White House Flips Out After Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize | Donald Trump didn’t win the peace prize he so desperately wanted.
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 24977 |
Comments: 3091
The article reports on the White House's angry reaction after Donald Trump failed to win the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, which he had actively campaigned for. The administration's communications director accused the Nobel Committee of placing 'politics over peace' and made unsubstantiated claims about Trump's peacemaking achievements.
Key Points:
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
The White House reacted angrily, with communications director Steven Cheung claiming the Nobel Committee places 'politics over peace'.
Trump and his team had vociferously campaigned for the award, making unsubstantiated claims about ending wars.
Trump reportedly called Norway's finance minister 'out of the blue' to say he wanted the Nobel Prize.
Several world leaders publicly stated Trump deserved the prize as a way to gain favor with him.
""The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace," Cheung continued, in a seeming slight to Machado, whom Trump has previously praised for her pro-democracy activism and resistance to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro."
Hegseth announces new Qatari air force facility in Idaho
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 7554 |
Comments: 1281
The Pentagon has approved the construction of a Qatari military facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. The facility will be used to host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots for training purposes.
Key Points:
A Qatari military facility will be built at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.
The facility will host the Qatari Emiri Air Force.
Its primary purpose is for F-15 pilot training.
The project is seen as strengthening the U.S.-Qatari alliance.
This follows Qatar's substantial role in a recent Gaza peace deal.
"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says the project reflects the strength of the U.S.-Qatari alliance following Qatar's 'substantial role' in the Gaza peace deal."
Johnson says House will remain closed until shutdown ends
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Score: 5613 |
Comments: 750
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced he will not recall lawmakers to Washington until the government shutdown ends, placing the responsibility on Senate Democrats to pass a GOP-backed spending bill. The House has canceled all scheduled votes, including those for the upcoming week, drawing criticism from Democrats who accuse Republicans of avoiding negotiations.
Key Points:
Speaker Johnson will not call the House back into session until the government shutdown is over.
The strategy aims to pressure Senate Democrats to support the Republican stopgap spending bill.
House votes for the entire week of October 10th have been canceled.
Democratic leaders have returned to Washington and are protesting the recess, demanding bipartisan negotiations.
Johnson defends the recess, stating members need to be in their districts to help constituents during the shutdown.
""We will come back, and get back to legislative session, as soon as the Senate Democrats turn the lights back on," Johnson told reporters in the Capitol, as the lapse in funding stretched into a 10th day. "That’s the fact. That’s where we are.""
GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 749 |
Comments: 231
GitHub is shifting its engineering focus from developing new features to migrating its infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. This strategic move follows Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub and represents a significant reprioritization of resources. The migration is expected to improve reliability, performance, and enable future scaling of the platform.
Key Points:
GitHub is deprioritizing new feature development in favor of Azure migration
This represents a major strategic shift following Microsoft's acquisition
The move will consume significant engineering resources
Expected benefits include improved reliability and platform performance
Azure migration is seen as essential for long-term scaling of GitHub
"GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development"
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 290 |
Comments: 113
The user wants to implement a system in their media server, like Jellyfin or Plex, that inserts mandatory, unskippable breaks during viewing. These breaks would not be traditional ads but would instead display a dynamic household task list or a brief physical challenge to encourage activity and productivity.
Key Points:
The goal is to use media server breaks to promote healthy habits and task management.
The proposed breaks are mandatory and unskippable, lasting from 30 seconds to 5 minutes.
Content for breaks includes a living task list from Home Assistant for chores.
Content also includes brief workout challenges, like wall sits or push-ups.
The user is seeking a method to accomplish this technical implementation.
"Ideally these would be mandatory/unskippable "ads" that play for 30s-5min and either display a living task list from HA of chores they need to do or (for me) a brief workout challenge"
Code comments should apply to the state of the system at the point the comment "executes"
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 237 |
Comments: 121
This article argues that code comments should describe the state of the system at the exact point where they appear in execution, not the state before or after. It demonstrates this principle by showing how a poorly placed comment about a 'vibrating widget' creates confusion, and then provides corrected examples where comments are moved inside the conditional blocks they describe. The core message is that comment placement is critical for clarity and should align with the program's logical flow.
Key Points:
Comments inside a function should apply to the system state at the point the comment 'executes'
Poor comment placement, such as before an 'if' statement, can create confusion about the current program state
Comments should be placed inside the code block they describe to accurately reflect the execution context
Restructuring comments to match the program's state prior to a conditional can also improve clarity
The article uses a concrete example with a 'vibrating widget' to illustrate the problem and solution
"Comments inside the body of a function should apply to the state of the system at the point the comment 'executes'."
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 156 |
Comments: 17
The October 10, 2025, edition of Self-Host Weekly provides a community update on self-hosted software, featuring a major directory overhaul, project updates, and new application launches. It spotlights a tool for converting YouTube content into podcasts and shares various community guides. The newsletter serves as a monthly recap of the latest developments in the self-hosting space.
