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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this piece in its July 15, 2026 podcast episode, Context engineering with Dex Horthy. Gergely Orosz’s conversation with the HumanLayer cofounder is nominally about giving language models better context, but its deeper subject is how software teams can use coding agents without losing control of the systems those agents modify.

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US outbreak of parasite causing ‘watery diarrhea’ rises to more than 2,800 cases (r/news)

• luminousrobot: 2800 REPORTED CASES. The real number has to be much higher
• Violet_Paradox: A parasite that was on the CDC watchlist until RFK specifically took it off.
• ArguesWithFrogs: Oh no. If only we had some sort of government organization responsible for tracking & containing outbreaks of diseases.

U.S. judge voids Trump’s settlement with IRS, refers lawyers for discipline (r/news)

• JimDemintRecession: Some of you may be disbarred, but that is a price I am willing to pay
• AverageJoe-707: Trump and his entire family should be audited EVERY YEAR including past years.
• nevermindthebolox: Great to hear about this pushback. As others have said it might not get too far, but at least it’s being fought against, it will hopefully make others think about their actions in future.

Lake Powell reaching critically low elevation levels, nearing ‘dead power pool,’ experts say (r/news)

• YodaForceGhost: Went to Lake Powell about a decade ago and there was concern from some tourism workers that the lake may not exist by 2030 or beyond. Looks like we’re at that point a few years early
• Responsible-Grand-57: Sure seems to me like it’s time to revisit those “water rights” contracts? Every user of this waterway is screwed if entities keep using their “rights” to the fullest extent possible.
• 71351: Until they adopt “same in same out” at the very least, dry winters like was just had will make the dead pool a sure thing. Data centers anywhere in the greater Colorado river drainage should be DOA. Citizens can never offset industrial/agricultural demands. It’s not complicated math really

What is a hidden gem YouTube channel that is so high quality you are shocked it’s completely free to watch? (r/AskReddit)

• CMMH93: I love Tasting History, such good and interesting content.
• zebra0312: TechnologyConnections. Especially reasonable since he is from the US.
• NakedScrub: The Taskmaster channel. Hundreds of free episodes of full series on there.

What everyday thing from 20 years ago disappeared so gradually nobody noticed? (r/AskReddit)

• _-Samsara: Family photo albums instead of thousands of photos sitting unseen on a phone
• Superb_Algae5308: Web forums for niche interests. Reddit is the dumbing down of that concept.
• TheCoop1986: Insects. Populations have crashed worldwide.

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Is Fable 5 really the end of SWE? Or is it really just a transformation? (Blind)

• AlucardPen (Capital One): This is the model that was “too dangerous to release”? Fuck off. This hype marketing is getting old and annoying
• ☕. (Amazon): I don’t think what kills SWE is a smarter model. I think it would be a rearchitecture of how software is written and delivered. The current systems still assume humans are involved somewhere.
• pico_gallo (Microsoft): I really don’t understand how software engineers that create scope, define work, create strategy, design systems, being clarity and align, etc, can be replaced. Just had a peer send a PR written with Claude, the code was good, it was just not what it was supposed to do, it was an entirely different thing. And this is after several discussions and docs about what needed to be done. Coding was always the easy part.

Cloned Docusign in 48 hours (Blind)

• GoXu46 (6sense): But I trust a signature from DocuSign. I don’t from you. That takes more to change. But also. Yes, change is coming for them
• fItf61 (Thomson Reuters): Ok now use fable 5 to help you market this, get all legal affairs in order, help you setup a legal business entity, and get your first dozen paying customers. If you can pull that off in the next 2 weeks, you’re on to something.
• PIP4ME&U (Salesforce): That’s like saying I can replace Honda because I made a car with legos. The functionality is easy, what’s hard is the business: sales people to help you buy, legal to sign off so can CYA, support so there’s someone you can call when things inevitably break and of course you need eng to keep checking in useless, buggy code to perpetuate the infinite cycle of maintenance.

