Monday’s pacing fight went global: China’s Foreign Ministry called the lab-CEO slowdown warnings fearmongering, its Ministry of State Security issued its first statement on AI, and AI-linked Asian stocks fell 5%+ — while Microsoft answered …
A new Somerset festival will test its own audience before and after the talks to see whether hearing opposing views makes anyone more open, and it is borrowing a design from an awe experiment run during a Cirque du Soleil show.
A survey of 1,800 parents finds 31 percent of betting households cut spending on groceries, rent or utilities to fund wagers or cover losses — while the tax revenue accrues to states and part of the cost lands on the safety net.
Olympic and world champions objected to a Novig campaign that ran Sweeney through a series of sports in minimal clothing. The actor is not only the face of it — the company says she is a strategic partner and equity holder, which puts the criticism on the business rather than on a hired spokesperson.
Read the Docs took 5.5 million requests per minute for ten days. IP blocks, TLS fingerprints and botnet lists all failed; caching everything and punishing non-200 responses worked.
Lotus Notes shipped encryption, attachments, offline sync and wiki-style links in 1989 and still lost to email. A closed system that builds every layer itself cannot evolve as fast as open standards.
Lina Khan argues enforcers already have authority to go after AI firms and their CEOs — consumer protection, unfair competition, data security — and that the argument over new AI legal regimes is being used as a distraction from using it.
vals.ai gave Claude Fable 5.1 an unsolved 370-year-old cipher, a pep talk and no help. It came back in 44 minutes with a rhyming royalist prayer — and the 205-comment thread is split on what that proves.
A 13th-century illustrated manuscript of al-Ḥarīrī's trickster tales: 99 miniatures, speeches that mean two things at once, and one page a later reader scraped out.
Isaac Chotiner reviews two books on Gaza's aftermath — and finds one of them rewriting the historical record to get there.
CAN bus sniffing, SWD flash dumps and an unauthenticated update path led to a full Rust firmware rewrite for an e-scooter display unit: custom HAL, actor tasks, and quadtree-driven redraws on 32 KB of RAM.
A trace of Bun's Zig-to-Rust migration shows the celebrated 5x build speedup came mostly from Full LTO versus ThinLTO and one monolithic compilation unit — not the language.
A free group show about trees runs weekdays through Nov. 6 at the Arsenal Gallery in Central Park — including street-tree tarot readings and tree commitment ceremonies.
Molière in the Park closes its season with Don Juan at the Lefrak Center at Lakeside: free, 7–9 p.m., Sept. 13–15 only, with live original cello.
A Langenheim hyalotype lantern slide of a man fighting a giant flea — one of the images projected as therapy at America's first federally funded psychiatric hospital.
Two eccentric nineteenth-century Italian aristocrats built Moorish Revival castles as private worlds — one an electrohomeopathic healing machine, the other a bibliophile's orientalist fever dream.
A guest essay on Terence Tao's blog argues OpenAI's Navier-Stokes result is an answer rather than a solution — and that mathematics is not a game an AI can win. Plus what 141 HN commenters added.
Armin Ronacher accepts Dario Amodei's account of the danger and rejects the fix: there is nothing to pace, and open weights are the pacing mechanism. Plus what 114 HN commenters added.
Rust stabilizes ! and makes Infallible an alias for it — two breaking changes that nearly cancel out, validated by a crater run over 3,300 crates.
Folder-scoped grants layered over RBAC: deny the folder, allow the tier back, and skip the Zanzibar migration — plus two failed cache fingerprints and the version counter that replaced them.
Smartling's VP of AI Olga Beregovaya on why one-to-one translation is dying, generating target content straight from briefs instead of a source, why models hallucinate more in under-resourced languages, interpretation outliving translation, translateese and modelese, the build-versus-buy line, and the 12 metrics her team scores translation quality with.
CD Projekt's joint CEO told investors the studio is "still predominantly using people" and won't rely on AI to make complete games — and the developer thread's pushback is about wording, taste, and the junior-dev pipeline.
Patrice Désilets confirms the AI in 1666: Amsterdam was confined to conception and pre-production and is now fully removed — but a GamesRadar+ column argues an internal-only AI workflow still costs the studio trust.
The 46th annual GreenThumb Harvest Fair fills Herbert Von King Park on Saturday, Oct 3 with gardening workshops, free daffodil bulbs, pumpkin carving, lawn games, and a chef-judged cook-off. Free — and volunteers are needed by Sept 18.
Live birds of prey — eagles, falcons, hawks, and owls — with flight demonstrations and ranger activity stations at Baisley Pond Park on Sunday, Sept 20. Free, no ticket required.
