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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Find First and Last Position of Element in Sorted Array
• Main tags: Array, Binary Search

What the problem is really asking

The input array is sorted, and the target value may appear many times in one contiguous block.

The task is not just to decide whether the target exists. It is to return the exact starting and ending indices of that block.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Group Anagrams
• Main tags: Array, Hash Table, String, Sorting

What the problem is really asking

Two strings belong in the same group if they use the exact same letters with the exact same counts, just in a different order.

So the problem is not really about comparing every string against every other string. It is about finding a stable “signature” for each word, so all words with the same signature land in the same bucket.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Spiral Matrix
• Main tags: Array, Matrix, Simulation

What the problem is really asking

The input is a 2D matrix. The task is to return every value exactly once in spiral order:

• go left to right across the top
• then top to bottom down the right side
• then right to left across the bottom
• then bottom to top up the left side
• keep repeating until there is nothing left

This is a traversal problem. Nothing in the matrix needs to be modified. The only challenge is knowing when to turn and when a side has already been fully consumed.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Jump Game
• Main tags: Array, Dynamic Programming, Greedy

What the problem is really asking

Each position tells how far the player is allowed to jump from that spot.

The goal is not to find the minimum number of jumps. It is only to decide whether the last index is reachable at all.

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A space rock became a cultural crime scene

Dan Vergano’s article starts with a meteorite that is scientifically extraordinary but locally familiar. Near the Somali village of El Ali, the 13.6-metric-ton iron-and-nickel mass known as Shiid-birood, or “the iron rock,” sat in the landscape for generations. People folded it into stories and songs, chipped bits of iron from it, used it as a whetstone, and treated it less like a museum object than like part of the region’s lived history.

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced this story in its April 11, 2026 roundup, and the original article is Terrence O’Brien’s Google says Polymarket bets showing up in News was an “error”.

The Verge reports that Google News briefly displayed links to Polymarket betting markets alongside coverage from conventional news outlets. One example placed a market about ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz under search results that also included reporting from outlets like Reuters and The Guardian. Google later removed the results and said Polymarket was not supposed to appear in Google News at all.

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What this article is about

This summary covers The Economist’s March 28th, 2026 Business article listed in the contents as Amazon and published under the Schumpeter column with the headline The Bet-Everything Store.

The article argues that Amazon is making the biggest spending bet in its history in order to regain momentum in artificial intelligence. The core question is whether this is an undisciplined burst of spending or a calculated attempt to protect AWS, its most valuable business. The piece comes down on the side of cautious optimism: the bill is enormous, but Amazon has real strategic reasons for taking it on.

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John Matylonek’s article makes a useful argument against a common belief in hang gliding: awkward landings are not usually proof that the aircraft is inherently hard to land. More often, they are the visible end of a chain of small errors in setup, trim, body position, and timing. A graceful landing, in his telling, is less about athleticism than about giving the glider the conditions it needs to finish the flight cleanly.

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EARTHSET: Artemis II captures their first photo from the far side of the moon (r/space)

• u/maksimkak: “You can see the full version, and even the camera settings, here”
• u/mrfeeto: “How can 862Kb possibly be the full version, though? Kinda sad that Apollo used film…”
• u/theLastZebranky: “They haven’t even landed yet, we’ll get the raw TIFF/NEF images when the SD cards are back on Earth.”

18-month New Yorker investigation finds OpenAI’s Sam Altman lobbied against the same AI regulations he publicly advocated for (r/technology)

• u/MonoMcFlury: “The lead developer and some other board members wanted him gone, while another left and created Anthropic. He’s a sales guy with more money in his mind.”
• u/Tim-oBedlam: “A former co-worker of mine said, ‘It’s always a bad sign at a tech company when a sales guy takes over as CEO from a technical guy.’”
• u/wag3slav3: “It fucking killed Boeing.”

Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge (r/technology)

• u/loko3084: “Tech companies treating humans like disposable apps — delete, update profits, repeat.”
• u/NicolasCageFan492: “It was always going to be this way once venture capital poisoned the tech scene.”
• u/mmelectronic: “Not a cost center — employees are a ‘profit parasite.’ I actually heard a consultant say this, except he called everybody ‘resources.’”

Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai (r/technology)

• u/arashi256: “Begun the Cloud Wars have…”
• u/ColinHalter: “US-East-1 is made up of 5 data centers with known locations and moderate security. If all zones were physically attacked at once, it would take down a massive chunk of the internet.”
• u/bionic_cmdo: “But we barely started the drone war.”

Anthropic stayed quiet until someone showed Claude’s thinking depth dropped 67% (r/ClaudeCode)

• u/DeliciousGorilla: “The issue reporter said Claude did that self-analysis, and Boris (Claude Code creator) pointed out that it was flawed.”
• u/The_Vicious: “Just be like Boris and have unlimited usage duh”
• u/aidololz88: “I just pasted this code quality prompt and my session usage went from 0% to 21%. What the fuck”

Software quality has significantly decreased (r/cscareerquestions)

• u/OAKI-io: “This is the velocity trap. Shipping fast looks good on a roadmap until the reliability debt compounds and you’re spending half your sprint on incidents.”
• u/SanityInAnarchy: “Vibing is making it worse. It’s not just that people are using AI to write code, it’s that they’re using it to write code they don’t understand.”
• u/ClvrNickname: “I’ve watched, in real time, as the quality of code submitted by my coworkers who have embraced AI has steadily degraded over the last year.”

BINI becomes the first Filipino act to perform at Coachella, trends #1 worldwide (X)

• @WORLDMUSICAWARD: “#BINI makes history as the 1st Filipino Group to perform at Coachella and trends at #1 Worldwide on X!”
• @jhoannaweverse: “We hope we made you proud. 🇵🇭 2, 3, salamat po!”
• @ABSCBNNews: “BINI RAISED THE 🇵🇭 FLAG AT COACHELLA 2026 — Filipino girl group BINI delivered an impressive performance, introducing Filipino talent to the Mojave Stage”
• @BINI_TrendsTeam: “What was your favorite part of BINI’s 45-minute Coachella set?”

How to maintain H-1B status after layoff (Blind)

• papi_rico: “In times of frozen job market we need to abolish H1B and prioritize Americans”
• ex-Zscaler: “There is H4EAD still active. Needs to be scrapped first”
• PayPal: “Scrap ’em both”

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WTF Claude. Weekly limits = 4x5hr limits(r/ClaudeCode)

• AxBxCeqX: blew through 20% of the week cap in a 2.5h session
• deorder: switching models and context sizes still hit the 5-hour cap in about 1.5 hours
• stujmiller77: usable all day for a month, then suddenly cut to 3 to 4 hours a day

Software quality has significantly decreased(r/cscareerquestions)

• OAKI-io: shipping fast looks good until reliability debt compounds and half the sprint goes to incidents
• SanityInAnarchy: vibing makes it easier to cut corners while looking productive
• NewChameleon: the short-term incentive is to collect the perf review and leave the mess to someone else

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters(r/technology)

• Tinac4: the bill would shield labs from catastrophic-harm liability if they publish reports and cannot be shown to have known the risk
• Prior_Coyote_4376: if AI does genocide you cannot sue the developers
• Significant_You_2735: some companies want AI partly to escape accountability for destructive decisions

Tech industry lays off nearly 80,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 — almost 50% of affected positions cut due to AI(r/technology)

• realteamme: almost 50% claimed to be cut due to AI
• DarthJDP: AI is replacing exactly no one and the cash drain is from data-center bets
• Kayge: Block’s AI-efficiency layoffs look disconnected from the company’s own balance-sheet damage

META layoffs(r/cscareerquestions)

• ecethrowaway01: some surviving teams are being relabeled as AI builders while the company stays vague on the real scale
• chickadee-guy: mandated AI use gets audited and packaged as quarterly learning
• Future-Duck4608: even after repeated cuts Meta still has more employees than five years ago

Pause on LinkedIn Staff Interviews(Blind)

• LIngerie: layoffs are coming in early May and the interview pause basically confirms it
• inter🎉🎉🎉: a recruiter said the staff role being interviewed for was eliminated until July
• mhqv58: a first-round interview was canceled because the role is now frozen

Anthropic work culture(Blind)

• stupidswe: they argued the offer was a pay cut once you price in 60 to 80 hour weeks
• Jaсօb: building a new god was framed as reason enough to accept 60 hour weeks
• mnG2b8: at Anthropic or OpenAI the expectation is to deliver at all costs rather than set your own hours