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Both are asking how much of what we build around the work is load-bearing.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":16},"",2,[],null,"2026-10-13","A developer ships a commercial web product in C over CGI with one binary, a SQLite file and three dependencies, an essay argues software engineers were blue-collar tradespeople the whole time and that explains the AI identity crisis, and archaeologists in Türkiye turn up another fragment of the oldest peace treaty ever written.",[21,28,35,41],{"title":22,"url":23,"when":24,"where":25,"kind":26,"note":27},"Agents In The AM: Enterprise-Ready Agents","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fpvguexb\u002FAgents-In-The-AM-Enterprise-Ready-Agents","Wed Oct 14 · 9:30am","Westin Times Square, 270 W 43rd St, Midtown","professional","A morning of CIOs describing what it actually takes to run agents in production, followed by a hands-on lab with beginner and advanced tracks. Free, breakfast and lunch included, registrations reviewed — and the exec-briefing half is the part worth sitting through, because the people on stage have budgets and incident reports rather than demos.",{"title":29,"url":30,"when":31,"where":32,"kind":33,"note":34},"A Cyberpunk Canon","https:\u002F\u002Fmetrograph.com\u002Fseries\u002F0000000577-a-cyberpunk-canon","Oct 13 – Oct 31","Metrograph, 7 Ludlow St, Lower East Side","casual","Three weeks of failed futures on film: Paprika and a 4K Ghost in the Shell today, then Minority Report, Tron in 4K, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, and Blade Runner: The Final Cut at eleven at night on four separate dates. The late Blade Runner slots are the correct way to see it and the series knows it.",{"title":36,"url":37,"when":38,"where":39,"kind":26,"note":40},"Dessn: Creative Machines","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002F5zcf0a5\u002FDessn-Creative-Machines","Thu Oct 15 · 6:00pm","Betaworks, 29 Little W 12th St, Meatpacking","A fireside on whether good work comes from freedom or from boundaries, now that the tools have removed most of the boundaries — with a designer from FLORA and the founder of Primitive. Free, at Betaworks, and the question is the one every generated-interface argument eventually collapses into.",{"title":42,"url":43,"when":44,"where":45,"kind":33,"note":46},"Hellraiser, new 4K restoration","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ifccenter.com\u002Ffilms\u002Fhellraiser\u002F","Opens Wed Oct 21","IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, Greenwich Village","Clive Barker's 1987 adaptation of his own novella, ninety-three minutes of puzzle-box curiosity punished, cleaned up and back on a real screen for the right fortnight of the year. Showtimes to be announced, which on a restoration opening usually means midnights.","md",{"title":49,"url":50,"source":51,"summary":52},"A Modern Web App in C","https:\u002F\u002Fprophitt.me\u002Fwriting\u002Fa-modern-web-app-in-c","Jesse Prophitt","He shipped a commercial web product — user accounts, a creator dashboard, folders, Stripe payments, Postmark email, progressive enhancement, no JavaScript required — as a C program dropped in a cgi-bin directory, the way you would have done it in 1994. The stack is BCHS: OpenBSD, C, httpd, SQLite, no framework, no templating language, no database server, no container, with libcurl and libsodium vendored and built in-tree; a clean build takes seconds and deploying is replacing one file, which means no restart and no downtime because each request forks a fresh process anyway. His argument is not that you should do this, it's that CGI's death in 2004 was justified by constraints that no longer hold, and the summary line is the one worth sitting with: one binary, a SQLite file, three dependencies, and the entire thing fits in your head. Read it as a measuring stick — not a migration plan, but an honest accounting of how much of a modern side-project stack is load-bearing and how much is habit.",[54,58,62],{"symbol":55,"value":56,"change":57},"BTC","$83,522","+0.1%",{"symbol":59,"value":60,"change":61},"ETH","$2,512","-1.7%",{"symbol":63,"value":64,"change":65},"S&P 500","7,807","-0.1%",{},true,"October 13, 1884 — delegates from twenty-six nations, meeting in Washington at President Arthur's invitation, vote to run the world's prime meridian through Greenwich; the resolution is formally adopted nine days later, and the planet finally agrees where to start counting. Also the date, in 1903, that Boston closed out Pittsburgh in the eighth game of the first modern World Series.","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-13",{"text":71,"attribution":72},"Oh, we're really making an AI.","Larry Page to Kevin Kelly, c. 2002",[74,87,100,108,121,129,137],{"name":75,"items":76},"AI & Agents",[77,82],{"title":78,"url":79,"source":80,"summary":81},"web-edit 0.1a0","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FOct\u002F12\u002Fweb-edit\u002F","Simon Willison","Willison wanted to edit a credentials file while working from his phone and did not want to round-trip the credentials through the model, so he had the agent build him a small Python web app that serves a file browser and a CodeMirror editor over his Tailscale network. The useful idea is smaller than the tool: the agent can stand up its own side channel for the things you specifically don't