Hacker News on Friday, 10 July 2026

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets(9to5mac.com)

1555 points by stock_toaster 3 months ago | 871 comments

9to5Mac news article reporting that Apple has sued OpenAI, accusing former Apple employees of stealing trade secrets.

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall(jeffgeerling.com)

710 points by speckx 3 months ago | 221 comments

Jeff Geerling blog post reviewing QuadRF, a four-antenna radio device that can detect drones and visualize WiFi signals through walls.

New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices(theguardian.com)

583 points by randycupertino 3 months ago | 295 comments

Guardian article reporting New York City will become the first US city to ban deceptive subscription practices and junk fees under a rule from the Mamdani administration.

Good Tools Are Invisible(gingerbill.org)

519 points by theanonymousone 3 months ago | 234 comments

An essay by Ginger Bill arguing that good tools should be invisible rather than "fun" puzzles, using vim and text editor culture as an example.

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf](cdn.openai.com)

489 points by scrlk 3 months ago | 404 comments

OpenAI PDF paper presenting a proof of the cycle double cover conjecture in graph theory, stated to be produced entirely by GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra.

Late Bronze Age Collapse(acoup.blog)

409 points by dmonay 3 months ago | 287 comments

A blog post on A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry giving a very brief introduction to the Late Bronze Age Collapse.

Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows(brown.edu)

378 points by hhs 3 months ago | 168 comments

Brown University news release on research giving direct experimental evidence that relativistic effects break the textbook triple bond structure in heavy elements.

An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation(lwn.net)

328 points by chmaynard 3 months ago | 343 comments

LWN article by Jonathan Corbet updating on AI scraper bot traffic overwhelming websites and the role of residential proxy networks.

Write code like a human will maintain it(unstack.io)

317 points by ScottWRobinson 3 months ago | 258 comments

SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth(zdnet.com)

283 points by CrankyBear 3 months ago | 1039 comments

An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С (2024)(ti.com)

269 points by gregsadetsky 3 months ago | 55 comments

The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)(vfxblog.com)

245 points by markus_zhang 3 months ago | 85 comments

AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region(nevo-project.epfl.ch)

238 points by smusamashah 3 months ago | 209 comments

In Emacs, everything looks like a service(yummymelon.com)

236 points by kickingvegas 3 months ago | 101 comments

EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA(ec.europa.eu)

226 points by jeroenhd 3 months ago | 152 comments

Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)(smithsonianmag.com)

216 points by simonebrunozzi 3 months ago | 161 comments

Successful companies go blind(ianreppel.org)

208 points by speckx 3 months ago | 73 comments

After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell(avi.press)

206 points by aviaviavi 3 months ago | 243 comments

Camera Chase Vehicle(transistor-man.com)

198 points by geerlingguy 3 months ago | 21 comments

How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI(casp.ac)

194 points by imustachyou 3 months ago | 162 comments

Why write code in 2026(softwaredoug.com)

191 points by softwaredoug 3 months ago | 237 comments

War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history(waratlas.org)

177 points by NaOH 3 months ago | 68 comments

A love letter to flashcards(lesleylai.info)

176 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 101 comments

Computation as a universal and fundamental concept(ergo.org)

150 points by simonpure 3 months ago | 125 comments

The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era(thoughtworks.com)

143 points by backlit4034 3 months ago | 111 comments

Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-to-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules(nyc.gov)

137 points by thisislife2 3 months ago | 25 comments

Punk, or why I don't stream anymore(geohot.github.io)

129 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 171 comments

GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps(tryai.dev)

113 points by hershyb_ 3 months ago | 69 comments

Cagire: Live Coding in Forth(cagire.raphaelforment.fr)

99 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 14 comments

Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash(discuss.ai.google.dev)

88 points by NickDob 3 months ago | 56 comments

My two year old taught me constraint solving(thecomputersciencebook.com)

85 points by bambataa 3 months ago | 28 comments

Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets(nytimes.com)

79 points by jbegley 3 months ago | 11 comments

Why do you suck at juggling now?(pgadey.ca)

75 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 50 comments

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years(nebusec.ai)

74 points by djfergus 3 months ago | 16 comments

An unusual way for your DHCP server to run out of dynamic IPs(utcc.utoronto.ca)

65 points by speckx 3 months ago | 16 comments

Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust(anthropic.com)

60 points by Jimmc414 3 months ago | 52 comments

Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs(spectrum.ieee.org)

59 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | 47 comments

45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC(pushsquare.com)

59 points by speckx 3 months ago | 77 comments

Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C(novaramedia.com)

56 points by robtherobber 3 months ago | 72 comments

Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program (1987) [pdf](dl.acm.org)

56 points by linggen 3 months ago | 9 comments

Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial(engadget.com)

54 points by thunderbong 3 months ago | 25 comments

Never argue with your boss (2009)(righteousit.com)

52 points by indigodaddy 3 months ago | 43 comments

Unlocking the PSP's Dual Core Setup(wololo.net)

51 points by msephton 3 months ago | 4 comments

Build your own vulnerability harness(blog.cloudflare.com)

49 points by ianrahman 3 months ago | 20 comments

AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It)(jamesdrandall.com)

48 points by msephton 3 months ago | 28 comments

Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't(vettedconsumer.com)

46 points by ermantrout 3 months ago | 38 comments

The Annotated JEPA(elonlit.com)

46 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 9 comments

ActivityPub over ATProto(berjon.com)

45 points by albuic 3 months ago | 20 comments

CatchCat – Pokémon Go for Cats, IRL(catchcat.lol)

40 points by marojejian 3 months ago | 8 comments

Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice?(lists.osgeo.org)

40 points by jjgreen 3 months ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded(github.com)

40 points by Uptrenda 3 months ago | 16 comments

Java 27: What's New?(loicmathieu.fr)

39 points by loicmathieu 3 months ago | 46 comments

Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo(microcenter.com)

37 points by bdcravens 3 months ago | 31 comments

Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe(economist.com)

37 points by tagawa 3 months ago | 11 comments

Cpp2Rust: Translates C++ to safe Rust automatically(github.com)

36 points by signa11 3 months ago | 8 comments

We Put an L7 Firewall in the Kernel(yeet.cx)

36 points by ok_major_9889 3 months ago | 4 comments

Ryanair Passenger Sucked Toward Broken Window After Midair Engine Failure(simpleflying.com)

35 points by amelius 3 months ago | 32 comments

Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 1(mathspp.com)

34 points by mpweiher 3 months ago | 1 comments

FreeCAD in the Browser(magik.net)

33 points by cui 3 months ago | 21 comments

Counting ArXiv Delays(fi-le.net)

32 points by fi-le 3 months ago | 11 comments