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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this piece: The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub - why not other vendors?, published May 7, 2026.

GitHub’s AI Load Problem

Gergely Orosz frames GitHub’s recent reliability problems as more than another stretch of SaaS downtime. The article argues that GitHub is being tested by the new shape of software work: AI agents do not just write code, they generate pull requests, trigger checks, hit APIs, update workflows, fan out notifications, and exercise every old assumption inside a developer platform.

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Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats’ redistricting plan, dimming party’s midterm hopes (r/news)

• danappropriate: Do what Republicans do and ignore the ruling.
• Gastroid: Ah, striking down a voter-approved constitutional amendment based on a narrow definition of the timeframe when the first stage of the approval process took place. Couldn’t think of anything more democratic than that.
• Shakespearacles: Ok, well they’re allowed to redistrict however they’d like for partisan reasons now according to the Supreme Court. So just do it anyways

Babies are bleeding to death as parents reject a vitamin shot given at birth (r/news)

• RoarOfTheWorlds: What’s crazy is it’s not even a vaccine, it’s a Vitamin K shot. These same idiots that will get a vitamin booster IV want to act like their Internet search is above a medical degree and play with their newborn’s life over a vitamin.
• justmitzie: Refuse medical advice at birth, then rush to medical providers when it falls apart. Beyond sad.
• Valturia: Letting your kid die to own the libs.

Ukraine reportedly launches dozens of drones at Moscow ahead of Victory Day Parade (r/worldnews)

• prof_dr_mr_obvious: Wouldn’t it be glorious to have the air alarms go off in Moscow during the parade?
• 133DK: Everyone so focused on the parade and the prestige loss it would be for Moscow if it got hit, but honestly it’d be way better for Ukraine to just take advantage of the lessened air defence everywhere else
• GreatGojira: They could have a peaceful parade if they would just leave Ukraine

TIL that Maria Antonia of Austria had the highest inbreeding coefficient (0.3053) of the House of Habsburg - higher than the child of brother and sister or the child of a parent and their own offspring (r/todayilearned)

• SomeDumbGamer: Important to mention that she didn’t really have any major health issues due to it either. She got incredibly lucky.
• Born-Area-9998: Every time I read about the Habsburgs I feel like medieval Europe was running a long-term experiment nobody bothered to stop.
• jxd73: It’s probably rookie number compared to the Ptolemy’s.

USPS proposal would allow handguns to be sent through the mail for the first time since 1927 (r/nottheonion)

• thatguyiswierd: I mean unloaded, marked, shipping at a higher rate to make a profit, Tied to the shipper and sender. Not a bad idea really. Guns are shipped everyday only difference is they go to a local store for pick up.
• Recreationalflorist: ITT: People that know nothing about gun laws or interstate commerce law.
• KneeDragr: They are sent via FedEx currently so not sure what the difference is with USPS getting in on it.

What is the biggest scam people still willingly participate? (r/AskReddit)

• ryryzxd: MLMs. no matter how many times people explain how theyre problematic and scammy.
• cornweel: It seems like everybody knows gambling/betting is a total waste scam designed to take their money, and yet they still are excited to participate.
• Disastrous-Ruin8411: trickle down economics

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Gen Z report driving me insane (Blind)

• Cuando (ex-Riot Games): There is this thing with Gen Z guys where they try really hard to act “nonchalant”. They end up looking like ungrateful dumbasses to every other generation.
• ‾_(ツ)_/‾ (LinkedIn): Have you tried changing your management style? I have found that split screen with presentation and subway surfers is a good way to get them to pay attention.
• 7878tuk (Mixpanel): I think it’s just your report and not a Gen Z thing.

Just saw the dumbest take on software of this century on X (Blind)

• badtcguy (MSCI): 5 good developers could have built slack in a couple of months when it was aquired by salesforce for billions
• asdasdwqe1 (Amazon): I genuinely created an instagram clone in my last year of uni 6 years ago and it took me like 9 months while trying to learn swift as well. Good luck having the same recommendation algo and user flow as the real instagram. Even then i understood that creating these apps is not rocket science but user attraction and traffic is the moat. This guy has no idea what he is talking about
• DarioSweee (Amazon): The poc might work, but it means nothing.

