JPMorgan flagged $1B in ‘suspicious’ Epstein-linked deals to Trump administration
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Score: 27605 |
Comments: 584
In 2019, shortly after Jeffrey Epstein's death, JPMorgan Chase filed a suspicious activity report with the Trump administration flagging over $1 billion in transactions linked to Epstein. The report identified over 4,700 transactions, including wire transfers to Russian banks, and mentioned financial dealings involving prominent Wall Street figures. The bank raised concerns that the transactions could be related to Epstein's human trafficking operations.
Key Points:
JPMorgan Chase alerted authorities to over $1 billion in suspicious transactions linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
The report flagged over 4,700 transactions, including wire transfers to Russian banks.
Prominent figures named in the report include Leon Black, Glenn Dubin, Alan Dershowitz, and trusts linked to Leslie Wexner.
The bank raised concerns the transactions could be related to human trafficking operations.
The report mentioned sensitivities surrounding Epstein's 'relationships with two U.S. presidents.'
"Among the names highlighted in JPMorgan’s suspicious activity report are: Leon Black, co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management and former MoMA chairman; billionaire hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin; celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz; and trusts linked to retail magnate Leslie Wexner."
Why the Hell Did JD Vance and Erika Kirk Hug Like That? The vice president had an uncomfortably close embrace with Charlie Kirk’s widow, for everyone to witness.
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Score: 8288 |
Comments: 1244
An article from The New Republic examines the controversy surrounding Vice President JD Vance's uncomfortably close embrace with Erika Kirk, widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, during a Turning Point USA event. The piece suggests the physical interaction, combined with Vance's public comments about hoping his wife Usha would convert from Hinduism to Christianity, has sparked rumors and appears disrespectful to his family.
Key Points:
Vice President JD Vance shared an uncomfortably close embrace with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, at a Turning Point USA event
The interaction sparked online speculation and commentary about Vance's relationship with Kirk
Vance publicly expressed hope that his wife Usha would convert from Hinduism to Christianity
The combination of the physical interaction and religious comments has generated rumors and appears disrespectful to his family
The article questions Vance's priorities as vice president engaging in conservative influencer activities
"Is there something going on between Kirk and Vance? If there isn't, the vice president's words and that hug are already spreading rumors otherwise. Usha and her parents have both done a lot for Vance, and what happened Wednesday looks disrespectful, at a minimum."
SNAP benefits must continue despite shutdown, judge tells Trump administration
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Score: 5844 |
Comments: 248
A federal judge in Rhode Island blocked the Trump administration from cutting off SNAP benefits during a government shutdown, ordering the administration to use emergency funds to continue payments. The ruling came just before benefits for 42 million Americans were set to expire, with the judge arguing that irreparable harm would occur without the assistance.
Key Points:
Judge Jack McConnell issued a temporary restraining order preventing the suspension of SNAP benefits.
The ruling affects 42 million Americans who rely on the food stamp program.
The judge ordered the administration to use available contingency funds to maintain benefits.
The Justice Department argued the SNAP program no longer existed due to a lack of congressionally appropriated funds.
A separate federal judge in a similar case also found the suspension of benefits was likely unlawful.
""There is no doubt, and it is beyond argument, that irreparable harm will begin to occur if it hasn't already occurred in the terror it has caused some people about the availability of funding for food for their family," McConnell said."
Trump’s swift demolition of East Wing may have launched asbestos plumes
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Score: 4717 |
Comments: 317
The rapid demolition of the White House East Wing has raised significant health and safety concerns due to the potential release of asbestos from the century-old building. Health advocates and Democratic lawmakers are demanding transparency, as there is no public confirmation that required asbestos inspections and abatement procedures were followed before the demolition began. The identified demolition company, ACECO, is reportedly not licensed for asbestos abatement in Washington, D.C., and has not responded to inquiries.
Key Points:
The East Wing, constructed in 1902 and renovated in 1942, likely contained asbestos, which poses serious health risks like lung disease and cancer if inhaled.
Federal law requires comprehensive asbestos inspection and abatement before demolition, but no documentation has been made public to confirm this was done.
Images of the demolition showed dust clouds and workers without personal protective equipment, with crowds and tourists nearby.
The demolition company, ACECO, is not licensed to perform asbestos abatement in Washington, D.C., according to city officials.
Democratic senators have sent letters demanding answers about the adherence to health and safety regulations, but the company and the White House have been unresponsive.
""Every building of this age must undergo full asbestos inspection and abatement before any demolition begins," Linda Reinstein, president and cofounder of ADAO, said in a press statement."
