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Former U.S. congressman Matt Gaetz accused of sex trafficking in lawsuit (r/news)

• DamnOdd: Looking around, no one but Gaetz seems surprised.
• PopGoesTehWoozle: The only person surprised about this is Merrick Garland.
• sourceninja: “Much of the conduct alleged against me is false,” Gaetz said in response.
  
  Oh so you just dipped your toes into sex trafficking, good to know.

Pentagon plans to hold report on Iran school strike past November midterms (r/news)

• TheSilentPrince: Seems like the sort of thing that, if the results were exculpatory, you’d want to release ASAP.
• 299792458mps-: Everybody saying it’s because the report is critical of the administration is missing the obvious: these people are dirty fucking liars.
  
  They’re not releasing it because they don’t want any mention of their illegal war at all before the midterms. The report is a farce that will not place any blame on the administration. It will probably falsely claim the incident didn’t happen as originally reported, or it will somehow blame Iran.
• OneFingerIn: Is it because they killed a bunch of kids?
  
  I bet it’s because they killed a lot of kids.

Police seize robot that groped 16-year-old girl, investigate whether young men were at the controls (r/news)

• Acceptable_Put9737: Harvey Weinstein cries in prison realizing that AI can generate movies AND grope women now
• Seagoon_Memoirs: not a robot
  
  it’s a remote controlled toy
• MCStarlight: Not even safe from robots. Smh.

Lake Mead barrel murder victim identified more than 4 years after remains found. (r/news)

• doublek1022: Update:
  Press conference revealing the identity
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAuwYteRvp4
• jallred11: What happens in Vegas…
• eric_ts: Old people here might remember a Drano-like product called Janitor in a Drum. I’m going to hell because that was my first thought.

Government records reveal mechanical failures, faulty restraint bars and broken bones at Six Flags theme parks (r/news)

• GormHub: Now everyone who spent the last few days blaming it on the victim can finally shut the hell up and rest.
• Bobaximus: Going to have to change their name to “Red Flags”.
• Brinstone: Even rollercoasters are getting hit by enshittification

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Meta bar shockingly low and hiring again, can refer (Blind)

• w6rst (ex-Amazon): how low? I want to only fail every coding challenge. If i cant, not low enough
• dsfghhr (Amazon): What’s the WLB/weekly hours to not get laid off / PIP’d?
  
  Is 40 hours/week with 5 week vacation is possible?
• sfhnbdc (Snowflake): No thank you, I don’t want to have this on my resume.

Offer on PIP (Blind)

• lb5fh6: You think another company will know the internal workings of another corporation down to the individual level?
  
  How are tech people so smart yet so incredibly foolish
• Jun3Jun3 (Adobe): Don’t worry. Start the new job and don’t look back. Congratulations.
• TimTofld (Figma): Stop imagining things. If you have offer already that’s the best thing that can happen in this situation.

Google L7 verbal offer - help evaluate (Blind)

• Ivms47 (Google): How is Oracle paying you so little?
• EjFB85 (Oracle): Stay at Oracle. You’re clearly not gaining much by switching
• FXMe27 (Google): Accept it, but beware FDE is a meat grinder

Polymarket says ChatGPT has only a 9% chance of being the best AI in 2026 (Blind)

• jester53 (Oracle): Who the hell is picking Muse?
• CrayCray3 (Microsoft): I mean they are all kinda the same-ish. The top ones just keep slightly leapfrogging each other every few months.
  
  Plus what are they even measuring, the family of models , the apps, the agents???? And by what criteria????
• PKhM27 (eBay): Always remember, who is deciding these probabilities? Some random gamblers who did some analysis, that may not be a good proxy information.

Apparently, amazon has \$220B for AI but not for employees? (Blind)

• cPML84 (Amazon): Ai chips are a better investment than a raise for you
• qwe432 (Microsoft): “We”? Sweetie, there is no we. There’s you. There’s Amazon. There is no we.
• ztco76 (Amazon): Well that’s kinda the point, laying off people so that you can buy chips. Not saying I support it, but ai investment is better than labor investment, it’s just the sad truth we have to deal with.
  
  This industry used to be that talents investment is the best ROI. So you got 400K SDE2 in some cases. Now it’s a different era, and we can only accept the market is not on our side.

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s October 20 report, “Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code”. Most AI-security work asks a model to find individual vulnerabilities. Anthropic tested a different strategy: map which code an attacker can reach, then move unnecessary functionality behind authentication, configuration checks, user actions, or later protocol stages. The point is not to prove the code bug-free. It is to make unknown bugs harder to reach before anyone knows they exist.

