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A Sky Report Hidden in a Poem

For three nights in the winter of 1204, red and white bands stretched across the sky north and northeast of Kyoto. The Japanese noble and poet Fujiwara Sadaie recorded part of the display in his diary, Meigetsuki (The Record of the Clear Moon). More than eight centuries later, physicist Hiroko Miyahara and her colleagues used that description, along with other historical writings, as a guide to the behavior of the sun.

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Techmeme surfaced Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers’s August 12 essay, “What sort of maths are LLMs good at?”. Written days after OpenAI announced ten claimed advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science, the essay asks a more useful question than whether language models are simply “good at maths”: what kinds of mathematical search currently play to their strengths, and where might human judgment still matter?

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Europe says it wants larger companies capable of competing with American and Asian giants. Its leaders call for deeper integration, more investment and new “European champions”. Yet scale cannot be created by declarations or a common incorporation regime alone. In practice, it requires mergers across national borders - and dealmakers willing to push through the political resistance those mergers provoke.

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Luigi Mangione admits to shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO as he pleads guilty in federal case (r/news)

• temujin94: Mangione’s lawyers have said they didn’t strike a plea deal, strange turn of events.
• Uzas_Was_Right: I figured he’d roll the dice for a sympathetic jury.
• Llamapocalypse_Now: Great, now let’s all move on to the national conversation about insurance companies taking your money and then deciding that you get to die in pain and poverty because they don’t want to use it to pay your healthcare bills.

Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row (r/news)

• djxcqtion: The former and current students who came forward, and anyone else who raised concerns or brought this to light, are in no way responsible for what has happened. I really hope they have people around them reminding them of that right now. It’s an incredibly sad situation, but if there are questions about how things got to this point, those are for Cambridge University and, sadly, Jason Arday himself, not the people who spoke up.
• ApprehensiveStark25: RIP but what a wild sequence of events.
• supercoolpartydude: Reading the wiki on the allegations and accusations and my man was living a Catch Me If You Can existence.

What is a skill that takes less than an hour to learn, but makes you look like an absolute genius to others ? (r/AskReddit)

• Turdulator: Vlookup/Xlookup and Pivot Tables. (Both ways of viewing data in excel). If you can use both of these quickly on the fly people who don’t know them will think you are a wizard.
• nvd20: Basic Excel formulas. People start treating you like the office wizard
• roonerspize: Backing a trailer, especially at the boat ramp.

What was a single sentence spoken by a friend or partner that instantly made you realize, ‘Oh, we are completely done’? (r/AskReddit)

• TensionElectrical910: Left for a 2 week business trip. This happened the day I got home. Ex Husband: You were gone for 2 weeks and I didnt miss you once.
• lady_mapetite: don’t give me the opportunity to hurt you again
• WilmaValley1226: I used to have a gym friend. We would work out together. We were both quite overweight when we met and stayed that way for a year or two. I finally got my shit together and started changing my habits and losing weight. A spinning teacher that we both loved said to me in passing one day, You’ve lost weight, you look terrific, good for you. My friend got this sneer on her face and said in a really nasty voice, Yeah, don’t you think she’s too thin? I was not but I knew that our friendship was not going to survive this shift, this would always come between us.

What product exists entirely because people are too lazy to do 10 seconds of effort? (r/AskReddit)

• CasualChic: Coffee pods. You can just put the coffee into a reusable pod but no one wants to do that or wash the pod after.
• MadameCat: Tbh I have a lot more patience for this stuff since I found out that a LOT of “lazy people products” are products designed for people with disabilities marketed to a wider populace to keep the company profitable/keep prices low. Slap chops, snuggies, etc.
• polkastripper: PB & J in a jar. It’s shitty PB and shitty jelly to boot.

