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Resident Evil Requiem — новая основная часть survival-horror-серии Capcom. Новый всплеск интереса дала не распродажа, а интервью президента студии о том, как Capcom сегодня делает игры.

Спорят в основном о форме: половину игры вы тихо выживаете почти без патронов, половину несётесь сквозь экшен в духе ремейка RE4, и такой контраст заходит не всем.

Rift of the NecroDancer — ритм-игра от Brace Yourself Games, где враги наступают по трём дорожкам в такт музыке. На этой неделе студия запустила тематический ивент к Месяцу прайда.

И вокруг него вспыхнул скандал: одни занижают оценки из-за тематики, другие встают на защиту и атакуют уже сами эти низкие оценки.

The Forest — хоррор-выживание от Endnight Games про остров с каннибалами, где нужно искать пропавшего сына и строить укреплённую базу. Спустя восемь лет после выхода игру внезапно облепили новички, без всякого патча или анонса.

Сюрприз в том, что главный её козырь — не графика и не сюжет, а кооператив: вдвоём-втроём остров пугает и смешит куда сильнее, чем в одиночку.

Sniper Elite: Resistance — тактический шутер про снайпера от студии Rebellion, с фирменной «рентген-камерой» полёта пули. В игре стартовала распродажа, и в неё хлынули новые игроки.

Вердикт волны почти единодушен: за полную цену брать не стоит, ощущение такое, будто это дорогое дополнение, а не отдельная игра. По скидке совсем другой разговор.

THE FINALS — бесплатный командный шутер от Embark Studios с полностью разрушаемыми аренами: стены и целые здания можно сносить прямо в бою. Свежее крупное обновление снова подтянуло в игру людей.

Но возвращение вышло нервным: громче всего в отзывах звучат споры о балансе классов и обвинения, что ИИ-античит банит без разбора.

Today's GitHub Trending: iroh, a Rust networking stack that dials a peer's key instead of an IP address; Plane, a self-hosted Jira alternative; LibreTranslate, a translation API you run offline; Unciv, an open-source Civ V remake.

Four of the five exist to delete a dependency: a relay server, a Jira license, the Google Translate API, an ad-funded app store. Their threads praise not features but the missing middleman — “I use dumbpipe daily”, “they don't call home”. The fifth, Microsoft's qlib, reached 44k stars with an empty comment section.

A Nature piece on early skill-atrophy research surfaced a randomized controlled trial run by Anthropic itself: people who leaned on the assistant retained far less of what they'd just done.

The sharpest line in the thread came from a FAANG engineer watching it happen up close: the two colleagues who vibe-code the most have 'lost literally all of their skills' and their judgment with them. A counter-voice argues the real loop is nastier than atrophy: using the tool well requires the very skill the tool erodes.

The deal isn't a fresh acquisition: Hyundai took 80% back in 2020 for $880M, and SoftBank has now exercised its option to sell the remainder.

A skeptic put the real question plainly: three smart owners — Google, SoftBank, Boston Dynamics — couldn't make Atlas profitable, so what does a carmaker know that they didn't? Another commenter reframed the buy as a demographics play: South Korea's working-age population is projected to fall 25% by 2040.

His argument is architectural. Mastodon bundles hosting and app into one server, so federation is server-to-server and identity is tied to your home instance. ATProto splits them: your data lives in a Personal Data Server, while apps aggregate across everything, like Feedly over the whole blogosphere.

Engineers in the thread pushed back hard. There's one PLC directory, a handful of relays, and in practice one AppView, all mirroring Bluesky's moderation. Decentralized in protocol, one company in practice.

The essay's image: when rent is on the line, you pick the shift over the youth club, the present parent, the visited grandparent. The value is real but spills sideways, so the market prices it at zero and people get coerced into marginal paid work.

The thread split on the cure. UBI plus a land-value tax, said some. Just changing tastes, said others, pointing to Roblox and Discord as the new clubhouse. The ZeroTier founder named the trap: market fundamentalism.

Open admin.google.com in Firefox and a security banner appears: secure your device, download Chrome, sign in with your work account. No technical reason was visible for the demand.

The blog's author turned up in the thread to confirm he is the admin, has never enabled Identity-Aware Proxy, and is on Workspace Business Plus, where Google's Context-Aware Access browser lock isn't even available. So what is triggering it?