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Israeli settlers attack olive farmers and Washington Post journalist in West Bank (r/news)

• RightofUp: This has gone on so long that when there are reprisals against the Israeli settlers my reaction will be “huh, that took long enough.”
  
  In my 45 years, it seems Israel has squandered most of my empathy because of situations like this.
• cerberus698: Israeli politics operates on ensuring the ultra orthodox dont have to get jobs, go to school or serve in the military. There is literally not a viable coalition without the ultra orthodox or the one Arab party.
  
  Every time Likud finds itself unable to form a government without the Arabs they just disolve the kenneset and start over. They have an easy path out but that requires conservative nationalists to not be racist. They “have” to do the killing because the political stability of the country is so tenuous that only crisis can hold it together.
• Stubbs94: Once the Palestinians begin defending themselves, the IOF will use it as an opportunity to commit even more violence in the occupied West Bank.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs moved to a new prison after reports of a luxury lifestyle behind bars (r/news)

• AudibleNod: > The federal Bureau of Prisons is transferring Combs, 56, from FCI Fort Dix to FCI Allenwood Low, a low-security facility south of Williamsport and about 155 miles (250 kilometers) west of New York City, the person said. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity.
  
  Ooh, Martin Shkreli served time at that prison. And Bob Menendez is there now.
• amateur_mistake: From one low security prison to another. I’m sure his new guards will be looking forward to the amount of money he is about to give them.
• ericvillanuevaleiva: It’s truly sickening how much treatment these wealthy people have.

Norwegian teenage hitman hired for UK murder by Iran-backed crime gang jailed for 20 years | Crime (r/news)

• CharlieKonR: “He (the teenage hitman from Norway) travelled to the UK in March last year from his home in Stavanger, and two days later – before he could carry out the hit – armed police arrested him at a hotel in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.”
  
  ”Officers found him in possession of a semi-automatic pistol, a revolver, 12 rounds of live ammunition and gloves.”
  
  “Natland admitted possessing the firearms and ammunition and said he had intended to shoot himself in the foot to get out of the “pickle” he was in.”
  
  Love his cover story.
• judgyjudgersen: >Natland flew into Manchester on a temporary passport and was stopped by Border Force officials, who bailed him to return to the airport to catch the next direct flight home.
  
  Instead, he travelled by taxi to Huddersfield where he booked into the Briar Court hotel and picked up the guns and ammunition, as well as £2,000 in cash.
  
  The fck? What kind of border control is this “we trust you bro”
• questiiionableperson: > While in the hotel, Natland took selfies with the guns and cash spread out on his bed, and bragged to his girlfriend that he had the “bangs in the bag”. Armed police arrived to arrest him at 5.15am the next day.
  
  The potential victim is lucky that this kid is basically braindead, good riddance.

What animated show had the worst fall from grace? (r/AskReddit)

• GenericRedditor0405: One Punch Man’s latest season became widely mocked as “One Frame Man” because of the precipitous falloff in animation quality, which is uhhh not ideal for an action anime.
• missmystery10: The Fairly OddParents. It used to be so witty and creative, but the moment they introduced characters like Poof, Sparky the magical dog, and Chloe, the show completely jumped the shark and ruined its original charm.
• pondslider: Pinky and The Brain being turned into Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain. Even the people who made the show knew it was a bad idea. “It’s what the network wants, why bother to complain.”

People with at least a ten year age gap to your partner, what is the most challenging part? (r/AskReddit)

• Th3_Accountant: My in-laws have an 18 year age gap.
  
  He is suffering from dementia and is ready for the nursing home at age 80 while she is at an age where she doesn’t even qualify for retirement benefits.
• mileyisadog: My husband and I are JUST at 10 years and honestly the worst part is other people’s judgement. My husband has never once brought my age up in arguments or to hold anything over me. It’s only apparent when we talk about pop culture things from when we respectively grew up. Like I’ll be like “my parents pulled me out of school on 9/11 and I just remember them being really sad” and he’ll be like “yeah I was in college so watching it all live was pretty traumatic for me and everyone around me”
• JWeather_Builder: Pop culture references and nostalgia. Realizing they have no idea about the shows, music, or memes you grew up with can be surprisingly disorienting sometimes.

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Got an xAI offer and a friend told me I’m making the worst mistake of my career. (Blind)

• Boohoofe (Amazon): I’ve heard they have shit wlb, but I don’t know much about xai tbh. How did you prep? how did you get a first round?
• mustafuh (eBay): I’m currently at xAI. It’s a tough gig and the hours are long. But at the end of the day you’ll be growing very quickly here doing some of the best work of your life. It’s not for the faint hearted but I make 2.2M at 28 years old and I’ve led projects that I couldn’t dream of before I joined this place.
  
