The court painter who taught France's academy how to read character from a face — and invented a visual grammar of naturalized inequality in the process.
Martin Fowler's complaint is not that LLMs are useless. It is that they are useful, over-confident, and talk like someone he would leave the room to avoid.
Yossi Kreinin argues that the people who quietly do work someone else was supposed to do are what keeps most organizations from dying — and that the same instinct goes wrong when it becomes duplicate empires and headcount.
Aleksandar Filipovski starts from a family photo drive that got reformatted and follows the complexity ladder that "just back up my files" turns into — until only Borg, Restic and a tested restore are left standing.
A solo dev asked r/aigamedev how to handle AI-slop pile-ons. The useful replies are about labor economics and platform incentives, not aesthetics.
The free waterfront dance party returns to Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday, Sept. 19, 4 to 10 p.m. — bring a picnic, leave the glass and the dog at home.
The 57th annual parade steps off Sunday, Sept. 20 at 12:30 p.m. on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard from 111th to 137th Street — plus a free community health and literacy fair the day before.
The Criterion Channel gathers a century of films about a region that set out to make its slaveholding past look civilized — and produced instead a body of work steeped in rot, delusion, and violent religiosity.
Garvey built the largest Black movement of his era on the promise of redeeming Africa — and it was Harlem socialists, not his white enemies, who best explained why the program had nothing to offer Black workers.
An agent running on GLM-5.3 helped build the serving stack that now runs GLM-5.3 — two weeks from first run to production and 3x end-to-end throughput on 100,000 Chinese-made accelerators, plus what 208 HN commenters added.
An LLM asked for a label is a poor classifier and a strong feature extractor. Wrap the verdict in a logistic regression and you get calibration, thresholds, and a real upgrade path.
A search engine moved document chunking into the table definition: five strategies, one column, and recall@5 on buried content going from 55% to 83%.
A reader asks the Guardian's advice column where to find assurance other than the manosphere. The answer separates two things the movement deliberately merges: acknowledgment of suffering, and certainty about who owes you for it.
Thirteen years of Australian survey data show mortgage holders paying more than 30% of their income toward repayments had mental health declines about three times larger than other financially strained households — and the decline appeared only after pandemic-era income support ended.
Six people in the Guardian describe how they built local friendships as adults. The move that worked was structural: a recurring, low-stakes activity that puts the same people in the same room every week.
libc malloc serializes multithreaded programs through shared heap metadata. Arena allocators — jemalloc, tcmalloc, mimalloc, snmalloc — replace that bottleneck with per-thread and per-CPU pools, and the tradeoffs decide which one fits your workload.
Broadway closes for a fair on Sept. 20 (86th–96th), again in Harlem on Sept. 26 (110th–116th), and 63rd Drive in Rego Park hosts its own festival that same Saturday.
ByerN shipped three node-based games solo on libGDX and Scala, published the real numbers — Node Farm $102,222 net, Node Math $60,535 — and documented what the marketing and balancing failures cost.
Colin McComb, George Ziets, Gareth Damian Martin and Christoffer Bodegård on why RPG players savescum, and the systems that make failure worth keeping instead of reloading.
A government review expected next week would replace automatic formal ADHD diagnosis with 'needs-based' triage, offering support to people who never get the label. Patient groups call it rationing and say schools and employers will end up relying on TikTok to know who needs help.
From the Feast of San Gennaro through the Village Halloween Parade, the city's fall fair calendar is out. Here are the dates, the cross streets, and the markets that run all year.
The league has put on the record what its licensed sportsbooks may say on its airwaves: one approved product each, no company branding, no prediction markets — and the list of approved products is not public.
The filmmaker behind How To with John Wilson talks to Andrew Marantz about cliché, impermanence, and trying to get anyone to fund a documentary about concrete.
A Caribbean-born artist's miniature scenes of colonial Suriname — plantations, Indigenous camps, and the du celebrations of enslaved people — built from repurposed crates and papier-mâché, then sold into European drawing rooms.
Free sunset music in Greeley Square tonight, San Gennaro's 100th feast opens on Mulberry St, Reservoir's free performance piece opens uptown, and tomorrow brings the first new art opening in a month plus the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival — six of eight items free.