want it to see, which is a pattern rather than a project. His note that he chose CodeMirror 6 over Monaco purely for mobile is also the kind of detail you only get from someone who actually tried it on a phone.",{"title":83,"url":84,"source":85,"summary":86},"Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later","https:\u002F\u002Ftaylor.town\u002Fkk-ai-2026","taylor.town","A scorecard on The Inevitable, held up against the year it kept pointing at. Kelly called the oligarchy of two or three cloud-based general intelligences, called AI arriving as utility infrastructure rather than HAL — \"cheap, reliable, industrial-grade digital smartness running behind everything, and almost invisible except when it blinks off\" — and called the conversational answer machine, all before the transformer paper existed. What he got wrong is the instructive part: he expected the bulk of the work to be done by narrow special-purpose brains, which is precisely the bet the bitter lesson went on to settle. Useful calibration if you are trying to reason about where this goes next rather than where it is.",{"name":88,"items":89},"Engineering & Leadership",[90,95],{"title":91,"url":92,"source":93,"summary":94},"Were we blue-collar workers all along?","https:\u002F\u002Fptrbrynt.com\u002Fposts\u002Fwere-we-blue-collar-workers-all-along","Peter Bryant","The claim is a reclassification: software developers make and fix things, just in bits rather than atoms, which puts the job closer to the skilled trades than to the knowledge work it has always been filed under. Bryant's point is not deflationary — he argues the trades framing gives the work more credit, since it is earned by years of practice rather than conferred by a degree — and it does real explanatory work on the current mood, because tradespeople have historically absorbed technological change by learning the new machine while white-collar roles took the disruption. The uncomfortable half is his read on the last thirty years as a honeymoon that is now over, and the line that will stick with you is \"we are the seamstresses lamenting the introduction of the loom.\"",{"title":96,"url":97,"source":98,"summary":99},"Your tests can't catch a poisoned model","https:\u002F\u002Fleaddev.com\u002Ftechnical-direction\u002Fyour-tests-cant-catch-a-poisoned-model","Upendra Jadon, LeadDev","The structural argument is clean enough to be worth the seven minutes even if you never train anything: in an ML system the training data is the logic, so corrupting the examples changes behavior as completely as rewriting source would, except no reviewer sees a diff and no request log shows an attempt. Jadon walks the gap between this and the vulnerabilities teams already know how to catch — a poisoned dataset passes every functional test — and lands on treating training data as production infrastructure, with provenance and change control to match. Healthcare runs through it as the case study, which keeps it concrete rather than hypothetical.",{"name":101,"items":102},"Web & Product Craft",[103],{"title":104,"url":105,"source":106,"summary":107},"Filter, reshape, and redact logs before export with Transformers","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Ftransformers-on-logpush\u002F","Cloudflare","Cloudflare embedded a SQL engine inside Logpush's export pipeline, so a query now runs over each batch before delivery: the WHERE clause drops records you were previously paying to export, ingest and store before discarding, and the SELECT adds, renames, nests or redacts fields so each destination gets the shape it wants. The reason this is a mechanism post and not an announcement is the placement — it removes the separate processing service you would otherwise deploy, scale and monitor between the edge and your SIEM. Generally available on all plans now, with a preview UI, which makes it relevant well before you have a compliance team asking where the sensitive fields went.",{"name":109,"items":110},"New York & the Table",[111,116],{"title":112,"url":113,"source":114,"summary":115},"Once Again I Did Not Win A Zohran Mamdani Scavenger Hunt","https:\u002F\u002Faftermath.site\u002Fmamdani-scavenger-hunt-2026\u002F","Riley MacLeod, Aftermath","The mayor's office ran a citywide scavenger hunt on Sunday, lottery-entry teams of four, clues delivered through Goosechase, framed as a celebration of New York's radical history and clearly designed to make people walk around their own city looking at things. MacLeod lost, learned the city anyway, and is good on the logistics of the second attempt versus the chaotic 2025 campaign version — which is the interesting layer, because this is a municipal government treating civic curiosity as something you can schedule and run at scale.",{"title":117,"url":118,"source":119,"summary":120},"Upper West Side restaurant named among 100 best pasta spots in the United States","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F12\u002Fupper-west-side-restaurant-named-among-100-best-pasta-spots-in-the-united-states","Gus Saltonstall, West Side Rag","Arco Cafe, the Sardinian place at 886 Amsterdam between 103rd and 104th, lands at 39 on Yelp's first national pasta ranking. The list is crowdsourced and means roughly nothing, but the kitchen's own description is the part that earns the walk — malloreddus, fregula and ravioli rolled every morning, eleven pasta dishes, nothing pre-made or frozen — and