top 50% 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

How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI

https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism

1 month ago

Why write code in 2026

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/07/09/write-code

1 month ago

Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/03/punk-or-why-i-dont-stream.html

1 month ago

A Love Letter to Flashcards

https://lesleylai.info/en/flashcards/

1 month ago

War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

https://waratlas.org

1 month ago

Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-to-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani-announces-landmark--click-to-cancel--consumer-prot

1 month ago

Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept

1 month ago

Study: "Mommy, do you love your phone more than me?"

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1766665/full

1 month ago

GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps

https://www.tryai.dev/blog/gpt-5.6-build-off-12-models

1 month ago

The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era

https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/open-source/zero-cost-fallacy-open-source-agentic-era

1 month ago

Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/please-dont-discontinue-gemini-2-5-flash/174246

1 month ago

My two year old taught me constraint solving

https://thecomputersciencebook.com/posts/how-my-2yo-taught-me-constraint-solving/

1 month ago

Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/technology/apple-openai-lawsuit.html

1 month ago

Why Do You Suck at Juggling?

https://pgadey.ca/notes/suck-at-juggling/

1 month ago

Cagire: Live Coding in Forth

https://cagire.raphaelforment.fr

1 month ago

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years

https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/

1 month ago

Exit Chat Control

https://exitchatcontrol.org/

1 month ago

Focus

https://boz.com/articles/focus

1 month ago

Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C

https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/09/europes-largest-unions-demand-right-to-cancel-work-on-days-above-30c/

1 month ago

45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/07/ps5-has-put-a-dampener-on-gaming-45percent-of-enthusiasts-seriously-considering-leaving-sony-for-pc

1 month ago

Ryanair Passenger Sucked Toward Broken Window After Midair Engine Failure

https://simpleflying.com/ryanair-thessaloniki-diversion-window-damage/

1 month ago

Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

https://www.anthropic.com/news/ben-bernanke

1 month ago

An unusual way for your DHCP server to run out of dynamic IPs

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/DHCPServerAndScreamingHost

1 month ago

Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-openai-lawsuit-f86bd58c

1 month ago

Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial

https://www.engadget.com/2211886/guy-who-took-photo-of-jupiter-with-a-game-boy-camera-and-giant-telescope-publishes-diy-tutorial/

1 month ago

Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/36177.36194

1 month ago

Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't

https://vettedconsumer.com/unified-memory-explained-why-mini-pcs-can-run-70b-models-a-big-gpu-cant-and-where-they-slow-down/

1 month ago

The Annotated JEPA

https://elonlit.com/scrivings/the-annotated-jepa/

1 month ago

Build your own vulnerability harness

https://blog.cloudflare.com/build-your-own-vulnerability-harness/

1 month ago

Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/business/atlassian-tech-worker-wrongful-termination.html

1 month ago

Pirate Site Blocking Is Legally Impossible in Bulgaria, Supreme Court Ruled

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-blocking-is-legally-impossible-in-bulgaria-supreme-court-ruled/

1 month ago

Lisp as the Maxwell's Equations of Software

https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/

1 month ago