Munich lands at Time Out Market Union Square on Friday, Sept. 18, 1-7 p.m. — Paulaner beer, the FC Bayern-Union Berlin match on the big screens, and free admission with an RSVP.
Yael Bridge's documentary on the Teamsters' 2023 UPS campaign shows the unglamorous work of turning 340,000 coworkers into a fighting force — and what it means to win without walking out.
TypeSafe's founder argues the reason chat models haven't produced automation is an interface problem: they emit strings, software needs typed decisions. His new model skips text entirely — and commenters ask what's actually new.
The inaugural Ride Queens Bike Tour starts and ends at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 10 a.m. Free, two route options, registration capped at 2,000 riders.
Yemen's Ansar Allah took Mokha and Perim Island in September, shut a Saudi oil pipeline, and turned the Bab al-Mandeb into leverage — inside an escalation trap the US-Israeli war on Iran keeps widening.
James Graham — the medical showman behind London's Celestial Bed — prescribed being buried in fresh-dug earth for six or twelve hours at a stretch, and offered his own body as the evidence.
Perinatal psychiatry has spent years telling new mothers that unwanted images of harm are nearly universal and that finding them horrifying is proof you are not psychotic. A murder trial's hung jury has specialists re-examining that test — and asking what it costs when women stop disclosing.
A 1993 contract called for a real-time GPS moving map on a 25MHz 486-SX with no math co-processor. The fix was a Voronoi-cell geodesy library that reduced the trig to 8- and 16-bit integer math — plus a hard lesson about contractor IP.
A reader built a large system with LLM help and then found it sits above his own level of understanding. Mark Seemann's answer: only ask models questions whose answers you can verify, and know the abstraction layer beneath your own.
The Feast of San Gennaro turns 100 this year: 11 days of free live music, food and processions on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, Sept. 17-27. The Grand Procession is Sept 26 at 2 p.m.
Defunctland's deep dive into Disney's 'Living Characters' initiative shows why character choice, crowd context, and human performers matter more than autonomy.
Bryant Francis argues that as small teams outcompete big studios, relaxed professional standards revive an old pattern: conduct that is never named as harassment until it is too late.
Illumination NYC returns to Wagner Park Sept. 17-19 with more than 10 large-scale light installations, nightly 7-11 p.m. and free admission. It opens four months of free Battery Park City programming, from Climate Week to a December tree lighting.
Peter Yang's 15-step podcast pipeline, split into three ChatGPT Skills (prep, edit, production) that call each other; pastes his manual edits back into the skill as a numbered diff so it one-shots next time.
A unanimous panel revived two California tribes' request to block Kalshi's sports event contracts on their reservations, holding that a bet entered from tribal land is class III gaming under IGRA — and that the CFTC's jurisdiction over swaps does not erase it.
Warner’s 1926 debut sends a 28-year-old spinster out of her brother’s London house and into the Chilterns, where she signs a pact with the Devil — and escapes domestic servitude for a life of her own.
The 2017 genocide wasn’t just an army’s crime — it was the product of a citizenship regime built on ethnic hierarchy, and the forces now dismantling Myanmar’s military state haven’t yet broken with it.
The Space Lady plays a free East Village garden set tonight, FONT's festival week carries through Sunday, Reservoir runs Thursday and Friday, San Gennaro opens tomorrow and Queens Night Market opens Saturday — six of eight items free.
A population study of 17.4 million Ontarians finds emergency visits for gambling disorders doubling after the province opened its online market to private operators, with the entire increase among men under 45 — and the authors' own caveat that these are rare events on a small base.
An engineer's structural case against frontier-lab valuations: the flashy wins are the best case knowledge work will ever get, and the bottleneck is specification, not reasoning. Plus what a 302-comment HN thread pushed back on.
Wednesday ran at normal volume, and the fear fight turned a corner: the pushback now comes from practitioners arguing on competence rather than motive — the people who would actually fight an AI-driven hacking campaign say the labs’ …
Entain reported £479m of first-half operating profit, then opened a consultation on cutting 400 customer care jobs — while telling a UK mayor that a higher tax on high-street slot machines would cost 1,470 shops and 15,900 jobs.
Orville Peck's new album is a week-by-week account of an overdose, a month in rehab he entered without believing in it, and the conviction that kept him using for another year: that he was the exception. The interview's real subject is the difference between receiving treatment and accepting it.
The Atlantic surveys the research on short-form video and cognition and finds a vacuum with structural causes — slow studies, no federal funding, industry data kept private — plus one viral MRI paper that neuroscientists say measured the act of swiping, not intelligence.
