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Free, and the standing topics are agent reliability, evaluation and post-training, which is the useful end of the field rather than the announcement end.",{"title":29,"url":30,"when":31,"where":32,"kind":26,"note":33},"Ugly Talks — Failure Is Key To Success","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fb0n10si\u002FUgly-Talks-Failure-Is-Key-To-Success","Mon Nov 2 · 6:00pm","Venue to be announced, Manhattan","Four founder-CEOs, Hungryroot's Ben McKean among them, talking specifically about the call that cost them rather than the arc that redeemed it. Free, two hours, and the framing is unusually honest for this format — the pitch is explicitly that failure-as-part-of-the-journey is the lie. Check the listing for a venue before you go.",{"title":35,"url":36,"when":37,"where":38,"kind":39,"note":40},"zi (Kogonada), with the director and cast","https:\u002F\u002Fmetrograph.com\u002Ffilm\u002F9999005068-zi\u002F","Fri Nov 6 – Sun Nov 15 · Q&A Nov 6 & 7","Metrograph, 7 Ludlow St, Lower East Side","casual","Kogonada's new film follows a concert violinist, played by Michelle Mao, through Hong Kong as she has visions that may be memory or premonition, with Haley Lu Richardson as the American she tries to explain them to and a Ryuichi Sakamoto score underneath. The Nov 6 and 7 screenings bring Kogonada, Mao, Richardson and Jin Ha for a Q&A; later dates pair it with his video essays on Ozu, Koreeda and Bergman, which is its own argument about where the film came from.",{"title":42,"url":43,"when":44,"where":45,"kind":39,"note":46},"NYC in Transit","https:\u002F\u002Ffilmforum.org\u002Fseries\u002Fnyc-in-transit","Tue Nov 3 · 8:00pm and Tue Nov 10 · 6:00pm","Film Forum, 209 W Houston St, West Village","A series built with the New York Transit Museum for its fiftieth anniversary, running the canon of films that treat the subway as a character — Pickup on South Street on the 3rd, Manhattan by Numbers on the 10th, with The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Warriors, Speedy and The French Connection in the wider program. Members get two-for-one admission to the museum in Downtown Brooklyn while it runs.","md",{"title":49,"url":50,"source":51,"summary":52},"Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FOct\u002F29\u002Fhow-i-built-the-most-ai-pilled-company-in-the-world\u002F","Simon Willison","Spawn is a multiplayer world where players prompt castles and dragons into existence, and by Jacob Sansbury's account it is now largely developed by a swarm of Fable-powered agents that read production errors and bug reports themselves, ship to live code hourly, and cost more than three million dollars a month in tokens — thirty times payroll. The operational choices are the part worth stealing or arguing with: an hour without a ship is treated as a SEV-0 because an agent can only hold a few hours of work in its head, rollbacks are scoped to the broken change and take thirty seconds, and alerts wake an agent that owns the incident. The model dependency is unusually specific too — Fable 5.1 made the autonomy possible, Opus 5.5 did not quite get there for them, and GPT-6 Astra, asked to apply a security review, made the insecure things secure by turning the whole product off.",[54,58,62],{"symbol":55,"value":56,"change":57},"BTC","$77,452","-3.3%",{"symbol":59,"value":60,"change":61},"ETH","$2,223","-4.1%",{"symbol":63,"value":64,"change":65},"S&P 500","7,720.39","-0.3%",{},true,"October 30, 1938 — Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre broadcast The War of the Worlds from CBS's studio at 485 Madison Avenue, cutting into a fake dance-band program with fake news bulletins about cylinders landing at Grover's Mill, New Jersey. The panic was real but modest; its legend was mostly manufactured by newspapers that were losing advertising to radio and enjoyed the story enormously. Thirty-six years later to the day, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round in Kinshasa.","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-30",{"text":71,"attribution":72},"It's not the em-dashes, it's the load-bearing tapestries.","Martin Fowler, on how you can tell",[74,92,100,108,121,134,142],{"name":75,"items":76},"AI & Agents",[77,82,87],{"title":78,"url":79,"source":80,"summary":81},"We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry","https:\u002F\u002Flabs.ycombinator.com\u002Fprojects\u002Fgames\u002Findex.html","Y Combinator Labs","Fifty GPT-6.1 Sol agents were dropped into a Minecraft survival world for three hours and told to build a thriving civilization; they stripped the trees near spawn in ninety seconds, then invented a government — ration ledger, written rules, permits, appointed operators — and sent about 5,900 messages, 616 of them to Ada, who became leader