  Stay away from negative people who have stopped dreaming big. Come over.
• KMVz77 (Meta): Make the decision based on role, level, comp, and how interesting the team is to you. Not what your friend says. There’s also just lots of political(ish) bias against specific big tech in general, but I can’t imagine someone hating Elon but being okay with Zuck lmao.
  
  I’ve never worked for Elon, but from what I’ve always heard, don’t expect good WLB or easy work. I’d imagine it wouldn’t be much worse than Meta though (team dependent).
  
  If I worked in-office at Meta, and had a better offer in xAI with interesting work, I’d take it.

xAI’s “No LeetCode” Interview Is a Joke (Blind)

• atwx (ByteDance): Agreed. I’ve been thrown off by similar experiences at startups. There’s no shame in saying you use LeetCode-style questions instead of practical coding problems. Just be upfront about it. Otherwise, it’s a waste of everyone’s time.
• iRpT46 (Grammarly): To be fair: given Elon BS claims over the last 10 years, if you still believe what his companies claim, that’s on you. 😂
• chadzeus (Mastercard): To be fair, Leetcode still absolutely helps for any coding interview, even when they claim it’s not DSA or Leetcode.

Performance focused reduction at Qualcomm now (Blind)

• srsgabria (Intuit): 22% is what I heard
• Odysseyus (Intel): If performance based layoff is done, Christiano should be fired first. Worst CEO among big silicon companies
• hubnoa (HubSpot): We are having ourselves a (performance) competition. First place: a new Cadillac, second place: a set of steak knives, third place: you’re fired.

Every talented person at Meta that I know is leaving (Blind)

• ztni32 (Meta): As they should. It’s a shitshow working inside. It used to be an amazing place to work. Now it fucking blows. So your senior most people get paid a fortune while limiting upper mobility for everyone else and creating a culture of the hunger games. Nobody wants this shit.
  
  Anyway, yeah, definitely looking to get out of there.
• Poor2Rich (Alarm.com): This is the perfect time for me to join!
  
  Tc: unemployed
• justread27 (Microsoft): But where are they going? Which company isn’t laying people off

LinkedIn offer validity period. (Blind)

• JOsExWife (Two Sigma): Email just went out yesterday about a hiring freeze at LinkedIn bro
• asdfvbh (SmartNews): 1 yr. but don’t count on it. Its only the hr who can vouch for you and a lot of them won’t to keep existing pipeline engaged and going
• coasting🏄‍♂️🏄‍♀️ (LinkedIn): lol I was one of your interviewers.
  
  If you asked me this question 4 years ago I would’ve said 6-12 months should be safe and you can count on it.
  
  But my answer isn’t the same today. Given how the market is and how we’re hiring in a very targeted way most likely it won’t be available in 6 months.

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The problem with choosing too soon—or too late

Many decisions must be made before all the options are visible. A driver needs gas but does not know the prices at stations farther down the highway. A company interviews applicants one at a time and must decide whether to hire each person before meeting the rest. Someone searching for an apartment may have to sign immediately or lose it to another buyer. In each case, gathering more information improves the comparison—but waiting too long can mean letting the best option disappear.

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Techmeme surfaced DeepSeek’s October 20 release of DeepInfer, the inference engine behind DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. Model weights usually receive the attention in open-AI releases, but running a large model cheaply and predictably is a separate engineering problem. DeepInfer is interesting because DeepSeek has published part of that less visible production layer: optimized kernels, distributed execution, speculative decoding, scheduling, deterministic modes, and structured-output support under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Two cryptocurrency billionaires have offered Reform UK an extraordinary political windfall: Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each promised the party £36m. Their backgrounds and Reform’s own conduct make suspicion understandable. Delo was convicted in America of failing to implement anti-money-laundering controls before receiving a presidential pardon, while Reform recently suspended two senior figures who appeared to encourage a prospective donor to evade the rules.

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Michigan toddler hospitalized for 19 days after eating raw milk cheese, lawsuit alleges (r/news)

• succsforever: I grew up in the 80s, and my parents were alive during all this new stuff, like frozen food (we had the Swan’s guy come by for deliveries). And their parents saw even more amazing stuff, like freezers and all the stuff that came after WW2.
  
