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They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
1•breve•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•4m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
1•pastage•4m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
1•billiob•5m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
1•birdculture•10m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•16m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•17m ago•1 comments

Slop News - HN front page right now hallucinated as 100% AI SLOP

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•22m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•24m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
2•tosh•30m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
3•oxxoxoxooo•33m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•34m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
2•goranmoomin•37m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•39m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•40m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•43m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
3•myk-e•45m ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•46m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•48m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•50m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•52m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•55m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•1h ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•1h ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•1h ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•1h ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

US 'click to cancel' rule blocked by appeals court

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/us-click-cancel-rule-blocked-by-appeals-court-2025-07-08/
37•petethomas•7mo ago

Comments

cebert•7mo ago
I highly recommend using temporary cards for each online vendor you deal with.

I personally use Capital One Eno, a free service offered by one of my cards. This allows me to easily deactivate temporary cards without having to deal with the hassle of contacting customer service for companies, like Adobe, that make cancellations difficult. Additionally, I use private burner emails to register for the service and simply register again later if I want to use it at a later time.

graypegg•7mo ago
Can’t this lead to pretty bad credit checks? Absolutely not defending the practice at all, but companies that charge an annual subscription paid monthly (like the leeches at Adobe) are generally allowed to report the cancellation as a delinquent account IIRC.
nyc_data_geek1•7mo ago
Yes, this only solves for them not being able to continue charging you, they would still be within their rights to continue to accrue debt in your name and report it to the credit agencies in this case, utterly ruining your credit and ultimately inundating you with calls from bill collectors.
RiverCrochet•7mo ago
That's when you dispute the debt in writing and all that good stuff.
gruez•7mo ago
Except, if you're in a bad position to dispute the credit card charge, you're probably in a bad position to dispute the debt as well. If whatever you signed up for had ironclad renewal clauses you'd find it very hard to wriggle out of it, temporary credit card or not.
RiverCrochet•7mo ago
Well you can always send a dispute letter and then it's on the charging company to prove to the card issuer that the charge is legitimate I think. Now this probably won't get you out of a renewal charge if you signed a contract and did absolutely nothing to cancel, but if you have evidence you sent an email or contacted them, then you have some sort of case the card issuer has to look at. Especially if you can show you didn't use the product after they charged you.

If anything they can't argue that you want the service on the next renewal date.

I do know sometimes you are stuck. I had a friend sign up for home security monitoring on a 3 year contract - and Ring was better, so they wanted to cancel it, but they were unable to get out of it.

cebert•7mo ago
Thanks for bringing this up. I wasn’t aware this could happen, but it hasn’t happened to me yet. I’m a bit afraid to continue doing this now.
aspenmayer•7mo ago
Might as well use gift cards at that point, since I think you’re probably leaking metadata to whoever provides the temp card service.
andrekandre•7mo ago

  > failed to conduct a preliminary analysis of the costs and benefits of the rule
so, not blocked on the merits per se but on procedure...
arn3n•7mo ago
I miss Lina Khan.
burnt-resistor•7mo ago
Yes, and I miss the rule of law and less corruption too.
drweevil•7mo ago
>”failed to conduct a preliminary analysis of the costs and benefits of the rule”

Let me get this straight. The rule is declared void because the FTC failed to consider the cost to business to correct unfair and predatory business practices. Courts to consumers: Heads we win, tails you lose.

jdsully•7mo ago
They get to create rules despite being unelected. The catch is they have to follow the procedure for rule making in the law that grants them this power. Even if the rule is a very good idea.
drweevil•7mo ago
I understand the justification being used. But it's bogus. These corporations are engaging in theft from the general public, using deceptive business practices that organized crime would be proud of. The claim made by the complainants is that stopping them from robbing consumers would cost them more than $100M, which, if you include their ill-gotten gains, is probably true. IOW, "it would cost us too much to stop robbing people, therefore we shouldn't be forced to stop." The FTC rule was not ending a good-faith business practice. And the job of the courts is not sanctioning theft. Those are the main objections here.

As for the "despite being unelected" dig, let's apply this standard fairly. The courts are also unelected, as are the businesses involved.