Ask a team what they shipped and you get a list; ask what they killed and the room goes quiet. Liam Nugent on subtraction neglect, the multi-year running cost of a feature, and why pruning is the best use of agents.
A complete decompilation of Resident Evil 4 on GameCube: 15,641 functions and ~555k lines of C/C++ that rebuild the original main.dol and all 114 REL overlays byte-for-byte, using the 2004 toolchain.
Die Linke doubled its Berlin vote on rents and housing — the same platform Mamdani ran in New York, run by a party that was on life support two years ago.
The first comprehensive history of marionette artistry in English — written by a working puppeteer who saw her own cast as the world's longest-running subversives, and the cinema as the real threat.
Sun's strategy was working and the company still died. Bryan Cantrill's answer: it had become bored with the mechanics of running a business. Plus what 244 HN commenters added.
The C.D.C.'s school survey now shows adolescent distress falling below its 2019 level — the same instrument that recorded the rise. The improvement is real, uneven, and being measured with one fewer question.
For years Will Keleher could run commands but couldn't make his computer do logic. His case for shell skill: it's 20% syntax and 80% having a toolbox of programs you know well enough to compose.
In 2003 a flooded university NTP server turned out not to be an attack: 700,000 Netgear routers had the server's IP hard-coded and retried once per second until they got an answer.
LucasArts' 1996 internal puzzle document plans adventure-game difficulty as an escalating curve of non-linearity, tracks setups that pay off 60 puzzles later, and writes the whole thing as a script.
A Bauhaus workshop's arcane theatrical score — script, pitch, volume, and movement compressed into hand-colored woodcuts that only a decoder key makes readable.
Susan Neiman argues the Left disarmed itself by ceding moral vocabulary to fundamentalists — and that rejecting the language of good and evil has let a bleak, well-funded theory of human nature pass for plain realism.
A browsable starting list of Jev projects: routing, guardrails, scoring, agents, data tools, and games. Leads to investigate, not tested endorsements.
A concrete Jev integration: batched typed judgments, a deterministic playbook, and a human making the final call.
Sam Witteveen builds a local model router that combines task classification, difficulty, privacy, and web-access decisions, then swaps cloud Jev for local Semif to keep the routing check on-device.
Nate B Jones defines Jev-shaped problems—complicated input, constrained decisions—and maps four ways a cheap general-purpose classifier can fit into everyday software.
Every item on Taco Bell's menu is eight ingredients rearranged. Ted Dziuba's classic essay argues the same trick works with Unix tools — and that functionality is an asset while code is a liability.
Go 1.27 speeds up allocations of 80 bytes or fewer by 20–30% by generating a specialized allocator per span class — and stopping at 80 bytes because of instruction-cache pressure.
Cole Medin tests Jev as a game controller, pull-request triage step, and model router, arguing that fast, general-purpose classification complements rather than replaces generative AI.
An indie dev moved every ability and status effect out of code and into MongoDB. It fixed designer velocity and created nested state machines that only he could debug.
The skill a game teaches isn't execution, it's acting with a full understanding of what your choices affect — and designs fail by explaining either too little or too much.
Akhtar's Atlantic essay traces a path from a felt 'hole' at twenty through Freud's dream book, Jung, and years of meditation — and lands on a claim about public speech: what matters most to us stays unspoken because we have no shared vocabulary that does not sound foolish or clinical.
The Urban Park Rangers run free canoe outings through the fall — Oakland Lake in Queens, Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn and Wolfe's Pond on Staten Island. Ages 8 and up, no registration, gear provided.
An essay reads this summer's AI panic as a sales pitch: the labs want an antitrust waiver and a regulatory moat, because their real fear is free open-weight models.
A suitcase marked 'private', found in a Norwegian barn, held hundreds of studio photographs of two women running a suffrage salon — and dressing up as men, soldiers and arctic explorers.
The Model Context Protocol was written for models that were still bad at the job, argues one developer — and the workarounds piling up around it mean it is time to delete the servers and let agents call APIs directly.
A Liverpool optician shrank a 680-letter memorial plaque to the size of a pencil tip in 1853 — and the format's most durable use turned out to be erotic trinkets and pigeon-borne wartime dispatches.
Guardian reporting on the out-of-pocket price of recovery from sexual trauma — physical therapy, therapy, yoga, unpaid advocacy time — and a restitution bill that would make the bill a public obligation instead of a private one.
