The Worst Thing About Elon Musk Is That He Got Away With All of It | His reign of terror didn’t end after he bought the 2024 election.
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 18050 |
Comments: 743
The article argues that Elon Musk's immense wealth and power have allowed him to avoid consequences for his actions, particularly after he spent heavily to help elect Donald Trump in 2024 and was subsequently given a powerful, unaccountable role in government. It details how he used this position to decimate federal agencies, purge career civil servants, and implement disruptive policies with lasting damage, all while being insulated from ethics requirements.
Key Points:
Musk's wealth and government contracts shield him from the consequences of his failed plans and allow him to avoid introspection.
After spending $250 million to help elect Trump, Musk was rewarded with control of a powerful government agency (DOGE) without an official title, evading ethics rules.
Musk and his inexperienced, ideologically-aligned hires systematically purged career civil servants, crippling agencies like OPM and USAID.
His actions, including a public Nazi salute, are presented as part of a broader pattern of destructive and unaccountable behavior enabled by his status.
The article posits that the extensive damage from his 'reign of terror' in government will have lasting, negative consequences.
"He would get to run the powerful government agency while claiming to have no official position with the government, insulating him from any and all ethics requirements."
Trump Yelled 'My Friends Will Get Hurt' at Marjorie Taylor Greene for Threatening to Name Epstein Abusers, She Claims
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 8725 |
Comments: 381
In a New York Times profile, outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claims her final falling out with former President Donald Trump was over her push for transparency regarding Jeffrey Epstein's associates. She alleges Trump yelled at her on a speakerphone call, warning 'My friends will get hurt' if she revealed names. Greene states her advocacy for Epstein's survivors was the primary reason Trump withdrew his support for her.
Key Points:
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims her advocacy for Jeffrey Epstein's survivors caused her final rift with Donald Trump.
Greene alleges Trump yelled at her on a speakerphone call, saying 'My friends will get hurt' if she revealed names of Epstein's associates.
She describes 'Epstein' as the central issue that drove the wedge between them, calling it 'everything.'
Greene's public threat to work with victims to reveal abusers' names prompted the hostile call from Trump.
A White House spokesperson dismissed Greene's claims as 'petty bitterness.'
""The Epstein files represent everything wrong with Washington. Rich, powerful elites doing horrible things and getting away with it. And the women are the victims.""
Trump’s Mystery Bruise Spreads to His Other Hand - How will the White House explain this?
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 6570 |
Comments: 739
The article reports on renewed concerns about Donald Trump's health after he was photographed with a new bruise on his left hand over Christmas, adding to existing worries about his cognitive and physical condition. It details a pattern of public incidents, including appearing disoriented and falling asleep during important events, which have fueled speculation despite his claims of perfect health.
Key Points:
Donald Trump was photographed with a new bruise on his left hand on Christmas Eve, adding to previous discolorations on his right hand.
His health has been a long-standing concern, with reports of memory issues, appearing discombobulated in meetings, and falling asleep during critical public appearances.
Trump underwent a lengthy MRI scan in October, which he and his physician declared 'perfect,' but the timeline raised questions from former White House doctors.
The topic of his health reportedly 'irks' Trump intensely, as shown by his furious reaction to a governor's call to release his medical records.
The article connects these observations to broader concerns about his fitness for office, citing incidents like a sagging mouth at a 9/11 ceremony that some speculated could indicate a stroke.
"Since then, the president has regularly been spotted with odd discolorations on his right hand. He also routinely appears discombobulated and lethargic during critical meetings with world leaders. Over the course of the last year, Trump has fallen asleep roughly a dozen times during critical public appearances."
Trump 'Scrubbed' Files: DOJ Caught 'With Hands In Cookie Jar' Over Deleted Epstein Photos DOJ sparks cover-up fears after scrubbing Trump and Epstein photos from official public records
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 5493 |
Comments: 140
The article reports that the Department of Justice, under President Trump, removed 16 photographs from a public release of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents, including one allegedly showing Trump with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. This sparked accusations of a cover-up from Democrats, while the DOJ defended the action as a legally required review for victim privacy.
Key Points:
16 photos, including one allegedly of Donald and Melania Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, were removed from a public DOJ archive shortly after release.
House Oversight Democrats accused the DOJ of a cover-up and demanded transparency, specifically questioning Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche denied political motives, stating the removal was to comply with a court order to consult victims before releasing sensitive materials.
The timing and specific removal of the intimate 'file 468' photo fueled suspicions and theories of a high-level cover-up.
The incident highlights the ongoing political battle over public access to evidence in the Epstein case and scrutiny of Trump's historical ties to Epstein.
"In a move that has sparked a political firestorm in Washington, Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) appears to have been caught with its hands in the cookie jar."
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 588 |
Comments: 143
MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847) is a critical vulnerability in MongoDB versions since 2017 that allows attackers to read uninitialized heap memory via a flaw in the zlib compression path. The exploit involves sending a compressed message with a falsely large size field, tricking the server into returning sensitive leftover data from previous operations. It is easily exploitable without authentication and affects end-of-life versions that will not be patched.
