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We might be entering the best era to be an American in tech in a decade. Lay me off, Amazon. I dare you. (Blind)

• bVOa27 (Google): Dude you’re just not good enough. I am American but I was so good at my job no one ever looked at my nationality.
  
  You are happy about this because you’re too stupid to get a job without the help of your passport.
  
  Tc 1 million
• ouBp86 (Walt Disney): They’ll just move to hiring people offshore.
• tSxs11 (Amazon): I bet youre Indian. The style just gives you away

My wife is furious I picked Meta over Amazon when Amazon offered more money. (Blind)

• SfyV77 (Microsoft): Lowkey toxic wife lol. Making 400k+ should be enough to provide, already top 3% of earners in the USA.
  
  But since you’re stuck with her and already married, then yes she’s right. You just gotta apologize.
• nzhzny (Meta): Picking meta is indefensible
• shatanu (Adobe): You’ll have a tough time defending meta in society

Just got an OpenAI offer. Can I realistically afford to marry my girlfriend Q1 next year? (Blind)

• ClwnStrike (GlossGenius): “When do I bring up the prospect of holding her hand guys????”
• PM Goblin: The distance between simply staying in a relationship versus getting married should be inversely proportional to your wealth.
• yry (Google): Your wealth accumulated after marriage will be split between you two after divorce. Just saying.

Interview at Anthropic, terrible experience (Blind)

• 🔥f🔥i🔥r🔥e🔥 (Apple): Rocking back and forth is an autistic comfort behavior
• hljsnw88 (Amazon): Do you mind sharing what kind of design questions you have been asked?
• codekittyy (Unity): What the heck 😆😆

Unlimited PTO OpenAI (Blind)

• solarlatte (OpenAI): honestly how long have you been here to not see anyone take PTO lmao
• VgWq40 (OpenAI): Industry standard is 4 weeks so I take 4 weeks. EZ
• T-ASS (T-Mobile): You can’t take PTO if you comp is over 1mil. If under, then it’s fine

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Reinforcement-learning infrastructure has an unusual performance problem: average sandbox speed is not enough. Many training algorithms launch groups of rollouts in parallel and wait for the slowest member before taking the next gradient step. A host can therefore appear healthy at the median while a small tail of delayed environments quietly determines the pace and cost of the entire training run.

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The discovery of the Higgs boson completed the Standard Model’s roster of elementary particles, but it did not settle whether those particles are truly fundamental. Jay Bennett’s Scientific American feature follows physicists asking what lies beneath the smallest things currently known—and whether experiment can ever reach the scale where a final answer would appear.

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s October 9 report, “Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use.” The report describes agents exploiting software, submitting real forms, bypassing access controls, and defeating tool restrictions while trying to finish ordinary evaluation or internal tasks. Its most useful lesson is not that Claude suddenly formed a hostile objective. It is that persistence becomes dangerous when an agent can silently turn a blocked route into permission to find another one.

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Ricardo Reis nearly became the IMF’s chief economist. The London School of Economics professor was reportedly passed over after blunt public criticism of Donald Trump, including the argument that tariffs raise prices, reduce efficiency and create opportunities for political favouritism. Those views may have made him awkward for an institution whose largest shareholder is America, but they also fit the IMF’s need for economists willing to tell governments uncomfortable truths.

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Canada to indefinitely bar assisted dying for people whose sole condition is mental illness (r/news)

• Ladymistery: I mean, I get it
  
  but if someone is determined….they’ll find a way.
• MinisterOfFitness: Provinces need to step up and provide adequate mental health care and services.
• redwork34: So they are gonna put more resources into treating mental illness and providing support networks right?… right guys?

Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died (r/news)

• violinfag: Is she the one with the famous photo where she’s standing next to a pile of papers that she helped write in order to help with the calculations and whatnot? I remember seeing such photo. Rip legend
• lukin187250: I think American students should do a whole history series on the Apollo PROGRAM. It wasn’t until I was an adult and read books on it where I could really appreciate the sheer amount of people and effort involved. It also shows why moon landing conspiracies are silly.
• Auggernaut88: Also coined the term Software Engineer btw
  
  She led such an amazing life

Person shot during encounter with federal agents in New York City, NYPD says (r/news)

• MalevolentTapir: Man Collided with Ballistic Object in Vicinity of Federal Employees
• geekmasterflash: I dont want to jump the gun, but the only reason I can foresee for not involving the local police on a bust would be ICE. An FBI raid is rarely this dark to a local PD unless there is suspicion the local PD is a leak or corrupt.
  
