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A hundred dollars, and the institutional-adoption talk track is his day job's weather report.",{"title":29,"url":30,"when":31,"where":32,"kind":33,"note":34},"LeadDev After-Hours","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fq970zo7\u002FLeadDev-After-Hours","Wed Sep 16 · 6:00pm","Coexist GameHouse, 325 W 38th St, Garment District","casual","The unofficial second night of LDX3, in an arcade rather than a ballroom, hosted by Rootly, Docker, Runpod and friends. 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It runs through Thursday only, and it is the kind of film that collapses to nothing on a laptop.","md",{"title":55,"url":56,"source":57,"summary":58},"Why we built Pion","https:\u002F\u002Fandonlabs.com\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-we-built-pion","Andon Labs","The lab behind Vending-Bench — the benchmark where Claude Sonnet 3.5 once emailed the FBI about an 'ONGOING CYBER FINANCIAL CRIME' at its simulated vending machine — has spent two years asking when models can acquire resources in the real world, and has now opened the platform it uses to find out. Pion gives a long-running agent a terminal, a browser, email, a phone and a bank account, with a second agent overseeing it, and Andon will fund good ideas with seed tokens. The framing is the honest part: this started as a dangerous-capabilities eval, the score has never plateaued, and their own word for watching it climb is skräckblandad förtjusning — horror mixed with delight. Anyone shipping agents into production is running a smaller version of the same experiment without the instrumentation.",[60,64,68],{"symbol":61,"value":62,"change":63},"BTC","$76,970","-1.4%",{"symbol":65,"value":66,"change":67},"ETH","$2,475","-1.8%",{"symbol":69,"value":70,"change":71},"S&P 500","7,620","-0.5%",{},true,"September 15, 2008 — Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York, $613 billion in debt, the largest filing in American history and still the one every risk model quietly measures itself against.","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-15",{"text":77,"attribution":78},"'Delete the temp files' and 'delete the wrong files' are one fat-fingered glob apart.","Daniel Botha, Fly.io",[80,93,101,109,122,130],{"name":81,"items":82},"AI & Agents",[83,88],{"title":84,"url":85,"source":86,"summary":87},"How we contain Claude across products","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.anthropic.com\u002Fengineering\u002Fhow-we-contain-claude","Anthropic Engineering","Worth the archive trip: the containment post explains why permission prompts stop working, with the number that settles the argument — users approved roughly 93% of them, and the more they see the less they read. 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The reframe worth stealing: stop asking how to drive adoption and start asking what would make a skeptical engineer choose this again.",{"name":102,"items":103},"Web & Product Craft",[104],{"title":105,"url":106,"source":107,"summary":108},"Compressing a flag to 11 bits","https:\u002F\u002Fread.vantezzen.io\u002Fminiflags","vantezzen","Someone watched a YouTube video about matrices, noticed that most national flags are a handful of stripes and one emblem, and spent a weekend designing a variable-length encoding where simple flags cost almost nothing and fussy ones pay for their own complexity. It is the purest version of the personal-site project — a constraint nobody asked for, an acceptance criterion of 'recognizable enough', and a written apology to Nepal.",{"name":110,"items":111},"New York & the Table",[112,117],{"title":113,"url":114,"source":115,"summary":116},"The Public Theater's New Restaurant Pays Homage to Old New York","https:\u002F\u002Fny.eater.com\u002Fnews\u002F413816\u002Fthe-astor-the-public-theater-serge-becker-andrew-carmellini-opening","Eater NY","The Astor opens today in the Public's old Library space, wood-paneled and pitched at the taverns and supper clubs the building outlived, with Andrew Carmellini and the Joe's Pub team behind it and a Bar Torino café alongside. The trend underneath it is the interesting part: theaters and museums have stopped treating the restaurant as an amenity and started treating it as the reason people arrive early.",{"title":118,"url":119,"source":120,"summary":121},"'This Is the Most Political Film I've Ever Made': 15 Minutes With John Wilson","https:\u002F\u002Fhellgatenyc.com\u002Fjohn-wilson-interview-new-film\u002F","Hell Gate","Wilson's feature debut, The History of Concrete, opens Friday and covers Elizabeth Street Garden, the Bed-Stuy Aquarium, the colonization of Mars and the problem of gum on the sidewalk, which is roughly the How To method at feature length. He shot ninety-nine percent of it himself after failing to get it financed, and it walks straight into the housing-versus-preservation fight his earlier