Key Points:
Vulnerability allows reading arbitrary uninitialized heap memory from the database.
Affects all MongoDB versions since 2017 and is exploitable without authentication.
Flaw is in the zlib compression path where the server trusts a user-provided size field without verification.
Exploit leverages BSON's C-string parsing to read beyond valid data into leftover memory.
Sensitive data like passwords, API keys, and customer info can be leaked.
Fixed in current versions but not for end-of-life versions (3.6, 4.0, 4.2).
"Since Mongo is writen in C++, that unreferenced heap garbage part can represent anything that was in memory from previous operations, including: Cleartext passwords and credentials, Session tokens / API keys, Customer data and PII, Database configs and system info, Docker paths and client IP addresses"
What does the software engineering job market look like heading into 2026?
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 248 |
Comments: 173
The article argues that the current software engineering job market crisis is not primarily due to AI replacing jobs, but is a correction following a period of overhiring driven by pandemic-era digitization and low interest rates. It predicts a 'low-hiring, low-firing' phase for 2026, with increased competition from global remote talent being a significant factor. Companies are using AI as a 'PR-friendly excuse' for layoffs while shifting roles to lower-cost regions.
Key Points:
The job market crisis is a correction from massive overhiring in 2021-2022, not primarily caused by AI.
Companies are using AI as a public rationale for layoffs while actually shifting work to lower-cost global talent.
Remote work has enabled cost-saving through global hiring, reducing opportunities for local talent in high-wage countries.
The outlook for 2026 is a stabilized, 'low-hiring, low-firing' market rather than a continued downturn.
"AI became the PR-friendly excuse. Saying 'we are replacing jobs with AI' sounded forward-thinking. That's why these companies talk about all this AI disruption while quietly shifting work overseas."
End of Year Self-Hosting Showcase 2025 - Share your setups!
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 225 |
Comments: 43
The article is a community showcase post from late 2025 where the author shares their extensive list of self-hosted services and invites others to do the same. It serves as both a personal inventory and a prompt for discussion about new discoveries and favorite tools within the self-hosting community.
Key Points:
The author runs a comprehensive suite of over 45 self-hosted services covering media management, automation, security, home automation, and system administration.
The post is an open invitation for the community to share their own setups and discuss new services discovered during the year.
The list highlights the diversity of self-hosted applications, from common media servers (Plex, Radarr) to niche tools for comics (Kapowarr), books (Booklore), and game claiming (Epic Games Claimer).
It emphasizes the trend towards automation and integration, with many tools designed to work together (e.g., the *arr suite, notification bridges).
The author provides direct GitHub links for every service, underscoring the open-source nature of the self-hosting ecosystem.
"As we wrap up 2025, I wanted to share my complete self-hosted setup and see what everyone else is running! I'd love to hear what you're all running - drop your stacks in the comments! What new services did you discover this year? What's been your favorite addition?"
A New Year Reminder: Every Self-Hosted Project Has a Human Behind It
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 163 |
Comments: 25
The article reminds the self-hosted software community that open-source projects are maintained by real people who often volunteer their time. It emphasizes that non-monetary support, like kind messages or small contributions, can significantly sustain a maintainer's motivation. The author encourages users to show appreciation and contribute in various ways as we enter the new year.
Key Points:
Open-source maintainers are real people balancing projects with personal and professional commitments.
Support for projects doesn't require money; it can be given through messages, code, documentation, or promotion.
Small gestures of appreciation can have a massive impact on preventing maintainer burnout.
The article lists specific, actionable ways users can give back to the community.
The core message is one of gratitude and encouragement for collaborative support in the new year.
"Even small gestures can have a massive impact on a maintainer’s motivation. A kind message, a small pull request, or simply telling someone their work mattered can be the difference between burnout and renewed energy."
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 93 |
Comments: 21
The article discusses how the long-standing, informal web protocol robots.txt, which allowed website owners to control data scraping by search engines through a social contract, is being undermined by the rise of AI. AI companies are aggressively scraping web data to build training datasets without providing reciprocal benefits, breaking the traditional 'give and take' agreement and threatening the foundational order of the open web.
Key Points:
The robots.txt file has served as an informal, constitution-like agreement for decades, allowing site owners to control web crawler access.
The rise of AI has changed the dynamic, as companies scrape data to build models without sending traffic back, creating an 'all take and no give' situation.
The massive financial incentives and rapid pace of AI development are overwhelming the old social contract of 'everybody just be cool.'
The core issue is a shift from a mutually beneficial relationship with search engines to one where AI companies use data without direct reciprocity.
"The robots.txt file governs a give and take; AI feels to many like all take and no give."
The article describes the 'Great Downzoning,' a historical process in which Western cities banned densification through zoning laws, which is identified as the primary cause of modern housing shortages. It argues this shift was driven more by the material interests of property owners than by anti-density ideology, and suggests reform may now be possible where these rules have begun to reduce property values.
