Trump confirms secondary physical included MRI, cognitive test
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 11690 |
Comments: 1005
President Donald Trump revealed he underwent an MRI and a cognitive test during a secondary physical at Walter Reed. He described the results of both exams as 'perfect' and suggested political opponents like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should take similar cognitive tests.
Key Points:
President Trump underwent an MRI and a cognitive test during a 'secondary' physical at Walter Reed.
Trump stated the results of the MRI were 'perfect' and that his doctors gave him excellent reports for his age.
He revealed he took a cognitive test and described some questions as very difficult, suggesting political opponents take similar exams.
Trump's physician, Sean Barbabella, stated the president continues to 'demonstrate excellent overall health'.
The president was previously diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a benign condition common in people over 70.
""You give her an IQ test. Have her pass, like, the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed," Trump said referring to Ocasio-Cortez. "I took — those are very hard — they’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way.""
Trump Confesses That He Found Elementary School-Level Test ‘Very Hard’
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 9980 |
Comments: 435
In October 2025, President Donald Trump admitted he found the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a test designed to screen for early signs of dementia, 'very hard.' This comment came as he challenged political rivals to take the same test, despite having previously bragged about achieving a perfect score on it.
Key Points:
Trump made the comments while attacking Democratic congresswomen Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as 'low IQ.'
The test in question is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which includes tasks like identifying animals, drawing a clock, and repeating words.
Trump previously boasted about getting a perfect score on the test in April 2025.
The article notes that tasks on the test, such as identifying animals and skip counting, are skills typically learned in early elementary school.
Trump's physician released a vague summary of a more recent medical check-up, instead of a detailed memorandum, stating Trump remained in 'exceptional health.'
"The test asks respondents to draw a clock, identify pictures of animals, and repeat back a list of five words. According to its creators, the test was designed to detect mild cognitive impairment as early as possible, not to measure intelligence or IQ."
A Michigan elected official is married to a neo-Nazi. Some constituents have a problem with that.
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 7231 |
Comments: 301
Meghyn Booth, an elected treasurer in Maple Valley Township, Michigan, is married to Chris Booth, a man identified as a neo-Nazi influencer. The community is divided over whether she can perform her duties without prejudice, leading to a planned recall effort against her. Booth claims she was unaware of the full extent of her husband's extremist views and has publicly condemned racism and antisemitism.
Key Points:
Meghyn Booth, a township treasurer, is married to Chris Booth, the creator of a neo-Nazi YouTube channel featuring antisemitic and racist content.
The community is split on whether Booth can be trusted to perform her job impartially, with some constituents planning a recall effort.
Booth claims she was unaware of the full extent of her husband's extremist activities, learning details from a reporter.
Chris Booth's videos included threats to 'settle scores' with locals, raising concerns about chilling civic participation.
The township board passed a statement condemning discriminatory behavior, which Booth supported, while also emphasizing free speech.
""When a public official’s spouse talks about settling scores with locals and invites confrontation, it chills civic participation. People wonder, ‘Will I be targeted if I speak at this mic? If I ask a question at the treasurer’s counter?’""
The author discovered that Claude Code was consuming 85% of its context window reading unnecessary files like node_modules and build artifacts, despite having proper Read() deny rules configured. The root cause was that bash commands like grep and find bypass these permission systems, scanning entire project trees. The solution implemented was a pre-execution bash validation hook that filters commands containing blocked directory patterns.
Key Points:
Claude Code was spending 85,000 out of 100,000 tokens on dependency code and build artifacts
Bash commands bypass Read() permission rules, allowing tools like grep and find to scan blocked directories
The solution uses a 5-line bash script as a pre-execution hook to validate commands
The hook blocks commands containing patterns like node_modules, .git, and build directories
This addresses a fundamental issue where two separate permission systems don't communicate
"The issue: Claude Code has two separate permission systems that don't talk to each other. Read() rules don't apply to bash commands, so grep and find bypass your carefully crafted deny lists."
80,000 GitHub Stars and I’m Just Finding This?! - Immich
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 376 |
Comments: 99
The author expresses surprise at discovering Immich, a self-hosted photo and video management solution with over 80,000 GitHub stars. Immich allows users to back up and organize their media on their own hardware, offering a polished interface and AI-powered search to replace cloud services like Google Photos.
Key Points:
Self-hosted and open source, giving users full control and ownership of their data
Features a polished mobile app for automatic backup and a slick web interface
Includes powerful AI search using CLIP models to find photos by people, objects, or descriptions without manual tagging
Actively developed with a large community and rich features like albums, maps, and RAW support
Presented as a viable alternative to paid cloud services from Apple, Google, and Amazon
"I want to end my reliance on Apple iCloud, Google Photos, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Amazon Photos and self-host instead."
