Claude Code rebuilt Rabah Shihab's 1993 Amiga game Babylonian Twins into Godot: 34K lines of C++ in an evening, 72,758 lines of 68000 assembly decoded byte-identically, all five level formats reverse-engineered — and the places the port went wrong.
Claude Code rebuilt Rabah Shihab's 1993 Amiga game Babylonian Twins into Godot: 34K lines of C++ in an evening, 72,758 lines of 68000 assembly decoded byte-identically, all five level formats reverse-engineered — and the places the port went wrong.
A developer builds an NPC that tracks the player with a Bayes-filter occupancy grid and finds no prior art in shipped games — the thread explains why discrete belief won and probabilistic tracking stayed in robotics.
An Ingham County judge converted a temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction blocking Kalshi's sports wagers in Michigan, with a $500,000-a-day geolocation penalty — and her findings name under-21 customers, unmet mental-health protections, and school, city and tribal revenue.
A new biography reads Victor Serge's Mexican exile as a slide into Cold War anti-communism. Three writers from anarchist and revolutionary-socialist traditions argue he never stopped being a socialist.
Six free things today - lunchtime piano in Bryant Park, Golden Hour at Greeley Square, saxophonist Grace Kelly at Bryant Park, the Astoria Players free Shakespeare opener, the Little Island bake sale, and night two of the Met Opera HD Festival - plus a free brass festival tomorrow.
Thursday was a three-labs-in-24-hours release day: Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash landed hours after Anthropic’s Fable 5.1/Mythos 5.1 and Meta’s Muse Spark 1.3 GA’d on its API — and all three now gate their strongest cyber models behind …
Body-based therapy has become mental-health culture's newest cure: 'trauma-release' workouts, somatic psychotherapy, nervous-system resets. Faith Hill on what the trend gets genuinely right — and the shaky metaphors underneath.
Rackspace Chief AI Officer Chetan Gupta on why enterprises should stop thinking about models and start thinking about architectures: model churn and sovereignty make the harness, orchestration, eval, and governance layers the real decision surface.
Former CRO Jenée Hall on pricing AI agent products — the five pricing layers from per-seat access to outcome-based fees, why token-style usage pricing misleads, and how to test price like a hypothesis. Interviewed by Angelina on TwoSetAI.
Learn traditional Indigenous crafts with the North American Indigenous Center of New York at Starlight Park, Saturday Sept 5, 11 am to 3 pm. Free and family-friendly, no RSVP.
Free kayaking and canoeing on the Bronx River at Starlight Park, Saturday Sept 5, 11 am to 3 pm. First come, first served — no registration needed.
Olivia Rodrigo's free, woman-fronted festival raised $20 million for reproductive rights and women's charities — the Zoomer answer to Lilith Fair, corporate contradictions and all.
Jackson Arn on why a nation of philistines can't stop watching beautiful objects get stolen — and why the biggest art thieves have always been institutions.
Open-source replacements for ten paid subscriptions: Doodle Note for Granola, Cap for Loom, Vaultwarden for 1Password, Ghost for Substack, Twenty for HubSpot, LanguageTool for Grammarly, Umami for Google Analytics, Nextcloud for Google Drive, Chatwoot for Intercom, SlowBooks for QuickBooks.
Teresa Torres (Continuous Discovery Habits) on why 'talk to your customers' fails for engineers, story-based interviewing as the reliable feedback loop, the Opportunity Solution Tree, how AI synthesis and her Vistily partnership put evals at the center of discovery, and a three-week eval war story about upstream errors and counterbalancing judges.
Logan McMillen on the 65-billion-barrel US-Venezuela oil deal — an opaque return to the Gómez-era concessions that built Venezuela's resource nationalism, breaking the social contract oil rents once funded.
Rauno Arike on The Information's report that OpenAI's Astra is a looped transformer: why it's a step toward opaque reasoning, what Pachocki's 'within a factor of two of GPT-4' clarification does and doesn't settle, and whether looped depth is a dial that can be trivially turned up.
Wednesday was a two-first-party-labs day: Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 / Mythos 5.1 launch (the same model in two safeguard configs, with the cache-read price cut that actually changes agent cost math) and OpenAI’s claim that Astra now meets its …
Most of what Perplexity cites when recommending software comes from obscure domains — including 215,000 machine-generated "best software" pages from three sites run as one operation.
An r/aigamedev thread argues AI games fail for a human reason — missing ideas and design craft — while the replies debate whether originality or execution is the real bottleneck.
Peter Yang runs four personal AI agents at once — Instinct, Grok Bot, ChatGPT/Codex, and open-source Hermes — and stress-tests what you're really handing over: passwords, 2FA codes, prompt-injection surface, and whether you can ever get the data back.
Panic attacks led Mike McNally to try to force open a tube carriage in motion. Hypnotherapy traced the fear to a 1965 train crash he had no conscious memory of — a resolution that is genuinely moving and, on the evidence, unsettled.