Tik Tok saved $300000 per year in computing costs by having an intern partially rewrite a microservice in Rust.
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 2812 |
Comments: 358
TikTok migrated critical, high-traffic Go APIs to Rust to address performance bottlenecks, resulting in a 2x performance improvement and $300,000 in annual cost savings. The rewrite specifically targeted CPU-bound services suffering from garbage collection and serialization overhead. This strategic, partial migration achieved significant gains in CPU usage, memory, and latency without rewriting the entire service.
Key Points:
Performance bottlenecks in Go APIs at 100K QPS were caused by garbage collection pauses, serialization/deserialization intensity, and runtime overhead.
Rewriting only the critical, CPU-bound APIs in Rust resulted in 33% lower CPU usage, 72% lower memory, and a 76% reduction in p99 latency.
Rust's advantages included zero garbage collection, copy-on-write data structures, and zero-cost abstractions that eliminated runtime overhead.
The migration followed a structured process with shadow mode deployment to guarantee 100% correctness before full rollout.
The project demonstrates strategic optimization by only rewriting performance-critical parts, balancing gains with maintenance overhead.
""This isn’t a story about 'Rust is better than Go.' It’s a story about engineering maturity and strategic optimization." "Paradoxically, this project gave me an even deeper appreciation for Golang. Go’s incredible developer productivity and well-rounded performance make it the ideal choice for 95% of our services.""
Claude Status Update: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:17:38 +0000
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Score: 145 |
Comments: 261
An automated system status update reports elevated errors for requests to the Claude 4 Sonnet model. The post was triggered within 15 minutes of the official update and directs users to a status page for resolution details.
Key Points:
An incident involving elevated errors for Claude 4 Sonnet is reported.
The post is an automatic notification triggered shortly after a status update.
Users are directed to a specific URL for progress checks and resolution status.
The incident was active and unresolved at the time of the post.
"Check on progress and whether or not the incident has been resolved yet here : https://status.claude.com/incidents/zdxjv49ydg0f"
Official v1.0.0 Release of Warracker, the self-hosted warranty tracker
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Score: 126 |
Comments: 18
Warracker v1.0.0 has been officially released, marking the end of its beta phase. It is a self-hosted application designed to help users track product warranties, purchase details, and receipts in a private dashboard with expiry notifications.
Key Points:
Tracks products, warranties, and expiry dates
Allows users to attach receipts, invoices, manuals, and other files
Sends expiry reminders and notifications
Is fully self-hosted, ensuring user data remains private
Integrates with Paperless-ngx for automatic document linking
"it helps you keep your warranties, purchase details, and receipts organized in one private dashboard with notifications before they expire."
Are you drowning in AI code review noise? 70% of AI PR comments are useless
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 118 |
Comments: 72
The article addresses the problem of excessive noise in AI-powered code review tools, where most comments are trivial and critical bugs are often missed. It proposes a three-tier framework to measure the signal-to-noise ratio of review comments, classifying them by severity from critical bugs to subjective noise. The author argues that tools should prioritize high-impact feedback to avoid overwhelming developers and harming team velocity.
Key Points:
Most AI code review tools generate excessive noise, with an estimated 80% of comments being trivial.
The proposed framework classifies comments into three tiers: Tier 1 (critical failures), Tier 2 (maintainability issues), and Tier 3 (subjective noise).
Signal Ratio is calculated as (Tier 1 + Tier 2) / Total comments, with a good tool achieving >60%.
Noisy reviews cause developers to ignore all comments, including critical ones, directly harming team velocity.
The framework provides an objective way to evaluate any AI code review tool's effectiveness.
"The problem isn’t that AI tools don’t work. It’s that they work too much."
Why is Claude generating so many READMES, guides, and other "helpful" documentation?
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 80 |
Comments: 42
The author expresses frustration that Claude AI generates excessive documentation like READMEs and guides alongside requested code, which they find unnecessary and time-consuming. They feel the AI overestimates the need for explanatory text for someone who can understand code directly.
Key Points:
Claude generates excessive documentation (READMEs, guides, tutorials) alongside code
This documentation makes up the majority of the response time and is considered unnecessary
The author is capable of understanding code without supplementary text documents
They dislike using user styles to suppress this behavior as it pollutes other interactions
The core issue is a perceived mismatch between the AI's and the user's needs
"This is unbearable because most of the time the responses take 80% of time just for text documents I will never read, ever."
The Green Party of England and Wales has become the first major party to adopt a Land Value Tax (LVT) on all land as official policy. In contrast, the Liberal Democrats propose a levy only on commercial properties, a position the author suggests is influenced by the slower growth in commercial land values compared to residential and agricultural land. The article argues that LVT should be applied to all land, not just commercial properties.
