Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-07-11

  1. Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets 9to5mac.com - 477 comments 966 points
  2. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall www.jeffgeerling.com - 191 comments 544 points
  3. New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices www.theguardian.com - 249 comments 502 points
  4. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture - pdf cdn.openai.com - 351 comments 434 points
  5. Good Tools Are Invisible www.gingerbill.org - 192 comments 407 points
  6. Late Bronze Age Collapse acoup.blog - 246 comments 360 points
  7. Write code like a human will maintain it unstack.io - 283 comments 330 points
  8. AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region nevo-project.epfl.ch - 228 comments 277 points
  9. EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA ec.europa.eu - 174 comments 260 points
  10. In Emacs, everything looks like a service yummymelon.com - 101 comments 239 points
  11. Successful companies go blind ianreppel.org - 77 comments 212 points
  12. The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history - 2017 vfxblog.com - 74 comments 210 points
  13. Einstein’s relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows www.brown.edu - 72 comments 206 points
  14. How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI casp.ac - 172 comments 204 points
  15. Snails’ teeth beats spider silk as nature’s strongest material - 2015 www.smithsonianmag.com - 141 comments 182 points
  16. Mayor Mamdani announces “Click-to-Cancel” rules www.nyc.gov - 2 comments 181 points
  17. An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation lwn.net - 169 comments 176 points
  18. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth www.zdnet.com - 502 comments 163 points
  19. Punk, or why I don’t stream anymore geohot.github.io - 201 comments 161 points
  20. A love letter to flashcards lesleylai.info - 94 comments 150 points
  21. War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history waratlas.org - 61 comments 145 points
  22. GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps www.tryai.dev - 81 comments 142 points
  23. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept ergo.org - 87 comments 125 points
  24. After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell avi.press - 154 comments 122 points
  25. Please don’t discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash discuss.ai.google.dev - 80 comments 121 points
  26. Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets www.nytimes.com - 13 comments 111 points
  27. Europe’s Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C novaramedia.com - 128 comments 89 points
  28. 45% of Enthusiasts ‘Seriously Considering’ Leaving Sony for PC www.pushsquare.com - 118 comments 81 points
  29. Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets www.wsj.com - 5 comments 77 points
  30. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years nebusec.ai - 16 comments 72 points