it has been eleven blocks up Amsterdam the whole time.",{"name":122,"items":123},"Diversions",[124],{"title":125,"url":126,"source":127,"summary":128},"Video Games Are Making Star Wars Fun Again","https:\u002F\u002Faftermath.site\u002Fstar-wars-galactic-racer-impressions-review-voice-cast\u002F","Luke Plunkett, Aftermath","Plunkett, who had very nearly sworn off the whole galaxy, makes the case that Zero Company and now Galactic Racer have done in a month what the films and shows have not managed in years. The argument underneath the enthusiasm is about where a franchise's good stories actually get told — in the nineties it was the games, then a decade of exclusive mediocrity starved that channel — and Galactic Racer is the kind of release that works with other people in the room.",{"name":130,"items":131},"Loose Change",[132],{"title":133,"url":134,"source":135,"summary":136},"This Is the Oldest Peace Treaty Ever Discovered","https:\u002F\u002Fnautil.us\u002Fthis-is-the-oldest-peace-treaty-ever-discovered-1285725\u002F","David Nield, Nautilus","Around 1269 BCE, fifteen years after the Battle of Kadesh ended in a bloody draw both sides claimed as a win, Ramses II and the Hittite king Hattusilli III wrote down that the fighting would stop. Excavators at Büyükkale, in what is now Türkiye, have just turned up another fragment — articles twelve through twenty, the section on refugees, which specifies that their homes are not to be destroyed. The original was cut into silver tablets that are long gone; what survives are cuneiform clay copies written in Akkadian, a third language neither court spoke at home but which the Late Bronze Age had settled on as the language of diplomacy. A copper replica hangs at the UN on First Avenue, also incomplete.",{"name":138,"items":139},"The Back Page",[140,145],{"title":141,"url":142,"source":143,"summary":144},"Football regulator to recommend cost controls in landmark report with 94% of clubs making loss","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F12\u002Ffootball-regulator-cost-controls-report-state-of-the-game","The Guardian","The Independent Football Regulator publishes its State of the Game report today — 250 pages, eighteen months in the making, the most detailed study of the industry's finances ever done — and the headline number is that 94% of the top 116 English clubs lose money. It will recommend cost controls, opening an eight-week consultation before a final version in the spring, and the press conference in Manchester will inevitably be about whether the regulator could force a sale of Manchester City if last week's guilty verdicts survive appeal. The quieter stakes are the EFL's settlement talks with the Premier League, where £180m a year has been offered against £207m demanded, and where the report's detail on lower-division spending may not help the case it was supposed to strengthen.",{"title":146,"url":147,"source":148,"summary":149},"Timberwolves 122, Knicks 104: Scenes from another unimpressive dress rehearsal","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.postingandtoasting.com\u002Fknicks-scores-results\u002F89903\u002Ftimberwolves-122-knicks-104-scenes-from-another-unimpressive-dress-rehearsal","Posting and Toasting","The defending champions are 0-3 in the preseason after Minnesota came to the Garden with nearly everyone available and left with a comfortable eighteen, Brunson and Towns having opened by missing badly from deep. Two things in here are worth more than the score: LaMelo Ball's Timberwolves debut read as ten points, seven assists and five turnovers, and the league is enforcing flopping through a new \"STEM\" rubric — secondary, theatrical, exaggerated, movement — which Brunson tested in the first quarter by stumbling off a Gobert shove and getting called for it.",{"title":5,"description":19},"paper\u002F2026-10-13","62° & clear on the UWS","vWJOQG4hI0tMjtbzmhWwtAM7wnP8ABNzgbPBHloHido",[155,158,161,164,167,170,173,176,179,182,185,188,191,194,197,200,203,206,209,212,215,218,221,224,227,230,233,236,239,242,245,248,251,254,257,260,263,266,269,270,273,276,279,282],{"date":156,"path":157},"2026-08-30","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-08-30",{"date":159,"path":160},"2026-09-06","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-06",{"date":162,"path":163},"2026-09-07","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-07",{"date":165,"path":166},"2026-09-08","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-08",{"date":168,"path":169},"2026-09-09","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-09",{"date":171,"path":172},"2026-09-10","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-10",{"date":174,"path":175},"2026-09-11","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-11",{"date":177,"path":178},"2026-09-12","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-12",{"date":180,"path":181},"2026-09-13","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-13",{"date":183,"path":184},"2026-09-14","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-14",{"date":186,"path":187},"2026-09-15","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-15",{"date":189,"path":190},"2026-09-16","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-16",{"date":192,"path":193},"2026-09-17","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-17",{"date":195,"path":196},"2026-09-18","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