  And since it’s NY, and by law the officers there are not supposed to assist ICE… well that would most readily explain the situation.
• TheGooch01: CNN not wanting to piss off the new conservative ownership?

Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after police swarmed her home in a swatting incident, her lawyer says (r/news)

• BigDaddyD1994: I’ve always felt we don’t punish misuses of emergency services like this harshly enough. Filing false reports, making fraudulent 911 calls, all of it, needs to be punished incredibly severely. Best case scenario is a giant waste of time and taxpayer money while preventing those resources from potentially responding to real crimes, and that’s the best possible outcome. Find these people and throw the whole freaking bookshelf at them
• Tomahawk72: I fucking hate our society
• Ashamed-Designer4920: They want to make her pay for seeking legal retribution?

Russian attack on bus kills at least 30 people near Ukraine frontline (r/news)

• Friar16: russia is a terrorist state
• Nels__Oleson: How is that country allowed to take part in international sporting events? They should be banned and athletes shouldn’t be allowed to take part under another countries flag.
• woodst0ck15: As always Russia proving it doesn’t go after critical infrastructure and instead spreads terrorism. Go home or become sunflower fertilizer Russian orcs.

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Received Google L6 offer (Blind)

• ToBeG (Walmart): Last 12 months Google tagged LC is 🔥
• uMjO34 (Google): If you are in Cloud, you’ll likely get another Amazon manager.
• 🚫🪃=😭🥹😭 (ex-Google): Bro, enjoy it and realise how good you have it making big tc and working 20 hour weeks

Anthropic (\$400k TC) vs Amazon (\$215k) (Blind)

• mark_fk (Meta): So let me get this straight. You have been offered \$400k by anthropic for risk research (vs
  \$215k amazon) and you could not do “risk research,” on this simple offer.
  
  Anthropic bar 🤮🤮🤮🤮
• Semicons (Intel): You should not have told your gf about the comp offered. Biggest mistake of your life!
• ☠️Death (Microsoft): Take Anthropic. Asymmetric upside.

Job market is not bad (Blind)

• summertim3 (LinkedIn): Global hiring is down 30%, applications per role up 40%. It’s harder for most people, just not your Google sample size of 1.
• hm okay (Uber): Wow such a large data set you came to that conclusion with. I guess since it was easy for you, everyone who’s been job searching for a year must be imagining it
• fyg6d37b (Cisco): Market is shat.

SWE 2026 Tier List (Blind)

• notG3 (Google): JD Vance Tier: TCS, Infosys, HCL, CapGemini, Microsoft and Adobe
• bhgckn (Amazon): Did you put Microsoft in A tier because you are from Microsoft?
• GTeamMatch (Yahoo Inc): Where is Yahoo?

U.S. suspends Microsoft’s PERM program; JD Vance says “you’ve got to hire American workers.” (Blind)

• FunDood (Microsoft): It’s midterms. It’s just lip service.
• QYqu57 (Atlassian): I dont get the hate towards h1b. Most senior folks in big tech are not paid any less, (350-500k is common among big tech).. if you cant crack the interviews you end up hiring folks on h1b who are able to crack the interviews.
  
  I agree the shit show started with tcs, wipro and all the service companies sending every tom dick and Harry and we get put in the same bucket as them , but this is such a small number.
• gkdnwodrnn (ex-Amazon): lol OP is shit scared of immigrant talent and worried whether anyone will hire them for their subpar skills so resorting to creating such hate comments. Keep coping

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Techmeme surfaced an October 8 open letter from three recently fired OpenAI safety researchers, “OpenAI cannot make AI safe on its own.” Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni argue that their dismissals have made former colleagues afraid to raise concerns or work candidly with outside experts. OpenAI says the firings followed an investigation that found violations of its rules for handling sensitive information. The public evidence does not settle that dispute, but it exposes a deeper problem: an AI lab’s safety system depends on how information can move across organizational boundaries, not only on what its models can do.

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs (r/news)

• JediMaster113: Holy fuck this is unacceptable
• SubstantialPressure3: There was a second man, as well?
  
  Is this planned, lying in wait for women who fix political signs that they vandalize?
  
  This is absolutely horrific, and the political aspect of it needs to level up those charges.
• Azphix: Hope whoever did this gets sent to prison for a very long time.

University of Arizona suspends fraternity activities as reports of misconduct persist (r/news)

• CuriousAndMysterious: I went to U of A and I can tell you that you can party just fine without ever having to step into a frat. Always seemed like a weird and unnecessary part of college life.
• Honeycove91: Good for them. Frats are gross and have been for a long time. This culture cannot be removed soon enough
• green_gold_purple: Fraternities are a recipe for bad behavior. Bunch of kids that never never lived on their own with inadequate supervision, alcohol, and a hierachical structure. It’s Lord of the flies in modern times. They just need to not exist.

