Hacker News on Thursday, 13 July 2023

Passkeys will come at a cost(fy.blackhats.net.au)

634 points by xena 3 years ago | 383 comments

Blog post arguing that passkey hype and reliance on resident/discoverable credentials will exhaust limited storage on hardware security keys, making them obsolete.

Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal(businessinsider.com)

596 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 270 comments

Business Insider premium article on how Disney, Netflix, and other streamers are opposing the FTC's proposed 'click to cancel' subscription rule.

Boston mayor announces residential conversion program for office buildings(bostonplans.org)

445 points by toss1 3 years ago | 309 comments

Boston Planning & Development Agency news release announcing Mayor Wu's pilot program to incentivize converting downtown office buildings to housing.

Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud(reuters.com)

439 points by caust1c 3 years ago | 308 comments

Reuters news article reporting that the founder of crypto lender Celsius Network was arrested and charged with fraud, alongside an SEC lawsuit.

Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS(fingerprint.com)

382 points by danpinto 3 years ago | 148 comments

Fingerprint blog post demonstrating how a website can brute-force a macOS user's real name via mDNS hostname lookups from the browser.

The FCC responds to my ATSC 3 encryption complaint – they want to hear from you(blog.lon.tv)

370 points by tech234a 3 years ago | 158 comments

Lon Seidman's blog post about the FCC's response to his complaint over ATSC 3.0 broadcast encryption, asking viewers to submit their own comments.

It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027(androidauthority.com)

306 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 266 comments

StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100(forbes.com)

304 points by bhouston 3 years ago | 201 comments

Patching GCC to build Actually Portable Executables(ahgamut.github.io)

298 points by latchkey 3 years ago | 109 comments

The Blob Toy(oimo.io)

292 points by picture 3 years ago | 36 comments

Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)(cyber.dabamos.de)

289 points by RalfWausE 3 years ago | 234 comments

Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with Meta(apnews.com)

257 points by superhumanuser 3 years ago | 81 comments

Rust 1.71.0(blog.rust-lang.org)

244 points by mbStavola 3 years ago | 73 comments

FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive(fda.gov)

241 points by pg_1234 3 years ago | 256 comments

Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries(blog.google)

238 points by quyleanh 3 years ago | 172 comments

Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed(phys.org)

238 points by hsnewman 3 years ago | 206 comments

Faster neural networks straight from JPEG (2018)(uber.com)

237 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 88 comments

B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations(vancouverisawesome.com)

236 points by nosecreek 3 years ago | 308 comments

Gzip and KNN Outperforms Transformers on Text Classification(twitter.com)

234 points by rsp1984 3 years ago | 63 comments

DSReality: Turns a DS game into a 3D image that floats above your controller(github.com)

226 points by Philpax 3 years ago | 78 comments

100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Light-Based Networking Standard Released(tomshardware.com)

218 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 127 comments

Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots(tidyfirst.substack.com)

196 points by KentBeck 3 years ago | 44 comments

Dt: Duck tape for your Unix pipes(dt.plumbing)

196 points by signa11 3 years ago | 125 comments

Rapid Covid tests miss 90% of asymptomatic cases(nature.com)

196 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 156 comments

There is no data engineering roadmap(alasdairb.com)

187 points by sebg 3 years ago | 110 comments

Remembering lithium-ion battery pioneer John Goodenough(spectrum.ieee.org)

185 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 45 comments

Xbox360 –> Windows Executable Converter (2017)(github.com)

178 points by taspeotis 3 years ago | 53 comments

Download Instructions for More Than 6,800 Lego Kits at the Internet Archive(openculture.com)

176 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 40 comments

We spent $20k on Google Play pre-registration ads(andreaskambanis.com)

175 points by andreaskam 3 years ago | 112 comments

Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)(ruurtjan.medium.com)

173 points by pul 3 years ago | 93 comments

The Anti-Ownership eBook Economy(nyuengelberg.org)

153 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 187 comments

Show HN: Free AI-based music demixing in the browser(sevag.xyz)

149 points by sevagh 3 years ago | 40 comments

CWE Top Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses(cwe.mitre.org)

143 points by dlor 3 years ago | 115 comments

GitHub merge queue is generally available(github.blog)

143 points by ingve 3 years ago | 88 comments

Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down Hollywood(cnbc.com)

139 points by leotravis10 3 years ago | 86 comments

OpenTTD's Infrastructure in 2023(openttd.org)

136 points by ericdanielski 3 years ago | 42 comments

Personal relations as a manager(fev.al)

135 points by charles_f 3 years ago | 59 comments

Can you beat Pokemon FireRed while blind and deaf? (2022) [video](youtube.com)

131 points by xena 3 years ago | 27 comments

The future of AlmaLinux(almalinux.org)

129 points by mroche 3 years ago | 117 comments

Ory Kratos v1.0 with passkeys, MFA and multi-region(github.com)

127 points by gvusfraber 3 years ago | 35 comments

A redstone PC in Minecraft to play Minecraft inside Minecraft (2022)(pcgamer.com)

122 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 29 comments

Ripple notches win in SEC case over XRP cryptocurrency(reuters.com)

120 points by ideksec 3 years ago | 62 comments

Unchecked Java: Say goodbye to checked exceptions(github.com)

120 points by rogerkeays 3 years ago | 217 comments

Is Apple making implausible iPhone satisfaction claims?(perfectrec.com)

101 points by nowooski 3 years ago | 85 comments

FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm(npr.org)

96 points by cratermoon 3 years ago | 72 comments

Is Design Dead? (2004)(martinfowler.com)

95 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 89 comments

The many planned moon landings of 2023(spectrum.ieee.org)

93 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 95 comments

A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place(tonykulesa.com)

93 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 86 comments

Commercial interests petition FCC for high power allocation on shortwave(arrl.org)

93 points by stolenmerch 3 years ago | 112 comments

WW2 Meteorology(rafmetman.wordpress.com)

89 points by binarymax 3 years ago | 25 comments

Anchor Brewing Was San Francisco(defector.com)

81 points by fragmede 3 years ago | 43 comments

DJI Drone Rescue Map(enterprise.dji.com)

80 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 56 comments

People helping Uyghur children struggling to build new lives in Turkey(thechinaproject.com)

78 points by gsky 3 years ago | 29 comments

What makes something an heirloom?(putthison.com)

74 points by nmat 3 years ago | 58 comments

When Work Didn’t Follow You Home(calnewport.com)

74 points by keyboardJones 3 years ago | 98 comments

AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Shows Great AVX-512 Performance for Laptops / Mobile(phoronix.com)

72 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 41 comments

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

71 points by creyes12345 3 years ago | 78 comments

A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb(theconversation.com)

65 points by xoa 3 years ago | 26 comments

Benefit Layers: How to avoid sales fluff in devtools(dx.tips)

62 points by swyx 3 years ago | 35 comments

Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables with Less Randomness and Memory(arxiv.org)

62 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 26 comments