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rawling··on Valve Has Been Funding the FEX Project [video]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126446

Some discussion

rawling··on Advent of Code 2025
I don't push my solutions publicly, but I made an input downloader so you can input your cookie from your browser and load (and cache) the inputs rather than commit them.
rawling··on Advent of Code 2025
You do get different inputs, but they largely share characteristics so good solutions should always work and naive ones should consistently fail.

There has been the odd puzzle where some inputs have allowed simpler solutions than others, but those have stood out.

rawling··on Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban
https://www.cps.gov.uk/types-crime/terrorism
rawling··on Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79727zeqyvo
rawling··on Voyager 1 to reach a one-light-day milestone in 2026
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908483
rawling··on Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
> A footman in his lordship's service stated he went into his master's bedroom [...]

isn't an example of the phrase "master bedroom".

I am also skeptical of "school house and master's bedroom". The main cottage has "four large bed rooms". Why would the "master bedroom", if it is meant to be read as it is today, be listed after the list of detached outbuildings?

rawling··on Japanese Mozilla volunteers quit over AI plans
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830770
rawling··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
Eye tracking camera in the cabin, LCD film on the windshield, it'd be like reverse matrix lights.
rawling··on A file format uncracked for 20 years
Weird that the one of these with no interaction got bumped rather than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45842851
rawling··on How Markets could topple the global economy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924683
rawling··on Steam Machine
This is the speculated-about gap in the Steam store events, then?
rawling··on Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)
I've noticed it seems windows aren't allowed to foreground themselves/each other anymore, which seems reasonable (anti click jacking?), but this includes VS not being able to foreground my diff tool when I diff something, and Outlook not being able to foreground itself when I double click the new mail envelope in the notification area.

I also enjoy going to grab a maximised window by its title bar and somehow grabbing the window behind it.

rawling··on Near mid-air collision at LAX between American Airlines and ITA [video]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jgWuw-TCRkI

ITA plane taking off around 1:08:15. The camera doesn't follow it but you might be able to hear someone yelling wtf around 1:08:58.

rawling··on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
Archive link in the post body?

(Apologies if that's been edited in after your comment)

rawling··on US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684934
rawling··on A 'Death Train' Is Haunting South Florida
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668010
rawling··on Git commit hashes that spark joy
... at least until you have to refer to a commit by its ID prefix and realise you have to type much more of it in because they all start the same way.
rawling··on Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665217
rawling··on Bill Gates says a 2-day work week is coming in just 10 years, thanks to AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45686510
rawling··on CIA code unsolved for 35 years. Amateur discovers answer in plain sight
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45603876
rawling··on Advent of Code is 12 days this year
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45673790
rawling··on Kohler Dekoda – an IoT camera for your toilet
Front page discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45645567
rawling··on The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies
> Enigma variations

ಠ _ ಠ

rawling··on United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet
Some earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633191
rawling··on Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site
A single bit flip would mess up the block, and hopefully the rest of the stream and the padding, no?
rawling··on The Planet-Sized Orb Question
Are the images AI generated?
rawling··on Day 7, Naming Workshop – The Rise of the "Death Star"
Day 3:

> Grand Moff Tarkin – a true visionary in his own right

Day 7:

> one of our junior engineers, a rather enthusiastic young man named Tarkin

rawling··on India secures strategic entry in Chagos, close to key US base Diego Garcia
https://archive.is/BNQds
rawling··on Vodafone admits 'major outage' as more than 130,000 report problems
I could tether to my (non Vodafone) phone, but my work laptop refused to connect to the WiFi hotspot until I physically unplugged the ethernet cable from the dock. "You can't connect to another network while you're on your employer's network." I'm not!
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