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

Doom Released Under GPLv2

Link: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/commit/a77dfb96cb91780ca334d0d4cfd86957558007e0
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39032363

YouTube demonetizes public domain 'Steamboat Willie' video after copyright claim

Link: https://mashable.com/article/youtube-demontizes-public-domain-steamboat-willie-disney-copyright-claim
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877321

Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer

Link: https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37841013

Mastodon for Apple II

Link: https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37733916

Spain cancels Pegasus spyware investigation because Israel is not co-operating

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/10/spain-closes-pegasus-investigation-over-lack-of-cooperation-from-israel
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37657334

Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

Link: https://theconversation.com/google-chrome-just-rolled-out-a-new-way-to-track-you-and-serve-ads-heres-what-you-need-to-know-213150
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37464574

We reduced the cost of building Mastadon at Twitter-scale by 100x

Link: https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37137110

Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request

Link: https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-net-dmca-google-search/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36682509

TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users

Link: https://noyb.eu/en/telesign-profiles-half-worlds-phone-users
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629031

Tuesday set an unofficial record for the hottest day on Earth

Link: https://apnews.com/article/global-record-breaking-heat-july-27069b5380117534d78f1f40a6edc7a0
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616491

TabDB: Using browser tabs as a database like only a maniac would

Link: https://github.com/kkuchta/tabdb
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36548055

Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with microtransaction stores

Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/discord-is-opening-the-monetization-floodgates-get-ready-for-microtransaction-stores-and-paid-exclusive-memes/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36429988

Reddit experiments on users, forcing them to install app or else not use Reddit

Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36287411

Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp

Link: https://www.leefang.com/p/private-spies-hired-by-the-fbi-and
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36100994

Infosec company owned completely by 4chan user

Link: https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/optimeyes-leak/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35888509

Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting

Link: https://lunette.app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35307656

LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

Link: https://github.com/microsoft/LoRA
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35288015

Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control

Link: https://www.techspot.com/news/97535-windows-11-spyware-machine-out-users-control.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34712640

De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM

Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tiny11-lean-windows-11
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34654649