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Not really news. I worked with dozens of developers who have managed to ignore files in Git.

Sugar or alcohol kicks mine into high gear.

GMail started inserting package delivery notifications at the top of my inbox screen. Not exactly ideal for Christmas shopping with family milling about. If you turn it off, you lose the tabs for email categorization, so instead I wrote a CSS rule to hide it permanently, but it's a bad feature.

What’s the business model behind sites like Giphy? Is there some geolocation data derived from their use that is then resold to buyers?

I had an OTA update brick my Tahoe infotainment system. Now that backup cameras are standard requirements, those were all unusable. Also affected things like the clicking sound you hear when you use your turn signal. That was completely silent. Cost me ~$2k to get it fixed and wasn't covered under warranty. Good stuff. I've disable future "updates".

Seems like we flooded the server.

They are doing staged releases:

https://xboxwire.thesourcemediaassets.com/sites/2/2025/10/In...

They just jacked up the price of GamePass ultimate from $20 to $30 a month, so I guess they feel they'll earn more from ad revenue than from subscription revenue if they're pushing users that direction.

Your list is very incomplete. It seems to be missing all zip codes with a leading zero.

They just couldn’t refrain from the self-congratulatory bullshit.

You've got it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIheGaiFLM

"Sneakers" is such an entertaining watch for anyone that's never seen it. Well worth your time.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

How hard is it to downgrade?

https://archive.is/5ue3F

Bridgefy is another player in the sparse, offline messaging space.

Had the same problem with a different word. Chrome / Mac.

You can turn off the feature that changes temp based on presence. Or disable dynamic scheduling altogether.

You didn’t really think you were playing “Crazy Taxi” did you?

An answer to my wishes ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398696 thank you!

I don't use it all that much, but the one feature I wish I had was the ability to scrub forward or backwards at will on an Instagram video.

Got it. Thanks for the reply and clarification.

@dang How was this flagged as a dupe when it was 2 hours before the active post and points to the same URL?

Yes. And games are built as multi platform so they don’t want to tie themselves tightly to the XBOX ecosystem. But the UIs for that enrollment are almost always horrible. You can tell they are designed for PCs with keyboards and mice. The scaling is all wrong for a TV based interface.

Even the XBOX UI is problematic. I’m stunned that so many games have an additional layer of user onboarding just to get up and running. So many games require that you create an account “typing” your info in an on screen keyboard with an Xbox controller, and verify with email then return to the Xbox and sign in. What should have been a single-sign-on using your gamer tag profile is a clunky fragmented mess.

Went bowling yesterday. A tip prompt turned up when it was time to pay with no obvious way to avoid tipping. To do so you just had to hit enter instead of picking one of the preset choices but I couldn’t fathom why I’d ever tip the guy who hands me my one shoe back after knocking down some pins.

Yep:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/science/dna-generated-fac...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/creepy-or-cool...

“Eventually, all our graves go unattended.”

— Conan O'Brien

How do you figure that death is solely a human concept?

CrowdStrike, apparently.

Why does anyone concern themselves with the popular vote, when it comes down to the electoral college? The popular vote seems like a pointless metric.