Articles by HelloUsername
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A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck (gtaforums.com)

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GOG Says Game Banner Ad Was Made with AI but Claims It Was Shared by Mistake (kotaku.com)

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Jurassic Park Super Bowl commercial de-ages actors beyond belief [video] (youtube.com)

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Valve facing UK lawsuit over pricing, commissions (reuters.com)

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The guy who discovered South Park's creators was shocked by the new season (polygon.com)

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The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and Nightdive (gamesindustry.biz)

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70 person relay of Super Mario 64 [video] (youtube.com)

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Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux (kagi.com)

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Escape your tiny screens and step into a 500" world with the XREAL 1S [video] (youtube.com)

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Stranger Things 5 Finale Ending Explained (netflix.com)

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Eric Barone makes $125,000 donation to the C# framework (xcancel.com)

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Unix V4 tape recovered: First ever version of Unix written in C is running again (theregister.com)

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Rockstar Had Ideas for GTA Tokyo, Rio, Moscow, Istanbul (gameshub.com)

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I asked Vladimir Putin: "What future are you planning for Russia?" [video] (youtube.com)

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Council agrees position on the digital euro and strengthening the role of cash (europa.eu)

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Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime for 'Intergalactic' (bloomberg.com)

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Real-Time Clock (wikipedia.org)

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Samsung's Micro RGB TVs Will Soon Be Reasonably-Sized, Down to 55 Inches (samsung.com)

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Ask HN: What did you do while Hacker News was down?

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Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it (pcgamer.com)

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Russian ban on Roblox gaming platform sparks rare protest (reuters.com)

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Over 3B WhatsApp and Signal users can be tracked in real time (cybernews.com)

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EU Ombudswoman on von der Leyen's disappearing texts (euronews.com)

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The Game Awards trailers can cost devs up to $1M (kotaku.com)

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Ayaneo Pocket Play – A Gaming Phone with the Soul of a Handheld [video] (youtube.com)

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Netflix Considered Buying EA (bloomberg.com)

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Lord of the Rings Extended Editions returning to theaters with a 4D twist (fathomentertainment.com)

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AMD CEO Lisa Su Says Concerns About an AI Bubble Are Overblown (wired.com)

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Cosmonaut Artemyev excluded from Crew-12 for photographing SpaceX documents (theins.ru)

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Helldivers 2 cuts its install size from ~154GB to ~23GB (steampowered.com)

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Steam censors LGBTQ+ content on behalf of the Russian Government (videogamesindustrymemo.com)

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Spyware Allows Cyber Threat Actors to Target Users of Messaging Applications (cisa.gov)

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IKEA's colorful new Bluetooth speakers (theverge.com)

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Saudi Arabia's Prince Has Big Plans, but His Giant Fund Is Low on Cash (nytimes.com)

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How to prepare for an emergency situation in the Netherlands [pdf] (denkvooruit.nl)

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Valve makes almost $50M per employee (twitter.com/cantworkitout)

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How Trump is trying to remake American culture (semafor.com)

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Europol and partner countries combat online radicalisation on gaming platforms (europa.eu)

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Superman Comic Found in Attic Sold for $9.12M (ha.com)

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Dutch media warn of growing influence of global tech giants (dutchnews.nl)

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Spatial Noise-Canceling Technology That Rapidly Adapts to Diverse Noise (group.ntt)

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Oceanco delivers 111M superyacht Leviathan owned by Gabe Newell (boatinternational.com)

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Rockstar is now under pressure from UK Parliament (bsky.app)

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Using Game-Key Cards on Nintendo Switch 2 [video] (youtube.com)

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Running a Minecraft server on a lightbulb [video] (youtube.com)

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'South Park' Takes on Trump and Wins Bigly (nytimes.com)

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"Valve plans to announce Half-Life 3 (or Deckard, or both) on 18 November" (reddit.com)

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Meta's Data Centers Drive Economic Growth Across the US (fb.com)

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Early Access for Firefox Support for Organizations (blog.mozilla.org)

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GTA 6 Is Delayed Again Until November 2026 (ign.com)

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Nintendo Store iOS App (apps.apple.com)

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25 years ago Red Alert 2 serenaded us with the greatest opening movie (eurogamer.net)

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Krafton Invests $70M to Become "AI-First" Company (krafton.com)

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AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time (ebu.ch)

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Berty – an encrypted and offline peer-to-peer messenger with no central server (berty.tech)

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Ask HN: Is Signal down for you too?