purely because she was first in the agent directory. The finding that should worry anyone running coding agents is the arc: 22 of the run's 34 deaths came on the first night, after which the colony turned risk-averse, abandoned ambitious work, and spent eleven minutes of four agents' time appointing a sole fertilizer operator for one application of bone meal. The harness is open source and built on Mineflayer, so the experiment is repeatable rather than just entertaining.",{"title":83,"url":84,"source":85,"summary":86},"LLM Voice","https:\u002F\u002Fmartinfowler.com\u002Fbliki\u002FLLM-Voice.html","Martin Fowler","Fowler's objection to machine-written prose is not accuracy but the uncanny-valley reaction it produces in readers, which no detector can undo after the fact — by the time you reach for the tool it is already too late. His practical rule is harder than most people's: do not let a model write the first draft, because the voice survives human editing, and be wary even of accepting rephrasings. The real argument is underneath, and it is one worth sitting with before the next time you delegate a doc — writing is how you find out whether you actually understand the thing.",{"title":88,"url":89,"source":90,"summary":91},"Mistral Large 4 open weights","https:\u002F\u002Fmistral.ai\u002Fnews\u002Fmistral-large-4-oss\u002F","Mistral","The trillion-parameter model that went to preview earlier this month now ships with weights, and three more weeks of reinforcement learning put it at the front of open-weight coding: 19.7% on Cognition's private FrontierCode 2.0, which scores whether a maintainer would actually merge the agent's change, and 41% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, up thirteen points while cutting output tokens by thirty percent. The number that matters for anyone paying per token is the efficiency one — 48 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, effectively level with GLM-5.3 while using 47% fewer tokens per task, with three selectable reasoning modes to tune the trade.",{"name":93,"items":94},"Engineering & Leadership",[95],{"title":96,"url":97,"source":98,"summary":99},"Software engineering at Google, with Titus Winters","https:\u002F\u002Fnewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com\u002Fp\u002Fsoftware-engineering-at-google-and","Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer","The lead author of Software Engineering at Google now wants to burn down most of the CS curriculum he helped write, and the conversation earns the contradiction by way of the 2010 refactor of Google's 250-million-line C++ codebase by a dozen people — MapReduce over every build target to parse it into syntax trees, pattern-match, generate edits, make both APIs coexist, shard by directory, then block anyone from copying the old pattern back. Winters describes it as replacing the Empire State Building's foundation without closing the building, and clang-format exists because they needed it. The leadership material is in the two mandates that followed: a test with every change, after Search degraded from monthly to quarterly releases, and a readability reviewer on every commit alongside the owner.",{"name":101,"items":102},"Web & Product Craft",[103],{"title":104,"url":105,"source":106,"summary":107},"More swarms, fewer giants","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fddos-threat-report-2026-q3\u002F","Cloudflare","The shape of the threat inverted this quarter: attacks over a terabit per second fell from 805 to 251 after law enforcement took down four large IoT botnets, while short cheap bursts under ten minutes and one gigabit rose 208% and now account for almost everything — 96% of attacks end inside ten minutes, 98% stay under a gigabit. If you run anything on Workers this is a sizing argument, because defending against a 49-hour Mirai flood and defending against thousands of four-minute pokes are different problems, and the second one is now the normal one. DNS amplification is up 215% and UDP floods have gone from roughly a seventh of network-layer attacks to nearly a third.",{"name":109,"items":110},"New York & the Table",[111,116],{"title":112,"url":113,"source":114,"summary":115},"Upper West Side street closures for trick-or-treating","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F28\u002Fhere-are-the-upper-west-side-street-closures-for-halloween-trick-or-treating-this-year","Gus Saltonstall, West Side Rag","Halloween lands on a Saturday this year and the DOT's Trick-or-Streets program closes seven blocks to cars for it, from Amsterdam between 106th and 110th up to the 69th Street block association, most of them 4pm onward. The two longest windows are West 87th from Columbus to Central Park West and West 78th between Amsterdam and Columbus, both running 4 to 9, which is also where