top 50% 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

Apple announces Self Service Repair

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

4 years ago

How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home

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

4 years ago

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

Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

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

4 years ago

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

https://browserflow.app/

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

.plan

https://plan.cat

4 years ago

Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

XMPP, a comeback story

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

4 years ago

Learn RegEx step by step, from zero to advanced

https://regexlearn.com/

4 years ago

To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions

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

4 years ago

Cloudflare Pages goes full stack

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

4 years ago

Netlify Drop

https://app.netlify.com/drop

4 years ago

Firefox Relay

https://relay.firefox.com/

4 years ago

Daddy isn’t coming back

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

4 years ago

Freedom is not a goal, but a direction

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

4 years ago

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

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

PHP is worth learning and using

https://bulletproofphp.dev/yes-php-is-worth-using

4 years ago

The Burnout Society

https://apposition.substack.com/p/the-burnout-society

4 years ago

Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph

https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-raises-usd105-million-to-transform-development-for-the-modern-web

4 years ago

Impossible food sues to cancel earlier trademark owners

https://impossiblehq.com/impossible-foods-lawsuit-statement/

4 years ago

Dask – A flexible library for parallel computing in Python

https://dask.org/

4 years ago

Mozilla publishes position paper on the EU Digital Identity Framework

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2021/11/04/mozilla-publishes-position-paper-on-the-eu-digital-identity-framework/

4 years ago

I analyzed SaaS billing dark patterns

https://quolum.com/blog/saas/i-analyzed-saas-billing-dark-patterns/

4 years ago

Doubling the PinePhone storage speed with a soldering iron

https://tuxphones.com/pinephone-storage-performance-pinecil-vccq-emmc-mod/

4 years ago

Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game preservation

https://www.axios.com/microsoft-old-games-preserve-emulation-748793a7-f559-4933-babf-81f34adc7cf6.html

4 years ago

Show HN: Prometeo – a Python-to-C transpiler for high-performance computing

https://github.com/zanellia/prometeo

4 years ago

I built a $5k Raspberry Pi server (yes, it's ridiculous)

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/i-built-5000-raspberry-pi-server-yes-its-ridiculous

4 years ago

Ask HN: What is the fastest way to ramp up on DevOps, k8 and GCP?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29251343

4 years ago

Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state

https://restofworld.org/2021/singapores-tech-utopia-dream-is-turning-into-a-surveillance-state-nightmare/

4 years ago

Debugging a weird 'file not found' error

https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/11/17/debugging-a-weird--file-not-found--error/

4 years ago

Ask HN: How to contact Uber about a rider safety exploit being used in the wild?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29260139

4 years ago

Finding Your Swagger

https://kevinyien.com/blog/swagger.html

4 years ago

The Truth Shall Make You Free: Catholicism and the CIA

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-truth-shall-make-you-free-catholicism-and-the-cia/

4 years ago

Consumption of coffee and tea and risk of developing stroke and dementia

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003830

4 years ago

HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

https://handbrake.fr/

4 years ago

The perfect configuration format? Try TypeScript

https://reflect.run/articles/typescript-the-perfect-file-format/

4 years ago

Layout patterns – Collection of layout patterns built using CSS

https://web.dev/patterns/layout/

4 years ago

Three sins of authors in computer science and math (1997)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jrs/sins.html

4 years ago

Prefix sum on portable compute shaders

https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2021/11/17/prefix-sum-portable.html

4 years ago

Most who want simple ‘bonsai’ trees are ill-served by traditional bonsai methods

https://dirtwise.substack.com/p/the-wacky-wily-wonderful-world-of

4 years ago

Upcoming/proposed breaking changes to Haskell

https://github.com/fumieval/Haskell-breaking-changes

4 years ago

Hacking Ham Radio for Texting

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ham-radio-text-hacking

4 years ago

Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column

https://jol.dev/blog/2021-11-16-n2-sed-challenge-join-cal-y-months-into-a-single-column.html

4 years ago

Features that more cameras should have

https://photographylife.com/features-more-cameras-need

4 years ago

TPM Sniffing

https://blog.scrt.ch/2021/11/15/tpm-sniffing/

4 years ago

ConstitutionDAO

https://www.constitutiondao.com/

4 years ago

New and improved Linux Random Number Generator ready for testing

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/secure-development-new-and-improved-linux-random-number-generator-ready-for-testing

4 years ago

A Busy Beaver champion derived from scratch

https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/10/31/busy-beaver-derived.html

4 years ago

The Bug in Paxos Made Simple

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/11/16/paxos.html

4 years ago

Stop paying DocuSign $2 for an e-signature

https://www.cheapesignature.com

4 years ago

Ask HN: Tech-savvy parents, what are the gadget rules for your kids?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29252974

4 years ago

Ephemeral Postgres Databases

https://eradman.com/posts/ephemeral-databases.html

4 years ago