A self-taught engineer built Python tooling to cross-reference the digitized Minoan corpus and proposes Linear A is an extinct Semitic language, ancestor to Hebrew. The post says experts at Rutgers and Cambridge are reviewing it.

A Greek computer scientist in the thread invoked Shannon: deciphering an unknown script in an unknown language with no parallel text isn't hard, it's underdetermined. With a corpus this thin, you can endlessly generate plausible 'translations' and never know which is right.

The change adds 197,000 lines across 1,816 files. Integer, Long and Double quietly lose their object identity. And the headline win — a flat ArrayList<Point> — explicitly does NOT ship yet.

Brian Goetz pre-empted his critics, saying the 'they'll never ship it' crowd would now switch to 'but they didn't ship the most important part.' Readers found a footnote claiming C# structs 'have identity' — which is wrong — next to AI-generated diagrams, and asked what else in the article was hallucinated.

Amazon's framing is almost polite: it has "the utmost respect" for Guadagnino and is helping the team "find the film a new home" — reportedly A24 may bite, since it's screening well. The film, written by SNL's Simon Rich, dramatizes the five days Altman was fired and reinstated.

The thread cut past the PR to the structure: when the platform that owns the studio also owns a stake in the subject, an unflattering portrait becomes a conflict of interest by design.

The bill creates a federal cause of action against officials who coerce companies into censoring lawful speech, plus transparency rules for government-to-platform contacts. EFF cites its own client: the maker of ICEBlock, pressured off the App Store.

EFF's hedge: not every government message to a platform is coercion, and treating it that way could chill good-faith safety work. Platforms, it adds, have their own First Amendment right to moderate. The thread argued over whether a Cruz co-sponsorship survives that.

"What exactly can an individual do?" asked the thread. Many 401(k)s offer only a handful of funds; once the indexes add SpaceX, you're exposed unless you flee to value or international funds — or short the stock, which most people won't.

One sharp correction undercut the panic: SpaceX hasn't been added to the S&P 500. It asked for the rules to be waived; S&P said no. The exposure is coming, but it isn't here yet.

Cold did the thing cold sometimes does: it slowed the body's oxygen demand faster than the lack of oxygen could kill it. Crews were told not to rewarm him until a hospital could take over, then ran CPR for roughly 90 minutes against a heart that was barely flickering.

The clinical maxim in the thread — "you're not dead until you're warm and dead" — turned into a harder question: how many people died because a rescuer assumed it was too late to try?

The rule splits cleanly by age and arrives after Norway pulled phones from classrooms in 2024 amid falling test scores.

Simon Willison endorsed it: kids under 13 need to learn to read, write and comprehend, and generative AI won't help with that. The thread's bleakest description of the status quo: education has become an 'AI echo chamber' — teachers use AI to write assignments, students use AI to do them, teachers use AI to grade them, principals use AI to watch the teachers.

One ride-hailing firm tried to plan a year of AI spend in advance and ran out in four months. The fix was a per-person cap of $1,500 a month on individual AI tools.

The catch nobody priced in: none of the model vendors are profitable, so today's bills are already subsidized. The number companies are straining against is the cheap one.

And the cited stat about Chinese models 'overtaking' US ones in usage rests on a single aggregator's traffic, not the APIs most customers actually hit.

The tool's tell: on multiple choice, the correct definition is usually the wordiest one. People reported 62k 'words known' by ignoring the words entirely and always choosing the longest blurb.

An app developer who'd built the same kind of quiz explained the bug at the source: AI tends to write an over-complete correct answer, making it longer than the distractors and quietly defeating the whole test.

The argument is mechanical, not partisan: once a site must verify age, liability for that check cascades down the stack until identity sits on every connection.

An older parallel surfaced in the thread, a 2003 essay called The Digital Imprimatur that mapped the same endgame two decades early.

The unanswered engineering question the discussion kept circling: can you prove a user is human and over 18 without proving exactly which human?

The Open Courts Act of 2026 would scrap PACER and CM/ECF for one free platform, ending the fees that pull in over $150 million a year from people reading public documents. A near-identical bill cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee once and then died.

