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

Mozilla site down due to "overdue hosting payments"

Link: https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/114089626244932902
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43226089

Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data

Link: https://twitter.com/LundukeJournal/status/1895249805338886591
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203096

Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

Link: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-begins-turning-off-ublock-origin-and-other-extensions-in-edge/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201974

Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink

Link: https://mexicodailypost.com/2025/02/24/carlos-slim-orders-to-cancel-his-collaboration-with-elon-musks-starlink/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43199362

Fish 4.0.0

Link: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/4.0.0
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194024

SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired

Link: https://www.wired.com/story/faa-doge-elon-musk-space-x/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43127819

The largest sofa you can move around a corner

Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-largest-sofa-you-can-move-around-a-corner-20250214/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43049251

Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker

Link: https://github.com/wger-project/wger
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43034329

The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time

Link: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/year-on-year.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43029474

We are destroying software

Link: https://antirez.com/news/145
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983275

Cloudflare Is Blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940284

El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment

Link: https://ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-salvador-abandons-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-after-failed-experiment
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925210

CDC orders mass retraction of research across all science and medicine journals

Link: https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905937

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