HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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

935 points by stock_toaster 10 hours ago | 465 comments

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

538 points by speckx 15 hours ago | 186 comments

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

495 points by randycupertino 13 hours ago | 248 comments

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

431 points by scrlk 12 hours ago | 336 comments

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Good Tools Are Invisible (gingerbill.org)

403 points by theanonymousone 20 hours ago | 190 comments

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Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)

357 points by dmonay 19 hours ago | 242 comments

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

330 points by ScottWRobinson 17 hours ago | 283 comments

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

275 points by smusamashah 23 hours ago | 227 comments

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

260 points by jeroenhd 20 hours ago | 174 comments

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

238 points by kickingvegas 23 hours ago | 101 comments

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Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)

211 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 76 comments

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

209 points by markus_zhang 14 hours ago | 74 comments

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

202 points by imustachyou 12 hours ago | 169 comments

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

202 points by hhs 8 hours ago | 68 comments

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Mayor Mamdani announces "Click-to-Cancel" rules (nyc.gov)

181 points by thisislife2 11 hours ago | 2 comments

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

179 points by simonebrunozzi 14 hours ago | 138 comments

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

169 points by chmaynard 11 hours ago | 162 comments

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

159 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 198 comments

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

157 points by CrankyBear 13 hours ago | 464 comments

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A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)

147 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 92 comments

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

142 points by NaOH 13 hours ago | 60 comments

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

141 points by hershyb_ 10 hours ago | 81 comments

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

124 points by simonpure 16 hours ago | 85 comments

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

121 points by NickDob 11 hours ago | 80 comments

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

115 points by aviaviavi 17 hours ago | 142 comments

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Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets (nytimes.com)

110 points by jbegley 10 hours ago | 13 comments

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

89 points by robtherobber 18 hours ago | 128 comments

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

81 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 115 comments

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Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets (wsj.com)

77 points by m348e912 10 hours ago | 5 comments

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

71 points by ermantrout 20 hours ago | 55 comments