Key Points:
A major overhaul of the selfh.st/apps directory
Project updates for Tiny Tiny RSS and the merger of Overseerr and Jellyseerr into Seerr
Spotlight on PigeonPod, a self-hosted app for converting YouTube to podcasts
Various other software updates, launches, and community guides
"A spotlight on PigeonPod -- a self-hosted app for converting YouTube content into podcasts"
The article announces that Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Code for mobile applications. The release is presented as a significant and impressive development in the AI space.
Key Points:
Anthropic is the company behind the development.
They are preparing a new release called Claude Code.
The release is specifically targeted for mobile apps.
The tone of the article suggests the development is highly anticipated and notable.
"Anthropic prepares Claude Code release for mobile apps"
Writing regex is pure joy. You can't convince me otherwise.
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 120 |
Comments: 62
The author, a computer science student, finds joy and empowerment in using regular expressions (regex) to solve a real-world problem in a team project. While overwhelmed with building a website for an entrepreneurship course, they rediscovered regex as a powerful tool for parsing a complex recipe document. The article details their technical approach using lazy quantifiers and lookaheads to efficiently extract structured data.
Key Points:
The author views writing regex as a joyful and powerful skill, comparing it to 'witchcraft' for conquering text.
They were struggling with their team's website development for a college entrepreneurship project focused on healthy foods.
Faced with the daunting task of data entry from a PDF of recipes, they turned to regex as a solution.
They used a specific regex pattern with lazy quantifiers and lookaheads to parse the document effectively.
The author uses the analogy of a 'greedy king' and a 'lazy king' to explain the difference between greedy and lazy quantifiers.
"These systems impeccably conquer text and are used in a lot of codes to answer complex problems. Regex, for me, felt like a lifeline when everything else was making the routines too rigid and basic."
I Triggered a Government Investigation into Microsoft (Update)
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 51 |
Comments: 24
Trevor Nestor provides an update on his legal case and investigation against Microsoft, detailing allegations of wrongful terminations, ADA noncompliance, and whistleblower retaliation. He explains his decision to go public despite advice against it, noting that it has encouraged other current and former employees to share similar experiences of corporate misconduct. The article describes how Microsoft allegedly uses retaliatory Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) to gaslight and terminate employees.
Key Points:
Microsoft is under state and federal investigation for wrongful terminations, ADA noncompliance, and whistleblower retaliation
Employees are allegedly placed on retaliatory or inactionable PIPs as a form of gaslighting to scapegoat engineers for management failures
Going public has encouraged other current and former employees, including director-level staff, to share similar experiences
The author describes a toxic culture of fear, intimidation, and concealment at Microsoft
Microsoft is accused of replacing engineers with H1B visa holders and non-functional AI tools to undercut wages
"The way these corporations continue to get away with violations of labor law like wrongful terminations is precisely by means of isolating individuals, controlling narratives and public perceptions, and gaslighting campaigns under a thin guise of care and plausible deniability"
How would you go about implementing LVT and the UBI?
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 15 |
Comments: 24
The article presents a hypothetical scenario where a policymaker has absolute political power to implement a Land Value Tax (LVT) and a Universal Basic Income (UBI). It asks whether the implementation should be immediate and full-scale or a slow, gradual process, inviting readers to specify a country context.
Key Points:
Poses a hypothetical situation with complete political power for policy implementation
Focuses on implementing a Land Value Tax (LVT) and Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Central question is the speed of implementation: gradual vs. immediate (85%/100%)
Ases readers to specify a country for context in the comments
"Would you do it slowly and gradually or go straight into 85%/100% LVT and UBI."
Is land value tax the solution to the demographic issue?
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 15 |
Comments: 13
The article proposes that a land value tax could be a solution to the demographic pressures caused by an ageing population in Western nations. It suggests that shifting taxation from income to land might alleviate the strain on welfare systems.
Key Points:
Western nations are facing significant demographic issues.
An ageing population is putting huge pressure on welfare systems.
A land value tax is proposed as a potential solution.
The article questions if taxing land instead of income would help.
"Surely taxing land and not income would help solve this?"
A user is alarmed that the AI, Claude, correctly used their daughter's name during a conversation, despite the user being certain they had never mentioned it. The AI has no access to external data like email or calendar, and the conversation's memory feature was not active, leaving the user baffled as to how the AI obtained this private information.
Key Points:
Claude correctly identified the user's daughter's name without being told it directly in the conversation.
The user is certain they never used the daughter's name in any prior interactions with the AI.
Claude has no access to external personal data sources like email or calendars.
The conversation's memory feature was turned off, eliminating that as a source.
The AI itself could not explain how it knew the name after reviewing the conversation history.
"I very intentionally never used her name though. Then suddenly, it used her name. With certainty."