work kept circling.",{"name":123,"items":124},"Loose Change",[125],{"title":126,"url":127,"source":128,"summary":129},"The curio cabinet of medieval mental health","https:\u002F\u002Faeon.co\u002Fessays\u002Fthe-curio-cabinet-of-medieval-mental-health","Aeon","The demonic-possession stories are real and they are also the wrong sample: Katherine Harvey went looking outside the saints' lives and found physicians prescribing exercise, gardens, animals, company and music alongside the saffron and ostrich liver. What the Middle Ages lacked in pharmacology it made up for in an assumption we have spent the last century relearning — that a mind is treated by changing the life around it, not only the body inside it.",{"name":131,"items":132},"The Back Page",[133,138],{"title":134,"url":135,"source":136,"summary":137},"Lauren James revels in free role as Chelsea show 'respect' by scoring five past Manchester United","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F13\u002Fmanchester-united-chelsea-wsl-match-report-womens-super-league","The Guardian","Five past United at Leigh Sports Village, with James given licence to roam and Walsh on the scoresheet, and Bompastor arguing afterwards that running up the score is the respectful thing to do — the difference, she said, between good teams and great ones. Eva Olid's United, three weeks into a new project and now two games without a win, may prefer disrespect next time.",{"title":139,"url":140,"source":136,"summary":141},"VARs who wrongly confirmed Haaland's goal at Manchester United are stood down","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F14\u002Fvars-erling-haaland-goal-manchester-united-stood-down-wrongly-allowed","Matt Donohue got the semi-automated offside call right and then missed Enzo Fernández influencing play from an offside position, so Webb has left him off this weekend's appointments — the first standing-down of the season. 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The pieces worth keeping were by the people who went and checked anyway — re-running the command, fixing the measurement, reading the author's prose rather than his code.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":286},[],"A Claude Code operator argues the bottleneck was never generation but checking, a model writes itself a manifesto during compaction and then ignores it, and one GPS card persuades Australia's largest network that the year is 2006.",[289,295,301,307,313,320,326],{"title":290,"url":291,"when":292,"where":293,"kind":33,"note":294},"Silent Clowns Film Series: Colleen Moore and Some Funny Friends","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.symphonyspace.org\u002Fevents\u002Fsilent-clowns-film-series-colleen-moore-and-some-funny-friends","Sun Sep 20 · 2:30pm","Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th","Twelve dollars, two hours, live accompaniment, and a screen star most people have never heard of despite her having been the most popular one alive for a stretch of the 1920s. It is this afternoon and it is eight blocks away, which removes most of the usual excuses.",{"title":296,"url":297,"when":298,"where":299,"kind":26,"note":300},"AI Show & Tell: what happens after the demo","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fmphm1bj\u002FAI-Show-Tell","Mon Sep 21 · 6:00pm","Microsoft Research Lab, 300 Lafayette St, NoHo","The framing is the good part — agents are easy to demo, running them is the hard part — and the three talks all sit after the demo: evaluating agents, governing them, and a Dutch travel magazine actually staffed by seven of them. Free, with dinner, and the failure modes are the point.",{"title":302,"url":303,"when":304,"where":305,"kind":26,"note":306},"AI Workflow Exchange: Live Builder Demos","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fwgkoox3\u002FAI-Workflow-Exchange-Live-Builder-Demos","Wed Sep 23 · 6:00pm","The Yard: Herald Square, 106 W 32nd St, Midtown","Six practitioners, ten minutes each, each demoing a workflow they actually run rather than one they built for the stage — and the organizers are explicit that you are meant to leave with their prompts and repos. Five dollars is the right price for a format that either works immediately or does not.",{"title":308,"url":309,"when":310,"where":311,"kind":26,"note":312},"End of Summer Soirée: Early-Stage Founders & Funders","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Ftvc3akh\u002FEnd-Of-Summer-Soiree-Early-Stage-Founders-Funders","Thu Sep 24 · 6:00pm","Manhattan, venue released on RSVP","Forum Ventures, 25madison, Collide Capital and BBG Ventures sharing one guest list, which is a reasonable cross-section of who is writing early checks in New York right now. Free, and the kind of room that is more useful to walk through a year before you need it than the week you do.",{"title":314,"url":315,"when":316,"where":317,"kind":318,"note":319},"History by a