top 50% hacker news stories for 2024-10-16

FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-click-cancel-rule-making-it-easier-consumers-end-recurring

2 years ago

ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives

https://docs.sweeting.me/s/archivebox-plugin-ecosystem-announcement

2 years ago

Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-kindle-color-scribe-paperwhite-entry

2 years ago

Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

https://openrss.org/blog/using-cloudflare-on-your-website-could-be-blocking-rss-users

2 years ago

AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU

https://github.com/usefulsensors/qc_npu_benchmark

2 years ago

Reflections on Palantir

https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/reflections-on-palantir

2 years ago

Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

https://azadux.blog/2024/10/08/traveling-with-apple-vision-pro/

2 years ago

Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/winamp-really-whips-open-source-coders-into-frenzy-with-its-source-release/

2 years ago

FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

https://floss.fund/blog/announcing-floss-fund/

2 years ago

MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/macos-sometimes-leaks-traffic-after-system-updates

2 years ago

We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

https://mobeigi.com/blog/gaming/how-we-outsmarted-csgo-cheaters-with-identitylogger/

2 years ago

Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)

https://gist.github.com/jackrusher/5139396

2 years ago

New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

https://www.mersenne.org/

2 years ago

The Internet Archive is back online

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/the-internet-archive-and-its-916-billion-saved-webpages-are-back-online/

2 years ago

Redbox left PII on decommissioned machines

https://digipres.club/@foone/113313955144323780

2 years ago

Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41862332

2 years ago

Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment

https://www.backpacker.com/skills/outdoor-first-aid/are-those-stomach-troubles-celiac-or-giardia/

2 years ago

A Simple open-source Phone programmable with Arduino

https://www.wiphone.io

2 years ago

I Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Server

https://geek.sg/blog/how-i-self-hosted-llama-32-with-coolify-on-my-home-server-a-step-by-step-guide

2 years ago

Efficient high-resolution image synthesis with linear diffusion transformer

https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/

2 years ago

Un Ministral, Des Ministraux

https://mistral.ai/news/ministraux/

2 years ago

Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/oct/16/ireland-school-secret-transition-year-off-curriculum

2 years ago

Eye Contact Correction: Redirecting the eyes to look at the camera

https://www.sievedata.com/functions/sieve/eye-contact-correction

2 years ago

Optimizing the Ion compiler back end

https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2024/10/16/75x-faster-optimizing-the-ion-compiler-backend.html

2 years ago

Show HN: A fair Product Hunt alternative

https://simplelister.com/

2 years ago

Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat's Mmtls Encryption Protocol

https://citizenlab.ca/2024/10/should-we-chat-too-security-analysis-of-wechats-mmtls-encryption-protocol/

2 years ago

Let Google decide

https://cupofsquid.com/post/not-real/

2 years ago

Show HN: Automated smooth Nth order derivatives of noisy data

https://github.com/hugohadfield/kalmangrad

2 years ago

Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres

https://www.ft.com/content/00776191-b010-4104-add4-8dc430386911

2 years ago

The richest people borrow against their stock (2021)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2021/11/11/how-americas-richest-people-larry-ellison-elon-musk-can-access-billions-without-selling-their-stock/

2 years ago

Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since July

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/15/digital_river_runs_dry_hasnt/

2 years ago

It's not enough for a program to work – it has to work for the right reasons

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/be-suspicious-of-success/

2 years ago

Internet Archive Services are "temporarily offline"

https://archive.org/

2 years ago

How Israel’s bulky pager fooled Hezbollah

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/HEZBOLLAH-PAGERS/mopawkkwjpa/

2 years ago

Laziness Death Spirals

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JBR6AF9Gusv4u6Fwo/laziness-death-spirals

2 years ago

Medley Loops: The Basic System (Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System) [pdf]

https://interlisp.org/documentation/2024-loops-book-1.pdf

2 years ago

Amazon refreshes its monochrome Kindle lineup

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/amazon-refreshes-its-monochrome-kindle-lineup-including-a-bigger-paperwhite/

2 years ago

Show HN: Greenmask 0.2 – Database anonymization tool

https://github.com/GreenmaskIO/greenmask

2 years ago

Tell HN: The Wayback Machine is up, in read-only mode

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41856008

2 years ago

Can't trust any VPN these days

https://blog.orhun.dev/cant-trust-any-vpn/

2 years ago

Show HN: Citizen – A Node.js web app framework for fans of classic app servers

https://github.com/jaysylvester/citizen

2 years ago

Bugs in LLM Training – Gradient Accumulation Fix

https://unsloth.ai/blog/gradient

2 years ago

Hell Freezes Over as AMD and Intel Come Together for x86

https://www.servethehome.com/hell-freezes-over-amd-and-intel-come-together-ocp/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Tips for hacking a TV?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41855403

2 years ago

Making the Python back end for my new webapp

https://youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com/blog/02_what_i_learned_making_the_python_backend_for_yto

2 years ago

Since spring of 2023, the world has been warmer than climate models anticipated

https://e360.yale.edu/features/gavin-schmidt-interview

2 years ago