Hacker News on Wednesday, 16 October 2024

FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions(ftc.gov)

1625 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 719 comments

FTC press release announcing its final "click-to-cancel" rule requiring that recurring subscriptions and memberships be easy for consumers to cancel.

ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives(docs.sweeting.me)

601 points by nikisweeting 2 years ago | 144 comments

Announcement post describing upcoming ArchiveBox features: a plugin ecosystem, P2P sharing between instances, CAPTCHA solving, and auto-logins for self-hosted web archives.

Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more(aboutamazon.com)

518 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 610 comments

Amazon's official announcement of its new Kindle lineup, including the first color Kindle, a new Kindle Scribe, and an updated Paperwhite and entry-level Kindle.

Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users(openrss.org)

472 points by campuscodi 2 years ago | 212 comments

Open RSS blog post explaining how Cloudflare's bot protection settings on websites can block RSS readers from fetching feeds.

AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU(github.com)

450 points by dbreunig 2 years ago | 257 comments

GitHub repository from Useful Sensors with code to run and benchmark matrix-multiplication models on Qualcomm NPUs in Windows PCs, comparing them against the CPU and Nvidia GPUs.

Traveling with Apple Vision Pro(azadux.blog)

437 points by tosh 2 years ago | 540 comments

A personal blog post describing the author's experience using the Apple Vision Pro headset while traveling, including on flights.

Reflections on Palantir(nabeelqu.substack.com)

430 points by freditup 2 years ago | 473 comments

Nabeel S. Qureshi's Substack essay reflecting on his eight years working at Palantir and how perceptions of the company have changed.

Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks(arstechnica.com)

365 points by dangle1 2 years ago | 271 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that Winamp deleted its GitHub source code repository after weeks of controversy over its restrictive license.

FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects(floss.fund)

363 points by joice 2 years ago | 96 comments

Blog post by Zerodha CTO Kailash Nadh announcing FLOSS/fund, a $1M-per-year fund for free and open source projects, with an invitation to apply.

Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates(mullvad.net)

344 points by dulvui 2 years ago | 172 comments

Mullvad blog post reporting that macOS can leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel after system updates because the firewall ignores rules until a reboot.

We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger(mobeigi.com)

341 points by mobeigi 2 years ago | 316 comments

Blog post by the founder of Invex Gaming, an Australian/NZ CSGO community server, describing how they built IdentityLogger to catch cheaters evading bans.

New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)(mersenne.org)

329 points by sdsykes 2 years ago | 112 comments

GIMPS homepage announcing on October 13, 2024 that a participating computer reported a probable new Mersenne prime, pending Lucas-Lehmer verification.

The Internet Archive is back online(arstechnica.com)

286 points by Wingy 2 years ago | 69 comments

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

236 points by jainvivek 2 years ago | 146 comments

Medical student's apparent celiac disease responded to giardiasis treatment(backpacker.com)

212 points by BostonFern 2 years ago | 116 comments

Efficient high-resolution image synthesis with linear diffusion transformer(nvlabs.github.io)

206 points by Vt71fcAqt7 2 years ago | 40 comments

A Simple open-source Phone programmable with Arduino(wiphone.io)

204 points by guerrilla 2 years ago | 82 comments

Un Ministral, Des Ministraux(mistral.ai)

193 points by veggieroll 2 years ago | 87 comments

I Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Server(geek.sg)

184 points by whitefables 2 years ago | 81 comments

Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives(theguardian.com)

160 points by joveian 2 years ago | 97 comments

Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat's Mmtls Encryption Protocol(citizenlab.ca)

146 points by lladnar 2 years ago | 82 comments

Eye Contact Correction: Redirecting the eyes to look at the camera(sievedata.com)

143 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 152 comments

Optimizing the Ion compiler back end(spidermonkey.dev)

139 points by undercut 2 years ago | 33 comments

Show HN: Automated smooth Nth order derivatives of noisy data(github.com)