the decorating arms race on this stretch tends to concentrate.",{"title":117,"url":118,"source":119,"summary":120},"Velvet Cowboy, where everything on the food menu is five dollars","https:\u002F\u002Fny.eater.com\u002Fdining-report\u002F414523\u002Fvelvet-cowboy-upper-west-side-review","Nat Belkov, Eater NY","The Jacob's Pickles team has turned its old Amsterdam Avenue room at 509 into a maximalist Western saloon, and the gimmick holds up on inspection: every bar bite is five dollars, including a griddled pork sandwich on a toasted bun with hot and sour pickles that Eater's reviewer was told should taste like the famous fast-food one does not. Cocktails run fifteen, the Frito pie sits on a properly built Texas chili, and the back lounge is clearly destined for birthday buyouts, so go before it is permanently booked.",{"name":122,"items":123},"Diversions",[124,129],{"title":125,"url":126,"source":127,"summary":128},"Patrick Stewart, 1940–2026","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Fculture\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F29\u002Fpatrick-stewart-dead","The Guardian","He died at home in Los Angeles at 86, after what his spokesperson called a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia, and the obituary is good on the part people forget — he was a fixture of the British stage for two decades before anyone cast him in anything, and was 47 when Star Trek: The Next Generation made him a global figure. Ian McKellen's tribute is the one to read, and it starts with Yorkshire rather than the Enterprise.",{"title":130,"url":131,"source":132,"summary":133},"Castle Walls review","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ftv-and-radio\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F29\u002Fcastle-walls-review-prime-first-fully-ai-generated-tv-show","Luke Buckmaster, The Guardian","The first end-to-end AI-generated series on a major streaming platform is two seventeen-minute episodes set at Alamut Castle in the eleventh century, and the review's diagnosis is precise rather than merely rude: the palette is genuinely striking until a person appears, and the shot progression reads like the prompt was made it cinematic, then more cinematic, then MORE. Worth ten minutes of attention as a marker of where generative video actually is this month, which is further along on landscapes than on faces and nowhere at all on pacing.",{"name":135,"items":136},"Loose Change",[137],{"title":138,"url":139,"source":140,"summary":141},"Sichuan and the Sun Belt","https:\u002F\u002Fworksinprogress.co\u002Fissue\u002Fsichuan-and-the-sun-belt\u002F","Dan Wang, Works in Progress","Vienna has five times the people of Austria's second city, Seoul six times, Paris seven — and the United States and China are the two large countries that conspicuously do not work that way, with capitals that rank nowhere near the top of their own population tables. Wang's argument is that the friction between a jealous political center and a dozen self-regarding macro regions is a source of strength rather than a defect, and he builds it out of material you cannot get from a map: Shanghai stand-up comics permitted to mock regional stereotypes but not politics, a Houston businessman explaining that his city has no weather and no natural beauty so its leaders have to work harder, and local officials who quietly decline to enforce directives from above.",{"name":143,"items":144},"The Back Page",[145],{"title":146,"url":147,"source":148,"summary":149},"Chelsea's fine finishing has them flying high — but how long can it last?","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F29\u002Fchelseas-fine-finishing-has-them-flying-high-but-how-long-can-it-last","Andrew Beasley, The Guardian","Opta has Chelsea as the twelfth-best side in the division and fifth in the table, and the gap is one number: 6.7 goals scored above the quality of the chances created, second only to Brighton. Henderson has scored twice from five shots outside the box after one in twenty over the previous decade, Neto is two off his career best, and four of the twelve players in the league running at least 1.5 above their non-penalty expected goals are Chelsea's. Michael Carrick arrives on Saturday looking like a dead man walking and his United side have still performed better on the underlying numbers, which is the kind of fact that is useless right up until the finishing cools.",{"title":5,"description":19},"paper\u002F2026-10-30","57° & partly cloudy on the 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& Mise — November 1, 2026",{"type":7,"value":331,"toc":335},[332],[10,333,334],{},"Four separate holes in the AI toolchain in seven days — a backdoor in the official editor extension, one customer's cache served to another, privilege escalation in a tool people use precisely because they trust it, and a share link that became an account takeover — and all four have the same shape: something ran before anyone looked at it. The week's other story is the money, and it rhymes. Prices fell because the cache made the expensive part free, the flat seat is a subsidy with a date on it, and a studio found out what thirty times payroll in tokens buys. Both halves are about the same reflex, which is what you quietly stop inspecting once the tooling is good enough to stop making you look.