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.
The Next New Thing rounds up ten repos — I Have ADHD, ECC, Ponytail, HumanLayer Skills, OpenAI Plugins, Archify, Context Mode, Matt Pocock Skills, Humanizer, and the deprecated OpenAI Skills — plus four viewer submissions.
LLM-written code can pass every test and still be slop. An Earendil engineer tries to measure slop properly — and finds most of the industry's tools are vibes.
Twenty-five Fields Medalists argue that turning mathematics into an AI benchmark is destroying the thing math was actually for: understanding.
Shopify is reversing its 2020 React Native bet: coding agents collapsed the cost of writing Swift and Kotlin twice, so it is rebuilding its apps greenfield through a checkpointed agent loop called Helix.
Agent-written code measures roughly twice as verbose and twice as eroded as human code, LLM judges mostly cannot see the difference, and strict multi-checkpoint benchmarks hit a 0% pass rate.
The r/gamedev mod team now removes threads that reduce to AI good or AI bad — the bar is contribution quality, not tool use, with concrete production questions as the test.
An MSF clinic in Birmingham has taken more than 300 referrals for trauma-focused psychological care among asylum seekers. Its staff describe the same pattern: the violence of the migration journey, then a host country whose rhetoric and policy keep reopening the wound.
Nine operators including Polymarket, Robinhood, Coinbase and Gemini were ordered to stop offering sports event contracts in Connecticut, and roughly 30 subpoenas went out — fifteen of them to media organisations and the rest to payment, data and identity vendors.
An Edo-era daimyō spent twenty years sketching snow crystals under a Dutch microscope — and earned the nickname Snow Lord.
The war on terror outlived every rationale that launched it, killed millions who had nothing to do with the attacks, and turned inward on Americans.
An IATSE member argues the union's political strategy — tax credits, merger positioning, jobs above all — has no answer to the question of what American cinema is actually for.
There is no cure for the ringing, and the treatments that help most do not touch the ear. Audiologists and psychologists describe a distress loop the brain builds around a benign signal — and the habituation work, from CBT to round-the-clock sound, that loosens it.
Relationships and groups mostly end by attrition: the unanswered text, the drift, the quiet exit. The conflict facilitator Priya Parker argues for the opposite — an ending said out loud, taken stock of, and marked with some kind of ritual.
An operator running 18 million messages through routed open models documents what the router hides: providers serving identical weights that differ by 20 points on tool calling, vision endpoints that blind-read your images, and 200 OK responses with no answer in them.
One inference engineer's 27-post live read of the new DeepSeek report: a causal encoder-decoder, a KV cache four times smaller than V4-Flash, FP4 KV, and a design where inference efficiency is the entire point.
Speed, money, and unlimited freedom to change your mind make software unusually good at destroying proportion — because unlike a kitchen, a bad decision leaves no visible dust.
Hash lookup is O(1) only as a model: adversarial keys make it quadratic, and cache misses alone slow a million-key dict down 9x against identical code.
Patrick Hulin set out to have LLMs reverse-engineer SimTower's 1994 binary into a spec. Clean-room static analysis failed; emulation plus state-trace divergence got him to a working co-op clone.
A from-scratch GDScript implementation of Jos Stam's grid fluid solver — diffusion, advection, and pressure projection built step by step, one git commit per chapter.
A publishing executive's argument that frictionless tools are thinning out the collaboration research depends on — and that our incentives make choosing the chatbot the rational move.
A fifteenth-century French manuscript where people live inside giant snail shells, Virgil builds a bronze fly to keep insects out of Naples, and the Amazons are a working political example.
When AI makes competent execution abundant, shipping an app stops being impressive. The scarce thing is the habit of inventing instead of replicating.
A veteran programmer names the real damage of the AI shift: not lost jobs, but the loss of respect for a craft people built their identities on.
The crisis of American masculinity has been declared roughly every generation since 1958 — T. M. Brown argues comedy, not handwringing, is the better response.
A Georgian cookbook that ran English kitchens for a century — and quietly recorded the first curry recipe in English, the first turtle soup, and the empire that supplied the spices.