Is Databricks still top 5 prestigious companies (Blind)

• Srini-SVP (PayPal): The D in FAANG is for databricks
• gewgul (Google): This comment section is a massive cope. DB is outranked only by the frontier AI labs. Extraordinary talent density.
• nbyP67 (Lockheed Martin): It’s a job why do you care about prestige

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public (r/technology)

• essidus: Literally the same thing that eventually killed the google glasses.
• Punch-N-Judy: It’s so interesting that humanity can’t stop mass surveillance or non-consensual wars but we’ve rejected spyware glasses 2 separate times now (Google Glass in the 2010s and now these.)
• Professional_Bat9174: Can’t even wear your pervert glasses. Literally 1984.

Almost Half Of All LinkedIn Posts Are Now AI-Written (r/technology)

• stedmangraham: LinkedIn posts were ahead of the curve by appearing AI written years before genAI was available to the public
• RationalBeliever: This is an advertisement for an AI detection tool. There are no accurate AI detection tools on the market.
• SweatyAd8914: If you count the mindless corporate human bots that make up the other 50%, I’d argue 100% is slop now.

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Psychopathy is often treated as a fixed identity: a person either has a conscience or does not, and little can be done about it. Maia Szalavitz’s July/August 2025 Scientific American article argues that this fatalism is especially dangerous when applied to children. Young people with severe callous-unemotional traits can be hard to reach, but early, carefully tailored treatment can reduce aggression, strengthen relationships and prevent those traits from hardening into adult psychopathy.

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Techmeme surfaced this piece through Dan Goodin’s July 13, 2026 Ars Technica report, Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too. The report covers Tracebit’s original research, Context Bombs: stopping AI attackers in their tracks, which asks whether defenders can turn one of AI agents’ most stubborn weaknesses into a security control.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 20th, 2026 Finance & economics article listed in the contents as AI-pilled economists and published under the headline The new-seekers.

Artificial intelligence may reshape work, productivity and economic growth, yet many academic economists have been slow to study it. The article argues that the centre of AI economics is consequently moving away from universities and toward government agencies, think-tanks and the AI labs themselves. That shift gives researchers better data and closer contact with the technology, but it also risks putting important public questions inside institutions with commercial interests and limited incentives to share what they learn.

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Sam Neill, Jurassic Park actor, dies aged 78 (r/news)

• Sportsman180: Rest in Peace, Dr. Grant! Thanks for the memories!
• _Ludovico: His expression upon seeing dinosaurs for the first time still gives me chills
• Jetman54: Devastating news. We obviously can’t know what celebrities are like behind the scenes, but everything I’ve ever seen or heard about him seemed to indicate that he was a lovely human being. He’s leaving behind an impressive legacy, to say the least. RIP

US Senator Lindsey Graham dies (r/news)

• Have_A_Jelly_Baby: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.” - Lindsey Graham, 2016
• LegacyLemur: Not the one I was expecting to see in the headlines
• DazDaSpazz: Everyone is wondering if Mitch McConnell is alive and Lindsey says hold my ladybugs.

Outcry after Atlanta tosses unhoused people’s belongings near World Cup spot | Atlanta (r/news)

• Skin_Floutist: That’s a public park that people couldn’t use because of the homeless.
• leetfists: If I left a bunch of my shit on the ground in a public space, I wouldn’t expect it to be there for long. Everyone is this thread is acting like this is some sort of crime against humanity, but do you really think people should just be allowed to leave their junk lying around in a public park indefinitely without it ever being cleaned up?
• lurpeli: Standard response to the homeless. Make them appear as though they don’t exist and then ignore them.