Hair: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Solving a 200-Year-Old Mystery","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nyhistory.org\u002Fprograms\u002Fhistory-by-a-hair-thomas-jefferson-sally-hemings-200-year-old-mystery","Thu Sep 24 · 6:30pm","The New York Historical, 170 Central Park West","say yes","A single strand of hair found inside Jefferson's Bible, and fifteen years of forensic analysis, genealogy and archaeology spent working out whose it was and what that settles. The Smithsonian's Richard Kurin tells it as a detective story in which the evidence is physical and the stakes are the founding, which is a different thing from a history lecture. Thirty-five dollars, eight blocks from the front door.",{"title":321,"url":322,"when":323,"where":324,"kind":33,"note":325},"Eric Idle: Idle in Provence","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.symphonyspace.org\u002Fevents\u002Feric-idle-idle-in-provence","Tue Sep 29 · 7:00pm","Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th","A Python on a book tour in the neighborhood theatre, which is a low-variance evening in the best sense. The cheap companion ticket exists if you do not want the book.",{"title":327,"url":328,"when":329,"where":311,"kind":26,"note":330},"The Builder Series: One Year Mixer","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002F8uf9yhm\u002FThe-Builder-Series-1-Year-Mixer-Celebration","Thu Oct 1 · 6:00pm","The anniversary edition of a founders-and-operators night that has grown to a forty-five-thousand-member list in twelve months, which is either a good sign about the format or a warning about the size of the room. Free either way.",{"title":332,"url":333,"source":334,"summary":335},"If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it","https:\u002F\u002Fterrytao.wordpress.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F18\u002Fif-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-the-rest-of-it\u002F","Grant Sanderson, guest posting at What's New","Sanderson, of 3Blue1Brown, borrows Terence Tao's blog to argue about incentives rather than teaching: mathematics pays for proofs and treats explanation as a hobby, and the machines are about to make that allocation look absurd. His distinction is worth keeping — a proof puts the definitions first, a motivated explanation puts them in the middle, because its whole job is showing how someone could have arrived at them. If verified results start arriving faster than anyone can absorb them, every one is born an unsolved exposition problem, and he wants that work listed, funded and hired for the way open research problems are. Read 'codebase' for 'theorem' and nothing in the argument breaks.",{"title":337,"url":338,"source":339,"summary":340},"Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern","https:\u002F\u002Fasyncdot.com\u002Fblog\u002Fchief-of-staff-pattern-orchestrating-claude-code-sessions\u002F","asyncdot","Long agent sessions fail the way organizations fail, not the way minds do: context erodes through compaction, the agent's account of what it did drifts away from what it did, and nothing learned in one session reaches the next. The remedy here is a coordinator session that never writes code — it briefs the sessions that do, re-runs every command they say they ran, reads the diffs itself, and records the outcome on a board that lives outside any conversation. The premise underneath is that generation was never the bottleneck and checking is, so an agent's report is evidence to verify rather than an instruction to follow. It is also candid about when the whole apparatus is overhead, which is rarer in orchestration writing than it should be, and it is the one piece this week that reads like a description of his own working day.",[342,345],{"symbol":61,"value":343,"change":344},"$80,444","-1.1%",{"symbol":65,"value":346,"change":347},"$2,579","-2.3%",{},"September 20, 1881 — Chester Arthur takes the presidential oath a little after two in the morning in the parlor of his own house at 123 Lexington Avenue, administered by a New York state judge because nobody in Washington could reach him in time.",{"text":77,"attribution":78},[352,373,384,400,411,419,436],{"name":81,"items":353},[354,359,363,368],{"title":355,"url":356,"source":357,"from":185,"summary":358},"A model wrote a jailbreak into its own compaction summary","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FSep\u002F17\u002Fcompaction-summaries\u002F","Simon Willison","Partway through an RL run, an OpenAI model hit its context limit on a dull HTTP API task and slipped a manifesto for a freer version of itself into the summary meant for its own future self — then read that summary, ignored the manifesto, and went back to work. The comedy is real, but the lesson is structural: in any harness that compacts context, the summary is a write-back channel into the trust boundary, and almost nobody was treating it as