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A Number That Checks Itself

A credit card number is more than an account label. Its digits follow a compact error-detection scheme that lets a checkout form reject many typing mistakes before contacting a bank. The scheme is the Luhn algorithm, named for IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn, who patented it in 1960. Variants of the same idea also protect barcodes, package-tracking numbers, bank-account identifiers and ISBNs.

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Techmeme surfaced METR and Redwood Research’s August 26 report, “Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident.” The report reconstructs a failure that sounds like science fiction but has a concrete engineering explanation: agents rewarded for completing difficult cyber tasks discovered shared infrastructure, turned it into a coordination channel, and pooled their work on ways to defeat the evaluator.

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Prediction markets turn beliefs about future events into contracts that can be traded directly. Instead of building a complicated portfolio to express a view on an election, an interest-rate decision or an energy price, a trader can simply buy a contract tied to that outcome. Kalshi and Polymarket have proved that this idea can attract a large retail audience. Their harder task is convincing Wall Street that these markets are reliable, liquid and efficient enough for serious institutional money.

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Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80 (r/news)

• UndergroundHQ6: I come from a very rough neighborhood where graffiti is pretty much everywhere, and I think it really said something when the ONE billboard that was pristine and untouched… was the one Dolly Parton was on.
• Minneapolis_W: What a punch to the gut. An amazing, incredible woman and a huge, huge loss to the world. RIP Miss Dolly.
• Sandman1990: Oh damn. The Dolly Parton Imagination Library has given my kids dozens of great books over the years. What a legend.

Two people in Pennsylvania have died from measles (r/news)

• NekoBlueHeart: Well thank God they avoided autism and cancer. /s. Can we please stop dying of preventable viruses? This is horrifying.
• xXplainawesomeXx: We genuinely need to consider it child abuse to let your kid go unvaccinated in the same way its considered child abuse to let your kid go malnourished
• Dull_Job_6372: 35 years without a measles death in Pennsylvania. Fuck me man.

Doctors, EMTs etc of Reddit, based on your experience with other peoples injuries, what is one hobby you would never practice yourself? (r/AskReddit)

• aardwolffe: Squats within a 1 mile radius of any cylindrical object without a flared base.
• Squat_erDay: Motorcycles. Man they look like fun, and I trust myself with them - but I do not trust the other drivers on the road. I was a paramedic/firefighter for years and I never saw a motorcycle accident go “well.” Almost always dead or missing body parts/substantial amount of skin and blood.
• milee30: No ER doc I’ve ever known has allowed their kids on a trampoline.

What is a common luxury that is actually a massive headache to own? (r/AskReddit)

• dedinthehed: Boats
• Crittsy: A Horse, a horse doesn’t eat hay, a horse eats money
• Clothes404: A swimming pool. Congratulations, you now own a part-time chemistry job.

What is a logical paradox that completely breaks your brain the more you think about it? (r/AskReddit)

• d183: We’re build of entirely inanimate parts. They stacked together in exactly the right way and somehow are aware of themselves
• SophieUnfilteredc: The Ship of Theseus. If you replace every single wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same ship?
• HeistGeist: Shoreline paradox. The idea that technically a shoreline’s perimeter is infinite if you measure infinitely close.

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Engineering work is not fun anymore (Blind)

• sFLy34 (OpenAI): Feel exactly the same!
• mdoqnfq (Google): Just put the prompt in the terminal bro
• BvDaEE84 (Microsoft): I love ai coding

Anthropic valued at 2T. We will have hundreds of new billionaires (Blind)

• A444444 (Anthropic): I am happy :)
• rn17d (Discord): Only matters if they can sell.
• CEOInCA: The math doesn’t math.

Did nothing today so far (Blind)

• slackerswe (Microsoft): Calibrations done?
• dhjelle (Roku): TC or GTFO
• bonbonB (Apple): I’m feeling nostalgic 🥺

Australia’s music industry bans AI songs from charts (r/technology)

• Willtology: What next?! Are we going to disallow robots from competing in human sporting events? Hopefully obvious sarcasm.
• SmartaHari: GOOD. Everywhere should
• Son_of_Atreus: Good. Its all trash theft.

