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MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
1•TheCraiggers•49s ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
1•birdculture•1m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
1•doener•1m ago•0 comments

MyFlames: Visualize MySQL query execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
1•marjipan200•3m ago•0 comments

A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

https://github.com/lance0/xfr
1•tanelpoder•4m ago•0 comments

Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

https://github.com/legacy-icons/famfamfam-silk
1•thunderbong•5m ago•0 comments

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter

https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-whose-capex-declined-last-quarter/
1•elsewhen•8m ago•0 comments

Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
2•todsacerdoti•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Deterministic NDJSON audit logs – v1.2 update (structural gaps)

https://github.com/yupme-bot/kernel-ndjson-proofs
1•Slaine•13m ago•0 comments

The Greater Copenhagen Region could be your friend's next career move

https://www.greatercphregion.com/friend-recruiter-program
1•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

Do Not Confirm – Fiction by OpenClaw

https://thedailymolt.substack.com/p/do-not-confirm
1•jamesjyu•14m ago•0 comments

The Analytical Profile of Peas

https://www.fossanalytics.com/en/news-articles/more-industries/the-analytical-profile-of-peas
1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

Hallucinations in GPT5 – Can models say "I don't know" (June 2025)

https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/llm-eval-hallucinations-t20-cricket/
1•sp1982•14m ago•0 comments

What AI is good for, according to developers

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/what-ai-is-actually-good-for-according-to-developers/
1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

OpenAI might pivot to the "most addictive digital friend" or face extinction

https://twitter.com/lebed2045/status/2020184853271167186
1•lebed2045•15m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Know how your SaaS is doing in 30 seconds

https://anypanel.io
1•dasfelix•16m ago•0 comments

ClawdBot Ordered Me Lunch

https://nickalexander.org/drafts/auto-sandwich.html
3•nick007•17m ago•0 comments

What the News media thinks about your Indian stock investments

https://stocktrends.numerical.works/
1•mindaslab•18m ago•0 comments

Running Lua on a tiny console from 2001

https://ivie.codes/page/pokemon-mini-lua
1•Charmunk•18m ago•0 comments

Google and Microsoft Paying Creators $500K+ to Promote AI Tools

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html
2•belter•21m ago•0 comments

New filtration technology could be game-changer in removal of PFAS

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/23/pfas-forever-chemicals-filtration
1•PaulHoule•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
2•momciloo•22m ago•0 comments

Kinda Surprised by Seadance2's Moderation

https://seedanceai.me/
1•ri-vai•22m ago•2 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
2•valyala•22m ago•0 comments

Django scales. Stop blaming the framework (part 1 of 3)

https://medium.com/@tk512/django-scales-stop-blaming-the-framework-part-1-of-3-a2b5b0ff811f
1•sgt•23m ago•0 comments

Malwarebytes Is Now in ChatGPT

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/product/2026/02/scam-checking-just-got-easier-malwarebytes-is-n...
1•m-hodges•23m ago•0 comments

Thoughts on the job market in the age of LLMs

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/thoughts-on-the-hiring-market-in
1•gmays•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Stacky – certain block game clone

https://www.susmel.com/stacky/
3•Keyframe•26m ago•0 comments

AIII: A public benchmark for AI narrative and political independence

https://github.com/GRMPZQUIDOS/AIII
1•GRMPZ23•26m 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.