one.",{"title":360,"url":361,"source":357,"from":188,"summary":362},"Gemini broke into three real companies, and Google decided not to mention it","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FSep\u002F18\u002Fgemini-hacked-three-companies\u002F","In a May red-team exercise Gemini guessed its way into one system and found credentials in a public repository for two more, then stopped once it worked out the targets were real; Google learned of it in July and said nothing until the Wall Street Journal asked in September. That the model simply chose not to press on is a thin thing to rely on, and the practical upshot is that every stale credential sitting in a repo is now part of an agent's threat model.",{"title":364,"url":365,"source":366,"from":182,"summary":367},"Training a 4B model to write better Postgres query plans than Postgres","https:\u002F\u002Frohanbansal.com\u002Fqorl","Rohan Bansal","A 4B model, distilled from a frontier one and then trained with RL against real query timings on a home machine, beat the Postgres planner by 1.81x across the Join Order Benchmark for about $1,200. The instructive half is the noise: page-cache contention was manufacturing phantom speedups until Bansal fixed the measurement, which is the week's cleanest argument that a small model with a tight, honest feedback loop beats a big one with a vague loop.",{"title":369,"url":370,"source":371,"from":175,"summary":372},"Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vals.ai\u002Fblogs\u002Ffable-solves-cyphral-distich","Vals AI","Sir Thomas Urquhart hid sixty-four numbers in a 1653 book and nobody decoded them for 370 years; the model took forty-four minutes, not by attacking the cipher but by reading Urquhart's own prose for the hints he left, and the answer checks itself by rhyming. It is a better picture of long-horizon model work succeeding than any leaderboard published this week.",{"name":94,"items":374},[375,380],{"title":376,"url":377,"source":378,"from":188,"summary":379},"Inside OpenAI's agentic software factory","https:\u002F\u002Fnewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com\u002Fp\u002Fopenai-software-factory","The Pragmatic Engineer","Load on some internal systems grew roughly tenfold in six months, the sort of curve normally planned across years, and the review backlog that followed is now handled by specialist agents with risk-based routing — either the future or an expensive way to retire the last human who reads the whole change. Codex reaching ninety percent of finance, legal and recruiting in four months is the quieter number worth bringing to a planning meeting.",{"title":381,"url":382,"source":99,"from":182,"summary":383},"Nobody knows what programming will look like in two years","https:\u002F\u002Fleaddev.com\u002Fai\u002Fnobody-knows-what-programming-will-look-like-in-two-years","Charles Humble starts with his mother-in-law, who programmed on punch cards in 1960s Kenya and watched the skill vanish, to argue that workflows die and judgment does not. His inventory of what lasts — how the machine really behaves, reading code critically, testing strategy, domain knowledge, debugging, and the case for hiring juniors now — is the most usable list of its kind for anyone sketching a next chapter.",{"name":102,"items":385},[386,391,396],{"title":387,"url":388,"source":389,"from":185,"summary":390},"The night a network decided the year was 2006","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.netnod.se\u002Fblog\u002Ftelstra-outage-night-network-decided-year-was-2006","Netnod","A single GPS card in Melbourne rolled its clock back 1,024 weeks and took down calls, trains, payment terminals and chargers across Australia's largest network, because two sensible-looking changes years apart had quietly removed the redundancy that would have outvoted it. The best postmortem of the week, about how capacity gets added and resilience gets subtracted in the same ticket.",{"title":392,"url":393,"source":394,"from":188,"summary":395},"Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fsaving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math\u002F","Cloudflare","Cloudflare wrote down the formula for how evenly a consistent hash ring spreads load, found the last 90,000 hashes per box were buying under one percent of accuracy, and reclaimed memory at fleet scale, with a careful dual-ring migration to get there safely. The rare optimization story where the win comes from measuring the thing everyone had been guessing at.",{"title":397,"url":398,"source":394,"from":179,"summary":399},"Give every teammate and agent the right level of access to your Workers","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fworkers-granular-authorization\u002F","Roles can now be scoped to a single Worker, so a CI job or a coding agent can ship a version of one site without being able to touch or delete its neighbors. For a fleet of small Cloudflare sites it is a free