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rawlingon Telegram founder Pavel Durov reportedly arrested in France

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341353

920 comments, 20 hours ago

rawlingon What is the legal precedent behind shutting down Minecraft migration

Not sure this link is working.

Maybe https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/what-is-t...

rawlingon Peloton announces $95 "used equipment activation fee"

135 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322266

rawlingon How to Cheat with Math – The Russian Cards Problem

Does "the sum of my cards modulo 7 is [x]" work? It should let Bob know what the missing card is but I can't tell if it conveys sufficiently little information to Eve for it to count.

rawlingon Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41228284

rawlingon There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)

Oh, thanks, I hadn't realised that.

rawlingon There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)

It's still the same sentence, heh.

And it wasn't even there for ages - I only noticed it when I went to get this link to ask about it.

rawlingon There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)

May as well ask here: anyone know what this recent post is about?

https://qntm.org/back

rawlingon The modern pentathlon has last ride in Paris before removing military tradition

> At the 2024 Games, the five events are spread out over three days. First, an epée fencing round. Day two involves a 200 meter freestyle swim, a show jumping course — completed with an unfamiliar horse with whom athletes are given just 20 minutes of practice time — and a bonus fencing round. The final event, on day three, is a combined laser-run.

Poor research there. Other than the main fencing round, the other events all take place back to back in a single session.

rawlingon Fair Chess and Simultaneous Games

GP is in response to

> All of these scenarios illustrate rule 2a. Rule 2b is in fact irrelevant for chess, because successful moves always commute.

in the article.

rawlingon Fair Chess and Simultaneous Games

Apparently you can notate "fxg6" as "fxg6 e.p.", so enforcing that would fix this?

rawlingon Google's shortened links will stop working next year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40998549

rawlingon Billions of Google goo.gl URLs will no longer work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40998549

rawlingon Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128

Is it not the "ISRG" referenced in your second link?

rawlingon All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second

Not everyone's jumps happen at the same time (or ever).

rawlingon [dead]

Lots of discussion here (1.3kc) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820949

rawlingon I kind of like rebasing

> BTW what git is really missing is a way to mark multiple commits as one unit of work so the granularity stays there but is hidden by default and can be expanded.

Is that not just a non-FF'd, non-squashed merge of a branch?

rawlingon Robot Breaks Guinness World Record for Solving Rubiks Cube 10x Faster Than Human

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593674

203 comments, 15 days ago

rawlingon The depressing reality of quiet vacationing

https://archive.is/6NCft

rawlingon Microsoft's Recall AI feature is being delayed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40677424

453 comments, 2 days ago

rawlingon All of Hades 2's Lua files are editable on disk [video]

As were the original's

https://www.reddit.com/r/HadesTheGame/comments/kwmhv1/script...

rawlingon Light Phone III

Love the prompt to "Install Create React App Sample" I get on Android as I scroll down the page.

> noice cancellation

Click "learn more", get presented with a "visitor login" prompt with just a password field.

rawlingon Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400591

Discussion, 23 days ago, 110 comments.

rawlingon Forested wetlands are missing from maps

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/08/28/our-...

rawlingon Content Injection Attack on GitHub

Gone for me now in Android Chrome.

I get this in what looks like an error box

> Extra open brace or missing close brace

rawlingon Content Injection Attack on GitHub

This isn't the source of it. I came across this on Twitter last night and traced it back a bit to try to share "the original" with my colleagues. The earliest I found was https://x.com/cloud11665/status/1799136093071163396 which I think is slightly earlier than the second commit on this repo.

rawlingon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)

You may not have one right now, but what does a role one level down from "Senior" look like?

rawlingon Some Chinese brand Lightning headphones require Bluetooth, for a wild reason

> True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make. So instead of conforming to the Apple standard, these companies have made headphones that receive audio via bluetooth — avoiding the Apple specification — while powering the bluetooth chip via a wired cable, thereby avoiding any need for a battery.

rawlingon X is justifiably slow (2022)

Doesn't Windows do the same when clicking a window titlebar?

Maybe it's so if you're going to start dragging the window/tab you can see what is in it.

rawlingon Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP

HN discussion on the blog post this article is reporting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40384959