Notices by Hacker News 100 (hn100@social.lansky.name)

Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN

Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-28/almost-one-in-ten-people-use-the-same-four-digit-pin/103946842
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853617

The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia

Link: https://youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com/blog/05_the_short_case_for_nvda
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42822162

The Most Mario Colors

Link: https://lmnt.me/blog/the-most-mario-colors.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777948

Psychedelic Graphics: An Introduction

Link: https://benpence.com/blog/post/psychedelic-graphics-0
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42804566

Carnarvon's NASA satellite dish receives first signal in almost 40 years

Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/carnarvon-nasa-dish-receives-signal-repairs/104672866
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42679998

A Laptop Stand Made from a Single Sheet of Recycled Paper

Link: https://www.core77.com/posts/134948/A-Laptop-Stand-Made-from-a-Single-Sheet-of-Recycled-Paper
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42662329

Right to root access

Link: https://medhir.com/blog/right-to-root-access
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42677835

How hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions

Link: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/googles-chrome-web-store-has-a-serious-spam-problem-promoting-shady-extensions/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42640207

Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol

Link: http://tautvilas.lt/decentralized-syndication-the-missing-internet-protocol/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42654891

The Tsunami of Burnout Few See

Link: http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/01/i-quit-tsunami-of-burnout-few-see.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645859

"A Course of Pure Mathematics" – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf]

Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38769/38769-pdf.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553682

OpenAI's Board: 'To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money'

Link: https://daringfireball.net/2024/12/openai_unimaginable
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42544367

A Minecraft server written in COBOL

Link: https://github.com/meyfa/CobolCraft
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42513022

Xerox to acquire Lexmark

Link: https://newsroom.lexmark.com/2024-12-23-Xerox-to-Acquire-Lexmark
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494067

Genesis – a generative physics engine for general-purpose robotics

Link: https://genesis-world.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457213

Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway

Link: https://apnews.com/article/public-domain-2025-popeye-tintin-e71ca89b7a430e68e66a7c6ce45a98eb
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429606

School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood

Link: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2024/research/school-smartphone-ban-better-sleep/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42420352

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

Link: https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/openai-whistleblower-found-dead-in-san-francisco-apartment/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42412718

Firefox removes "do not track" feature support

Link: https://windowsreport.com/mozilla-firefox-removes-do-not-track-feature-support-heres-what-it-means-for-your-privacy/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42377159

Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/tokyo-government-4-day-workweek-intl-hnk/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342203