-18",{"date":198,"path":199},"2026-09-19","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-19",{"date":201,"path":202},"2026-09-20","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-20",{"date":204,"path":205},"2026-09-21","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-21",{"date":207,"path":208},"2026-09-22","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-22",{"date":210,"path":211},"2026-09-23","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-23",{"date":213,"path":214},"2026-09-24","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-24",{"date":216,"path":217},"2026-09-25","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-25",{"date":219,"path":220},"2026-09-26","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-26",{"date":222,"path":223},"2026-09-27","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-27",{"date":225,"path":226},"2026-09-28","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-28",{"date":228,"path":229},"2026-09-29","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-29",{"date":231,"path":232},"2026-09-30","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-30",{"date":234,"path":235},"2026-10-01","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-01",{"date":237,"path":238},"2026-10-02","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-02",{"date":240,"path":241},"2026-10-03","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-03",{"date":243,"path":244},"2026-10-04","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-04",{"date":246,"path":247},"2026-10-05","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-05",{"date":249,"path":250},"2026-10-06","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-06",{"date":252,"path":253},"2026-10-07","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-07",{"date":255,"path":256},"2026-10-08","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-08",{"date":258,"path":259},"2026-10-09","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-09",{"date":261,"path":262},"2026-10-10","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-10",{"date":264,"path":265},"2026-10-11","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-11",{"date":267,"path":268},"2026-10-12","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-12",{"date":18,"path":69},{"date":271,"path":272},"2026-10-14","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-14",{"date":274,"path":275},"2026-10-15","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-15",{"date":277,"path":278},"2026-10-16","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-16",{"date":280,"path":281},"2026-10-17","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-17",{"date":283,"path":284},"2026-10-18","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-18",{"id":286,"title":287,"body":288,"crossword":17,"date":283,"description":295,"events":296,"extension":47,"feature":328,"lede":333,"markets":338,"meta":345,"navigation":67,"onThisDay":346,"path":284,"quote":347,"sections":350,"seo":441,"stem":442,"weather":443,"__hash__":444},"paper\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-18.md","Appel & Mise — October 18, 2026",{"type":7,"value":289,"toc":293},[290],[10,291,292],{},"The week kept circling the same question from different corners: who is allowed to approve the work. A research model closed a twenty-six-year-old hole in the cryptographic record in under half an hour, Will Larson started letting a bot merge a tenth of his company's pull requests without a word of comment, Anthropic published the review scaffolding holding up a codebase its own model writes nine tenths of — and Cendyne, laid off because a model cost less than their salary, spends the day reviewing that model's output. Nobody this week argued the machines should not be trusted. They argued about where to put the human, and all of them put it somewhere narrower and more deliberate than before.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":294},[],"The week an Anthropic model spent under half an hour solving the twenty-six-year-old mystery of where the NSA's elliptic curve seeds came from, Anthropic published the version control system it built because git could not survive thirty thousand merges a day, and Will Larson started letting a bot approve pull requests outright.",[297,303,310,316,322],{"title":298,"url":299,"when":300,"where":301,"kind":26,"note":302},"AI Agents Build Day w\u002F Genspark","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fpxd9abg\u002FAI-Agents-Build-Day-w-Genspark","Tue Oct 20 · 6:00pm","Betaworks, 29 Little W 12th St, Meatpacking District","Hosted by AI After 5, and structured as the thing most agent meetups skip: a live walkthrough, then everyone actually builds something from a recurring task they brought with them. The loop they teach — frame the ask, hand over context, review the output, refine — is the loop, and watching a room of people hit the same wall at the same moment is worth more than another panel. Free, and you leave with credits and a half-finished project.",{"title":304,"url":305,"when":306,"where":307,"kind":308,"note":309},"Revelry: King Solomon Hicks","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.symphonyspace.org\u002Fevents\u002Frevelry-king-solomon-hicks","Fri Oct 23 · 7:30pm","Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space, 250 W 95th St","say