The thread's most-upvoted voice wasn't cheering. "Nothing is actually free," he wrote: make records free and you fund a profession used mostly by well-paid attorneys out of the general tax pool.

Mark Nottingham, who edited the spec, has a blunt filter for anyone proposing a new entry: if your protocol can carry a real URL, don't reserve a fixed location at all.

The thread's sharpest line reframed the whole pattern as the latest answer to a problem the web keeps re-solving: a TXT record, a meta tag, an X.509 attribute, a random file at the top level.

One developer with sites in the wild asked the awkward question: does anything, even a bot, ever actually fetch the change-password URI the registry promotes?

Issuance kept working through the incident; upstream networking caused a higher error rate for ~90 minutes, and most requests still succeeded even then. The original HN title implied a day-long outage.

What the thread actually surfaced is the real anxiety underneath: one nonprofit quietly issues TLS certificates for a huge slice of the web, and it's pushing ever-shorter expiry windows that leave less slack when it stumbles.

Reuters rounds up a wave of near-simultaneous laws restricting minors' access to social platforms. A reader back in the UK described the lived version: he can't read half of X without handing over a government ID to prove he's an adult.

The argument wasn't whether kids should be protected, it was the mechanism. Engineers sketched cryptographic age-proofs that reveal one bit and nothing else, then asked why the actual laws reach for face scans and license uploads instead.

California holds 105 of these cities, New York 41, New Jersey 26. The national typical starter home is still $198,649, so the gap between the headline and the median is the whole story.

A founder who sold his company for eight figures wrote that he can barely afford a condo in Jersey City, and that the homes around him are not even selling. Others doubted the count, noting Zillow never publishes the actual city names.

Two senior names left Google DeepMind in two days: Noam Shazeer, then Jumper. The thread treated it less as one departure than as a pattern, and started guessing what is going wrong inside Google.

One read tied the move to Anthropic's recent purchase of a biotech outfit and a bet on using AI to discover drugs. A skeptic countered that the whole industry is now a revolving door priced around the next IPO.

The 8.6-billion-NOK tunnel, designed by Snohetta and run by the Norwegian Coastal Administration, breaks ground in 2026 for a 2031 opening, letting vessels skip 56 km of open ocean. A reader who heard it debated on national radio noted the word thrown around most was 'waste'.

On HN the doubts were practical: does it even connect anywhere major, how do you handle ship fumes in a 1.8 km bore, and what happens when a vessel breaks down halfway through the mountain?

Prince didn't just compose the soundtracks. One reader notes he also did the sound effects for Doom, the gunshots and the snarls people remember as atmosphere.

A computer-science instructor says he's shown Prince's work to students for years as the example of how sound builds a world.

Another grew up with the Macintosh version's MIDI files and only later, hearing Pantera and Slayer, realized what the tracks had been quoting all along.

The argument is small and practical: thousands read, almost no one replies, and a one-line trace surfaces good answers, repays invisible labor, and builds a searchable index of your own learning.

The thread answered in kind, leaving traces about traces. One engineer once upvoted a Stack Overflow answer that fixed his bug — only to be told he couldn't upvote his own post from years earlier.

Built from 2008 and finished in 2011, the Big Banana Car has toured the USA, Canada and a bit of Mexico under one motto: the world needs more whimsy. Park it and you can take a free trinket off the dashboard, just not his phone.

Readers loved the joy and then flinched: a few stops, one commenter noted, and a routine encounter with the wrong officer could go badly. Others traded their own 'pulled over just to look at the car' stories.

The pitch reads like a benchmark dream: same warnings as pylint, same bugs reproduced on purpose, and black's 26.7-hour lint run finishing in 41 seconds. It was generated by Fable, an agentic coding system, with a human mostly steering.

The thread split fast. One side called it malware-SEO with an LLM-written README and asked if the project is even legit. The other side shrugged: if it passes pylint's own tests, who cares who typed it?

Beck sorts new hires into A, B and C: the minimum is that your code works and you don't drown the team; the top tier challenges whether a task is even worth doing and simplifies code around it. The frame: your salary is the premium on a future engineer.

Readers who hire juniors disagreed flatly. Companies hire juniors because there are junior tasks to do, one said. Others heard the 'least effort on people who won't make it' line as a lack of leadership, an ego problem, and a ladder being pulled up.