top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-11-17

“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/11/the-end-of-click-to-subscribe-call-to-cancel-one-of-the-news-industrys-favorite-retention-tactics-is-illegal-ftc-says/

4 years ago

3192 upvotes – 861 comments

Apple announces Self Service Repair

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-announces-self-service-repair/

4 years ago

1285 upvotes – 431 comments

How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home

https://crystalverse.com/sodium-chloride-crystals/

4 years ago

1119 upvotes – 180 comments

Microsoft blocks EdgeDeflector to force Windows 11 users into Edge

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/15/22782802/microsoft-block-edgedeflector-windows-11

4 years ago

885 upvotes – 571 comments

Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-you-wanted

4 years ago

735 upvotes – 755 comments

Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website

https://browserflow.app/

4 years ago

707 upvotes – 209 comments

The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

https://twitter.com/OBSProject/status/1460782968633499651

4 years ago

541 upvotes – 89 comments

.plan

https://plan.cat

4 years ago

516 upvotes – 218 comments

Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures

https://scanofthemonth.com/LEGO-Minifig/

4 years ago

505 upvotes – 99 comments

Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster

https://graphite.dev/blog/post/DThX8ffP1gmxWJChEv0y

4 years ago

467 upvotes – 279 comments

XMPP, a comeback story

https://takebackourtech.org/xmpp-comeback/

4 years ago

380 upvotes – 302 comments

Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced

https://regexlearn.com/

4 years ago

364 upvotes – 108 comments

To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-be-energy-efficient-brains-predict-their-perceptions-20211115/

4 years ago

357 upvotes – 155 comments

Cloudflare Pages goes full stack

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-goes-full-stack/

4 years ago

350 upvotes – 123 comments

Netlify Drop

https://app.netlify.com/drop

4 years ago

349 upvotes – 123 comments

Firefox Relay

https://relay.firefox.com/

4 years ago

310 upvotes – 156 comments

Daddy isn’t coming back

https://www.ft.com/content/062b5655-28b3-4bf8-9629-c3eac803c3f3

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 406 comments

Freedom is not a goal, but a direction

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevolutions

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 238 comments

Debugging a Linux network stack crash via a single register value

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-tale-of-a-single-register-value/?a

4 years ago

299 upvotes – 27 comments

Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-17/amazon-will-stop-accepting-visa-credit-cards-issued-in-the-u-k

4 years ago

294 upvotes – 519 comments
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