top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-07-10

Apple Sues OpenAI for Stealing Trade Secrets to Build AI Hardware

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai/

1 month ago

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/

1 month ago

New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban

1 month ago

Good Tools Are Invisible

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/

1 month ago

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf

1 month ago

Late Bronze Age Collapse

https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/

1 month ago

Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity

1 month ago

The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/

1 month ago

An Update on the scraper situation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/

1 month ago

Write code like a human will maintain it

https://unstack.io/write-code-like-a-human-will-maintain-it

1 month ago

SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-satellites/

1 month ago

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

https://www.ti.com/lit/eb/slyy228/slyy228.pdf?ts=1759892558029

1 month ago

AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

https://nevo-project.epfl.ch/

1 month ago

EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en

1 month ago

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

https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/

1 month ago

Camera Chase Vehicle

https://transistor-man.com/gimbal_camera_rover.html

1 month ago

In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/in-emacs-everything-looks-like-a-service.html

1 month ago

Successful Companies Go Blind

https://ianreppel.org/how-successful-companies-go-blind/

1 month ago

Snails' Teeth Beats Spider Silk as Nature's Strongest Material

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-snails-teeth-180954346/

1 month ago

Scarf has moved away from Haskell

https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-production-scarf-has-reluctantly-moved-away-from-haskell.html

1 month ago