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Quote: If anyone out there has the dynamic0.mul or dynamic0.bkp (server savegames) or regions.txt (spawn definitions) or resbank.mul (resources definitions) files from the original Ultima Online servers, circa 1997-2003, I’d be very grateful if you could send them to me. It seems very unlikely that the original dynamic0.mul or dynamic0.bkp files are truly lost, since they were surely backed up in multiple safe places.

These files would be extremely valuable to produce a highly accurate reproduction of the Ultima Online world content.

raymond_gooon Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom

It's a German expression for "you are lying"

raymond_gooon Trinity Large Thinking

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fk...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s9pe0w/arceeai...

raymond_gooon Ask HN: Getting Someone at Facebook to Listen

small claims court

raymond_gooon Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later

I have two friends who started at a young age and they fucked their lives with this shit. It's not anecdotal at this point.

raymond_gooon Why I Joined OpenAI

Ah, so you you see into the future, got it!

raymond_gooon Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT or whatever. Can we all agree, that it's great to have so much choice?

raymond_gooon Crafting Interpreters

Crafting Interpreters is the one thing that LLM's can do really really well. Because it is so easy to define and test.

Here are is a new LUA interpreter implemented in Python:

https://github.com/rhulha/MoonPie

And here is a new language:

https://github.com/rhulha/EasyScript

raymond_gooon Scott Adams has died

So like slavery? The thing once considered good?

I am not the standard, that's my whole point.

The world does not agree on what is good and bad.

That's the problem.

Truths and morals have changed for all of human history.

Some people still think the earth is flat.

Some people still think, raping captured women (what the right hand possesses) is good.

raymond_gooon Ask HN: What are you working on? (Jan 2026)

I'm working on Solitairle – an ad-free Yukon solitaire game where every board is guaranteed solvable: https://solitairle.com Why? Most solitaire apps frustrate players with impossible games or endless randomness. Solitairle is designed for people (like me) who want a satisfying win through skill, not luck. Every day brings a new, solvable challenge, complete with helpful tools (back button, dead-end warnings) to keep it fun and frustration-free.

I’m especially interested in feedback from people who:

Enjoy casual puzzle games but get discouraged by unwinnable setups,

Value clean, minimalist interfaces without ads,

Have ideas for daily challenges or fun player stats.

Would love your thoughts: What frustrates you most about digital solitaire? What would make you want to play daily?

raymond_gooon Fahrplan – 39C3

First time without fefe :-(

raymond_gooon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

I'm working on Solitairle – a Yukon solitaire game where every board is guaranteed solvable: https://solitairle.com

Why? Most solitaire apps frustrate players with impossible games or endless randomness. Solitairle is designed for people (like me) who want a satisfying win through skill, not luck. Every day brings a new, solvable challenge, complete with helpful tools (back button, dead-end warnings) to keep it fun and frustration-free.

I’m especially interested in feedback from people who:

Enjoy casual puzzle games but get discouraged by unwinnable setups,

Value clean, minimalist interfaces without ads,

Have ideas for daily challenges or fun player stats.

Would love your thoughts: What frustrates you most about digital solitaire? What would make you want to play daily?

raymond_gooon You should write an agent

https://github.com/rhulha/Speech2Speech

https://github.com/rhulha/EchoMate

raymond_gooon Launch HN: Webhound (YC S23) – Research agent that builds datasets from the web

Emergency Override - Force ending extraction

https://imgur.com/a/A7qrBvi

raymond_gooon Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI

Run Gemma3 270M in your browser. 100% privacy. Needs WebGPU (and probably Chrome)

https://rhulha.github.io/Gemma3-270m-WebGPU/

Source code: https://github.com/rhulha/Gemma3-270m-WebGPU

raymond_gooon Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US

If 23% do not represent the German political landscape at all, I don't know what does...

raymond_gooon FFmpeg merges WebRTC support

Explanation: HTTP Live Streaming slices the bitstream into “segments” (traditionally 6–10 s each) and only starts playing after it has downloaded several of them. Out of the box that means 30–60 s of startup and live-edge latency—fine for linear TV, terrible for anything interactive.

Apple’s LL-HLS spec shrinks those segments into “partial segments” and uses CMAF to let the player start decoding while a chunk is still arriving. With careful encoder tuning, HTTP/2/3 push, CDN support, and a compatible player you can reach 2–5 s, sometimes a bit lower—but every link in the chain has to cooperate, so implementations are still called “heroic” for a reason.

Safari plays HLS natively and on other browsers you can bolt on hls.js via Media Source Extensions. DASH, RTMP, SRT, etc. all need extra code or plugins, so HLS became the “safe default” for on-demand and broadcast-style streaming even though it isn’t low-latency friendly.

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In the criminal trial related to the diesel scandal, four former Volkswagen executives were found guilty of fraud. The Braunschweig Regional Court sentenced two defendants to several years in prison, and two former employees received suspended sentences.