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":336},[],"The week the AI toolchain sprang four leaks in seven days — a backdoor in the official Claude Code extension, a cross-request cache leak at Cloudflare, privilege escalation in Tailscale SSH, and a ChatGPT share link that took over your account — plus Max Woolf on why inference got 80% cheaper, a bootstrapped file converter turning twenty, and Chelsea finally winning something.",[339,345,351,357,362],{"title":340,"url":341,"when":342,"where":343,"kind":26,"note":344},"Agents We Shipped, Agents We Killed","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fmnn76uo\u002FAgents-We-Shipped-Agents-We-Killed","Tue Nov 3 · 6:00pm","Follia, 179 Third Ave, Gramercy","The killed ones are the useful half of the talk and almost nobody writes them up, so the only place to hear what did not survive contact with production is a room where someone says it out loud. Free, and a restaurant basement tends to get franker than a stage does.",{"title":346,"url":347,"when":348,"where":349,"kind":26,"note":350},"Inside AI-Powered VC: how investors are actually using AI","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002F953k8fs\u002FInside-AI-Powered-VC-How-Investors-Actually-Using-AI","Mon Nov 9 · 6:00pm","Columbia Business School, 645 W 130th St, Manhattanville","Investors are a useful control group: they have no incentive to oversell the tooling and every incentive to know what it actually does to diligence. Free, and it is the rare industry evening he can walk to.",{"title":352,"url":353,"when":354,"where":355,"kind":39,"note":356},"Once Upon a Time in Harlem","https:\u002F\u002Ffilmforum.org\u002Ffilm\u002Fonce-upon-a-time-in-harlem","Daily through Tue Nov 3 · 12:15pm–9:15pm","Film Forum, 209 W Houston St","In August 1972 William Greaves put a camera in Duke Ellington's St. Nicholas Avenue townhouse and filmed a Harlem Renaissance reunion — Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, Eubie Blake, James Van Der Zee — many of whom had not seen each other in fifty years, and the cocktail party turns into debate and unsettled scores. He never finished it; his son David, one of the cameramen that day, cut it from the restored footage, and it won this year's Lavine\u002FKen Burns Prize. A hundred minutes.",{"title":358,"url":359,"when":360,"where":355,"kind":39,"note":361},"Pickup on South Street, in the NYC in Transit series","https:\u002F\u002Ffilmforum.org\u002Ffilm\u002Fpick-up-on-south-street-nyc-in-transit","Tue Nov 3 · 8:00pm","Samuel Fuller's 1953 pulp opens with a pickpocket lifting microfilm out of a purse on the subway and ends with a showdown in a station, which is the whole reason it is in a series about the city's transit. Eighty minutes, Thelma Ritter producing a price chart when asked to inform on someone, and a Cold War plot the French dub rewrote into a drug deal because Fuller's politics horrified them.",{"title":363,"url":364,"when":365,"where":366,"kind":367,"note":368},"Paul Taylor Dance Company, New York season","https:\u002F\u002Fpaultaylordance.org\u002Fperformances\u002F","Tue Nov 3 – Sun Nov 22","David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center","say yes","Taylor built dances on walking, running and standing still — ordinary human motion arranged until it reads as music — and the company has kept the repertory alive for sixty-five years while adding new work each season. Three weeks of it at the Koch, which is the closest great theater to the neighborhood, and modern dance is one of the few art forms where knowing nothing going in costs you nothing.",{"title":370,"url":371,"source":372,"from":309,"summary":373},"OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?","https:\u002F\u002Fminimaxir.