Women of Reddit, what is your ultimate “I am an adult and no one can stop me” purchase that you are both incredibly proud of and slightly embarrassed by? (r/AskReddit)

• cherrycocktail20: Every time I buy chocolate milk my inner six year old cackles in unrestrained glee. Stop me now, mom!
• OliverTwist123: I remember the life altering moment when I realized I could have birthday cake whenever I wanted. And, for that matter, that cake does not strictly have to be a ‘birthday cake’. I could just bake a cake because I wanted to. And I did. And that’s when I knew I was an adult.
• flugualbinder: I drove 8 hours one way for a specific cheeseburger. Between the cost of the food and the gas to get there and back home, it was the most expensive burger of my life. And it wasn’t even gourmet 😂

What famous person have we suspiciously not heard from for a long time now? (r/AskReddit)

• thebanger71: Fabio. Was everywhere in the 80s and 90s. Gone since that bird and rollercoaster incident
• mugglequeen: Hillary Swank! I just looked her up yesterday to see what she’s been up to. Started a family and was (is?) caring for an ailing parent.
• EducationalStay3365: tbh gotye. he made a song about being someone that we used to know and then actually became someone that we used to know. he really committed to the bit and then just vanished.

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I don’t get it – is Alexandr Wang Actually Smart or an Idiot? (Blind)

• 撒娇🥺 (Amazon): why do you care if hes smart? he has a few billion and you’re a renter. that’s all you need to know. he won life, and you’re still a loser
• stupidswe (Apple): The guy graduated from a top-tier college and founded a 60B company before he turned 30 ofc he’s a genius. He’s not a technical savant and is probably out of his depth as the head of meta ai but you can’t deny he’s brilliant.
• igcih (Uber): He is definitely smart for gaslighting Zuck into paying him billions of dollars.

‘Life there felt simple’: Woman leaves Google after 8 years despite promotions and perks (Blind)

• MenloNarc (Meta): “After being an overpaid SWE for years at Google, I now no longer value salary, and want to chase purpose, because I have already earned enough salary to never work again, and now I am morally superior.” F*** off.
• SabaIsGod (ex-Meta): Tech workers need to realize that 99.9% of their jobs are irrelevant to society. On the other hand artists need to realize this too.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): That’s the irony with west coast hiring. On the one hand people quit due to boredom/lack of impactful work and on the other like 70+ percent of swes would love such opportunities but they won’t get hired

Interviews are insanely difficult now. (Blind)

• pipgod101 (Amazon): Getting laid off could mean being forced out of the industry. Ala 2008 banking. Brace yourselves. Pray Dario/Elon/Altman have mercy on our souls.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): I think big tech wants HC to go back to 2018/2019
• 火锅 (Microsoft): Yep. It’s a goddamn nightmare for junior engineers with 3 YOE. Most companies want senior-level engineers and above.

Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich (r/technology)

• Z-Is-Last: They know it’s bad for brains, yet do it for the money.
• tc100292: Just like they and all their kids are off getting humanities degrees while telling the peons first “learn to code” and now “learn a trade.”
• transversegirl: Their children will get a 90s childhood, a classical education devoid of AI and a trust fund.

Ireland’s data centers consumed nearly as much electricity as every home in the country combined in 2025 — server farms gulped 23% of national power despite years of grid restrictions (r/technology)

• Unable_Technology935: It ought to be interesting here in Indiana. They have plans here in N/W Indiana to have at least one every 20 miles.
• RedBoxSquare: Datacenters should be taxed on their electricity usage so they end up paying more.
• ayetees: We also have the highest energy prices here in Europe. Our government needs to wise up.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Asteroid Collision
• Topics: Array, Stack, Simulation

Problem gist

The input describes asteroids arranged from left to right. A positive number moves right, a negative number moves left, and the absolute value is the asteroid’s size. When two asteroids meet, the smaller one disappears; if their sizes are equal, both disappear. The goal is to return the asteroids that remain, in their original left-to-right order.

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NVIDIA’s official Technical Blog published Reducing High-Bandwidth Memory Bottlenecks in JAX-Based LLM Training with Host Offloading, a July 10, 2026 post about treating CPU-attached memory as an active tier in the training memory hierarchy rather than leaving scarce GPU high-bandwidth memory to hold every activation needed by backpropagation.