yes","Hicks is a Harlem guitarist who won the Blues Music Award for best emerging artist and has stood on stages with Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck and Mavis Staples, and what he plays is blues with the jazz, soul, funk and gospel left in rather than scrubbed out. The Thalia is a 160-seat room, which is the whole argument: electric blues in a space small enough that the amp is a physical fact and not a recording. Ninety minutes, twenty-five to thirty-five dollars, and it is a ten-minute walk.",{"title":311,"url":312,"when":313,"where":314,"kind":33,"note":315},"Wałęsa: Man of Hope, with Robert Więckiewicz in person","https:\u002F\u002Ffilmforum.org\u002Fevents\u002Fevent\u002Fwalesa-man-of-hope-october-22","Thu Oct 22 · 8:10pm","Film Forum, 209 W Houston St, West Village","Wajda's last film, made at 87, about an electrician who talked his way into bringing down a government — and Więckiewicz, who plays him, stays after to talk with Kent Jones. Part of the Wajda 100 series, which closes this week. Eighteen dollars, twelve for members.",{"title":317,"url":318,"when":319,"where":320,"kind":26,"note":321},"Deal Flow: NYC's First VC Hackathon","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fl2mm85l\u002FDeal-Flow-NYC-s-First-VC-Hackathon","Sat Oct 24 · 9:00am–6:00pm","Betaworks, Meatpacking District","Nine hours, teams of four, building against problems a venture fund actually has — sourcing, diligence memos, LP reporting — then demoing to six judges who work at the funds. Free, food all day, and an unusually direct look at the internals of a business that normally only shows you its outputs.",{"title":323,"url":324,"when":325,"where":326,"kind":26,"note":327},"Future of AI Infrastructure","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fy0vmxly\u002FFuture-Of-AI-Infrastructure","Tue Oct 27 · 6:00pm","535 Fifth Ave, Midtown","An evening on the layer underneath the models, with an Nvidia systems research engineer doing data curation for vision-language-action models, a GPU-compute recruiter, and the founder of an enterprise AI governance company. The recruiter on the bill is the tell that the hallway is worth as much as the panel. Free.",{"title":329,"url":330,"source":331,"from":267,"summary":332},"Fable took my jorb","https:\u002F\u002Fcendyne.dev\u002Fposts\u002F2026-10-11-fable-took-my-jorb.html","Cendyne","The honest version of the essay everyone is writing badly: Cendyne was the last engineer standing at a company that had already shed the rest, and the arithmetic that removed the role was simply that a frontier model cost less than the compensation, which bought leadership runway to coast into an acquisition. What lifts it above grievance is that the author has sat on the other side of the table — having had to justify and carry out earlier rounds — and declines to pretend the tools are useless: models are genuinely good at ported, measurable work where a human can checkpoint each step, and the piece cites Shopify's return to native mobile and a TypeScript-to-Rust port that faithfully reproduced the original's bugs. What they cannot do, the argument goes, is taste and foresight — saying no to the feature the complaint thread demands, and pricing in what a decision costs in operating complexity three years out. The detail that stays with you is not the argument but the body: a resting heart rate above 100, under four hours of sleep a night for more than a week, and a hiring manager laid off a week after interviewing the author. Read it before the next time someone says \"AI took my job\" as though it were a sentence about machines rather than about budgets.",{"title":334,"url":335,"source":336,"from":280,"summary":337},"Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.anthropic.com\u002Fresearch\u002Fecdsa-curve-origins","Anthropic","The NIST elliptic curves that secure most of the internet rest on seed values the NSA supplied in the late 1990s and never explained, which for twenty-six years has been the single most-cited reason to suspect a backdoor; the one insider who knew died in 2023, and a standing bounty went unclaimed. An internal Anthropic research model, handed the problem cold, took under half an hour. Rather than hunt for the hash function everyone assumed was behind the seeds, it guessed the numbers were output from a weak random number generator of the period, noticed the top bit of every 32-bit word was zero across all four seeds — a 1-in-5,810 coincidence and the fingerprint of `lrand48` — brute-forced the hidden state for the binary curves and recovered it for the prime curves with lattice reduction. Run the recovered states back through `srand48` and you get Unix timestamps from 1997 and 1998: somebody sat there running a program in a loop until the curve came out valid, and P-256 was candidate number 1,842. The post ships Python that reproduces the published values and is candid about the loose ends — B-163 and most of the base points remain unexplained. Nothing here breaks ECDSA. What it does is replace cryptography's central conspiracy hypothesis with a much duller story about a guy, a timestamp and a while loop, and it is the clearest public example yet of a model finishing work that had defeated people who badly wanted the answer.",[339,342],{"symbol":55,"value":340,"change":341},"$82,065","+0.7%",{"symbol":59,"value":343,"change":344},"$2,422","-0.4%",{},"October 18, 1931 — Thomas