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Companies are mailing interview candidates THIS now (Blind)

• uibwrnbebd (eBay): All this because they don’t want an in person interview 🤣
• 356r556556 (Google): Wouldn’t that make it easier to cheat since you could just hire proxy interviewer and they wouldn’t even know who’s behind the mask?
• CbDG61 (Coinbase): bring back onsites

Made a fool of myself and regret it (Blind)

• lppmsj (Google): Now send another mail saying you will do his job at a pay decrease and ask him to resign
• @nosense (Red Hat): See if you can recall the message. Otherwise also don’t worry about it. Most likely it will be read by his assistant and laughed at it.
• fqXS20 (Oracle): You were not in the list but now you are

Anthropic aiming for 2 trillion valuation (Blind)

• ututsfd (Flexport): Delusional… they will face some heavy competition from open source and will have to cut prices heavily. Also looks like their stock price has been trending down significantly
• hdjdjjnrn (Meta): Peak bubble.
• BGIR33 (Amazon): The tech bubble burst when sky-high valuations cratered as infrastructure buildouts failed to generate revenue. The builders are at least generating some revenue this time around, but valuations are going from sky-high to astronomical. Hard to see how this ends well.

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (r/technology)

• Anachron101: I have used Firefox for two decades now and I don’t understand why you wouldn’t. Before it was technology and the ability to adjust the browser to whatever you needed, including blocking scripts and ads. Now it’s simply the fact that everything else is Chromium
• frmr000: I’ve used Firefox for as long as I remember. I’m also a web developer who routinely needs to test on other browsers, so I’m well versed in what every browsers user experience is like. I don’t know why any human would use any browser other than Firefox, I really don’t. Oh well.
• el_doherz: This is why I moved to Firefox within minutes of reading what manifest V3 would do to adblockers. Not regretted it once and pushed multiple friends and family to make the switch too.

The CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back | CNN Business (r/technology)

• Sean_Paul_Sartre: He’s been promoted to customer.
• thedeeb56: I worked for a guy that did that. The day before Christmas vacation he gave me a list of about 100 people to have their accounts disabled. We only had about 200 employees. I hated that fucker
• biladelph: Lol so this dude spent a few months rizzing the CEO (Garg) and the board to put himself on the board, gets Garg removed as CEO and then the stock tanks immediately by 45% LOL. Rich mfers live in La la land. This is literally an episode of the show Billions.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Majority Element II
• Topics: Array, Hash Table, Sorting, Counting

Problem gist

Given an integer array of length n, return every value that appears more than floor(n / 3) times. The output can contain at most two values: three different values cannot each occur more than one third of the time because their combined count would exceed n.

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Political opponents can disagree bitterly without inhabiting different moral universes. In Scientific American’s March 2025 article “How Immoral Are Our Political Opponents?”, psychologists Curtis Puryear, Emily Kubin and Kurt Gray argue that Americans routinely mistake partisan conflict for evidence that the other side approves of basic wrongdoing. That error can turn disagreement into disgust and make conversation feel pointless before it begins.

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s August 14 explanation, “How Claude’s text watermark works.” Future Claude models will subtly alter how they choose words so that Anthropic can later estimate whether Claude helped produce a passage. The change is being made globally to comply with the European Union’s new transparency rules for AI-generated content.

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Eli Lilly has become the first pharmaceutical company valued above \$1trn, a status usually reserved for technology giants. Its rise rests largely on Zepbound and other GLP-1 medicines, which have turned obesity treatment into one of the industry’s biggest new markets. Yet chief executive Dave Ricks is using that success to pursue a broader ambition: remaking Lilly from a conventional drugmaker into a company built around prevention, direct relationships with patients and reusable technological platforms.

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Documents show federal surveillance operation in Minnesota targeted progressive groups, unions (r/news)

• kstargate-425: Holy shit. In any other decade this would be a HUGE scandal similar to Watergate and take down the Trump administration. With Republicans today, its just another Thursday…
• Edge_of_the_Unoverse: Fascists always hate unions.
• ASUethcisu: [They had officers going into librarys to listen to meetings about planning peaceful protests.

“Take, for example, a Jan. 31 meeting in a Minneapolis library, when a Homeland Security report says an undercover officer identified as “UCA 9833” listened as supporters of a progressive climate group, the Sunrise Movement, discussed sit-ins, de-escalation tactics and “having a police liaison and safety marshal present during events.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1vnvenh/comment/p3kt0i7/)