum computing is constrained not only by hardware. The algorithm that looks elegant on paper must eventually become a reversible circuit, and a poor circuit can consume orders of magnitude more qubits and gates than a carefully designed one. That makes circuit design a software-and-systems optimization problem with unusually sharp rules: implementations can be expressed as code, checked automatically for correctness, and scored against an explicit resource budget.

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The hidden cost of an elementary operation

Multiplication feels settled because children learn a dependable method for it: stack two numbers, multiply every digit of one by every digit of the other, then add the shifted partial products. For two numbers with n digits, however, that familiar algorithm requires work that grows roughly as n squared. Doubling the length of the inputs means about four times as many single-digit multiplications; multiplying two 1,000-digit numbers takes about one million of them.

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Artificial intelligence now presents democracies with two dangers that pull policy in opposite directions. The technology may become powerful enough to cause catastrophic harm, whether through loss of control or deliberate misuse. Yet slowing development could also hand a strategic advantage to China, an authoritarian rival that could turn superior AI into leverage over cyberwarfare, surveillance and military power. The article argues that neither danger can be dismissed, and that treating only one as real would be reckless.

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The Pragmatic Engineer’s October 15 Pulse surfaced Anthropic’s original engineering account of replacing Git for its main monorepo. The striking part is not simply that Anthropic built another internal developer tool. It says AI-generated code increased the rate of change so dramatically that assumptions embedded in source control, code review, CI, and even the meaning of a working copy stopped fitting the workload.

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Ex-fiancé of Rep. Nancy Mace and 2 others charged with sex crimes she described in House speech (r/news)

• jet_cetera: It’s always the ones you most expect.
• AudibleNod: After the arrests, Mace released a statement detailing the 25 bills she says will protect victims of sexual assault, harassment or discrimination, including in retaliatory defamation and libel lawsuits that may result from allegations they bring to light.
  
  The Republican, who is leaving the House this term after losing her bid to be South Carolina governor, introduced a proposal this week to require that anyone who brings such a case and loses must pay attorney fees for the defendant.
  
  Maybe, just maybe, some small measure of good can come from this. She also voted to release all the Trump/Epstein files.
• hefty_load_o_shite: She’s going to be pissed when she hears what the head of her party has done….

US teen arrested for plotting mass shooting at Hindu temple in Illinois (r/news)

• TheThinker12: Sad but not surprising given the SM hate against Indians
• ImperiumRome: Does the youth in this country have nothing better to do than getting radicalized online ? When I was at their age I was too busy playing video games and jacking off in my free time. Everything in America is polarized these days, it’s so exhausting.
• gingerbreadmans_ex: Terrifying for me as my daughter and her girlfriend moved to Aurora to avoid this kind of violence. I’m so grateful he was caught before he could go through with his plans.

ICE agent threw California homeowner, 72, into side of a car, attacked his daughter, D.A. says (r/news)

• steathrazor: Another goon doing messed up goon things
• LuinAelin: What is it about ice and small men who want to feel big
• thebarkbarkwoof: Strange how we don’t hear as much of this from red states. 🤔

US inflation rose to 3.7% in September, figures show | Inflation (r/news)

• KimJongFunk: I had to sell my car because I can’t afford the gas and maintenance anymore and I’m riding a bicycle everywhere now.
  
  I should try saying “thank you” even harder and maybe that will solve the problem.
• AudibleNod: “Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.” - Aug 9, 2024
  
  “Under my administration, we will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months … Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.” Aug 14, 2024
  
  “We’re going to get your energy prices down. We’re going to get your energy prices down by 50%.” Aug 17, 2024
  
  “Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again. We’ll do that. We’ve got to bring it down.” Oct 1, 2024
  
  “A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper” Nov 4, 2024
  
  “I couldn’t care less if they raise prices”. Mar 29, 2025
  
  “BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before!” Apr 9, 2025
  
  [I don’t care about Americans finances] “Not even a little bit,” May 12, 2026
  
  *Emphasis mine
  
  Guys, I’m beginning to think he never cared about us.
• Kankunation: Higher than every single month in 2024 when we supposedly were still suffering from rampant inflation. Gotta wonder what that makes this?
  
  I’d imagine most of this is from fuel shortages drastically increasing the costs of, Well, everything. Makes a lot of sense now why the fed rose rates recently, and I can’t see this trend reversing anytime soon.

Texas prosecutor considering felony charges for ICE agent who ran over man (r/news)

• Honeycove91: Imagine fucking up so badly even the folks of Texas are like “Nah man that’s too far”
• Swirls109: Why is this a consideration? He ran someone over. Charge him and let a jury determine.
• Peitho_Noir: James Madison: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty… The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

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My restarted teammate broke prod three times last quarter. I’m the one who got put on a PIP. (Blind)

• anubisss (Meta): Yeah, if they look similar or have similar backgrounds then you’re the odd one out of the tribe. Tough luck.
• uAVz08 (HubSpot): Did you try restarting him again
• .horn dog (Meta): Your manager and your teammate are from the same village?

My wife is upset I hid my PIP from her. But I landed a better job at Anthropic before it even ended. (Blind)

• EAArne (Silver Lake): Talk to your diary, get a therapist. We don’t care. People are trying to sleep here.
• bbhjg (Google): Are you female or male?
• AgentOfAI (Microsoft): Bro are you off your meds? Your wife isnt real. You never had a wife.

Netflix laid off 9% Eng (Blind)

• nvrGetGot (Google): Lot of useless people there.
• piphouse (LinkedIn): Wth do you give judgements like DS and PM are useless ? Everyone is performing a function and in a company like Netflix, irrespective of the role, excellence is expected.
  So i am pretty sure they are more useful in their role than yours at Roku.
  PS i am not in either of these roles but just feel disgusted by people who pass judgement thinking their role is better or untouchable.
• hurtlcker (Roku): Please be considerate with layoffs

FOMO on frontier labs pay (Blind)

• GGcC37 (Amazon): Your TC is \$1M - gtfo yourself
• Aduj26 (JPMorganChase): Thanks for showing that money can’t buy you mental health
• tUDw24 (Meta): Boohoo go f yourself

I work 3 separate remote jobs at startups alongside full time employment at Google AMA (Blind)

• nomnomz (Meta): Can’t imagine bragging about doing 4 shitty jobs instead of one good one.
  
  But maybe you hit a ceiling on your abilities and accumulating shitty ones is the only way to increase comp.
• _anony🐭 (GoDaddy): Feels illegal
• aefiuwehy8 (ZenBusiness PBC): How TF is that possible? Your other jobs haven’t asked you why you haven’t updated LinkedIn? Are you not worried about future background checks?

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Number of Substrings Containing All Three Characters
• Topics: Hash Table, String, Sliding Window

The problem in one sentence

Given a string made only of a, b, and c, count every contiguous substring that contains all three characters at least once.