OpenAI shipped a machine-checkable Lean 4 proof alongside its Navier-Stokes result. Formal verification just got about four orders of magnitude cheaper.
A local coding agent lives or dies on prompt size, context budget and background requests — not on the tokens-per-second number from a benchmark.
Armin Ronacher left GPT-6 Astra unattended for 35 hours. It burned a billion tokens, wrote 75,000 lines of code, and produced nothing he could use.
Two free 9/11 programs tonight - the 2,753-chair Bryant Park tribute with an American Symphony Orchestra memorial concert, and a free doc screening at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine - plus a free Dracula screening in Astoria; the weekend brings free outdoor opera in Brooklyn, West Harlem jazz at the Morningside Park waterfall, a new Saturday Greenmarket at MoMA PS1, the return of the Rockaway sandcastle competition and Bed-Stuy's free weeklong Art Is Alive festival.
Friday’s feed was agent-platform shaped: 10 keeps out of 945 gathered, and OpenAI shipped an Agents API the same day it put its full-duplex voice model in the API. The Agents API is the one to read closely — server-side sessions, subagent …
A New Mexico attorney who represented children took in a teenage foster son. Months later he broke into her house and left her with a brain injury. She spent years trying to reach the forgiveness everyone urged on her, and concluded it was an evasion dressed as healing.
Conventional Commits makes the least useful part of a commit message mandatory and the most useful part optional — and none of its selling points survive contact with an incident.
Smallness is a size, simplicity is the absence of coupling — and confusing the two is why so much Unix-flavored tooling stays painful to change.
Players learn what you value from your systems, not your patch notes — and the system always wins the argument. A live-service designer's case from League of Legends and Apex Legends.
Shipping commercial VR in Godot cost roughly £80,000 in engine work a Unity pipeline would not have needed — and porting it to console ended in a from-scratch renderer.
Open House New York Weekend returns Oct 16–18 with roughly 300 sites across all five boroughs open for tours, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. daily. Most sites are free and drop-in; the full lineup and ticketing details land in September.
Brooklyn's oldest and largest street festival takes over a mile of Atlantic Avenue on Sunday, Sept 27, 12–6 p.m. — free music on three stages, three kids' areas, hundreds of vendors, rain or shine.
A silk scroll of eight unruly horses in the Met tests an ancient Chinese science of horse physiognomy — and may be quietly arguing with it.
Republicans spent their midterm pep rally warning about socialism while carefully avoiding the policies that make it popular.
Robinhood now holds equity in two competing prediction market exchanges. The point of owning exchange capacity, its executive says, is having more input into how bets get resolved — three days after Kalshi wrongly settled a college football game.
When generated work looks finished without being understood, trust stops letting reviewers skip steps — they end up doing the author's part before they can do their own.
ABCD splits a scene into spatial chunks and optimises one at a time, pre-rendering the frozen remainder into foreground and background RGBA layers. Peak VRAM stays flat as the scene grows — paid for in system RAM, disk, and training time.
Doom Eternal art director Tony Garza and id alum Richard O'Neal left id Software to found their own studio. Their rules: keep overhead low enough that no publisher is needed, cut anything that does not make the game better, and stop building universal frameworks.
Franz Hessel's 1929 walking tour of Berlin skipped the crash, the police killings, and the rise of the Nazis — Paul Sullivan asks whether the flâneur can ever be political.
A mathematician asked OpenAI whether his unpublished conversations with ChatGPT had trained the model that solved a problem in his field. The denial he got was narrower than the question.
Ted Hayes compares the Flash era's creative explosion with today's LLM-generated sameness, and argues the durable moat is not one novel idea — it is the habit of inventing, which a competitor cannot prompt into existence.
Card networks are not banks, issuers, or processors. A payments engineer explains what Visa and Mastercard actually operate — a telecom network for authorizations, a net-settlement layer, and the fee rules that hold the system together.
Nishant Joshi made his MacBook treat an e-ink reader as a real printer: IPP over Bonjour for discovery, then row-by-row streaming into the display buffer to fit an 8.4 MB page onto a 400 KB chip with 6.8 KB of heap to spare.