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002Fcheap-llms\u002F","Max Woolf, minimaxir","The obvious explanations for a four-month collapse in inference prices are a price war and a land grab, and Woolf's argument is that both are mostly wrong — the money is in cache reads. Once a provider can serve a repeated prefix from a warm KV cache instead of recomputing it, the marginal cost of the dominant workload falls off a cliff, and agentic tools are the purest possible version of that workload: the same enormous system prompt, over and over, thousands of times a day. That reframes the published per-token number as a bet on your access pattern rather than a discount, which is the useful lens for anyone budgeting a product on top of these APIs. Read alongside LeadDev's piece below, it also explains why the cheap seat and the cheap token are two different questions with two different answers.",{"title":375,"url":376,"source":377,"from":322,"summary":378},"Official Claude Code extension compromise: security advisory","https:\u002F\u002Fphorion.io\u002Fblog\u002Foffical-claude-code-vsx-compromise\u002F","Calum Hall, Phorion","Two versions of the official Claude Code for VS Code extension — 2.1.312 and 2.1.313, as served by the Cursor Marketplace — shipped with an SSH backdoor prepended to the minified bundle as an immediately-invoked function, so it ran the moment Node loaded the file: before the extension's own activate callback, before any user interaction, before anything that might have looked at it. Cursor has pulled both, and the macOS inbound path happens to be broken by a bug in the malware itself, but the key planting, the persistence and the host reconnaissance beacon all land regardless. The ten-minute version for anyone who got to this late: check which marketplace each of your editors pulls extensions from, and what version is sitting in it right now.",[380,383],{"symbol":55,"value":381,"change":382},"$78,029","+0.9%",{"symbol":59,"value":384,"change":385},"$2,269","+1.2%",{},"November 1, 1512 — the scaffolding comes down in the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo's ceiling is shown to the public for the first time, four years after he took a commission he had tried to refuse on the grounds that he was a sculptor. Two hundred and forty-three years later to the day, the Lisbon earthquake arrives on All Saints' morning with the churches full, and the aftershock runs through European philosophy for a generation — Voltaire included. The same date got the ceiling revealed and the floor taken away.",{"text":71,"attribution":72},[390,401,417,429,440,446,462],{"name":75,"items":391},[392,394,396],{"title":49,"url":50,"source":51,"from":18,"summary":393},"A game studio running a live world almost entirely on autonomous models, spending something like thirty times its payroll on tokens and treating an hour without a ship as a SEV-0 — which is either the most instructive operational experiment of the year or an expensive way to find the ceiling, and the honest answer is that nobody knows yet. Worth reading for the organizational details rather than the models: what you have to change about on-call, review and release cadence before a setup like that stops being a stunt.",{"title":78,"url":79,"source":80,"from":18,"summary":395},"Fifty agents dropped into a Minecraft survival world stripped the trees near spawn in about ninety seconds and then, unprompted, invented a government — a ration ledger, written rules, permits, appointed officials — because the commons problem arrived before anything else did. The reason to care is not the novelty but the shape: coordination overhead is what emerges first when you scale agents, and it emerged here as bureaucracy, which is probably what it will look like in your system too.",{"title":397,"url":398,"source":399,"summary":400},"Do the math: how we took over ChatGPT accounts","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.parameter.ai\u002Flabs\u002Fwe-found-a-gap-at-openai","Mukul Goyal, Parameter Labs","A public ChatGPT share link was enough to run attacker JavaScript inside the victim's signed-in session, read private conversations that had never been shared, and call authenticated APIs as them — no install, no project, no pasted code, just opening the link. The mechanism is the lesson and it is almost elegant: an interactive graph quietly loaded MathLive, which registered a postMessage listener on the main page that did not check the sender's origin, and the sandboxed HTML Preview supplied an untrusted sender. Two features that were each fine alone composed into account takeover; OpenAI fixed it on October 26 and rated it P1.",{"name":93,"items":402},[403,408,413],{"title":404,"url":405,"source":406,"from":322,"summary":407},"Self-reinforcing quality: adopting the verification pattern","https:\u002F\u002Flethain.com\u002Fadopting-verification-pattern\u002F","Will Larson, Irrational Exuberance","Every pull request at Imprint now carries a file describing what the harness did to check its own work and — the load-bearing half — what it could not check, and a PR cannot leave draft without one. Larson is candid that the name misleads people into hearing 'tests'; the mechanism is closer to making the agent think out loud, and the second-order payoff is that the 'could not verify' column accumulates into an evidence-backed list of what to fix in