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.

I've heard other people say this.

Wonder if the root cause is inflammation, which might go up with stress, bad sleep, bad diet, etc

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.

Not sure what you mean here. You can disable package status and still keep tabbed inbox.

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

Ad, data collection, sale

You can't hotlink giphy and access a direct image send you to full page of ads. Same like imgur.

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".

An FYI for the future, but backup cameras are considered a safety system and manufacturers are required to repair issues they've caused in safety systems regardless of warranty status. The appropriate escalation if the manufacturer doesn't recognize this is to get NHTSA involved with a safety complaint [0]. That's the main way recalls happen.

[0] https://www.nhtsa.gov/report-a-safety-problem

This is a lawsuit, to recover repair costs and any loss of use.

It's not worth it, but it's necessary.

Seems like we flooded the server.

Hacker News never fails to rise to the occasion

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.

In Brazil it went from R$ 59,90 to R$ 119,90.

Double.

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.