A 7,019-game study finds October is the most crowded month for horror releases and the third-worst by median revenue for games earning $100k+. The October lift goes to old games via Steam sales, not to new launches.
Afterworld game director Dan Lind on onboarding new players to a genre where 'you can do anything' reads as 'you have no idea what to do' — tribe origins as character creation, discovery as tutorial, and Disco Elysium-style core ideas as the character sheet.
A children's book of paper flaps that turned Adam into Eve into a mermaid and a lion into a griffin into an eagle — while teaching small readers that Death is not a being but a state.
A self-professed Marxist rewrote the history of Western art on national television, gave half his Booker Prize to the Black Panthers, and spent fifty years insisting the point of criticism was to ask who owns the picture.
New York City parks are full of pull-up bars, monkey bars and calisthenics setups you can use for free. Three exercises, two to three times a week — no membership, no gear, no booking.
Diagnosis rates keep rising and the standard question — do you grow out of it? — turns out to be the wrong one. Follow the same children for sixteen years and the answer keeps changing: symptoms wax and wane, subtypes shift with age, and which people meet the threshold moves around.
The Fort Greene Park Jazz Festival returns Saturday, Sept 12, 3–7 p.m. — free outdoor jazz from the Dr. Eric Frazier Quintet and the Eric Person Quartet, with a rain date of Sunday, Sept 13.
Godot now powers 12% of surveyed developers and 47% of GMTK jam entrants. Interviews from Godotcon 2026 show the draw is iteration speed — a debugger that never suspends the engine — not a feature checklist.
A two-dev indie team publishes the real numbers behind Go Up, an incremental game that took two years: what AI-art backlash cost them, why an 80/20 marketing split matters, and the Steam Next Fest rule they misread.
BPL's new Craft Supply Library lets adult cardholders borrow up to three craft kits (three weeks) and two craft tools (one week) — pick up and return at Central Library's Art & Music Space, 10 Grand Army Plaza.
Brian Dillon's 'Ambivalence' narrates his own youth as a specimen called B — trading memoir's epiphanies for distance, and making theory into a way of life.
A Javanese artist's 1919 puppet encyclopedia — and the Dutch colonial office that published it to head off communism and demands for self-rule.
Free ragtime at Bryant Park at lunch and a sunset Americana-jazz festival on Greeley Square, swing-then-salsa on the Bryant Park lawn plus a free Jazz Gallery photo opening tonight - and this weekend, free public art on the Rockaways and a week of free West African and Haitian dance classes in Bed-Stuy.
Thursday’s feed ran 10 items deep out of 929 gathered, and the biggest story is a config change. DeepSeek shipped V4.1-Flash — open weights, MIT, 1M context, built on KV-cache compression — and said it is retiring V4-Flash while phasing out …
A 668-developer survey found readers bail the moment they detect LLM-authored prose — and 71% avoid that author afterwards. Bryan Cantrill argues this makes LLM authorship self-defeating, not merely distasteful.
A month spent reverse-engineering a Jane Street ASIC from raw chip geometry — and an honest account of how nearly every detour along the way was self-inflicted.
Only 13% of 2024 Steam releases used a custom engine, but they accounted for 43% of units sold. A working indie dev lays out the real reasons to own the engine layer, plus the honest costs.
Fletch PMM co-founder Rob Kaminski does a live positioning teardown of an AI agent startup on TwoSetAI: the three category strategies, why category creation is the trap founders overrate, why stacking features makes you forgettable, and why the real failure is refusing to choose.
Job postings, vendor podcasts, and police reports show Anthropic's security team building pre-crime style monitoring of AI's opponents — while selling itself as the responsible lab.
One company runs 130,000 license-plate cameras covering every US state but Alaska. Its founder calls privacy a fair trade for safety — and a bipartisan backlash is now dismantling the deal.
Gilman's 1915 serial novel imagines a country of women with no men, no war, and no competition — and the essayist reading it does not look away from the eugenics baked into the utopia.
Anthropic's economics team models three AI futures for 2030. In the fastest one the economy grows 15% a year — and labor's share of it falls nearly 15 points.
Cole Medin on why a second review agent is not a security process: coding agents ship vulnerabilities two ways, are trained to cut corners, and sometimes notice a flaw and ship it anyway. His fix is a deterministic gate — a real scanner wired into the workflow that the agent cannot skip and must iterate against until green.
In a decade, fiction and nonfiction flipped positions on the bestseller lists — a market signal that the authority of the book as a cultural object is slipping.
The Next New Thing tests ten GitHub projects for cutting agent token and context costs: free-tier routing, context compression, tool-output offloading, codebase graphs, and one install warning.
