Notices by Hacker News 100 (hn100@social.lansky.name), page 2

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

Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

Link: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/why-phishers-love-new-tlds-like-shop-top-and-xyz/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42305831

US house prices in 1950 vs. 2024, accounting for inflation

Link: https://brilliantmaps.com/us-houses-prices-1950-2024/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42276155

Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)

Link: https://adriano.fyi/posts/hetzner-raises-prices-while-significantly-lowering-bandwidth-in-us/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268475

Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest

Link: https://apnews.com/article/denmark-forest-trees-fertilizer-e55416347fcc385a3ea8e2415726f908
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42226185

Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now

Link: https://letsencrypt.org/2014/11/18/announcing-lets-encrypt/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42191228

Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03647-0
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42094573

SDL-based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea

Link: https://github.com/antirez/load81
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41953712

T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users

Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/t-mobile-att-oppose-unlocking-rule-claim-locked-phones-are-good-for-users/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41908231

My solar-powered and self-hosted website

Link: https://dri.es/my-solar-powered-and-self-hosted-website
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41868353

Google Funding Construction of Seven U.S. Nuclear Reactors

Link: https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/google-nuclear-power-artificial-intelligence-87966624
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41840769

Scientists successfully breed corals to improve their heat tolerance

Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-10-scientists-successfully-corals-tolerance.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41837925

PayPal (USA) will automatically share data about you to participating stores

Link: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/upcoming-policies-full
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41822178