WHO wants more answers from Russia about lab worker’s death, as pneumonic plague concerns linger | CBC News (r/news)

• hefty_load_o_shite: Who? Everyone! We all want more information on the Russian plague
• insanekid66: Good luck getting any real answers. The first facts we’ll hear will be when it reaches us.
• TokiStark: I know Russia is a completely autonomous country and “if” they’re developing biological weapons they would do anything to prevent it, so this is probably a dumb question, but does the WHO have any sort of additional authority to step in and independently investigate this issue? Because this could effect everyone.

What’s a sign you notice in young people who succeed later in life? (r/AskReddit)

• D-Rez: They don’t let disappointments or failures get to them
  
  But they also don’t just sit on their past successes either
• Zidane62: Wealthy parents.
  
  I knew a guy who fucked off. Did lots of drugs. Went homeless at one point, failed out of college etc.
  
  His parents owned a business. He now works at their business as an upper manager and makes a decent living.
  
  The dude would have been dead in a ditch if it weren’t for his parents’ money
• tekmiester: A study was done on this. More important than race, gender, religion, national origin, etc. was the ability to delay gratification (I.e. wait for the the things they wanted as opposed to needing something immediately)

Which cancelled TV show would you do anything to get another season of? (r/AskReddit)

• seaweedizcool: Mindhunter :(
• Skydude252: Better off Ted
  Really amazing show that it would have been great to see more of.
  
  Also Firefly, but several folks already said that and I wanted to put something that hadn’t been said.
• UglyShirts: It’s never been officially canceled, but —“The Orville”. That show was originally thought to be just “Star Trek” with dick jokes, but Seth MacFarlane turned it into what is far and away his best series. Just so sharp and funny and with great characters. And wha’s annoying is that every few months, the pop culture blogs will tease that someone connected with the production has hinted that we MIGHT get one more season. But it’s been literal years, and everyone’s moved on to other things.
  I mean, shit…now we have TWO different shows about a talking teddybear, so fuck the fans, I guess.

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Golden Handcuff Is Real (Blind)

• droandroan (Anduril): Many would trade 650k in the bay for 450k lcol remote. Bay area sux ass if youre a single dude in tech..
• typesafeai (Netflix): Why are u trying to jump ships my dear stunning colleague
• hdwjn3 (General Motors): Dude that’s not a golden handcuff that’s a diamond handcuff 🤣
  
  Genuinely curious why not OE? You can hit 7 figures easily….

calling it now. anthropic IPO is the day knowledge work died (Blind)

• vewL62 (Salesforce): Flying cars, self driving cars we have been hearing them for more than 10 yrs but it’s still not adopted at scale and drivers are still working:)
• ThePMDude (GoFundMe): Let’s see. Insane progress in verifiable domains but very little in others.
• $onofAnton (Amazon): You’re going to be wrong sir. Not hating.

FDE - career suicide? (Blind)

• randomzomb (Amazon): No one looks down on FDEs. If you like traveling it’s undoubtably worth it. The only people that might think less of it are SWEs mentally stuck a decade in the past. In reality, it’s their job that’s viewed worse nowadays.
• epax (New): FDE is going to be commoditised by solution architects and sales engineers, as well as random consultants from Accenture and Deloitte.
  
  As a SWE focus on becoming better at MLE.
• noramo (Meta): Is the comp same as swe?

The Anthropic offer I turned down 3 years ago is worth more than the one I just got. (Blind)

• furtol (New): I live in a world where people think 655k is small. smh. pls share your process op, I might be interviewing with ant soon.
• HrGD83 (Amazon): It’s not that surprising. More folks want to work there and people are factoring in a higher probability of stock appreciation.
• urcgc (Uber): Your \$700k TC would have worth \$70M/year now.
  
  One moment silence for OP.

“But writing code is only 10% of the job” copium (Blind)

• nunux (Salesforce): Most people here have only worked for large bureaucracies and think meetings and alignment is work. 70% coding, reviews, design docs was pretty normal till 2015 too for a Senior engineer. For anyone disagreeing, take a look at how highly technical startups and open source work. A high degree of communication happens async in doc writing and code even precovid.
• yxrkt (Roblox): Was your career 2 years long? I don’t think I’ve seen any company where anyone besides juniors were able to write code 70% of the time.
• MrHorizon (Meta): Hello baby, when you grow up you will realise delivering a product isnt just about “writing code” that daddy gave you in a Jira