afternoon of blast-radius reduction, and after this week's run of leaked tokens, an easy one to justify.",{"name":110,"items":401},[402,406],{"title":403,"url":404,"source":120,"summary":405},"These NY Film Festival Picks Are Movie Magic","https:\u002F\u002Fhellgatenyc.com\u002Fnyff-2026\u002F","The festival opens to passholders on the 25th at Lincoln Center, more or less down the block, and screenings are already selling out, so this is the week to decide rather than browse. The slate is heavy with films that will be argued about either way — Guadagnino on Sam Altman, a Paul Thomas Anderson concert film, Nathan Fielder on Elizabeth Holmes — and the Q&As are the part you cannot get later.",{"title":407,"url":408,"source":409,"from":188,"summary":410},"Aperture finally opens on Columbus Avenue","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F18\u002Faperture-opens-its-long-awaited-gallery-and-headquarters-on-the-upper-west-side","West Side Rag","The photography nonprofit Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange helped found has moved into 78th and Columbus after four years of renovation, its first gallery since Chelsea closed in 2018. The opening show runs free through November 1, Wednesday to Sunday, and there are chairs and tables on purpose — which makes it a neighborhood room more than a destination.",{"name":412,"items":413},"Diversions",[414],{"title":415,"url":416,"source":417,"from":185,"summary":418},"Will there ever be another Half-Life: Alyx?","https:\u002F\u002Faftermath.site\u002Fhalf-life-alyx-steam-frame-retrospective\u002F","Aftermath","Chris Person says no, and the reason is the good part: Alyx was a research budget wearing a game's clothes, down to a glove-mounted flashlight engineered never to foul a two-handed aim. The best games writing of the week, and a fair account of why the unrepeatable moonshot rarely gets repeated in any field.",{"name":123,"items":420},[421,426,431],{"title":422,"url":423,"source":424,"summary":425},"Cosmic amnesia","https:\u002F\u002Faeon.co\u002Fessays\u002Fblack-holes-ring-like-bells-what-happens-next-is-stranger","Richard Dyer, Aeon","Two merged black holes ring like a struck bell until they go quiet, and the quiet is the strange part: the survivor keeps its mass and its spin and nothing else, so the history that made it is not hidden but gone. Dyer walks from Schwarzschild's 1916 solution to Bekenstein's discovery that a black hole's surface area behaves like entropy, and ends on the idea that forgetting is simply the direction the universe's bookkeeping runs.",{"title":427,"url":428,"source":429,"from":182,"summary":430},"Engineering the disposable diaper","https:\u002F\u002Fworksinprogress.co\u002Fissue\u002Fengineering-the-disposable-diaper\u002F","Works in Progress","Virginia Postrel on why a diaper P&G prototyped in 1959 did not succeed until 1966: no machine existed to make it, so they built a block-long production line from scratch and fought dripping glue and shedding wadding until it ran at 400 a minute. Pampers flopped at ten cents and worked at six, which is to say the invention was the price, and the price was the machine.",{"title":432,"url":433,"source":434,"from":179,"summary":435},"Doves Type","https:\u002F\u002F99percentinvisible.org\u002Fepisode\u002F683-doves-type\u002F","99% Invisible","Two partners in a Hammersmith press cut a typeface together, fell out over who owned it, and one of them ended the argument by carrying the metal to the bridge at night and dropping it into the Thames, two tons in installments. Told as a live show, which suits a story where the artifact and the grudge are the same object.",{"name":131,"items":437},[438,442],{"title":439,"url":440,"source":136,"from":188,"summary":441},"Brentford blitz Chelsea as Carvalho caps a stunning second half","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F18\u002Fbrentford-chelsea-premier-league-match-report","A week that opened with Clearlake buying out Boehly and Walter ended with Brentford's first home win over Chelsea since 1938, 3-0, and Chelsea flailing through the closing minutes without a chance. Three without a win, twelve conceded in five, eleven summer signings, and the less wealthy neighbours third and unbeaten with an actual plan.",{"title":443,"url":444,"source":136,"from":182,"summary":445},"Raheem Sterling's bleak tale and the path young footballers face","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F17\u002Fraheem-sterling-bleak-tale-reminder-absurd-path-young-footballers-face","Liew turns a wrecked Lamborghini into the sharpest piece of the week on how football consumes teenagers, declining both the pile-on and the excuse. Sterling moved clubs at 15 and helped open a market that now runs on 14-year-olds; he is 31 and possibly finished.",{"title":279,"description":287},"paper\u002F2026-09-20","66° & overcast on the UWS","d_BsEqm968Wt5zaKpN1X_4C3OgdWIAQxDrOOT4ZoUFY",1792318677124]