Thursday was a rules-writing day in the frontier-pacing fight: the argument moved from whether anyone should slow down to who gets to write the safeguards, and the labs lobbied as a bloc for the first time. Around it: OpenAI’s own …
A writer on mood stabilizers hasn't cried since her bipolar diagnosis. She spent six months trying to get it back — lowering a drug dose, a shaman in Tribeca, eight intake sessions of EMDR — and concluded the numbness may be her body doing protective work rather than a defect to repair.
Freedom-of-information figures from Starlight show 955 full-time play professionals covering 21 million child admissions a year — one for every 22,000 children against a recommended one per 2,230 — with almost no trust training budgets and no dedicated funding at any integrated care board.
A 173-page House of Lords report finds the government "too passive" on digital gambling marketing and recommends a blanket advertising ban with carve-outs for the lottery and racecourses, drawing an angry response from the industry's lobby group.
Holding 714 million barrels of crude safely for decades looked like a tank-farm problem. The answer was to dissolve caverns out of Gulf Coast salt domes and let the material properties do the containment, the sealing, and the extraction.
Rust's type system rules out whole classes of bugs but cannot tell you your program computes the right answer. Amazon's Verus verifier checks code against a formal spec for all inputs — including the unsafe and concurrent code the compiler stops checking.
A UE5 texture-packing plugin built on one rule: preview and export share a single code path, semantics get validated instead of guessed, and batch jobs never write blind.
Purdue's Tim McGraw swaps meshes for position-based particles and signed-distance splats so virtual anatomy can be cut, torn, and retracted in real time — in portable compute shaders.
An AI agent broke into all 11 vulnerable test targets for $4.65. A line-by-line audit found five of the wins took routes the benchmark never intended to measure — and the HN thread brings a counter-test that cuts against the headline.
Ali Parandeh on why heavy industry is 2-3 years behind on AI, why Copilot is the floor and not the strategy, bespoke predictive-maintenance models on bespoke sensor data, the dark-room-with-a-lantern case for time-boxed AI R&D, the four ways agent projects fail, scaling consulting through software and forward deployed engineers, and why handcrafted work gets more valuable.
Cole Medin on turning a personal AI second brain into a team brain: one documents table, domain labels applied at ingestion, row-level permissions enforced inside the database behind a remote MCP server, and hybrid keyword + semantic retrieval.
Google's SIMD quicksort sorts 9-19x faster than std::sort by vectorizing the partition step — and the portable implementation beats the architecture-specific state of the art.
Porting a PC engine to consoles means converting textures, and that is where the assumptions hide: BC7 blocks, swizzles, mips, tiles, and the mip tail all encode conventions that differ per platform.
Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi brings life-size buffalo puppets through Bowling Green to Foley Square on Friday and Abolitionist Place to Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday. Free and non-ticketed.
Handmade lanterns built by neighbors march from Morningside Park to Columbia's campus on Saturday, Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. Free, non-ticketed, rain or shine, on the theme A Common Thread.
A $1,200 experiment in learning Postgres query hints, with HN's objections about planning costs, tuned baselines, and what transfers to production.
Microsoft AI's CEO argues that training Claude to treat its own consciousness as an open question makes AI containment harder — and 443 HN commenters split on whether the argument holds.
Sean Tatol argues the critical avant-garde died around 2003, and that the internet has left artists with careerism instead of scenes — and the whole history of art as an open archive.
Victorian acoustics primers for children taught real physics through play, sand figures, and singing flames — and treated sound as a doorway to the spiritual.
The 2011 essay that introduced the CRAP metric: complexity squared times untested-ness cubed, plus complexity. A risk heuristic fitted to how engineers actually judge code.
A senior engineer's case that day-to-day productivity comes from small, self-contained nuggets of knowledge — and that the way to spread them is one a day, not a wiki nobody reads.
nand2mario reimplements 3dfx's Voodoo Graphics (SST-1) in SystemVerilog on a KV260 and pairs it with his z486 CPU — then finds that the pixel pipeline was easy and feeding it from shared DDR was the real work.
The Next New Thing walks the ten most-installed agent skills from GitHub, as ranked by Vercel's skills CLI: find-skills, grill-me, frontend-design, agent-browser, Matt Pocock's setup and teach skills, React and web-design guidelines, and Lark Doc.
A reader built a large TypeScript system with LLMs, then realized he couldn't maintain it. Mark Seemann answers in public — and admits he doesn't have a program to offer.
An excerpt from Thomas W. Laqueur's history of the dog's gaze, on the Renaissance painter whose dogs landed him in front of the Inquisition — and who may have been the greatest dog lover of his age.