Cursor vs Anthropic vs Quant dev (Blind)

• ldftswhcd (Scale AI): Devs are second class citizens at a Quant shop, go to Anthropic
• Turnusdown (Apple): Go to Anthropic of course. Claude is taking over the world
• hd73f (Roblox): Trading company won’t be 40h/week they’re lying

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web (r/technology)

• Judgeman2021: Wow it’s like people who don’t know anything about computer science and cybersecurity making software are introducing unnecessary risks.
• No_Tadpole_5146: Everytime I’ve ever used AI to code , it’s so full on itself when coding “oh yeah this is your exact problem here!” And It just adds more and more onto the code, dozens of useless lines that do nothing, and never a single try catch or bound setter. It’s fine getting you started and does speed it up, but if you aren’t introduced to a lot of coding options or terms, ai won’t get you there
• grandmawaffles: AGILE…am I right…

EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push (r/technology)

• vampyrialis: Privacy is now a “loophole” 🤣 🖕
• SkinnedIt: VPNs aren’t the problem. Misguided age verification legislation is the problem.
• ottwebdev: If people are bypassing your governance, your governance is wrong

From your exp. do you work less, more or evenly after using AI? (r/webdev)

• Voxandr: We got pushed hard a lot more.
• crimsonscarf: Thanks to AI, I now get to reject 10x the number of bad PRs. Maybe I need an AI to do code review. We can all pay Anthropic to generate code that never gets maintained
• sacheie: To me this is the most miserable thing about the AI shift. It’s not meant to make life any easier; it’s meant to squeeze ever more “productivity” out of ever fewer employees. Plus we’re all back to wearing 5 hats and constant context switching again..

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Candy
• Main tags: Array, Greedy

What the problem is really asking

There are children standing in a line. Each child has a rating, and the goal is to give out the fewest total candies while obeying two rules:

• every child gets at least one candy
• any child with a higher rating than an adjacent child must get more candies than that neighbor

The important detail is that the comparison is only between neighbors. A child does not need more candy than every lower-rated child, only more than the children immediately to the left and right when their rating is higher.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: HARD
• Problem: Longest Increasing Path in a Matrix
• Main tags: Array, Dynamic Programming, Depth-First Search, Graph Theory, Topological Sort, Memoization, Matrix

What the problem is really asking

The input is a grid of numbers. From any cell, a path may move only up, down, left, or right, and each move must go to a strictly larger value. The task is to return the maximum number of cells that can appear in any such path.

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Difficulty: MEDIUM
Problem: Palindrome Partitioning

Problem gist

The input is a string s. The task is to return every possible way to split s into non-empty substrings such that every chosen substring is a palindrome.

For example, "aab" can be split as ["a", "a", "b"] or ["aa", "b"]. Both are valid because every piece reads the same forward and backward. A split like ["a", "ab"] is invalid because "ab" is not a palindrome.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Exclusive Time of Functions
• Main tags: Array, Stack

What the problem is really asking

The input describes calls on a single-threaded CPU. Each log entry has a function id, an event type, and a timestamp:

function_id:start_or_end:timestamp

A function can call another function before it finishes. While the child function runs, the parent is paused. The goal is to return, for every function id, how much time that function spent actually executing, excluding time spent inside child calls.

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What happened

NVIDIA’s official technical blog published Streaming Tokens and Tools: Multi-Turn Agentic Harness Support in NVIDIA Dynamo, a post about making an inference server behave like a first-class backend for modern coding and agent harnesses rather than a plain text-completion endpoint.

The core point is that agentic inference has a richer contract than ordinary chat. A model turn may contain reasoning, tool calls, tool results, more reasoning, and more tool calls, all of which have to be preserved in the structure expected by the client. If the server streams tokens but reconstructs tool calls incorrectly, drops the reasoning that justified a tool call, or loses request metadata during an internal conversion, the model can receive a subtly different conversation on the next turn. The failure mode is not a visible HTTP error. It is a degraded agent that forgets why it called a tool, waits too long to execute tools, or runs with a different harness policy than intended.

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A planet caught in a destructive loop

The article describes a star-planet relationship that is far more active than the usual picture of a star punishing a nearby planet with heat, radiation and gravity. HIP 67522 b, a young Jupiter-size world about 408 light-years away, appears to be doing something back to its star. As it races around HIP 67522, the planet seems to trigger enormous stellar flares. Those flares then blast the planet’s atmosphere, slowly stripping away the very world that sets them off.

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What happened

Techmeme surfaced this May 9, 2026 item in its Techmeme cluster, and the original piece is Sam Rubin’s May 7, 2026 Palo Alto Networks post, A New Era of Security: Frontier AI Defense.

Palo Alto Networks argues that frontier AI has crossed a practical threshold for cybersecurity. The post is partly a product announcement for Frontier AI Defense, but the interesting part is the operational claim underneath it: the latest models are no longer just faster helpers for writing code or triaging findings. In Palo Alto’s testing, they behave more like autonomous security operators that can find vulnerabilities, connect them into exploit paths, and compress attack timelines.