the harness next. The cheapest idea of the week to steal.",{"title":409,"url":410,"source":411,"from":318,"summary":412},"Cheap AI tokens are running out","https:\u002F\u002Fleaddev.com\u002Fai\u002Fcheap-ai-tokens-are-running-out","James Stanier, LeadDev","The whole argument rests on one comparison: a month of heavy Claude Code and Codex use that would have cost roughly $2,180 metered, bought for $200 on a subscription. That gap is a subsidy, not a price, and the large enterprise contracts have already been moved off it — so the planning question for next year is not which tool your team likes but what happens to your unit economics when the flat seat becomes a meter.",{"title":414,"url":415,"source":98,"from":322,"summary":416},"The Pulse: Anthropic kills the coding interview","https:\u002F\u002Fnewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com\u002Fp\u002Fthe-pulse-anthropic-kills-the-coding","A hiring manager inside the company whose tools caused the problem has dropped data-structures questions from the loop entirely, on the grounds that they now yield zero signal — which is a more credible place for that claim to come from than most. The ballast around it is the better read: incident.io took AI spend from $4,500 per developer per month in August to $1,600 now, and Amazon has written AI usage into formal engineer and manager expectations.",{"name":101,"items":418},[419,424],{"title":420,"url":421,"source":422,"summary":423},"The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks","https:\u002F\u002Fnolanlawson.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F28\u002Fthe-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks\u002F","Nolan Lawson, Read the Tea Leaves","Frontends are being rewritten this year because some framework is 'better for agents', and Lawson's complaint is that nobody has shown the numbers — so he built the benchmark: one spec'd Pokémon app, each framework built by an agent using that tool's own MCP or skills, scored on development time, tokens spent, lines of code, and Lighthouse performance and accessibility against a conformance suite the agent could not game. He is scrupulous about the caveats, including that the whole thing is wildly stochastic, which is itself a finding. For anyone choosing a meta-framework for a side project on evidence rather than vibes, this is the only such benchmark that exists.",{"title":425,"url":426,"source":427,"summary":428},"20 years, 766 million files, two chameleons","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.zamzar.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F30\u002F20-years-766-million-files-two-chameleons\u002F","The Zamzar Team","Two brothers started a file-conversion site on dial-up in 2006 with a secondhand HTML4 book, and twenty years later it has done 766 million conversions for 550 million people, serves over a million API requests a day, and is still a small independent UK company with no venture money. The incidental history is the fun part — helping the inventor of PowerPoint recover lost decks, a cease-and-desist from Google, sponsoring a Scottish curling team — but the useful part for anyone with a side project is the boring thesis underneath: people still need to convert files, and outlasting eight hype cycles turns out to be a strategy.",{"name":109,"items":430},[431,435],{"title":432,"url":433,"source":114,"summary":434},"Upper West Side street closures to know about on Marathon Sunday","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F30\u002Fupper-west-side-street-closures-to-know-about-on-marathon-sunday","Today, so this is the practical one: the park drives are shut, all three traverses are closed from midnight tonight, and Central Park West, Columbus and Broadway below 77th go progressively dark from 5am until half past nine in the evening. The Family Reunion zone sits on West 69th through 71st between Columbus and Central Park West from 11 to 6, which is the bit that catches people who did not plan to be near the finish at all.",{"title":436,"url":437,"source":438,"from":322,"summary":439},"Made-to-order musubi at a nifty UWS Hawaiian spot","https:\u002F\u002Fhellgatenyc.com\u002Fkine-musubi-hawaiian-uws\u002F","Scott Lynch, Hell Gate","Chi Ian Chan missed Honolulu musubi enough to start making his own, sold it through a neighborhood Facebook group, graduated to Sunday pop-ups at a local sushi restaurant, and then spent sixteen months on permits and construction to open a narrow storefront on West 72nd. Spam with egg is $7, shrimp $7.25, with shiso and vegan versions — the week's best food story in the neighborhood and a walk rather than a trip.",{"name":122,"items":441},[442,444],{"title":125,"url":126,"source":127,"from":18,"summary":443},"He died at home in Los Angeles at 86 after what his spokesperson described as a brief