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

Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant

Link: https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/04/03/brazils-government-run-payments-system-has-become-dominant
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43620279

Why is the world losing color?

Link: https://www.culture-critic.com/p/why-is-the-world-losing-color
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43557471

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Link: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527001

California bill aims to phase out harmful ultra-processed foods in schools

Link: https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/03/california-bill-aims-to-phase-out-harmful-ultra-processed-foods-in-schools/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43495997

Airline Demand Between Canada and United States Collapses, Down 70%+

Link: https://onemileatatime.com/news/airline-demand-canada-united-states-collapses/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485649

Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

Link: https://polypane.app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451700

Amazon wants a product safety regulator declared unconstitutional

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/21/amazon-product-safety-regulators-trump/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43446103

Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00764-2
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426984

Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz

Link: https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/google-agreement-acquire-wiz/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398780

Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly

Link: https://techstartups.com/2025/03/17/amazon-to-lay-off-14000-managerial-positions-to-save-3-5-billion-annually/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43393079

French gov's open source alternative to Notion or Outline

Link: https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378239

Samsung bricked their home theater systems through automated firmware update

Link: https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Home-Theater/Samsung-Q990D-unresponsive-after-1020-firmware-update/td-p/3168571
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364016

Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died

Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pirate-bay-carl-lundstrom-dead-plane-crash-b2714284.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43352580

NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument

Link: https://gizmodo.com/nasa-shuts-off-voyager-science-instrument-more-power-cuts-ahead-to-keep-both-probes-going-2000572202
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282594

The Demoralization is just Beginning

Link: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/03/03/demoralization-is-just-beginning.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261941

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