The Python Software Foundation has withdrawn $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 301 |
Comments: 76
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) withdrew a $1.5 million grant proposal from the US National Science Foundation after it was recommended for funding. The withdrawal was due to grant terms that would have prohibited the PSF from operating any programs that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), which conflicts with the PSF's core values. The funds would have supported a major security project for Python and PyPI, but the PSF Board unanimously chose to uphold its mission over the financial and security benefits.
Key Points:
The PSF's $1.5 million grant proposal was for a project to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI.
The grant was recommended for funding, but the terms required the PSF to affirm it would not operate any programs that advance DEI.
The PSF determined these terms were a betrayal of its mission and core values.
The proposed security project would have created tools for proactive review of PyPI packages to protect against supply-chain attacks.
The PSF Board voted unanimously to withdraw the application, prioritizing its values over the significant financial and security benefits.
"In the end, however, the PSF simply can’t agree to a statement that we won’t operate any programs that “advance or promote” diversity, equity, and inclusion, as it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community."
Private rent in Britain now swallows 44% of the average wage
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 250 |
Comments: 37
A new report reveals that private rent in Britain now consumes a record 44% of the average pre-tax wage, the highest proportion ever recorded. This crisis is driven by a severe shortage of rental properties and rising demand, placing immense financial strain on tenants.
Key Points:
Rent now takes up 44% of the average pre-tax wage, a record high.
The average monthly rent outside London has risen to £1,030.
A severe shortage of rental properties and rising demand are the main drivers.
The situation is described as a 'full-blown crisis' for tenants.
The government's Renters (Reform) Bill is cited as a potential factor in landlords leaving the market.
"The average monthly private rent outside London has hit a record £1,030, meaning tenants are now spending 44% of their pre-tax average wage on rent, the highest proportion ever recorded, according to property website Rightmove."
Your data, their rules: The growing risks of hosting EU data in the US cloud
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 196 |
Comments: 39
The article argues that the European Union's heavy reliance on a few major US cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) creates significant risks, including escalating costs, legal conflicts with US data access laws, and threats to digital sovereignty. It examines the current landscape and calls for the development of EU-sovereign hosting alternatives to mitigate these concentration risks.
Key Points:
The 'Big Three' US hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) have overwhelmingly won the cloud market, giving them massive leverage.
EU businesses face rising and unpredictable cloud costs despite initial promises of savings, alongside issues of vendor lock-in.
US laws like the CLOUD Act create legal conflicts with EU GDPR, allowing US authorities to access EU data without local cooperation.
Incidents like the alleged 'kill switch' on an ICC prosecutor's account highlight the political risks of over-reliance on US infrastructure.
There is a critical need for EU-sovereign hosting options to address this concentration risk and regain control over data and digital infrastructure.
"But the over-concentration on three US-owned cloud providers is leaving EU consumers exposed. We see that reflected in growing cloud spend, shrinking control over European data, and an increasing barrier to exit due to vendor lock-in and borderline anti-competitive beha"
I built a tool (NetVisor) that discovers your network and generates a visualization of it!
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 186 |
Comments: 61
The author created an open-source tool called NetVisor that automatically discovers and visualizes a home network's topology. It scans the network to identify hosts and services, then generates an interactive diagram to simplify network documentation.
Key Points:
Automatically discovers network topology by scanning IPs and identifying services via port detection and HTTP endpoint analysis.
Generates an interactive visualization to easily create and maintain network documentation.
Built with a Rust backend and a Svelte frontend, and is dockerized for easy deployment.
Supports running multiple daemons across different network segments for VLAN use cases.
Uses AI to assist with complex graph optimization algorithms for generating the visual layout.
"NetVisor automatically discovers and visually documents network topology; it scans your network, identifies hosts and services, and generates an interactive visualization showing how everything connects, letting you easily create and maintain network documentation."
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 92 |
Comments: 47
The article argues that while AI can generate code for isolated tasks, it cannot build production-ready software, which requires managing complexity, integration, and long-term maintainability. This explains why non-technical founders still seek human technical co-founders to turn AI-generated prototypes into real products. The core distinction is that coding is easy to automate, but software engineering is not.
Key Points:
AI can automate coding for well-defined, isolated problems but fails at building production-ready software.
Software engineering involves managing complexity, integration, and long-term maintainability, which AI currently cannot handle.
Non-technical founders with AI-generated prototypes still need human engineers to make their apps production-ready.
The transition from a demo to a real product is the point where coding becomes software engineering.
Often, making an AI-generated app 'production-ready' requires rebuilding it from scratch.
"The thing is that AI can code, but it can't build software. This is the conclusion I've come to after spending a significant amount of time writing AI-assisted code and watching demos by other people."
🧩 ChartDB v1.17 - Open-Source DB Diagram Tool | Arrays, Views, Canvas Editing, and More
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 54 |
Comments: 6
ChartDB has released versions 1.16 and 1.17 of its open-source, self-hosted database diagram tool. These updates introduce significant features like direct canvas editing, support for arrays and views, and smarter SQL imports.