Edison dies at 84 in West Orange, New Jersey, having filed 1,093 US patents and having been wrong about alternating current for most of his career. Thirty-seven years later to the day, at the Mexico City Olympics, Bob Beamon jumps 8.90 metres on his first attempt — so far past the end of the optical measuring device that officials had to find a tape measure, and so far past the world record that it stood for twenty-three years.",{"text":348,"attribution":349},"The joy of programming is dying. The joy of delivering results lives on.","Cendyne, on being laid off in favor of a cheaper model",[351,368,379,392,403,414,425],{"name":75,"items":352},[353,358,363],{"title":354,"url":355,"source":356,"from":271,"summary":357},"Redesigning source control at Anthropic","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.anthropic.com\u002Fengineering\u002Fredesigning-source-control","Anthropic Engineering","Anthropic spent five months building its own version control system, and the reason is the most concrete number anyone published this week about what agentic development does to infrastructure: roughly thirty thousand merges a day, a rate git's assumptions about human-paced branching simply do not survive. Worth reading as a forecast rather than a product post — if your team is anywhere on the same curve, the tooling that breaks first is the tooling nobody thought of as a bottleneck.",{"title":359,"url":360,"source":361,"from":274,"summary":362},"OpenCode 2.0","https:\u002F\u002Fanoma.ly\u002Fnotes\u002Fopencode-2-0\u002F","OpenCode","The release embeds a small JavaScript interpreter so the agent can write a script against your MCP servers instead of calling them one tool at a time, which collapses the round-trip tax that makes multi-step tool use feel like dialling a rotary phone. The idea has outlived the release week: once the agent can compose tools in a loop rather than request them one by one, most of what people build as bespoke orchestration turns out to have been a workaround.",{"title":364,"url":365,"source":366,"from":277,"summary":367},"Neural Networks Are Already Clean","https:\u002F\u002Falready-clean.goodfire.com\u002F","Goodfire","A Goodfire researcher argues that superposition — the premise that networks cram more features than they have dimensions, which a good deal of interpretability work was built to untangle — was a misreading of one badly behaved circuit, and that representations are considerably more legible than the field assumed. Even if it is wrong it is clarifying, because it is a rare case of someone checking whether a foundational metaphor was load-bearing or merely early.",{"name":88,"items":369},[370,375],{"title":371,"url":372,"source":373,"summary":374},"Speeding up code review with `small-change`","https:\u002F\u002Flethain.com\u002Fsmall-changes\u002F","Will Larson","Will Larson's engineers now merge about four times as many pull requests as two years ago — two teams have ten-x'd — while incidents fell 42% and critical incidents 78%, and the median review stretched from 33 minutes to 77. His response is to stop treating review as one thing: knowledge sharing, error catching, abuse prevention and compliance are four goals, and CI and automated auditing serve two of them better than a tired human does. So `small-change` is a CI check nobody can override by hand — under a thousand lines, no P1 or P2 findings from the review bot, an author with ten prior merges in that service, few enough services touched, no shared libraries, and not on a per-repo exclusion list like money movement — and a skill that silently approves what qualifies. Silently is the design decision worth stealing: he refuses to let the bot comment, because what he calls \"meat proxy\" review, where an author uses a harness to answer another harness's comments, destroys the one goal automation cannot cover. About 10% of changes qualify today and any escape counts as a system defect, not an argument for adding a human back.",{"title":376,"url":377,"source":336,"from":280,"summary":378},"How the Claude Code team does code review","https:\u002F\u002Fclaude.dev\u002Fblog\u002Fsolving-code-review-at-anthropic\u002F","The other half of the same conversation, with the numbers from the inside: Claude writes about 90% of Claude Code's own code, merged PRs more than doubled from June to September, and the revert rate fell over 40%. The copyable parts are a risk classifier that reads the change rather than the author and sets zero, one or two required human approvals, a `REVIEW.md` per code owner that caps nits and demands file-and-line evidence, and past incident PRs turned into a daily eval set. The failure mode is the honest bit — one PR went past fifty review rounds overnight before its author gave up, and blame showed 59% of what the reviewer kept flagging had been there since the first pass, because an agent author answers a nit with another commit instead of a shrug. Round caps and no-repeat-findings took mean rounds from 2.08 to 1.32.",{"name":101,"items":380},[381,386,390],{"title":382,"url":383,"source":384,"from":280,"summary":385},"JPEG XL vs AVIF for web use cases","https:\u002F\u002Fjakearchibald.com\u002F2026\u002Fjpeg-xl-vs-avif\u002F","Jake Archibald","Archibald built a harness, matched encodes at equal SSIMULACRA2 scores rather than equal quality settings, and published numbers that contradict the enthusiasm: AVIF comes out 15–25% smaller