One developer's case for owning your inference: a 48GB Mac mini running open-weight models beats rented cloud APIs on cost, privacy, and control.
Kalshi struck a deal with the Weather Channel's owner to settle weather markets, and says climate and weather betting is its fastest-growing category. Scientists whose homes burned in the Eaton fire are asking what it means to wager on the disasters themselves.
New Jersey filed a 332-page cert petition asking the justices to resolve whether prediction markets must follow state gambling law, after the Ninth Circuit broke with the Third. The state's brief also argues that a Kalshi win would make sports wagers at casinos and tribal books unlawful.
Opening night of the Met Opera Summer HD Festival, Verve Records 70th concert at SummerStage tonight, Bryant Park piano and Midtown pop-up music today, free Shakespeare weekend two in Astoria, and a 20-plus-baker bake sale at Little Island Thursday.
One-night-only free stand-up on the retired Staten Island Ferry John F. Kennedy, Sept. 17 at Pier 17. Free tickets drop online daily at 3 p.m. ET, Sept. 3–8.
An 11,000-year history of data as a tool of empire — from Sumerian clay tablets and slave-trade ledgers to censuses, surveillance, and the IDF's AI bombing lists — reviewed by Lorraine Daston.
Take the NYC Ferry to Red Hook — the day-trip stops: Van Brunt Street boutiques, Red Hook Tavern, a pay-what-you-want pinball museum, Brooklyn Crab, Strong Rope Brewery sunset views, and Sunny's Bar.
The EFF argues courts shouldn't rewrite 300 years of copyright law over AI hype — the 'market dilution' theory would hand publishers veto power over any competing expression.
Dan Luu went through the prediction record of tech's most-cited AI skeptic — the record, and the reasoning behind it, doesn't hold up.
Anshu Chimala — 12 years leading design and engineering at Apple — on why AI churns out generic slop (LLMs are next-token predictors trained for the safe, average choice) and the Discover → Define → Deliver process that unlocks the other 99% of its creative potential.
Cole Medin's 11 small, high-leverage fixes for making any coding agent more reliable — from writing for the agent (not the human) and keeping rules under ~200 lines, to moving guarantees into deterministic hooks and never letting the writer approve its own work.
Chad Harbach returns to Westish College, the campus of The Art of Fielding, in an n+1 excerpt from his new novel The Brightness — opening the annual season-kickoff blowout: the Parties.
n+1's Intellectual Situation takes stock of the reissue boom — NYRB Classics and its imitators digging up forgotten midcentury novels — and what it says about a reading culture that has stopped trusting the present.
A $14m Polymarket market on an Iranian missile strike put a journalist's life in danger when his reporting threatened the payout. Finn Brunton traces the lineage from a 1993 hoax espionage market to today's platforms, and argues they fulfill the crypto-anarchist design rather than the economist's.
Labor Day week in NYC: Met Opera Summer HD Festival opens, three free screenings, West Indian Day Parade Monday, plus free comedy and SocaFest - seven of eight events free.
Tuesday’s digest ran on the largest collection this pipeline has seen — 1,761 items, with arXiv alone at 1,487 — and it had a clear lead: Anthropic’s first-party postmortem of the summer’s agent-incident thread, with escape-attempt …
MongoDB's field CTO of AI argues agent performance — especially cost-adjusted — is a retrieval problem, not a model problem: a history of constraints, why embeddings aren't commoditized, and the write/change/recall/forget memory loop.
A non-profit built on the premise that abandoning Trumpism works less like changing your mind than like leaving a high-control group — and the therapist running its family support group treats the grip of fear-based media as an addiction.
Hamel Husain on why 'it's hard to eval' is a product smell, verification-first design (the data agent, workers' comp report, and PE lesson planner redesigns), sharing skill shapes not skills, transition failure matrices, and why data science is more valuable than ever in the agentic era.
The cost of specialized performance work has dropped by orders of magnitude. Dan Luu on why workload-specific optimization is now cheap enough to do routinely.
Dan Luu on why most people don't notice bugs in the software they love — and why quality blindness is a trainable skill.
Radu, search engineer at Vespa, on why leaderboard picks leave cost, latency, and quality on the table — quantization, Matryoshka dims, tuning with Vespa Embed, and cheap-embedder + re-ranker architectures.
The case for treating AI agent memory as plain data files, not a complicated pipeline.
Anthropic says prompt injection is solved and Claude Code Auto Mode is safe. A targeted attack chain hijacks it with 60-80% success.
Amber A'Lee Frost's eulogy reads Dolly Parton through 9 to 5 and the working-women's labor movement — and warns the left not to claim her as a mascot.
A memoir of the Norton Anthology era — what a structured English major gave a drifting nineteen-year-old in 1980, and what the canon wars took away.
A fifteen-year-old's 1552 diary of medical school in Montpellier — Renaissance food obsession, first loves, and burnings at the stake, all recorded with adolescent honesty.