HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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

1385 points by stock_toaster 19 hours ago | 748 comments

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

593 points by randycupertino 22 hours ago | 308 comments

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

497 points by scrlk 22 hours ago | 414 comments

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

338 points by hhs 18 hours ago | 147 comments

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

272 points by chmaynard 20 hours ago | 288 comments

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

253 points by CrankyBear 22 hours ago | 912 comments

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

243 points by markus_zhang 23 hours ago | 84 comments

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

219 points by imustachyou 21 hours ago | 185 comments

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

216 points by simonebrunozzi 23 hours ago | 162 comments

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

182 points by thisislife2 21 hours ago | 2 comments

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Networking and the Internet, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)

180 points by faza 4 hours ago | 49 comments

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

178 points by NaOH 22 hours ago | 69 comments

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The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)

175 points by mvdtnz 11 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)

150 points by hershyb_ 19 hours ago | 84 comments

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

128 points by NickDob 20 hours ago | 83 comments

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

113 points by jbegley 19 hours ago | 14 comments

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Your code is fast – if you're lucky (tiki.li)

109 points by chrka 5 hours ago | 74 comments

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Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot (mixfont.com)

108 points by justswim 7 hours ago | 89 comments

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

91 points by djfergus 19 hours ago | 19 comments

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

84 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 127 comments

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Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves (bloomberg.com)

83 points by helsinkiandrew 7 hours ago | 95 comments

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

77 points by m348e912 20 hours ago | 5 comments

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FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky (theconversation.com)

74 points by reaperducer 4 hours ago | 78 comments

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

66 points by tagawa 16 hours ago | 23 comments

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Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker (nytimes.com)

65 points by ytpete 20 hours ago | 42 comments

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Pirate Site Blocking Is Legally Impossible in Bulgaria, Supreme Court Ruled (torrentfreak.com)

64 points by thisislife2 19 hours ago | 2 comments

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Clojure FFI layer for libgdx-core (github.com)

63 points by resatori 20 hours ago | 0 comments

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USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025 (expressnews.com)

56 points by gscott 1 hour ago | 34 comments

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Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

54 points by zetalyrae 3 hours ago | 26 comments

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Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash (bbc.com)

54 points by cdrnsf 15 hours ago | 20 comments