top 50% 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

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

Gzip and KNN Outperforms Transformers on Text Classification

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

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

Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries

https://blog.google/products/bard/google-bard-new-features-update-july-2023/

3 years ago

Faster neural networks straight from JPEG (2018)

https://www.uber.com/blog/neural-networks-jpeg/

3 years ago

Rapid Covid tests miss 90% of asymptomatic cases

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02254-9

3 years ago

DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats above your controller

https://github.com/zhuowei/DSReality

3 years ago

Dt: Duck tape for your Unix pipes

https://dt.plumbing/

3 years ago

Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/fresh-work-80155

3 years ago

Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down Hollywood

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/13/sag-actors-union-goes-on-strike-joining-hollywood-writers.html

3 years ago

We spent $20k on Google Play pre-registration ads

https://andreaskambanis.com/google-play-store-pre-registration-campaigns/

3 years ago

Download Instructions for More Than 6,800 Lego Kits at the Internet Archive

https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/download-instructions-for-more-than-6800-lego-kits-at-the-internet-archive.html

3 years ago

Remembering lithium-ion battery pioneer John Goodenough

https://spectrum.ieee.org/john-goodenough-tribute

3 years ago

Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)

https://ruurtjan.medium.com/understanding-kafka-with-factorio-74e8fc9bf181

3 years ago

GitHub merge queue is generally available

https://github.blog/2023-07-12-github-merge-queue-is-generally-available/

3 years ago

Show HN: Free AI-based music demixing in the browser

https://sevag.xyz/free-music-demixer/

3 years ago

Xbox360 –> Windows Executable Converter (2017)

https://github.com/rexdex/recompiler

3 years ago

The Anti-Ownership eBook Economy

https://www.nyuengelberg.org/outputs/the-anti-ownership-ebook-economy/

3 years ago

OpenTTD's Infrastructure in 2023

https://www.openttd.org/news/2023/07/08/our-infrastructure

3 years ago

Pokemon FireRed completed without visuals or audio (2022) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gjsAA_5Agk

3 years ago

CWE Top Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses

https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/index.html

3 years ago

Ripple notches win in SEC case over XRP cryptocurrency

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-says-sec-lawsuit-vs-ripple-labs-can-proceed-trial-some-claims-2023-07-13/

3 years ago

The future of AlmaLinux

https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/

3 years ago

Ory Kratos v1.0 with passkeys, MFA and multi-region

https://github.com/ory/kratos/releases/tag/v1.0.0

3 years ago

Unchecked Java: Say goodbye to checked exceptions

https://github.com/rogerkeays/unchecked

3 years ago

A redstone PC in Minecraft to play Minecraft inside Minecraft (2022)

https://www.pcgamer.com/minecraftception-redstone-pc-chungus/

3 years ago

When Work Didn’t Follow You Home

https://calnewport.com/when-work-didnt-follow-you-home/

3 years ago

FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187532997/ftc-investigating-chatgpt-over-potential-consumer-harm

3 years ago

Is Apple making implausible iPhone satisfaction claims?

https://www.perfectrec.com/posts/is-apple-making-implausible-iphone-satisfaction-claims

3 years ago

Is Design Dead? (2004)

https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/designDead.html

3 years ago

People helping Uyghur children struggling to build new lives in Turkey

https://thechinaproject.com/2023/07/13/the-people-helping-uyghur-children-struggling-to-build-new-lives-in-turkey/

3 years ago

The many planned moon landings of 2023

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lunar-landing

3 years ago

Commercial interests petition FCC for high power allocation on shortwave

https://www.arrl.org/news/commercial-interests-petition-fcc-for-high-power-allocation-on-shortwave-spectrum

3 years ago

A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place

https://www.tonykulesa.com/p/a-relatively-small-amount-of-force

3 years ago

Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas – for free, forever

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794224/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ai-image-rights

3 years ago

Critical RCE found in popular Ghostscript open-source PDF library

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-rce-found-in-popular-ghostscript-open-source-pdf-library/

3 years ago

AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Shows Great AVX-512 Performance for Laptops / Mobile

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen7040-avx512

3 years ago

WW2 Meteorology

https://rafmetman.wordpress.com/meteorology/ww2-meteorology/

3 years ago

At its peak, Google Reader had 30M users but no executive support

https://9to5google.com/2023/06/30/google-reader/

3 years ago

DJI Drone Rescue Map

https://enterprise.dji.com/drone-rescue-map/

3 years ago

Scientists have identified the potato pathogen that devastated Ireland (2013)

https://www.history.com/news/after-168-years-potato-famine-mystery-solved

3 years ago

A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb

https://theconversation.com/a-new-thin-lensed-telescope-design-could-far-surpass-james-webb-goodbye-mirrors-hello-diffractive-lenses-206055

3 years ago

Anchor Brewing Was San Francisco

https://defector.com/anchor-brewing-was-san-francisco

3 years ago

A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors

https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/

3 years ago

What makes something an heirloom?

https://putthison.com/what-makes-something-an-heirloom/

3 years ago

Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables with Less Randomness and Memory

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07583

3 years ago

Last week was the hottest ever recorded – here’s why we keep smashing records

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/heat-record-june-july-water-climate

3 years ago

SEO expert hired and fired by Ashley Madison turned on company promising revenge

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/07/seo-expert-hired-and-fired-by-ashley-madison-turned-on-company-promising-revenge/

3 years ago

We knew climate change in ’50s. Why an author tracked the history of denial

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-07-11/we-knew-about-climate-change-in-the-50s-why-an-author-tracked-the-history-of-denial

3 years ago

Instant Messenger History: Lessons for the Threads Era of Social Media

https://tedium.co/2023/07/12/instant-messenger-competition-history/

3 years ago

French Police Will Be Able to Spy on People Through Their Cell Phones

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/07/french-police-will-be-able-to-spy-on-people-through-their-cell-phones.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Is the Market Recovering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36707404

3 years ago