Key Points:
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Western cities shifted from permissive building rules to widespread bans on densification.
This 'Great Downzoning' is the main cause of current housing shortages, with severe economic and social consequences.
The change was driven more by the economic interests of property owners (where rules raised values) than by ideological opposition to density.
Reversing these rules is difficult because they provide tangible benefits to many property owners, not just because of principled arguments.
In major cities where shortages now depress property values, new coalitions for reform may be possible.
"The general pattern is that the Great Downzoning was driven by interests more than by ideology. The Downzoning happened where it served the perceived interests of property owners, and failed to happen where it did not."
I built a way for Claude Skill creators to get paid - looking for beta testers
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 77 |
Comments: 19
The author introduces Agent37, a platform designed to solve the monetization problem for creators of Claude AI skills. It allows creators to upload their skills, share a link for instant trials, and collect subscriptions while keeping their source code private and enabling automatic updates.
Key Points:
Solves the problem of monetizing Claude/MCP skills, which currently involves a cumbersome manual setup for users.
Creators upload a skill and get a shareable link for instant trials without requiring a Claude account.
Implements a subscription model where creators keep 80% of the revenue.
Keeps skill source code private and allows for automatic updates.
Seeks beta testers from among Claude skill creators for feedback and onboarding.
"Selling Claude skills today means asking customers to download your skill, set up Claude Code on their laptops, configure MCP servers, and pray it works. No trial, no updates, often you're just handing over the source."
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 61 |
Comments: 20
The article reflects on the 50-year legacy of Fred Brooks's 'The Mythical Man-Month,' examining which of its core ideas about software engineering remain relevant. It finds that the central challenge of managing complexity and the fallacy of adding manpower to late projects are enduring truths, despite technological advances.
Key Points:
The core challenge of software development remains the management of complexity, a central theme from Brooks's book that still holds true.
Brooks's analysis that programming is a small part of the total cost for large-scale commercial software, with integration and 'productization' costing far more, remains valid.
The 'mythical man-month' concept—that adding manpower to a late software project often makes it later—is a foundational and enduring insight.
The book's lessons are drawn from Brooks's experience on the troubled, large-scale IBM OS/360 project, which serves as a key case study.
Despite being a collection of essays, the book introduced influential principles that shaped early software engineering practices.
"Despite the immense technological advances of the past half-century – in computer hardware, in programming languages and runtime environments, and in tools and automation that support every aspect of software delivery – the core challenge of software development remains the management of complexity."
How Nx "pulled the rug" on us, a potential solution and lessons learned
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 46 |
Comments: 20
The article details how Nx deprecated custom task runners, forcing teams to adopt its commercial Nx Cloud or Powerpack for remote caching. In response, the author created portable-nx-cache, an open-source tool that uses a CI's filesystem cache to provide a free, self-hosted caching solution. This workaround avoids the need for procurement or managing a complex remote service.
Key Points:
Nx deprecated custom task runners in 2024, removing a free path to remote caching and pushing users toward commercial offerings.
The author developed portable-nx-cache, a MIT-licensed Go binary that implements Nx's OpenAPI spec and stores artifacts in the CI filesystem cache.
The tool integrates simply with CI systems like GitLab, restoring and saving a cache directory between jobs without a dedicated service.
The Nx OpenAPI spec's design (e.g., no bulk requests) is seen as intentionally limiting to make custom caches non-competitive.
The solution bypasses lengthy procurement processes for teams that only need basic remote caching.
"Unfortunately, in 2024, the creators of Nx — perhaps under pressure to become more profitable — deprecated support for custom task runners, causing quite a bit of controversy on a few GitHub issues"
why georgism works where efficient redistribution fails: a movement needs a bearded guy
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 6 |
Comments: 2
The article argues that Georgism, which combines Land Value Taxes, Pigovian taxes, and a Universal Basic Income, represents the original neoliberal vision of efficient markets with state intervention for redistribution. It posits that for a political movement to succeed, it needs not just sound economics but also a compelling narrative and figurehead, like Henry George, to break through ideological heuristics and inspire people.
Key Points:
Georgism (LVT, Pigovian taxes, UBI) aligns with the original 1930s-40s neoliberal vision of competitive markets with state intervention to capture rents and provide social insurance.
Pure economic rationality struggles to compete with ideologies like Marxism, which have narrative power, a human face, and a sense of historical destiny.
Progressives often dismiss market-based solutions with pre-cached scripts, but Georgism, associated with the radical figure Henry George, disrupts this pattern.
Henry George provides the movement with radical aesthetic signifiers (passion, populism, a beard) that help avoid the 'heartless economist' stereotype.
A successful political movement needs both rigorous economics and a radical tradition or prophet to inspire action and thread the political needle.
"the georgist synthesis - efficient markets, radical redistribution, and a bearded guy who hated landlords - might actually thread the needle in a way that pure economic rationality never could."