Key Points:
Canvas Editing Upgrades allowing creation of tables and relationships directly on the canvas
Full support for array fields and the ability to import and visualize database views
Smarter imports that detect auto-increment fields and parse more SQL variants
Self-hosted, open-source, and offers multi-database support including PostgreSQL and MySQL
Future roadmap includes version control with Git and visual annotations with sticky notes
"✅ Self-hosted - Full control, deploy via Docker
✅ Open-source - Community-driven and actively maintained
✅ No AI/API required - Deterministic SQL export, no external calls"
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 45 |
Comments: 76
memlz is an extremely fast compression library for C/C++ on x64/x86 architectures that prioritizes speed approaching memcpy() performance. It is a header-only library offering both standard and streaming compression modes with a focus on eliminating unnecessary copy operations. The current beta version lacks input validation during decompression, requiring caution with corrupted data.
Key Points:
Designed for speeds approaching memcpy() performance, benchmarking significantly faster than libraries like Snappy and LZ4
Header-only implementation for easy integration
Supports streaming mode for large datasets or small packets
Eliminates internal payload queue copying that affects other libraries like LZ4
Current beta version (0.1) lacks safe decompression validation for corrupted data
"memlz is a compression library for special use cases where speeds approaching memcpy() are needed."
Anthropic is boosting Claude for financial services with its new Sonnet 4.5 model
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 40 |
Comments: 5
Anthropic has launched new features for its Claude AI model specifically tailored for the financial services industry. The updates include an Excel add-in for direct data analysis, new connectors for real-time market data, and pre-built agent skills for complex financial tasks.
Key Points:
Claude can now work directly inside Excel to analyze data and build models.
New data connectors provide access to real-time market data from sources like Moody's, LSEG, and Egnyte.
The model comes with pre-built agent skills for complex tasks like creating cash flow models.
Another agent skill allows for initiating coverage reports.
These updates are part of a focused effort to boost Claude's capabilities for financial services.
"Claude can now work directly inside Excel to analyze data and build models."
WDYT -My current workflow for vibe coding: Claude prototype → vibe code → Fiverr freelancer finish
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 27 |
Comments: 5
The author describes a hybrid development workflow that treats 'vibe coding' as an initial prototyping phase using AI and no-code tools to create a skeleton. This prototype is then handed off to a Fiverr freelancer who adds real functionality, cleans up logic, and makes the project deployable. The approach is presented as a middle ground between fully DIY development and hiring a full-stack developer from the start.
Key Points:
Uses 'vibe coding' as a sketching/prototyping phase
Leverages AI and no-code tools to build an initial skeleton
Hands off the prototype to a Fiverr freelancer for completion
Freelancer adds functionality, cleans logic, and makes it deployable
Requires clear documentation and a decent brief to work effectively
"I build the skeleton with AI/no-code tools, then pass it to a Fiverr dev who adds real functionality, cleans up the logic, and makes it deployable."
The Terrible Technical Architecture of my First Startup
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 17 |
Comments: 4
The author recounts the flawed technical architecture he built for his first startup, Carbn, a climate-action app. He details his initial serverless AWS design based on limited experience, a subsequent over-engineered system after funding, and what he should have done instead.
Key Points:
The author, with a background from Deloitte and an AWS certification but little practical experience, was the sole technical co-founder.
The initial MVP was built quickly using AWS Amplify as a contrarian alternative to Firebase.
After securing £200k in funding, he designed a more complex, 'scalable' architecture that became a 'monstrosity'.
The article serves as a retrospective on the mistakes made and the lessons learned from over-engineering.
The author admits to being a 'fraud' who didn't know what he was doing but was driven by energy and ambition.
"At no point did I know for sure what I was doing. But that’s part of the fun."
Interesting synthesis of Georgism, mutual aid funds, and worker coops - requesting feedback
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 4 |
Comments: 3
The article proposes a practical model for a decentralized socialist economy by integrating Georgist land value taxation, worker-owned cooperatives, and mutual aid funds. It suggests using land rents collected by community trusts to fund universal basic services and seed capital for co-ops, creating a self-sustaining system. This framework aims to build a freer, more equitable society through incremental, market-compatible reforms rather than revolutionary upheaval.
Key Points:
Implement a Georgist single tax on land value, collected by democratic Community Land Trusts (CLTs), to capture economic rent for public benefit.
Use a portion of the collected land rent to establish a Capital Fund for providing seed financing and loans to worker cooperatives.
Create Mutual Aid Funds, also funded by land rent, to provide a universal social safety net including basic income, healthcare, and housing.
Structure the economy around democratically-owned and managed worker cooperatives to replace traditional corporate hierarchy.
Propose this model as a pragmatic, non-revolutionary path to socialism that can be built incrementally within existing market systems.
"The CLT would serve as a democratic steward of the community’s most fundamental asset — its land. By collecting this rent, the community effectively socializes the value it collectively creates, preventing its privatization and monopolization by a landlord class."