Hacker News with Generative AI: Shutdowns

Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot (mozilla.org)
We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025. Thank you for being part of our journey over the years—we're proud of the impact Pocket has had for our users and communities.

Tech News, Product Announcements, Shutdowns

1120 points by phantomathkg 1 day ago | 694 comments

Earthly Shutting Down Earthfiles (earthly.dev)
In the next three months, we will be phasing out our Earthly Satellite commercial services, including the Earthly Cloud Satellites, Self-Hosted Satellites, and BYOC Satellites, together with their respective free tiers. We are also phasing out Earthly Cloud Secrets and Logs.

Cloud Computing, SaaS, Shutdowns, Software

11 points by brandonschurman 37 days ago | 0 comments

OpenSNP Shutting Down (tzovar.as)
As this blog post is being published, we are sending out emails to all openSNP users with some news: OpenSNP will be turned off – and with that also delete all the data stored on it – on April 30, 2025.

Shutdowns, Genomics, Data Privacy

11 points by fbn79 53 days ago | 0 comments

MathB.in Is Shutting Down (susam.net)
Thirteen years ago, on a quiet Saturday night, I sat down and began developing MathB.in.

Math, Web Development, Community, Shutdowns, Nostalgia

66 points by susam 89 days ago | 59 comments

RIP botsin.space (muffinlabs.com)
There's no easy way to put it, so here goes -- after a lot of consideration, I've made the hard (frankly, painful) decision to shut down botsin.space. TLDR: here's the plan:

Software, Announcements, Shutdowns

204 points by edent 206 days ago | 119 comments

Mozilla.social Mastodon Instance Shutting Down December 17, 2024 (mozilla.social)