than the best JPEG XL on photos, 30–90% smaller on screenshots and illustrations, much better with transparency, and two to three times faster to decode. JPEG XL keeps two real wins — true lossless, and lossless transcoding of JPEGs you already have for 9–20% off, free. Default to AVIF at 4:4:4 and the highest effort you can stand, reach for JPEG XL when one image comes out fat, and re-run it yourself in a year because both codecs are moving.",{"title":387,"url":388,"source":106,"from":280,"summary":389},"Deploy with Void","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fdeploy-with-void\u002F","Cloudflare's answer to the awkward middle of a Vite app: importing `void\u002Fdb` or `void\u002Fai` is itself the resource declaration, so dev gets a local database and `void deploy` provisions D1 and AI Gateway in production with no wiring written by hand. Nuxt is supported alongside React Router, SvelteKit, TanStack Start and Astro, and the framework keeps routing and rendering while Void takes migrations, auth and deploys. The piece worth watching is the self-hostable Void Platform on Workers for Platforms — a shared deploy environment on your own account, which is exactly the missing step when a side project acquires a second person.",{"title":49,"url":50,"source":51,"from":18,"summary":391},"A commercial web product shipped as one binary, a SQLite file and three dependencies, served over CGI — a stack that sounds like a stunt until you read what it buys: a deploy you can reason about, a dependency graph that fits in your head, and no runtime upgrade treadmill. Not a recommendation so much as a measurement of how much of a modern stack is genuinely required versus merely conventional, which is a useful number to carry around while picking the tools for the next thing.",{"name":109,"items":393},[394,399],{"title":395,"url":396,"source":397,"from":280,"summary":398},"Horse-drawn carriages in Central Park 'coming to an end,' mayor says","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F15\u002Fhorse-drawn-carriages-in-central-park-coming-to-an-end-mayor-says-photos","West Side Rag","Mayor Mamdani came out this week for a bill banning horse-drawn carriages from June 2028, and with more than half the 51-member Council formally behind it, the thing Bloomberg, de Blasio and Adams all failed to do looks likely to pass — the full vote is calendared for Thursday. It is named Romanch's Law, for the 18-year-old tourist killed in a carriage accident this summer. The questions the bill text apparently does not answer are the ones that will define how it lands: where roughly 160 horses go, and what becomes of the drivers, whose union opposes it.",{"title":400,"url":401,"source":397,"summary":402},"Developers aim to construct 145-foot building above Upper West Side grocer","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F16\u002Fdevelopers-aim-to-construct-145-foot-building-above-upper-west-side-grocer-were-all-in-a-state-of-shock","Terra Developers wants a 13-story tower with 19 three-to-five-bedroom units on top of the Gristedes at 500–504 Columbus, restoring the two 130-year-old buildings as its base and setting the tower back from the avenue. Because the site sits in the Upper West Side Historic District it needs Landmarks approval; CB7's preservation committee backed it, the full board votes November 4, and the neighbors behind it on West 85th are objecting over sight lines. The precedent is the actual fight — whether a historic district can be built upward, one restored facade at a time — and a family-sized-unit pipeline is not nothing in a neighborhood that mostly produces studios.",{"name":122,"items":404},[405,410],{"title":406,"url":407,"source":408,"from":280,"summary":409},"Why aren't there any major video game studios in NYC?","https:\u002F\u002Faftermath.site\u002Fpodcasts\u002Faftermath-hours-podcast-live-nyc-naomi-clark-sam-barlow\u002F","Aftermath","Recorded live at Town Hall for the first New York Games Week, with NYU Game Center's Naomi Clark and Sam Barlow of Her Story, and the answer they land on is about production shape rather than rent. Film work here is freelance and piecemeal, which the city is built for; games need three-year office jobs and funding that survives a project selling nothing, which it isn't — and Barlow's Unreal team simply could not hire experienced developers locally, so they went remote. San Francisco and Seattle courted studios; a city with an arts economy this large never had to.",{"title":411,"url":412,"source":408,"summary":413},"RuneScape Reignited announced and canceled within two weeks","https:\u002F\u002Faftermath.site\u002Frunescape-reignited-announced-canceled\u002F","Jagex proposed a fresh-start character type on separate worlds so newcomers could join a 25-year-old MMO without facing two decades of catch-up, veterans revolted over a split population, and sixteen days later the studio pulled it with a note admitting it \"missed the mark.