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New comment by xoxxala in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

xoxxala — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:22:43 +0000

BBC is now reporting $6.3B was stolen.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwg7xp8kx4v5o

Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer

xoxxala — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:05:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.darkhorizons.com/xbox-turns-down-netflix-500-million-offer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227892

Points: 91

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New comment by xoxxala in "Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes"

xoxxala — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:37:02 +0000

My aunt had a small kitchen fire. She called 911 and asked "Could you send a firefighter with an extinguisher, please?"

The 911 operator responded "Honey, we only send them one way."

And like a dozen guys showed up.

New comment by xoxxala in "Solar panels that plug into your wall"

xoxxala — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:26:34 +0000

We paid $17k ($12k after subsidies) to install 5kW in Arizona five years ago.

New comment by xoxxala in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

xoxxala — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:54:41 +0000

I worked tech support in the early 90s and we received more than one letter in the mail from customers asking about where the "any" key was on the keyboard.

New comment by xoxxala in "Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read"

xoxxala — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:53:09 +0000

Not the author, but I thought the Word Postmortem was fascinating.

New comment by xoxxala in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

xoxxala — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:04:26 +0000

10/10 story. I look forward to the forthcoming motion picture adaptation from Skydance directed by Michael Bay.

New comment by xoxxala in "Time Travel in Braid (2015)"

xoxxala — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:58:07 +0000

The newest puzzle game from Braid's designer Jonathan Blow releases today:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/499170/Order_of_the_Sinki...

New comment by xoxxala in "Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app"

xoxxala — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:50:13 +0000

I, too, was confused for the longest time, but the secret is in the names.

En dash is the width of an “n”. Em dash is the width of an “M”, so a little wider.

New comment by xoxxala in "3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines"

xoxxala — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:05:17 +0000

3d printers making 3d printers making drones is a key plotline of the Bobiverse novels.

New comment by xoxxala in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

xoxxala — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:39:25 +0000

I just finished my umpteenth reread of AFUtD. It’s one of those books I can pull off the shelf every few years and enjoy from beginning to end.

The Cradle series by Will Wight, starting with Unsouled. Kind of hard to describe, but it’s an sci-fi/Asian fantasy martial arts cultivation epic. If you liked Dungeon Crawler Carl, it may be of interest.

New comment by xoxxala in "How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance"

xoxxala — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:58:41 +0000

According to a quick kagi, over 90% of US high schools have security cameras.

New comment by xoxxala in "The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)"

xoxxala — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:22:06 +0000

We used to play Diplomacy at work but it caused too many hard feelings and was a distraction.

New comment by xoxxala in "People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes"

xoxxala — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:48:08 +0000

Mid to late 70s? Their last years were nothing but medical issues (from the smoking, plus excessive drinking) and poor health. Certainly kept me from starting to smoke.

New comment by xoxxala in "People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes"

xoxxala — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:06 +0000

My step-father’s parents smoked a carton a day. Each. They started smoking before breakfast and stopped just before sleep. Their trailer home had a 2-3’ cloud of haze below the ceiling and every surface was sticky. I’m not how many years they smoked like that, but probably decades.

As a kid, I could not breathe in there. This would have been late 70s. No way they could have afforded that habit at today’s prices.

New comment by xoxxala in "The first new cat species discovered in 100 years"

xoxxala — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:00:41 +0000

> Wikipedia doesn't have a page dedicated to it yet.

Someone has been typing quickly...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilcayo_tiger_cat

New comment by xoxxala in "Reversing Factorio's RNG"

xoxxala — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:47:37 +0000

EverQuest also used pre-generated numbers. The randomness was derived from the large number of players using the same list.

New comment by xoxxala in "I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app"

xoxxala — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:59:12 +0000

iOS and iPadOS also have that under Accessibility-Audio Visual settings.

New comment by xoxxala in "Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries"

xoxxala — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:55:00 +0000

I do something similar with boardgames. I like to import foreign language games or pick them when traveling. They don’t need to be in English for me to enjoy and appreciate them. I have games from Germany, France, Spain, Japan, China, Brazil, and the UK.

My favorite is Kolejka, a Polish game about queuing at nearly empty stores during communism.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/85325/kolejka

New comment by xoxxala in "Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure"

xoxxala — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:48:32 +0000

There is a new movie in the early stages of development. Some news was teased at Comic-Con in July and the directors spoke about it a few weeks ago.

"After years of an unclear future, it seemed as though “Star Trek” finally found a path back to the big screen as “Spider-Man: Homecoming” writers and “Game Night” and “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” filmmakers Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley boarded the film."

https://www.darkhorizons.com/next-star-trek-film-tackles-cor...