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

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

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