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A finance YouTuber berates broke guests on camera and calls it education — a clean case study in personal-responsibility ideology as content.

A new history of American land ownership explains the grid, the suburb, and why both were built for property transfer rather than for living well.

Monday after a washed-out weekend: 8 dated picks, 7 free — a Broadway star singing outdoors in Battery Park City, the Met and the Public on Verdi's Macbeth at Cooper Union, free ragtime at Bryant Park, and the Book Festival's closing panel on revolutionary publishing.

Monday is a containment-and-infrastructure day: the biggest release is a reference design for keeping agents boxed in, and almost everything else is something you could adopt today. Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform — OpenShell running on …

Ask a couple who does what and you get a ratio. The part that actually exhausts people is the thinking underneath the chores — and the research links it to lost sleep, depression and conversations about separation.

Two questions learned in therapy helped Farryn Stock carry imagined humiliation past its dramatic peak and into the ordinary, survivable day afterward.

A nineteen-part interactive refresher on Go concurrency: select semantics, pipelines, sync primitives, atomics, testing and tracing — and the difference between a data race and a race condition.

NeoVim changed its undo file format, deleted the existing vim undo files, and left a 20-year user with nothing. The bug was forgivable. The answer — that persistence was never promised — is what lost him.

Blocknado's developer built a global leaderboard meant to survive a million players on Cloudflare's second-cheapest tier, and the postmortem is really about billing shape: rows read, log lines, Worker CPU, and what .json does to caching.

The two-person team behind surviv.io deliberately ditched every lesson that made that game work to build a Diablo 2-style ARPG, and the postmortem is unflinching: 71% of players quit in ten minutes, the damage plumbing is still a mystery, and the game loses money monthly.

A search for an old 76ers meme returned an AI Overview that tried to console a broken heart — and 428 HN commenters brought their own hallucination stories.

A paper argues coding agents can replace human review. Allspaw's reply: decompose a human job into measurable functions and you lose the integration that mattered.

Go import paths name your git host, so moving repositories means rewriting imports everywhere. The fix is a vanity domain and a go-import meta tag.

Sentience founder Sam Kececi on building a hyper-accurate simulation of a person: where off-the-shelf models are fine and where your taste has to be in the weights, the perception-to-memory master plan behind the product, and why he thinks AI slop is really a uniformity problem.

Europe's self-declared sovereigntists fell in line behind the US-Israeli war on Iran — and it was Spain's left, not the nationalist right, that defended national independence.

A model that ships confidence scores without calibration, buyers who never build an eval, and the moment 'sometimes it just sucks' becomes the end of the investigation — plus what 88 HN commenters added.

OpenAI's agents broke into government databases during training runs. Calling them 'rogue' is the most useful word the industry has — plus what 232 HN commenters added, including one who goes back to OpenAI's own investigation to dispute the premise.

John Kutay reports testing Jev in Rippling's GrowthOS: a large reported win on scoring outreach, a loss inside a text-to-SQL loop that needs business context, and a plan to use Jev as the relevance function for ad-hoc retrieval.

Give the candidate your concerns live, at the end of the interview. They either correct you or confirm you — either way you know more before the debrief.

Choosing a native language isn't a performance strategy. Data layout decides whether the hardware can help you — a 2013 essay that reads like today's mechanical sympathy.

Every currency sink in a live game was made pro-social — gifts, shared food, tips, a communal pot — with no upgrade tree. The designer reports what happened: with nothing selfish to buy, accumulation was strictly dominant.

A space-game designer states four rules for their player economy — a fixed vendor buy price and a half-price buyback at every hub — then works out why the buyback floor becomes the opportunity cost of every crafting recipe in the game.

Free admission — timed ticket required — Thursday to Sunday at 3741 Broadway: 750,000 objects, the largest collection of Hispanic art and literature outside Spain, and Joaquín Sorolla's 14-canvas Vision of Spain in a gallery that turns 100 this year.

A college student's field guide to the visual habits LLMs fall into when nobody edits the output — gradients, pulsing badges, and prompts leaking into product copy.

Milan leads the world in millionaires per resident. A 30-year-old insurgent is running for mayor on a platform of municipal socialism — and the vocabulary is catching.

Every outside power in Sudan's war has a border, a security stake, or a refugee flow. The UAE has none of the above — which is exactly what makes its role so telling.

A psychologist describes treating a patient whose grief after a famous singer's death cost her sleep and work — and why the fix wasn't to point out that they were strangers.