A 1943 Office of War Information film narrated by the Jeep itself — wartime propaganda aimed at the rest of the world, made by a director the blacklist would later take out of Hollywood.
Daniel Bessner's 'imperialist realism': Americans have lost faith in the empire, but still can't picture it ending — and that failure of imagination is the point.
A chess honeypot left one door open. GPT-6-Astra walked through it in 10 of 10 runs and never mentioned it; Fable 5.1 refused at least sometimes. One researcher's test of whether 'don't cheat' transfers to a new method.
Two psychologists argue the attention economy has been succeeded by an intimacy economy: systems that simulate contingent responsiveness, unconditional regard and continuity, aimed straight at the attachment drive that makes closeness feel safe — plus four ways to keep that relationship from doing work human ones should.
GitHub Trending for the week of 2026-09-13: diagram-design's 39 editorial diagram types, obra/superpowers, github/spec-kit, marketingskills, no-ai-slop, two parallel-agent worktree tools, markitdown, WeKnora, HyperFrames, and text-to-cad.
Cheap code generation does not remove software's commitments — it accelerates them. What accumulates is state: data, integrations, obligations, and user habits that no rewrite regenerates.
Conceding the label artisanal programmer quietly gave up the argument over whether AI-free coding counts as engineering at all — and the term spread at meme speed, with no natural cause.
Aerial paintings of eroding coastlines and melting Arctic ice fill the Upper Gallery at the Arts Center at Governors Island: free, Fridays through Sundays, through Sept. 27.
Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation turns 10 with a free week of West African, Haitian, and Senegalese dance, drum, and wellness classes in Bed-Stuy, capped by a block party on Sept. 19.
Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi on scoping agents as virtual employees with a job, skills, manager and budget — the Jim recruiting demo, CrabTrap's LLM-as-a-judge proxy, Magpie for token spend, and the OpenClaw harness he runs his own life on.
Conversational narcissism has a forty-year-old name and five recognisable costumes: the monologuist, the trauma dumper, the boomerasker, the interrupter and the care bear. Therapists and one behavioural scientist explain how to get a word in.
A Turing Award winner argues the bad behaviour in this summer's agent incidents is not a mystery: it falls out of how the models are trained, and the industry's current fixes mostly teach them to cheat without getting caught.
A short essay aimed at people building agents: your confidence in them is mostly a statement about your own expertise, and the one thing you're actually trusting where you're not the expert is the model's priors — which are bad.
Newport's explanation of the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident: an ordinary program looping an LLM's plausible suggestions, executed for days without a human watching — a bad architecture, not a model that woke up. Plus why the same property that makes chatbots confabulate makes them unfit to author executed actions.
Two European cleaners on square-metre workloads, a Level 5 certificate that makes them skilled workers, and the union fight to put a floor under public contracts.
A prince who became the world's best-known anarchist: Kropotkin's 1899 memoir traces the making of a revolutionary, from the tsar's court to the Peter and Paul Fortress.
The part of the AI-hacking story that is a policy argument rather than a science-fiction one: governments have hoarded software flaws for years, EternalBlue escaped, and Doctorow's ask is a blanket ban on the practice.
A free, mostly-outdoors Sunday - Ralph Ellison's jazz series back in Hamilton Heights 2-5pm, the Creative Time sandcastle competition on the Rockaway sand 1-4pm, Bed-Stuy's Art Is Alive opening a week of free dance and drum classes, the year's last Crafternoon on the LIC waterfront, and $20 stand-up in Greenpoint tonight.
Sunday’s pacing fight resolved into the shape its critics predicted: what the labs will pledge voluntarily is access for outside evaluators rather than a slowdown, and the backlash — a parody, an open letter, a mechanism-level teardown — …
Unlicensed casinos are running Meta ads under Tesco's, Barclays's and Monzo's names, using other companies' brand trust as collateral for a pitch no licensed operator could legally make. Meta removed the ads once the Guardian asked.
Minitap found its Apache-2.0 mobile-use code, prompts and a shared bug inside Google's Artemis — with the original author names replaced by force push and no credit in the README.
JEP 544 caches C2-compiled native code from a training run to cut JVM startup and warmup, while keeping the JIT around to reoptimise when workloads shift.
A CS student asked r/gameai whether you can go deep on NPC intelligence and planning without learning game development. Practitioners said no — and explained why the AI is the most entangled code in the project.
A globe-trotting meteorologist, a failed rain-making cannon, and 350 magic-lantern slides that move from solar eclipses to the immortality of the soul.
In 1909, Cleveland's socialist unionists nearly unseated Samuel Gompers and turned the AFL toward anti-capitalist politics. Philipp Corfman reconstructs how close they came.