Key Points:
The Green Party is the first major party to make a Land Value Tax on all land official policy.
The Liberal Democrats propose a Land Value Tax only on commercial properties, called a Commercial Landowner Levy.
The author hopes the Green Party's stance will push the Liberal Democrats to support a tax on all land.
Data shows commercial land value has not increased as much as residential and agricultural land value over time.
The author's central argument is that LVT is needed on all land, not just a specific sector.
How my Node.js code was causing a massive memory leak and how I solved it
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 37 |
Comments: 13
The article explains that while JavaScript developers often assume the V8 garbage collector handles all memory management automatically, this belief can lead to performance disasters in long-running applications like Node.js servers. It reveals how certain coding patterns violate the GC's assumptions, causing memory leaks and performance degradation, and emphasizes writing GC-empathetic code for better performance.
Key Points:
V8 divides memory into New Space and Old Space for efficient garbage collection
Common coding patterns can violate GC assumptions and cause memory leaks
The goal is not to avoid garbage collection but to make it fast and predictable
Memory issues often manifest as subtle performance degradation before catastrophic failures
"For a simple browser script, that's mostly true. For a long-running Node.js server handling thousands of requests, this belief is a performance disaster."
Claude Code's new native installer is now available!
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Score: 31 |
Comments: 8
Claude Code has released a new native installer that is now the recommended installation method across all major operating systems. The update simplifies the installation process, improves stability, and eliminates the previous dependency on Node.js.
Key Points:
A new native installer for Claude Code is now available
It is the new recommended way to install on macOS, Linux, and Windows
The installation process is now simpler and more stable
It no longer requires Node.js to be installed
This represents a significant improvement over the previous installation method
"It's simpler, more stable, and no longer requires Node.js. This is the new recommended way to install it on macOS, Linux, and Windows."
The article argues that while Baltimore's recent elimination of mandatory parking minimums is a positive step for development, its full potential is only realized when paired with a land value tax (LVT) shift. The LVT shift would discourage land speculation and underuse by taxing land value more heavily than building improvements, creating a financial incentive to develop idle lots. Together, these policies would synergize to transform underutilized urban land into denser, mixed-use, and vibrant spaces.
Key Points:
Baltimore eliminated minimum parking requirements, allowing developers to build to market demand rather than wasting resources on mandatory parking.
A land value tax (LVT) shift would tax land itself more heavily while lightly taxing building improvements, making it costly to hold land idle.
The combination of parking reform and LVT creates a powerful synergy: one removes regulatory barriers, the other removes financial disincentives to development.
This policy pairing discourages speculation on surface parking lots and vacant parcels, encouraging their conversion into productive uses like housing and retail.
The goal is to create a denser, more vibrant, and economically productive downtown where land is put to its 'highest and best use.'
""Our property tax policy punishes buildings and does not inflict enough cost on underutilized land.""
Horror Coding Stories: Therac-25 — A deadly race condition and overflow
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Score: 6 |
Comments: 0
The Therac-25 radiation therapy machine caused multiple patient deaths and injuries due to critical software flaws. A race condition between concurrent tasks and an integer overflow in a safety counter allowed the machine to deliver massive radiation overdoses. These tragedies demonstrated the fatal consequences of relying on software alone for safety-critical systems without independent hardware interlocks.
Key Points:
The Therac-25 was a new, computer-controlled machine that combined two radiation therapies, replacing older models that used hardware safety circuits.
A race condition occurred when a technologist quickly corrected a treatment mode, causing concurrent software tasks to read inconsistent data from shared memory.
This race condition led to the machine delivering a high-power electron beam without the proper safety configuration, resulting in fatal overdoses.
A separate, fatal incident was caused by an integer overflow in a software counter, which bypassed a critical safety check.
The core failure was the design philosophy that relied solely on software for safety, removing the independent hardware safety net of previous models.
"Both the race condition and the counter overflow stemmed from the same design flaw: the belief that software alone could enforce safety. The Therac-25 showed, in tragic terms, that without independent s"
The article is an error message from the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) indicating that the user's browser has JavaScript disabled. It instructs the user to enable JavaScript, switch to a supported browser, or disable privacy extensions that may be interfering with the site's functionality.
Key Points:
JavaScript is disabled in the user's browser, preventing the X.com site from loading.
The user is prompted to enable JavaScript to continue using the platform.
The user is advised to switch to a supported browser if the issue persists.
Privacy-related browser extensions are identified as a potential cause of the problem.
The message provides a link to a Help Center for a list of compatible browsers.
"JavaScript is not available. We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using x.com."