\" A tidy case study in the migration problem every long-lived product eventually hits: the people who make a thing worth joining are precisely the people whose standing any onboarding path threatens, and the sweeteners Jagex floated mid-backlash only made the trade explicit.",{"name":138,"items":415},[416,420],{"title":417,"url":418,"source":143,"summary":419},"Neto double at Everton leads Chelsea to victory marred by Martínez head injury","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F17\u002Feverton-chelsea-premier-league-match-report","Two Neto goals at Goodison, a second straight win since the Brentford defeat, and — the number that answers Thursday's question — a first Premier League clean sheet since January, twenty-two games ago. It was not the fun version: a feisty, scrappy first half Everton edged, Pickford weak on both goals, and Alonso afterwards declining the compliment entirely, saying the mentality was good but \"it's one day\" and he will believe it at ten clean sheets. The sour note is Emi Martínez, carried off in a neck brace after an accidental collision with Branthwaite and taken to hospital with suspected concussion — conscious when he left, with Mike Penders finishing a Premier League debut nobody wanted him to have.",{"title":421,"url":422,"source":423,"from":280,"summary":424},"Chelsea are the Premier League's most fun team but is it sustainable?","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002Fwho-scored-blog\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F15\u002Fchelsea-premier-league-fun-team-sustainable-xabi-alonso-europe","The Guardian \u002F WhoScored","Read it now with Saturday's result in hand, because the argument held up better than the scoreline suggests. Paterson's case was that fifteen goals from 8.4 xG is borrowed money and the defensive structure — both wing-backs, both attacking midfielders and João Pedro pushed up, leaving a back three and two midfielders to cover ground they cannot — is what Brentford took apart. His hopeful note was the Bournemouth game, where Chelsea dropped into a 4-4-2 out of possession and looked like a side with a plan for the turnover. That is roughly the shape that produced the clean sheet at Everton, which makes this the rare tactical piece you can check against the following weekend.",{"name":130,"items":426},[427,432,436],{"title":428,"url":429,"source":430,"summary":431},"How to be a (Roman) man","https:\u002F\u002Faeon.co\u002Fessays\u002Fthe-politics-of-masculinity-at-the-end-of-the-roman-republic","Catharine Edwards, Aeon","Roman manliness ran on a word, virtus, built directly out of vir — man — and it began by meaning courage in battle and nothing else. Cicero's project, which Edwards traces across forty years of his own writing, was to argue it into covering a man who had never commanded an army: as consul he insisted that citizens in togas had beaten the Catiline conspiracy, which put rhetoric level with a military victory and made the orator's body the new field of judgment. So the policing moved to the surface of things — Quintilian ruled on how a toga should hang and called one particular drape effeminate, the handbooks warned against a shrill voice, and Cicero wanted gestures borrowed from the wrestling ground rather than the stage, because an actor's hands were a slave's hands. The essay's sharpest turn is what happened when his own life fell apart: sixteen months in exile, weeping openly and writing \"What am I now?\", then his daughter's death, and a flat refusal to accept the Stoic consolation that grief is unmanly — apathy, he said, would be brutish, not brave. He lost the larger argument to soldiers, who killed him in 43 BCE, and won it for about fifteen centuries afterwards.",{"title":433,"url":434,"source":143,"from":280,"summary":435},"Cyril Hilsum obituary","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Fscience\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F15\u002Fcyril-hilsum-obituary","Given a defence brief in the late 1960s to replace the cathode-ray tubes in radar sets with something flat, he convened Britain's liquid crystal researchers, worked out that only one man in the room — George Gray of Hull — actually understood the material, and put him under contract on the spot. The mixture they landed on by 1972 was stable in heat and sunlight, which is why it ended up in watches, then calculators, then every laptop and phone, earning the Ministry of Defence over £100m in royalties. He also helped build the Gunn diode behind police speed guns, which inconvenienced him as a fast driver; invented a device for locating snipers from bullet trajectories; beat Alan Turing at chess; insisted on hiring equal numbers of men and women at GEC in the 1980s; and attended Churchill's post-war meetings with his wife specifically in order to heckle. Born to street traders in Stepney, reading fluently at three, dead at 101.",{"title":437,"url":438,"source":439,"from":271,"summary":440},"A 900-page pre-Pantone guide to color, from 1692","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.openculture.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002Fa-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692.html","Open Culture","An otherwise unrecorded Dutch artist named A. Boogert sat down and hand-painted some eight hundred pages of watercolor swatches, mixing each one and annotating how much water to add to shift the tone, producing a color reference three centuries before anyone standardized one. The part that will not leave you alone is the distribution: it was a single manuscript, almost certainly seen by a handful of people, and the labor of making it vastly exceeded any plausible use anybody could have got from it.",{"title":287,"description":295},"paper\u002F2026-10-18","45° & clear on the UWS","u34zkd-J8vE-8wWvNlCcFuU62FpEz-36US1oP8LsC0A",1792318676636]