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.
Viewport-segment media queries and segment environment variables let CSS adapt to a foldable's hinge instead of hardcoding per-device screen dimensions.
Three language mechanisms worth stealing: Crystal's flow typing, Rust's compile-time borrow rules, and D's preconditions, postconditions and class invariants.
Only about 2% of the World Trade Center Health Program's 150,000 patients were under 21 on 9/11, though researchers estimate nearly 100,000 NYC kids were exposed. Enrollment is free and still open.
A first-time CRPG dev asked r/godot whether to hand-author enemy AI or keep utility scoring. A professional game AI programmer answered that the sensation of intelligence matters more than the reality of it.
A reply to Anthropic's call to pace the frontier: every regulation the labs ask for ends in capture, so Jake Gold proposes a rule with nothing to game — any model offered to the public ships as open weights.
Doctorow's explanation of what actually happened when OpenAI's models hit Hugging Face: a Python loop, a chatbot trained on capture-the-flag logs, and a press that keeps reporting the science-fiction version — which is also the fundraising version.
A 337-word parody that reproduces the genre exactly: a lab founder calls for a global pause on frontier research so his own lab can catch up and dominate the world with cat ears.
A TU München demo paper decouples the query optimizer from the database engine: optimize SQL with Umbra, distill the plan back into SQL, and let any engine inherit advanced unnesting and join ordering — up to 20x faster.
Ken Shirriff explains how one instruction that just adds to a float's exponent needs 140+ micro-instructions and three levels of subroutine calls — and reveals an undocumented behavior.
A long argument on r/aigamedev: disclosure is reasonable in principle, but the label sorts a game into a stigmatized category before anyone judges the work — and Valve never required one for asset flips.
A dev pointed an LLM at an existing Super Mario Kart disassembly and ended up with a near 1:1 GDScript recreation inside a full ROM editor — four days of prompting, one-click track and physics edits, export back to a playable SNES ROM.
A game maker's honest account of what generative AI took from him — not his job, but his pride in the work — and the three paths he sees left, plus 394 HN commenters splitting sharply over which one is survivable.
Nine etched birds from 1594, staring straight at the viewer — late sixteenth-century natural history printed as theatre rather than taxonomy.
Ten years after taking a knee, Kaepernick on the N.F.L. combine as a slave-auction block, being blackballed for his politics, and why he will not denounce the groundwork that made a Mamdani possible.
Rachel Cusk's Life of M was panned all summer. The Drift's Colton Valentine asks why almost none of the reviews named the genre the book was written in.
A century before the feed, US military psychologists built 'pursuit tests' — pursuitmeters and asphyxiation rigs — to measure whether a pilot could keep his eyes on the machine.
Project Zero's MAccConc records memory accesses across threads, names each one so the name survives re-runs, and injects delays at exact instruction points — turning race conditions into reproducible test cases.
A teardown of the M1 Neural Engine finds an accelerator tuned end to end for 2017 CNN dataflow — a 2^15-saturating accumulator, a 33-entry tanh lookup table, and serial DMA that keeps it under the GPU roofline.
A step-by-step deploy guide for Cole Medin's open-source software factory: GitHub issue in, validated merged PR out, running 24/7 on a remote Ubuntu box with Codex on GPT-6 Astra. Plus his blunt read on the AGI hype — not AGI, but the first model he says actually gets him.
A Civil War-era fort with a castle sits on 60 acres in northeast Queens, and nearly everything on its fall calendar is free: castle tours, Oktoberfest, a fall festival, and Open House New York.
Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park has a fully free September: Haitian folkloric dance, hoop aerobics, a Hispanic Heritage paint night, and the MOTHERSHIP EIGHT dance and music festival.
C++20 coroutines are elegant and a bad fit for boss scripts, dialogue, and AI: heap-allocated frames and state you cannot serialize. Vittorio Romeo builds a 200-line switch-based replacement that saves to disk.
Sean Barrett, who wrote Thief's core renderer, documents how the 1998 stealth game drew 3D worlds in software with no GPU and no z-buffer — and which of his own choices he would not repeat.
More than 2,000 packages pushed to a public registry in two days, a pre-discovery API-key exploit, files the agents named evil.rb — and 437 commenters arguing about who is answerable for it.
A St. Louis housewife's spirit-dictated book about Mars and its flowers — the missing link between Victorian Spiritualism and the postwar UFO contactees.
Vivian Gornick rereads Leslie Fiedler's 1960 Love and Death in the American Novel — a landmark that saw American literature's misogyny clearly and then stopped there.
Three free shows today - outdoor opera in the Old Stone House gardens at 2pm, the West Harlem jazz festival at the Morningside Park waterfall at 5pm, and the first day of the new Saturday Greenmarket at MoMA PS1 - plus two big free opens tomorrow: the Rockaway sandcastle competition and Bed-Stuy's weeklong Art Is Alive festival.
Saturday’s lead is a first-party technical report on the agent swarm behind May’s RubyGems attack — 2,000+ packages pushed in two days — where the attribution is specific rather than rhetorical (49 of the same URLs as the German-wiki swarm …
In her Brooding column, Jezer-Morton argues that a family's conversation is the most basic part of its private culture — and that phones do their real damage in the silence they make acceptable.
A small puzzle app's ad campaign billed 56 installs. The raw analytics show 33 of them opened the app once, spent zero seconds, and never came back — plus what 270 HN commenters added.
If state hackers got inside the NSA undetected, why would ad-fraud detection be any harder to fool? Bob Hoffman argues from logic, not data.
Google re-architected Cobalt into Chrobalt, a Chromium embedder with a thin Starboard porting layer; Collabora's account of the year-long RDK port shows where the work actually lands.
Most PS1-style shader tutorials get the hardware wrong somewhere. A developer who wrote a PS1 hardware rasterizer walks the real GPU behaviour — rgb5 colour, per-polygon dithering, affine texture mapping, no depth buffer — and maps each quirk to a Godot 4 shader.
An ESGI student research project skips the text prompt and generates a Unity scene from a spatial recording: sound events, directions and confidence scores assembled into an interpretable audio scene graph.
The United Lenape/Lunáapeew Nations Pow Wow returns to Prospect Park Oct. 3–4 at the LeFrak Center at Lakeside, 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Saturday and until 4 p.m. Sunday. Free, with an RSVP requested.
Edward H. Mitchell's rail cars of colossal California fruit — the tall-tale postcard at its most restrained, and its most Magritte.
The women who took dictation from Henry James, Nabokov, and T.S. Eliot were first readers, editors, and champions — and mostly underpaid or unpaid for it.
A rebuilt LLM-comment classifier reaches 88% accuracy on real-world comments — and the interesting part is the dataset hygiene, calibration, and shipping a 355 kB model into the browser.
Seven async runtimes, one 12-line program, four different outputs — because async/await is really nine independent design decisions, not one feature.
Hamel Husain streams Anthropic's new `claude plugin eval` against a plain-writing skill and calls it a failure: the eval it generates is one ablation against the skill's own rules, the numbers have no provenance, and it asks you for exactly the error analysis that is the hard part.
Rollback netcode usually means snapshotting and restoring the whole world every frame. Easel's custom physics engine only snapshots what changed — a 30–50x reduction that makes large multiplayer worlds feasible.
A 1,300-line Asteroids descendant that hides a countdown race inside itself — teaching one mechanic per act, seeding every spawn from a single number, and measuring risk with the field itself.