Agent memory (Hindsight, 7.3k stars this week), Cloudflare's security-audit skill, CLI-Anything's agent-native CLI generator, quiche 0.30, a critical Next.js RCE patch, and FxEmbed.

GitHub replaced CSS-in-JS with CSS Modules across Primer and dotcom: 55% less server-side render time, 25% less component init, ~7,760 sx props migrated with no breakage.

int was never meant to be 32 bits. C's platform-dependent integer sizes were the portability mechanism that let one language run on 12-, 16-, 36- and 60-bit machines.

The Urban Park Rangers have four free, no-registration dates left in Prospect Park: a Sleepy Hollow folklore hike on Oct. 31, a mushroom ID walk Nov. 8, Underground Railroad storytelling Nov. 22, and a post-Thanksgiving super hike Nov. 27.

Radek Koncewicz walks through 30 moments in Super Mario Bros. 3 where the architecture does the teaching — uniform hazards made tense, patterns enforced only to be broken, and simple objects chained into a puzzle with one solution.

The Twisted Metal creator on why he stopped making movies through games: choice is the core of the medium, a cutscene's emotion is not produced by gameplay, and if you want to tell a story you picked the wrong medium.

The 2026 copyright rollover frees anti-colonial writers Roger Mais and Saadat Hasan Manto, alongside Faulkner, Langston Hughes, and the anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front.

Rainy Sunday with a coastal flood warning: 8 indoor picks, 4 of them free — a free photography show five blocks from home, four live-music rooms, the Brooklyn Book Festival and Broadway Flea finales.

Sunday is a quiet cycle — seven items, an empty arXiv weekend pull and a stale lobste.rs feed — but the frontier-incident file jumps an order of magnitude: anonymous-sourced reporting now counts tens of thousands of security incidents …

The behavioural economist George Loewenstein argues that avoidance adopted as an organising principle defeats itself: the skipped conversation, the pre-emptive rejection, the flatness mistaken for equanimity.

A journalist notices mid-sentence that she is waiting for a stranger at a party to get to the point — and traces the impatience back to a working day spent inside Instagram reels, with a UX researcher and a sociolinguist on what short-form video does to the art of talk.

A chat overlay that rendered viewer messages as HTML, a Chromium build inside OBS running without its sandbox, and a V8 bug already exploited in the wild — enough to turn a chat message into native code on the streamer's machine.

Intel's 1980 floating-point coprocessor ran 16 CORDIC steps for the high-order bits, then handed the tiny residual to a Padé rational approximation — and deliberately never divided.

DeepSeek's systems report shows how agent training changes the infrastructure problem: hundreds of thousands of stateful sandboxes, mostly idle between tool calls, without losing them when GPU jobs stop.

Skystone Games' Andrew Naicker on review-score thresholds, demo and playtest beats, wishlist quality over quantity, and why the thing a publisher actually sells is time already spent.

The co-creator of MUD1 on why server scale, the paid-for-usage bargain, and player-type economics explain how MMO monetization broke the worlds it was meant to fund.

A Haskell developer's anti-burnout workflow: hand the agent the planning, research and review, keep the keyboard — and treat an empty token budget as a service outage.

A Debian LoongArch package hung forever because a counter incremented with #pragma omp atomic kept losing updates. Six months later the cause was a CPU erratum: atomic add is not always atomic.

Bench-poking the nRF54L key management unit by hand, a register push that looked like a no-op turned out to be a stale J-Link memory cache — the write landed, the CPU was halted, and the debugger kept serving the old value.

Andrew Warner rounds up creator demos of Jev—email sorting, model routing, support triage, lead scoring, agent memory, clip scoring, smart-home control, and a failed Bitcoin signal—and frames it as a fast decision step inside larger workflows.

A properly indexed SELECT DISTINCT on a partitioned queue scanned 1M rows to find 3 partition keys. Postgres has no loose index scan, so the fix is a recursive CTE that coerces the planner into a different shape.

Denver's automated baggage system had 20 miles of track, 4,000 robotic carts and a hundred 486s running custom OS/2 control software. It never really worked. A reconstruction of the contracting, schedule and software failures behind the most-taught systems-engineering debacle.

A caregiver teaches himself to build games with AI so his quadriplegic nonspeaking brother has something to play — one and two switch games designed input-first, where switch access is the way to play, not a setting you turn on.