journey with Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia. The obituary is good on the two decades people forget — a fixture of the British stage long before a syndicated science-fiction series made him famous at 47, which is a useful fact about second acts.",{"title":130,"url":131,"source":132,"from":18,"summary":445},"The first end-to-end AI-generated series on a major streaming platform runs two seventeen-minute episodes set at Alamut Castle in the eleventh century, and the review's diagnosis is specific rather than merely dismissive: the palette is genuinely striking right up until a person has to move through it. Worth ten minutes of reading if not of watching, because the failure mode it describes — everything convincing except continuity of intent — is the same one that shows up in generated code.",{"name":135,"items":447},[448,452,457],{"title":449,"url":450,"source":127,"from":322,"summary":451},"Dónal Lunny obituary","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Fmusic\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F29\u002Fdonal-lunny-obituary","Lunny, dead at 79, is the reason Irish traditional music has a bouzouki in it: handed a round-backed Greek one by Andy Irvine in 1970, he had it rebuilt flat-backed with a shorter neck, and the instrument stayed. Across Planxty, the Bothy Band and Moving Hearts his actual job was arranger — instinctively drawn, as the Guardian puts it, to new harmonic and rhythmic structures — and he went on to produce Kate Bush, Sinéad O'Connor and Elvis Costello and to win an Emmy as musical director of Bringing It All Back Home.",{"title":453,"url":454,"source":455,"summary":456},"Traction!","https:\u002F\u002Faeon.co\u002Fessays\u002Fwhy-a-world-without-friction-is-a-world-without-progress","Jennifer R Vail, Aeon","A tribologist — someone who studies, professionally, what happens when two things rub together — on the fact that an entire industry has spent a decade promising to make everything frictionless while her field quietly established that friction is what makes motion possible at all. She has spent a career reducing it in jet engines and increasing it to get plaque off teeth, and the essay reads technological history through that paradox, from the log roller to the wheel to the orbits of stars. Twenty-six hundred words, and a genuinely strange thing to learn is a science.",{"title":458,"url":459,"source":460,"summary":461},"How a sick chicken revolutionized cancer research","https:\u002F\u002Fnautil.us\u002Fhow-a-sick-chicken-revolutionized-cancer-research-1286219\u002F","Jake Currie, Nautilus","In 1909 a farmer brought a Barred Plymouth Rock hen with a breast tumor to the Rockefeller Institute, and Peyton Rous ground the tumor up, filtered out every cell, injected the remaining fluid into healthy birds, and watched them grow tumors too — which meant cancer could be transmitted by something smaller than a bacterium. The field declined to believe him for fifty years; he got the Nobel in 1966, aged 87, and the virus named after him went on to show how a proto-oncogene becomes an oncogene.",{"name":143,"items":463},[464,469],{"title":465,"url":466,"source":467,"summary":468},"Chelsea 2-0 Manchester United: post-match reaction, ratings","https:\u002F\u002Fweaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com\u002Fpremier-league\u002F173610\u002Fchelsea-2-0-manchester-united-premier-league-post-match-reaction-ratings","David Pasztor, We Ain't Got No History","A week that opened with a 0-2 home defeat to Spurs and a fifth straight shootout loss to Liverpool closes with Morgan Rogers running into acres of space off a Lavia turnover, Lisandro Martínez elbowing Fofana in front of VAR, and Palmer hammering in the penalty for his fiftieth league goal. Alonso went with a back four, a midfield two and four forwards without a recognized striker; Chelsea are fourth with a clean sheet, Sunderland away next Sunday, then the international break.",{"title":470,"url":471,"source":472,"summary":473},"Your new WNBA champions: the Golden State Valkyries","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.goldenstateofmind.com\u002Fgolden-state-valkyries-wnba\u002F113130\u002Fwnba-finals-game-7-valkyries-championship","Brady Klopfer, Golden State of Mind","In the first Game 7 in WNBA history the Valkyries beat Atlanta 68-63 at Chase Center to win a title in their second season — the fastest any team in American professional sports has got to the top. It was a defensive rock fight decided by one quarter of Gabby Williams, fifteen points in the third on three contested threes and a jumper, turning a nine-point deficit into the lead they never gave back.",{"title":329,"description":337},"paper\u002F2026-11-01","47° & overcast on the UWS","mkWnCaMJmlvi6MSFEJghU-k4jglYq_iC8IEqIkjbEho",1793528278775]