top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-07-13

Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal

https://www.businessinsider.com/hollywood-streamers-oppose-ftc-proposal-regulation-click-to-cancel-subscription-2023-7

3 years ago

Passkeys will come at a cost

https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2023-02-02-how-hype-will-turn-your-security-key-into-junk/

3 years ago

Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/our-fastest-most-beautiful-release-ever-thunderbird-115-supernova-is-here/

3 years ago

Boston mayor announces residential conversion program for office buildings

https://www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/news-updates/2023/07/10/mayor-wu-announces-residential-conversion-program

3 years ago

Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us-sec-sues-celsius-network-its-founder-2023-07-13/

3 years ago

Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

https://github.com/Svxy/The-Simpsons-Hit-and-Run

3 years ago

It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027

https://www.androidauthority.com/phones-with-replaceable-batteries-2027-3345155/

3 years ago

Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS

https://fingerprint.com/blog/apple-macos-mdns-brute-force/

3 years ago

The FCC responds to my ATSC 3 encryption complaint – they want to hear from you

https://blog.lon.tv/2023/07/10/the-fcc-responds-to-my-atsc-3-encryption-complaint-they-want-to-hear-from-you/

3 years ago

StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/07/13/stability-ai-cofounder-says-emad-mostaque-tricked-him-into-selling-stake-for-100/

3 years ago

Gzip and KNN Outperforms Transformers on Text Classification

https://twitter.com/LukeGessler/status/1679211291292889100

3 years ago

B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/bc-government-hit-tweet-limit-amid-wildfire-evacuations-7268169

3 years ago

The Blob Toy

https://oimo.io/works/blob/

3 years ago

Patching GCC to build Actually Portable Executables

https://ahgamut.github.io/2023/07/13/patching-gcc-cosmo/

3 years ago

Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)

https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/

3 years ago

Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with Meta

https://apnews.com/article/irs-taxpayer-tax-preparation-meta-congress-9315cfca7a0942ab89f765d183fbf822

3 years ago

FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-nonprescription-daily-oral-contraceptive

3 years ago

Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-age-universe-billion-years-previously.html

3 years ago

Rust 1.71.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/07/13/Rust-1.71.0.html

3 years ago

100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Light-Based Networking Standard Released

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/li-fi-standard-released

3 years ago