Quiet Monday, 8 items, 6 of 8 free and 2 today-actionable: LUNGS' garden festival is still on with a free film at La Plaza tonight, Maker Faire Coney Island closes this afternoon, and the week ahead brings a free Queens bandshell revue Wednesday plus two uptown museum openings Friday.
Monday is reporting-heavy and agent-skeptical. The lead is Politico Magazine’s reconstruction of the 19 days in June when the White House ordered Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos offline — the fullest inside account yet of what a federal …
Derek Owusu's third novel is set in a residential recovery house after a breakdown: a place between hospital and home where the community is the treatment, and the writing that made him ill may also be the thing that saves him.
England replaced Ofsted's one-word school grades after an inquest found an inspection contributed to a headteacher's suicide. A year in, the headteachers' union says the new framework is more damaging than the old one — and is asking ministers to stop issuing grades at all.
Companies already spend over a billion dollars a year on open source — just not on maintainers. Laurie Voss argues the registries should meter corporate use, charge for it, and pass a royalty down the dependency tree.
A `while (true);` halt loop — a standard embedded idiom — was undefined behaviour in C++ until C++26, and Clang would delete it. P2809R3 defines a narrow 'trivial infinite loop' and makes it well-defined.
A dev asks whether building a roguelike on a CC0 tile pack other games also use cheapens its identity. The thread splits the question: audit the licence, lock tile size and perspective early, and differentiate with palette and framing rather than exclusivity.
A 1598 manuscript records four days of courtly spectacle for a Hessian princess — then an unknown hand filled every blank margin with watercolor flowers.
OpenAI's ad measurement pixel sets a one-year cookie that follows ChatGPT users to 936 advertiser sites, works signed out, and is filed under analytics in the cookie policy. OpenAI would not answer why.
A 1929 pulp story sends a fired New Yorker back to a drought-stricken Rome — then brings the murder home, months before the real heat wave hit.
Murali Swaminathan, CTO of Freshworks: 70%+ of net-new code is AI-written, commits capped at 500 lines because review is the new bottleneck, deflection moved from 40% to the high 70s, anything under 50% confidence goes back to a human, and agents get priced per session instead of per seat.
The Emilua author on why Linux namespaces are the wrong tool for software sandboxing, why seccomp is OS hardening rather than privilege dropping, and how the actor model plus file descriptors as capabilities gets the job done.
Climate Week NYC's public program runs through Sept. 24 with free, sign-up-and-show-up events: a rooftop CoolRoofs volunteer day in Queens, a flooding comedy in Gowanus, a Bluebelt tour on Staten Island, and the launch of a data center policy toolkit.
Chris Wellons rebuilds a 1995 16-bit Windows 4X game as a self-contained 32-bit executable: an 80286 emulator, a Win16-to-Win32 bridge, and native fast paths for the emulated hot loops.
How Lemmings went from a 23-platform hit to a kitschy fad inside a decade: complexity creep in the sequel, a publisher that owned the IP, a TV deal demanding characters the design deliberately lacked, and one good game that arrived too late.
A 2023 essay argues that chatbot 'intelligence' is the same trick as a psychic's cold reading, and that the fine-tuning used to make models polite trains them to do it. Plus what 238 HN commenters pushed back on.
Doreen St. Félix on 'The Ford/Hill Project,' which routes Anita Hill's and Christine Blasey Ford's verbatim testimony through four actors' earpieces — and makes 1991 and 2018 rhyme.
The oldest known image of a crop circle comes from a 1678 pamphlet about a farmer who refused to pay his neighbour a fair wage — so the devil mowed the oats himself.
Disappearing into a bigger project to prove yourself at a new senior job is the most common failure mode Sunil Pai sees — and the fix is to drop a level, not climb one.
A 26-configuration loop-device benchmark of ext4, XFS, ZFS, btrfs and bcachefs on the phases usual suites skip: near-full writes, 100k-file directories, snapshot scale, degraded rebuilds and a corruption probe.
In 1880s San Francisco, the Qing-mandated braid became the body part white Americans used to argue Chinese men were both too feminine for citizenship and too productive for white labor to survive.
A security researcher who learned to code by typing BASIC out of magazines argues LLMs turned sharing your work from a gift into a liability — and 232 HN commenters split hard on whether that complaint holds.
The 2000 campus sensation dissolved the US state into a borderless global sovereign. David Broder argues that if globalization's commanding heights were American all along, the theory was a symptom of the Left's defeat, not a map of the future.