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raymond_gooon OpenAI raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation

He moved AI into SpaceX and did the IPO when AI was still hot. Great timing.

(Elon Musk merged his artificial intelligence startup xAI into SpaceX in February 2026 and the stock initially traded far above what its earnings, cash flow, and execution risks could support)

raymond_gooon Docker is weird

The Video in Question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW9CAH9nSLs

raymond_gooon Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman

https://wallhop.io/https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and...

raymond_gooon New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing

What was the fix?

raymond_gooon AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment

Why does it give out the answer so easily? That sounds like a design flaw...

raymond_gooon Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says

Are you saying Germany ruined it's industry for nothing?

raymond_gooon CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

https://youtu.be/UOYi4NzxlhE?t=82

raymond_gooon A viral mosquito-killing laser device could be coming to the U.S.

The actual Homepage: https://photonmatrixlab.com/

The actual Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0f0oB4I-Q

raymond_gooon TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

If you are frustrated by impossible to solve Solitaire games, I made a version that is guaranteed solveable:

Check it out: https://solitairle.com

raymond_gooon Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser

Loading q3dm17sample.map seems to work fine.

However trying to Quick Play the map gives me:

=== Stage 1: BSP ===

---- q3map ----

verbose = true

qdir: /quake/

gamedir: /quake/baseq3/

entering /quake/baseq3/scripts/shaderlist.txt

entering /quake/baseq3/scripts/acc.shader

entering /quake/baseq3/scripts/ammo.shader

entering /quake/baseq3/scripts/beams.shader

entering /quake/baseq3/scripts/cf_models.shader

entering /quake/baseq3/scripts/clown.shader

entering /quake/baseq3/scripts/clown2.shader

entering /quake/baseq3/scripts/common.shader

Unknown surfaceparm: "antiportal"

Unknown surfaceparm: "lightgrid"

entering /quake/baseq3/scripts/cosmoflash.shader

...

entering /quake/baseq3/scripts/weapon_shotgun.shader

1411 shaderInfo

--- LoadMapFile ---

Loading map file /quake/baseq3/maps/compile.map

entering /quake/baseq3/maps/compile.map

****** ERROR ****** LoadTGA: Only type 2 (RGB), 3 (gray), and 10 (RGB) TGA images supported

raymond_gooon Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser

Download the source code, open it in Visual Studio Code (free), use AI tools like claude code and copilot to learn about it.

raymond_gooon Lisp as the Maxwell's Equations of Software

I wrote an always solvable Yukon solitaire game (no ads, no sign up).

https://solitairle.com

The solver is written in Lisp and then I tried one in Rust.

Great fun in both languages, but the Rust one is faster :-)

raymond_gooon US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

Anduril will fix it

raymond_gooon Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

Try it with Chrome, Firefox still has issues

raymond_gooon Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

https://github.com/rhulha/StreamingKokoroJS all in browser, 100% private, nothing tracked

raymond_gooon Germany's €100B bid to make the trains run on time

Hell freezes over first...

raymond_gooon Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

Quote: If anyone out there has the dynamic0.mul or dynamic0.bkp (server savegames) or regions.txt (spawn definitions) or resbank.mul (resources definitions) files from the original Ultima Online servers, circa 1997-2003, I’d be very grateful if you could send them to me. It seems very unlikely that the original dynamic0.mul or dynamic0.bkp files are truly lost, since they were surely backed up in multiple safe places.

These files would be extremely valuable to produce a highly accurate reproduction of the Ultima Online world content.

raymond_gooon Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom

It's a German expression for "you are lying"

raymond_gooon Trinity Large Thinking

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fk...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s9pe0w/arceeai...

raymond_gooon Ask HN: Getting Someone at Facebook to Listen

small claims court

raymond_gooon Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later

I have two friends who started at a young age and they fucked their lives with this shit. It's not anecdotal at this point.

raymond_gooon Why I Joined OpenAI

Ah, so you you see into the future, got it!

raymond_gooon Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT or whatever. Can we all agree, that it's great to have so much choice?

raymond_gooon Crafting Interpreters

Crafting Interpreters is the one thing that LLM's can do really really well. Because it is so easy to define and test.

Here are is a new LUA interpreter implemented in Python:

https://github.com/rhulha/MoonPie

And here is a new language:

https://github.com/rhulha/EasyScript

raymond_gooon Scott Adams has died

So like slavery? The thing once considered good?

I am not the standard, that's my whole point.

The world does not agree on what is good and bad.

That's the problem.

Truths and morals have changed for all of human history.

Some people still think the earth is flat.

Some people still think, raping captured women (what the right hand possesses) is good.

raymond_gooon Ask HN: What are you working on? (Jan 2026)

I'm working on Solitairle – an ad-free Yukon solitaire game where every board is guaranteed solvable: https://solitairle.com Why? Most solitaire apps frustrate players with impossible games or endless randomness. Solitairle is designed for people (like me) who want a satisfying win through skill, not luck. Every day brings a new, solvable challenge, complete with helpful tools (back button, dead-end warnings) to keep it fun and frustration-free.

I’m especially interested in feedback from people who:

Enjoy casual puzzle games but get discouraged by unwinnable setups,

Value clean, minimalist interfaces without ads,

Have ideas for daily challenges or fun player stats.

Would love your thoughts: What frustrates you most about digital solitaire? What would make you want to play daily?

raymond_gooon Fahrplan – 39C3

First time without fefe :-(

raymond_gooon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

I'm working on Solitairle – a Yukon solitaire game where every board is guaranteed solvable: https://solitairle.com

Why? Most solitaire apps frustrate players with impossible games or endless randomness. Solitairle is designed for people (like me) who want a satisfying win through skill, not luck. Every day brings a new, solvable challenge, complete with helpful tools (back button, dead-end warnings) to keep it fun and frustration-free.

I’m especially interested in feedback from people who:

Enjoy casual puzzle games but get discouraged by unwinnable setups,

Value clean, minimalist interfaces without ads,

Have ideas for daily challenges or fun player stats.

Would love your thoughts: What frustrates you most about digital solitaire? What would make you want to play daily?

raymond_gooon You should write an agent

https://github.com/rhulha/Speech2Speech

https://github.com/rhulha/EchoMate

raymond_gooon Launch HN: Webhound (YC S23) – Research agent that builds datasets from the web

Emergency Override - Force ending extraction

https://imgur.com/a/A7qrBvi