A solo dev UTM-tagged four months of X and Reddit ads and measured them down to the wishlist: a mobile click is worth 14 desktop clicks, the first 48 hours are a lie, and Steam's CTR metric is unusable.
A historian pointed GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 at unsolved problems in his own field and got real findings — then argued the labs should pay for this work systematically, plus what 37 HN commenters added.
A factory shift paid 1,500 pounds. A room cost 30,000 a month. The militia paid 15,000 a day. That arithmetic explains Sudan's war better than any map.
Prop 40 would tax billionaire wealth to backfill a $30 billion hole in Medi-Cal. Its opponents inside SEIU picked the perfect moment to bury it in an abuse investigation.
A few hundred dollars on whether a named bank collapses is enough to put the deposit insurer's own ethics rules on the agenda. The regulated US exchange does not list the contracts; the offshore platform does.
Brigid Delaney's garden metaphor for online life ends where it started: someone who cannot stop tending it. Her claim is that the hierarchy is inverting, and that the people who never built an audience-facing self will come out on top.
Cole Medin on mining your Claude Code JSONL transcripts for failure patterns: the two-line prompt version, the Databricks volume + Genie structured-tables version, and the three AI-layer changes he actually shipped.
A technical writer's answer to 'what skills should I learn now' is philosophy, literature, linguistics and history — because once AI handles fact retrieval and trite prose, the edge is having positions you can defend.
Go 1.27's experimental simd package deletes fixed-size vectors from the type system, exposes only the intersection of platform operations, and fills the gaps with emulation — with front-end AST rewriting doing per-width specialization.
Five young African photographers on drought, flooding, coastal erosion and waste work — free at The Africa Center on Fifth Avenue through Nov. 1, no ticket and no registration.
Voices of 1776 runs free in the Lenape Gallery at Conference House Park, Mondays through Saturdays until Dec. 31 — an America 250 exhibit on the war's failed attempt at negotiation.
What RedLynx taught Frogmind founder Johannes Vuorinen: in-game editors beat in-house tools, ideas sharpen in two-person hallway chats, and efficient coding tops out around nine or ten hours a day.
A 2001 Game Developer essay that sidesteps the question of what fun is and instead enumerates fourteen fundamentally entertaining activities — beauty, immersion, problem solving, competition, creation, power, discovery — as an audit checklist for a design.
Dating apps are blamed for a bad pool. Olga Khazan's reporting points at something else: the mixed-gender, non-dating settings where people used to get to know each other repeatedly have been dismantled, leaving a 90-minute interview scored on 'spark.'
A unanimous panel held that sports event contracts are not 'associated with a potential financial, economic, or commercial consequence' — so the federal commodities law Kalshi built its all-50-states pitch on does not displace Ohio's and Tennessee's gambling statutes.
A long-time Google engineer quits over the speed of AI progress — and the thread argues about whether his reasons hold together, since his next project is AI debugging tools.
Hormuz disruption plus a decade of LPG subsidy cuts priced cooking gas out of reach for India's migrant workers — and families are leaving the cities because they cannot cook.
Dry tonight, then a washout weekend: 8 items, 6 free — Karina Rykman at Webster Hall and Bikini Kill at Brooklyn Steel tonight, day 8 of the all-free LES garden festival, a free projection on the Brooklyn Bridge, and a Saturday/Sunday forecast at 90% rain with 45 mph gusts.
Friday is a policy day: the White House wants frontier models reviewed at home before Britain’s AI Security Institute gets them, with Anthropic apparently already complying and the UK pushing back at the UN. Around it, most of the day’s …
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder arrives on a calendar, which is why its damage is interpersonal: the worst week of the month lands on the person closest, who adapts silently for years. A first-person account of what a name for the pattern changes — and what it cannot repair.
A wiki operator's twelve-day timeline of a volumetric DDoS: provider null-routing with no ETA or override, why anti-bot gates do nothing here, one firewall mistake that exposed the origin, and a mitigation vendor that suspended the account mid-attack.
RACKCRUNCH read the HTTPS response headers of 4,688 directory-listed US local-business sites. Half met none of seven criteria — and when their CSPs were actually parsed, script-restricting policies dropped to 4 percent.
A free drop-in art-and-science space for kids ages 3–11 on the Met's ground floor — no museum ticket, no reservations, first come first served. Ask for the Family Field Guide and the pass covers you plus four guests.