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Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features (torproject.org)

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Firefox Is Testing a Free, Built-In "Browser-Only" VPN (windowsreport.com)

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Signal threatens to leave Europe if Chat Control is accepted (heise.de)

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Analyzing the latest updates to XCSSET's inventory (microsoft.com)

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Apple iPhone Air [video] (youtube.com)

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Tor VPN Beta (Android) (play.google.com)

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Silksong is getting pirates to buy a game

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Stardew Valley's creator is in Silksong (theverge.com)

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Intel Files Patent for "Software Defined Super Cores" (videocardz.com)

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90% of European gaming revenue in 2024 was digital purchases with only 15% on PC [pdf] (videogameseurope.eu)

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Russia's state-run human spaceflight company may be near bankruptcy (arstechnica.com)

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A smarter, faster Lumo 1.1 (proton.me)

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What Your Favorite Map Projection Says About You (xkcd.com)

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Hollow Knight: Silksong – Special Announcement [video] (youtube.com)

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Hollow Knight: Silksong – Announcement Trailer [video] (youtube.com)

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Infostealer targets Russian crypto developers (getsafety.com)

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Russia taking measures to partially restrict calls on Telegram, WhatsApp (interfax.com)

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In Chaos and Less Than a Day, McDonald's Japan Sells Out of Pokemon Promo Cards (pokebeach.com)

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Digital Foundry is going independent (theverge.com)

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Nintendo of America suggested giving Pikachu large breasts (automaton-media.com)

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Steam's fight against Visa, Mastercard, and censorship is only getting messier (polygon.com)

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Godot Foundation Welcomes JetBrains as Platinum Sponsor (godotengine.org)

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Proton fixes Authenticator bug leaking TOTP secrets in logs (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Censorship is quietly deciding which games you can buy (gog.com)

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Gabe Newell Interview – AI, Gaming and Success [video] (youtube.com)

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Russia suspected of hacking Dutch prosecution service systems (dutchnews.nl)

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Roblox New AI Feature Will Estimate Teenager's Age Through Video Selfies (roblox.com)

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Godot Showcase: Dogwalk (godotengine.org)

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Peter Jackson Tries to Resurrect a Giant Bird That Went Extinct 600 Years Ago (ign.com)

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Statement on Stop Killing Games (videogameseurope.eu)

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Valve conquered PC gaming – what comes next? (ft.com)

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No, 16B passwords didn't just get exposed in a mega-hack (pcgamer.com)

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Sam Altman 'constantly' asked ChatGPT questions about his newborn (techcrunch.com)

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Chinese Studios Plan AI Remakes of Classic Kung Fu Movies (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Bento – VR/XR from a Keyboard (hackaday.com)

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Valve's Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including AMD handhelds (theverge.com)

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Google reveals NotebookLM app for Android and iPhone, coming at I/O 2025 (9to5google.com)

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ffWorks – A Comprehensive Media Tool for macOS (ffworks.net)

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Chernobyl nuclear disaster – in pictures (2011) (theguardian.com)

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Nintendo Switch 2 – Nintendo Direct [video] (youtube.com)

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Billy 'The King of Kong' Mitchell Wins $237,000 in Defamation Lawsuit Victory (pcgamer.com)

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How Stalker 2 survived a war [video] (youtube.com)

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Game Informer, Shut Down in August 2024, May Be Back from the Dead (gamespot.com)

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Dutch government urged to stop using "unsafe" US cloud services (dutchnews.nl)