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What happened to the CIA world factbook? It was great.

"On February 4, 2026, following the restriction and closure since 2025 of other government-funded information websites, the CIA announced, with no warning and no explanation, that The World Factbook was discontinued."[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Factbook

Do we have a credible source tying this to DOGE?

No, but CNN linked its shutdown to budget cuts (also mentioned on the Wikipedia page).

It got spellchecked into the boards

Maybe @dang can fix the autocorecto

Yes, we've defaced it now.

(p.s. @dang doesn't work - I just saw this randomly. If you want semi-reliable message delivery, hn@ycombinator.com is the only thing that works.)

maybe @dang should work ;)

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