Kings, scholars and a Bavarian princess believed their bodies were made of glass — a delusion that became a cultural idiom for what could not otherwise be said.
Novig and Polymarket both bought NFL-season attention with celebrity-fronted campaigns within 48 hours. The backlash was about how the product is sold — while the question of whether these contracts are gambling or federally regulated financial products is still being litigated.
In 1797 Goethe and Schiller published 675 epigrammatic host-gifts roasting their critics — and their critics roasted right back. The era's great literary feud, in a public-domain edition.
A prediction market settled an $18.6m college football market as a Western Michigan win before officials put one second back on the clock; when Michigan's Hail Mary landed, Kalshi clawed back the payouts. The same week, DraftKings built ads around users' withdrawal complaints.
OpenAI's agents claim a $1M math prize — but the story Simon Willison tells is about rumor-driven races, training data, and what it means to do serious work inside someone else's AI toolchain.
In 1559 a French humanist pitched Elizabeth I an illuminated catalogue of the world's marvels — devils, hairy monsters, and miraculous births — blending bestiary lore with early science.
Sebastian Raschka explains the looped-transformer rumor behind GPT-6 Astra — what the architecture actually is, what the research shows, and whether it is really hiding the model's chain of thought.
A solo dev details Whalefall, a roguelike set inside the corpse of a colossal sky-fallen organism — runs through anatomical systems, an investigation-driven toolkit, and wildlife that behaves like an ecology rather than a monster closet.
A free 90-minute Urban Park Rangers stroll through Fort Tryon's Heather Garden, the city's largest open-access public garden — Sunday Sept 13, 1–2:30 p.m., no registration needed.
NYC's only corn maze runs weekends 11 a.m.–4 p.m. through November 1 at Queens County Farm Museum — 3 acres of clues and puzzles ending at Victory Bridge, $17 adults, $10 kids, free parking.
Prediction market companies spent nearly $200m on digital advertising through July — money that state-regulated sportsbooks can no longer spend the same way, because prediction markets are supervised in Washington as exchanges rather than by the states that write gambling advertising rules.
WNYC's Public Song Project turns public-domain texts into new songs — hundreds of submissions, a free album with Rosanne Cash and They Might Be Giants, and a new Internet Archive partnership.
How industrial Britain's overflowing churchyards spawned a corpse economy — resurrection men, pauper burial pits, and the reform that finally shut the city graveyards.
Midweek menu: free lunchtime ragtime at Bryant Park and pop-up music in Greeley Square today, Taste of Times Square with 40+ vendors and live Broadway acts tonight, The Trap Music Orchestra at The Jazz Gallery, a free Williamsburg comedy night — plus tomorrow's free Jazz Gallery photo opening and the Bryant Park salsa-and-swing dance party.
Wednesday’s feed ran 10 items deep across 2,357 gathered — the arXiv Labor Day backlog (2,080 papers) finally cleared, and the Navier–Stokes story moved again. The lead is OpenAI publishing its own account of the Millennium problem a day …
A 190-upvote r/gamedev thread on staying motivated when an AI could one-shot your indie game. The reply consensus: no one has one-shotted a good full game yet, and ease of replication does not decide whether making it was worth it.
The scarce resource in mathematics is no longer answers — it is the problems worth asking, and Terence Tao argues AI is mining them like a non-renewable deposit.
ICML 2026 spotlight: LLM agents spontaneously invent new social biases about groups with no real differences — via the explore-exploit dynamics of sequential decision-making — and stratify worse than humans.
Vinson Cunningham reviews 'Birth of a Culture,' Grandmaster Flash's account of hip-hop's communal birth — the science of the break, the fight over credit, and the culture's answer to Griffith.
An English immigrant became southern California's booster-photographer — and used the new autochrome process to shoot cut flowers with the gravity of formal portraits.
Colin Burrow reviews Helen Vendler's posthumous 'Inhabit the Poem' and asks what literary criticism is for, as English departments shrink and the humanities get defended in the marketplace's own terms.
In 1926 two amateurs began filming Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' in an unheated Rochester stable — two years later they had made one of the first American avant-garde films.
Two labor scholars follow a fictional nurse through one algorithmically priced day to argue that personalized wages and prices don't just reflect precarity — they predetermine it, one data point at a time.
Two of OpenAI's ten 'Astra' math advances reuse prior work without citing it, and the mathematicians whose ideas were absorbed are calling it systematic research misconduct.
The Buddha's biography traveled from Sanskrit through Persian, Arabic, and Georgian retellings before the church canonized him as two saints — and Jesuit missionaries later carried the legend back to Asia as their own.