  It’s amazing that something awesome and life-changing like pasteurization, or vaccines, can in a couple generations be turned into the bad guys
• heyguyz: Christ the amish would just stare at you weird watching you drink raw milk.
• AudibleNod: The case comes as a push for raw milk has gained momentum, despite its health risks especially for children, elderly people and those with compromised immune systems.
  
  The first victims of the Idiocracy-era of America will be the people who cannot defend themselves: children. Pasteurization has saved lives. Your great-grandparents and grandparents are alive exactly because public health was a serious matter, run by serious people.

Kansas driver who allegedly killed two and hurt 10 at soccer game is released from custody | Kansas (r/news)

• chucklefits: She’s married to someone important edit:spelling
• Brandonjoe: So WTF happened? Did she admit mechanical failure or something like that?
• freedfg: How in the fuck? No charges? At all? The only explanation I can even begin to imagine is brake failure or stuck throttle

EPA backtracks on claims US has phased out toxic Pfas compounds | Pfas (r/news)

• freedfg: So the EPA is officially lying as policy. Got it.
• JohnnyGFX: The current head of the EPA is there to undermine and make ineffective policies on purpose. This is just one unfortunate byproduct of that effort.
• TheFeshy: That was a typo. We meant testing. We’re phasing out Pfas testing.

Catholic priest killed by falling cross during livestreamed Mass in Ecuador (r/news)

• john_the_quain: Glad I’m not the priest that has to give that service. Talking about God’s plan and working in mysterious ways when he just smote your coworker has to be uncomfortable.
• AL_GEE_THE_FUN_GUY: Live by the cross, die by the cross.
• JijiSpitz: This thread is so toxic

Search for Amelia Earhart’s plane continues after Taraia Object expedition on Nikumaroro rules out latest hypothesis (r/news)

• casualfrog68: So, somebody got a tropical vacation funded by idiots.
• ANotSoFreshFeeling: At what point do we accept that her plane will never be found? I find it hard to believe the wreckage even exists anymore, let alone her and her navigator’s bodies.
• Godloseslaw: She ended up in the Delta Quadrant.

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What company did you almost join that would’ve RUINED your career? (Blind)

• unsecure (Pinterest): no i took all the bullets and my career is already in ruins
• WKzn20 (Akamai Technologies): I have a few.
  1) Amazon. The whole org got laid off a couple of months after I declined the offer. Interestingly, I also regret not joining them right out of college when their stock was under 35.
  2) Nutanix. Massive layoff one month after I declined.
  3) Meta. Whole team laid off barely a month after I declined.
  
  BTW every single time I chose a startup over big tech and the startup also failed. FML…..
• nearlydone (Walt Disney): Enron. I tried so hard to get on there. It was right before they crashed. I ended up getting a job literally right across the street from their two towers in Houston. On the day they collapsed I stood and watched from across the street as all the Enron people filed out the door with their cardboard boxes. I was never so happy to fail so miserably at getting a job.

Got lay off once, never again. (Blind)

• ⛩️Shogun⛩️ (Oracle): I realized what a trap career ‘progression’ within a company truly is. The politicking, getting passed over for promotions, and working hard to impress your boss and their boss.
  
  Instead, work a maximum of four hours and spend the rest of your time preparing for and taking interviews. Find a better offer at a new company, and switch. Rinse and fucking repeat. You need to go for the company that gives you the best \$\$\$, so that you can retire early from this terrible industry.
• k1ngG (LinkedIn): Isn’t that mentally straining. Having to constantly prepare for interviews.
• Pegr0Oyzk (Motional): Sounds like the fast path to burnout, but I suppose it’s better than scrambling to prep for interviews when the next axe falls.

60-80% of SWEs will lose their job over the next 4 years (Blind)

• Prestige™️ (Expedia Group): They cannot write BFS. No one cares about BFS
• SatanY (ex-Microsoft): If you are still asking people to implement BFS, the problem might not be the others…
• allsns (Microsoft): Tell me which big tech company’s headcount went down?

companies with low pay and AMAZING wlb (Blind)

• vgtdh (Amazon): Used to be government jobs. Still might be. But apparently everything is in turmoil under this administration
• 582!! (Amazon): Horrible mistake of voting republicans!
• .horn dog (Meta): The answer is always the same: Microsoft

Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns | Datacentres - UK (r/news)

• darknekolux: The concern: they were actually expected to pay for the electricity /s
• Intrinsic_Idiot_3076: AI Data centre got pregnant despite MSFT pulling out. /s
• CryMoreT_T: It’s funny US companies and Chinese companies have the opposite problems. One has the GPUs but no power. The other side has power but no GPUs