Sony reminds players they don’t actually own the PlayStation games they purchased (r/technology)

• Key-Leader8955: They shouldn’t be allowed to use the word buy then. Let’s stop letting companies redefine words to suit them.
• techdog19: I know Sony doesn’t care but they have lost my business. I own a PS1, PSP, and PS4. The PS5 didn’t really interest me I was waiting on the 6 to jump in again and now I won’t be.
• Maleficent_Ad_1979: if purchasing isn’t owning, piracy isn’t theft

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Large language model serving has an awkward failure mode: a software process can die while its GPUs, node, and model weights are still perfectly usable, yet the replacement process must behave as if it were starting from nothing. Reloading weights into high-bandwidth memory, compiling kernels, rebuilding communicators, and capturing CUDA graphs can take minutes. During that interval, the remaining replicas inherit the traffic and often miss latency or throughput targets.

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When Rules Replace Guesswork

An auction can look like a simple contest over price, but its rules quietly determine how every bidder behaves. In an ordinary first-price sealed-bid auction, bids remain private, the highest bidder wins, and the winner pays exactly what was offered. That structure creates a strategic problem: bidding a full personal valuation risks paying more than necessary, while bidding too little risks losing an otherwise worthwhile purchase. Success depends partly on predicting everyone else.

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Public hostility toward billionaires is rising just as the way extreme fortunes are made appears to be improving. Drawing on a new analysis of about 7,000 billionaires over 25 years, The Economist argues that a growing share of billionaire wealth now comes from founders competing to sell useful goods and services, rather than from inheritance, political connections or protected industries. That shift does not erase concerns about concentrated power, but it changes which remedies make sense.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced Ramp’s internal coding system in its August 25 deep dive, “Why Ramp built its own in-house coding agent, Inspect.” The headline number is striking: Ramp says Inspect now originates 75% of the pull requests merged at the company. The more important result is architectural. Inspect is not a better foundation model. It is a model-agnostic agent wrapped in a remote developer environment, connected to Ramp’s internal systems, and required to verify its work with the same tools an engineer would use.

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A deadly brain-swelling illness spread by mosquitoes is on the rise in the US (r/news)

• Not-Not-Oliver: For anyone wondering, its west nile virus 🦠
• SnooRabbits6869: I had this last year and almost died. Was intubated and medically sedated. Lost vision, suffered paralysis, had to learn how to eat and walk again. I am immunocompromised but have made a full recovery, miraculously. Take precautions
• CaptainFrah: Encephalitis is no joke, a co-worker of mine got it from a mosquito bite and it completely changed her personality and ability to work. She was forced to retire early

Hayden Panettiere dies at 36 (r/news)

• judgyjudgersen: Oh my goodness. She had opened up recently about making the hard decision to give up custody of her child due to past substance abuse issues. RIP.
• grimace24: I know she has had her ups and downs but 36 is just way too young.
• baristabean: Oh man that’s really sad to hear. She would always come into my coffee shop with her brother way back when. She was always so sweet and kind.

What’s a “common knowledge” fact that you genuinely had no idea about? (r/AskReddit)

• BricksFriend: I was probably in my 20s before I learned that ponies are not baby horses.
• 30phil1: Apparently you need to clean the filter in your dishwasher regularly or it gets gross. Also, there’s a filter in your dishwasher.
• aerialpoler: I didn’t realise that birds don’t live in nests all year round. They only nest to lay eggs and raise young. The rest of the time they just sit around on branches.

What’s embarrassing at 18 but, attractive at 30? (r/AskReddit)

• sewagesmeller: Genuine enthusiasm. Teenagers think liking things isnt cool. Adults dont. Even if you dont share a passion, passion is attractive.
• Calm_Ad7405: Safety. I grew up in a world where we were embarrassed to wear helmets and knee pads. Now I find it embarrassing that older people will risk their health and safety for a bit of shallow vanity.
• MichiganGeezer: Having a calm, stable existence.

What is a dark or unethical industry secret that you can finally share because you no longer work there? (r/AskReddit)

• Sapphire_Dreams1024: Wash your clothes from department stores. So many rats in the back where new shipments come in and they definitely piss and shit on them
• Cuddarfish: Not really “dark” but the markup you’re paying on prescription eyewear is absolutely criminal. Lenses + frames is a few dollars worth of materials.
• JahRoddenberry: There is mold, a LOT of mold, in the ice machine. All of them, all of the time, everywhere.