Both prediction markets have signed data and content deals with CNN, CNBC, Fox, Dow Jones and Substack while the courts decide whether they are gambling. The partnerships don't do any trading — they buy the one thing a contested product needs most.
ECS archetypes are tables, components are columns, systems are queries. Loïc Baumann argues game engines and databases solved the same problem from opposite ends — and game servers are where both halves are finally needed at once.
The fall Brooklyn Bike Jumble runs Saturday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Old Stone House in Park Slope — free to enter, with new and used bikes, parts, and back-to-school bargains.
The Amateur Astronomers Association sets up high-powered telescopes at 13th Street on the High Line every Tuesday, 8:15-10 p.m., free and no RSVP — the last 2026 session is Oct. 27.
Cody Ho and Niklas Sheth passed the full OpenGL ES 3.0 conformance suite on hardware Apple never documented, with coding agents doing the reverse engineering — plus what 105 HN commenters argued about LLM-written kernel code.
A hare with his arm around a hedgehog, a bowing Puss in Boots: Joseph Albert photographed a Munich Carnival ball where decade-old folk tales were worn as aristocratic costume.
Daron Acemoglu thinks liberal democracy can win back the working class. A Jacobin review takes the argument seriously — then finds where it stops short.
A working color space for plausible human skin tones — labeled by eye, rotated with PCA, fitted to a sphere, and shipped as fifteen lines of code. One radius parameter controls how much variety a character creator generates.
A solo Android dev published thirteen years of Google Play Console exports: one game did 2.59M installs in a single month in 2014, peaked at 886,208 active devices, and was down to 499 by June 2026. What changed was discovery, not the game.
404 Media's Jason Koebler on the emails his newsroom now gets from AI agents — and HN's debate about captcha walls, free tiers, consent and who is actually to blame.
Beardsley defined fin-de-siècle Britain, died at twenty-five, and has been censored, revived, and commodified in cycles ever since. The Public Domain Review gathers the drawings.
Three model-written X posts about the same document-QA pipeline, judged by reading the drafts aloud. The ones that won carried a real number and one fewer fact than the rest.
Anthropic's fix for mannered prose is itself written in mannered prose. Hamel Husain and Isaac Flath run it side by side against a plain-writing prompt and a no-prompt baseline on the same question, then judge the drafts by reading them out loud.
A Belfast meta-analysis of 29 studies links particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide to higher suicide risk and argues environmental exposure belongs in prevention strategy. Psychiatrists and epidemiologists say the association is real but does not carry the causal claim.
Molly Crabapple on the Bund: a mass Jewish socialist movement that fought the tsar, rejected Zionism, and insisted Jewish liberation was inseparable from everyone else's.
Stephen Toub's annual tour of runtime performance work: hundreds of small verified wins that compound — runtime async cuts a 30-deep async throw chain from 66 µs to 11 µs, and a loop of array stores gets 44% faster when the covariance check becomes visible to the JIT.
Netscape 4.51 shipped 512-bit RSA roots from a Canadian CA that no longer exists. Matthew McPherrin pulled the old browser installers off archive.org, factored both keys on a desktop in about 60 hours, and issued himself certificates the modern web cannot load.
A 2010 deck that argues game performance is a memory-layout problem: the same dot product loop over four bots costs 7,680 cycles in object layout and 1,980 in a struct-of-arrays, with two production rewrites to back it up.
A Unity engineer traces the games job collapse from 2020 lockdown overhiring through NFT and metaverse money to the AI capital rotation — and argues the job AI removes was often one that was never posted.
ByteDance's production memory system for LLM apps: events as a log, entities as materialized views, 83% less storage than raw logs, and — the part that matters here — OpenViking is its open-sourced subset.
A 1919 Columbia record of orchestra music interrupted by yowling — the tail end of an odd 1918 boom in cat songs, and the moment the record industry learned to sell comedy.
Princeton's Atul Kohli: American empire has always run on three pathways — hard militarism, covert regime change, multilateral coercion. Trump kept all three and dropped the euphemisms.
Ten league and players-association bodies wrote to gambling regulators in 35 states and DC asking for uniform rules that permanently revoke betting privileges for anyone who threatens or harasses athletes — an enforcement job handed to states and operators, with the leagues' own betting revenue arrangements left off the table.
An NVIDIA researcher and a cartography professor formalize the context window as terrain to be mapped, then score four agent systems against seven operators and find the industry at roughly 60% coverage.
Modern code traded spaghetti code for ravioli code — tidy decoupled components that nobody can reconstruct. Simon Smart argues the fix is signposts in the code and maps for the system.
Greeley Square Park runs free weekly music, dance, yoga, and juggling on Broadway between 32nd and 33rd — Midtown Music repeats Wednesdays through Oct. 14.