12.11.25 | Life's dimensions, Australia enforces teen social media ban, Valve reports HDMI Forum blocks HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - Size of Life
• (01:17) - Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
• (02:24) - Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
• (03:34) - Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
• (04:42) - Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
• (05:53) - Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
• (07:07) - Patterns.dev
• (07:59) - Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model
• (09:11) - How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
• (10:17) - Is it a bubble?
• (11:26) - Outro

Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025-12-09/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208348

Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220488

Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223311

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540

Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212438

Patterns.dev
https://www.patterns.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226483

Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omni-flash-20251201
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219538

How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203343

Is it a bubble?
https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220640