127 points by hugohadfield 2 years ago | 35 comments

Let Google decide(cupofsquid.com)

123 points by lr0 2 years ago | 43 comments

Show HN: A fair Product Hunt alternative(simplelister.com)

122 points by denizhdzh 2 years ago | 58 comments

Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres(ft.com)

111 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 178 comments

It's not enough for a program to work – it has to work for the right reasons(buttondown.com)

105 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 54 comments

The richest people borrow against their stock (2021)(forbes.com)

93 points by CHB0403085482 2 years ago | 191 comments

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

88 points by pamoroso 2 years ago | 22 comments

Amazon refreshes its monochrome Kindle lineup(arstechnica.com)

81 points by thimabi 2 years ago | 112 comments

Doctor Fukushi Masaichi and the art of preserving tattooed skin(dannydutch.com)

74 points by danielmorozoff 2 years ago | 21 comments

Can't trust any VPN these days(blog.orhun.dev)

68 points by orhunp_ 2 years ago | 35 comments

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

66 points by jfil 2 years ago | 9 comments

Making the Python back end for my new webapp(youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com)

66 points by eigenvalue 2 years ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Greenmask 0.2 – Database anonymization tool(github.com)

63 points by woyten 2 years ago | 10 comments

Bugs in LLM Training – Gradient Accumulation Fix(unsloth.ai)

63 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 8 comments

Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since July(theregister.com)

62 points by newaccount74 2 years ago | 3 comments

Hell Freezes over as AMD and Intel Come Together for x86 – ServeTheHome(servethehome.com)

62 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 58 comments

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

58 points by jaysylvester 2 years ago | 20 comments

Since spring of 2023, the world has been warmer than climate models anticipated(e360.yale.edu)

57 points by orcul 2 years ago | 47 comments

Universal Jointing for Submarine Cables(ujconsortium.com)

45 points by altrus 2 years ago | 8 comments

The early days of peer review: five insights from historic reports(nature.com)

43 points by rntn 2 years ago | 26 comments

Ask HN: Tips for Hacking a TV?

43 points by fewgrehrehre 2 years ago | 37 comments

Artemis moon suit designed by Axiom Space and Prada revealed in Milan(collectspace.com)

41 points by PeterCorless 2 years ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Clean News - A cleaner curation of world news events(cleannews.fyi)

40 points by sumeruchat 2 years ago | 47 comments

Lotus: Diffusion-Based Visual Foundation Model for High-Quality Dense Prediction(lotus3d.github.io)

39 points by jasondavies 2 years ago | 1 comments

Mt Rainier Elevation Survey(countryhighpoints.com)

36 points by nickswalker 2 years ago | 7 comments

Teaching old assert() new Tricks(blog.ngs-lang.org)

34 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 12 comments

Ask HN: How Many Hours Do You Code in a Day?

31 points by EgoIsMyFriend 2 years ago | 47 comments

Plutocrat Archipelagos(macguffinmagazine.com)

31 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 7 comments

Commission concludes that X should not be designated under the DMA(ec.europa.eu)

29 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 39 comments

All software in EU under product liability from 2026(consilium.europa.eu)

28 points by phkamp 2 years ago | 25 comments

Man who scammed country out of $130M using mobile game facing 89,000 years(uniladtech.com)

27 points by popcalc 2 years ago | 18 comments

Reinventing Core Data Development with SwiftData Principles(fatbobman.com)

27 points by fatbobman 2 years ago | 16 comments

One possible housing crisis solution? Public housing for all income levels(npr.org)

23 points by thehoff 2 years ago | 31 comments

National Archives Pushes Google Gemini AI on Employees(404media.co)

23 points by m463 2 years ago | 6 comments

Foyle: You build it, AI should run it(future.mozilla.org)

22 points by sourishkrout 2 years ago | 4 comments

Understanding Pam and Creating a Custom Module in Python – Inside Out Insights(text.tchncs.de)

21 points by moonsword 2 years ago | 3 comments