5,000+ books by Black women and non-binary authors, a free store, a period pantry and Wi-Fi at 226 Marcus Garvey Boulevard — open Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Bring one book to take one home.
Sam Gindin on why the real crisis is labor's rather than capitalism's, why 1960s militancy still lost, and why Amazon is the test case.
Twenty-six hours of surreptitiously taped Coltrane club performances, recorded on the sly by a fellow saxophonist between 1960 and 1964, finally reach the public for his centennial.
An unescaped OSC 8 hyperlink in ansi2html let a build log carry XSS into any viewer's browser. SourceHut shipped the vulnerable library for four and a half years — which is the part worth remembering.
The GitHub wiki has exactly one advantage — it is one click away from anywhere in the repo — and a long list of reasons against it. Project docs belong in a /docs folder, versioned and reviewed like code.
Richard Brody on Swanberg's first feature in six years: a love triangle in Anchorage that is an extraordinary film masquerading as an ordinary one, with characterization stripped back to the architecture of the drama.
Hamel Husain's answer to how you get an agent to do evals well starts with the human, not the agent: understand what good looks like first, because a published skill is generic by design and only pays off once you customize it.
Branko Marcetic documents the harm the AI we already have is doing — in war, hospitals, courts, classrooms, and insurance claims — and argues the superintelligence debate is beside the point.
Four NHS integrated care boards have made people wait at least two years before an ADHD or autism assessment, and the wait also closes the private route out. Fifteen boards covering 19 million people are now rationing neurodivergence assessments in some form.
The state's petition says a wager under another name is still a wager, and names two specific costs: 18-to-20-year-olds who can sign up on a product licensed for 21-and-over betting, and gambling tax revenue that funds schools and problem-gambling treatment.
Elliot Choy's face was replaced with a white man's in an ad that used his video. Kalshi told NPR the spot is old and that it no longer uses AI-generated ads — which confirms the ad ran, without saying how many others did.
A legal ban and a strong religious taboo still offer some protection. Coppins finds the more vulnerable boundary is whether young bettors recognize what they are doing as gambling.
An impostor repo carried his product name and logo while its installer was flagged for malware. GitHub support stayed silent for 23 days — the takedown came ten minutes after the story hit Hacker News.
Geocodio went from bash scripts to full-fledged internal apps. The constraint was never building them — it was maintaining them, and that is what changed.
A 90-minute guided walk through the Flatiron and NoMad districts, 11 a.m. on the first Sunday of every month. Free, no RSVP — meet at the tip of the Flatiron Building.
A free weekly 5K in Brooklyn Bridge Park — 8 a.m. every Saturday through October, 9 a.m. from November. Register once for a barcode, then walk, jog, run or volunteer.
Justin Chang on Paul Greengrass's 1381 Peasants' Revolt epic: a film that wants us baying for blood instead leaves us scratching our heads.
Matt McManus argues the left's stock dismissal of Francis Fukuyama misses what The End of History actually predicted: a populist revolt against the boredom of equal citizenship.
Mexico's football federation is the first league to test whether a prediction market can sell bets under its name and club crests. The outcome turns on a fair-use defense that has already survived one challenge, from the NCAA.
A last30days research brief on TypeSafe's decision model: where developers are trying it, what the speed claims mean, and why type safety is not correctness.
A reader with a full, good life and a year of unopened admin asks how to balance it all. The diagnostic question that follows — is the scarce resource minutes, or the capacity to spend them? — takes the shame out of the equation.
Abusive leaders rarely arrive as tyrants, and they rarely leave once everyone can see them. A former headhunter turned psychotherapist on the interview language that hides the difference between confidence and contempt — and the workplace structures that quietly absorb the damage.
VS Code's remote-SSH mode stages a bash stager and a bundled Node install onto the host, then opens a WebSocket back to your editor — with filesystem, PTY, and persistence.
Vary tells a cache which request fields may affect a response, but not which differences actually matter. Cloudflare splits the decision: the origin declares what may vary, the edge decides what variation is worth caching.
Anthropic ran ~950 Claude agents for 21 hours and found a CRISPR-like system in bacteriophages. The 748-comment thread mostly argues about the word 'discovered.'
A working designer's structural study of Zelda dungeons — the whole series reduces to one loop where a door blocks progress and the key can be an item, a puzzle, a fight, or a jump.
Naughty Dog's mid-project postmortem of their first PS3 game — the failures were tooling and over-planning, not creativity, and the fix every time was retreating to the simpler thing that let people make the game.