hcker.news — week

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

2026-07-10T20:47:09Z

1634 points by stock_toaster | 941 comments

Article: https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48865019

EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0

2026-07-09T11:03:54Z

1625 points by rapnie | 854 comments

Article: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48843923

GPT-5.6

2026-07-09T17:04:14Z

1550 points by logickkk1 | 1101 comments

Article: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48849066

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

2026-07-08T08:46:06Z

1485 points by speerer | 232 comments

Article: https://tris.sherliker.net/blog/obfuscated-self-evaluating-bash-script-by-cdn-akamai-being-supplied-to-consumers-via-retail-stores/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48829312

John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

2026-07-08T23:37:43Z

1390 points by djoldman | 302 comments

Article: https://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976af661f2bc02
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48838876

Show HN: 18 Words

2026-07-09T12:48:52Z

1143 points by pompomsheep | 357 comments

Article: https://18words.com/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48845049

Chatto is now open source

2026-07-08T15:19:50Z

1097 points by speckx | 301 comments

Article: https://www.hmans.dev/blog/chatto-is-open-source
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48833116

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

2026-07-07T14:23:15Z

915 points by gasull | 352 comments

Article: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48818311

Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

2026-07-09T08:05:04Z

913 points by vforno | 231 comments

Article: https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48842459

OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

2026-07-06T18:23:12Z

828 points by peter_d_sherman | 325 comments

Article: https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48808482

StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

2026-07-07T12:38:35Z

823 points by kls0e | 206 comments

Article: https://streetcomplete.app/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48816883

Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

2026-07-09T06:18:19Z

816 points by SweetSoftPillow | 721 comments

Article: https://github.com/malisper/pgrust
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48841676

CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

2026-07-06T18:55:07Z

792 points by basilikum | 213 comments

Article: https://www.comaps.app/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48808928

Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

2026-07-07T20:50:46Z

791 points by nickslaughter02 | 1063 comments

Article: https://allaboutcookies.org/eu-mandatory-distracted-driver-system
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48823557

My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite

2026-07-09T09:47:28Z

785 points by kristoff_it | 692 comments

Article: https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48843352

Rewriting Bun in Rust

2026-07-08T21:49:59Z

784 points by afturner | 529 comments

Article: https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48837877

Grok 4.5

2026-07-08T18:00:32Z

774 points by BoumTAC | 1486 comments

Article: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48835111

GPT‑Live

2026-07-08T17:03:19Z

748 points by logickkk1 | 526 comments

Article: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48834405

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

2026-07-10T15:59:53Z

743 points by speckx | 234 comments

Article: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48861717

Resetting Xbox

2026-07-06T14:18:23Z

736 points by dijksterhuis | 933 comments

Article: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48804993

TypeScript 7

2026-07-08T16:06:35Z

716 points by DanRosenwasser | 301 comments

Article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48833715

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

2026-07-06T20:14:55Z

692 points by martinald | 468 comments

Article: https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-upcoming-ai-margin-collapse-part-1-glm-5-2/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48809877

Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

2026-07-07T15:33:20Z

676 points by bauc | 601 comments

Article: https://gamefromscratch.com/microsoft-fire-idtech-team-at-id-software/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48819244

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

2026-07-07T15:58:13Z

648 points by notmcrowley | 110 comments

Article: https://30papers.com/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48819608

Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament

2026-07-07T15:16:15Z

637 points by miroljub | 259 comments

Article: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Showdown-in-Strasbourg-The-unexpected-return-of-Chat-Control-1-0-11356680.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48819008

New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices

2026-07-10T18:26:24Z

636 points by randycupertino | 337 comments

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48863464

Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

2026-07-06T23:00:24Z

632 points by modinfo | 421 comments

Article: https://github.com/MaximeRivest/Riddle
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48811591

Hy3

2026-07-09T15:27:48Z

559 points by andai | 120 comments

Article: https://hy.tencent.com/research/hy3
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48847552

Good Tools Are Invisible

2026-07-10T10:32:41Z

556 points by theanonymousone | 270 comments

Article: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/07/10/good-tools-are-invisible/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48858121

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

2026-07-12T18:25:51Z

540 points by systima | 306 comments

Article: https://systima.ai/blog/claude-code-vs-opencode-token-overhead
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48883275

A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]

2026-07-07T12:45:06Z

539 points by surprisetalk | 185 comments

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R0Lp86GEBk
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48816956

GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos

2026-07-08T05:25:35Z

538 points by ColinEberhardt | 204 comments

Article: https://noma.security/blog/gitlost-how-we-tricked-githubs-ai-agent-into-leaking-private-repos/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48827858

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

2026-07-10T18:29:19Z

532 points by scrlk | 433 comments

Article: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48863490

98% isn't much

2026-07-07T12:45:14Z

525 points by speckx | 350 comments

Article: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2026/07/03/98-isnt-very-much/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48816959

Cloudflare Drop

2026-07-08T19:18:26Z

524 points by coloneltcb | 285 comments

Article: https://www.cloudflare.com/drop/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48836233

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

2026-07-07T18:24:10Z

514 points by speckx | 97 comments

Article: https://ariya.io/2026/03/local-cpu-friendly-high-quality-tts-text-to-speech-with-kokoro/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48821576

FAANG Simulator

2026-07-08T20:05:42Z

498 points by nerdbiscuits | 196 comments

Article: https://www.abeyk.com/escape-the-rat-race/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48836778

Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

2026-07-08T14:09:17Z

488 points by ottomengis | 112 comments

Article: https://mistral.ai/news/robostral-navigate/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48832212

The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war

2026-07-09T13:24:43Z

462 points by baud147258 | 667 comments

Article: https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-glass-backbone-why-the-armys-logistics-will-break-in-the-next-war/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48845442

A global workspace in language models

2026-07-06T17:44:08Z

461 points by in-silico | 199 comments

Article: https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48808002

EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules

2026-07-08T16:53:06Z

456 points by ggirelli | 181 comments

Article: https://cyberinsider.com/eu-now-one-step-away-from-reviving-private-message-scanning-rules/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48834296

What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis

2026-07-12T01:09:50Z

450 points by jhoho | 167 comments

Article: https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48877371

Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

2026-07-13T01:24:20Z

449 points by levkk | 235 comments

Article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886741
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48886741

Old and new apps, via modern coding agents

2026-07-12T11:09:42Z

428 points by subset | 126 comments

Article: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/old-and-new-apps-via-modern-coding-agents/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48880170

Late Bronze Age Collapse

2026-07-10T11:59:55Z

421 points by dmonay | 305 comments

Article: https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-age-collapse-a-very-brief-introduction/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48858737

Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

2026-07-06T09:38:36Z

413 points by scrlk | 155 comments

Article: https://www.map.signalbox.io
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48802535

Muse Spark 1.1

2026-07-09T14:10:22Z

408 points by ot | 214 comments

Article: https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48846184

I think I have LLM burnout

2026-07-09T01:56:28Z

407 points by sosodev | 362 comments

Article: https://www.alecscollon.com/blog/llm-burnout/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48839984

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

2026-07-10T22:30:44Z

406 points by hhs | 186 comments

Article: https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48866134

I love LLMs, I hate hype

2026-07-12T18:31:56Z

396 points by therepanic | 248 comments

Article: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/12/i-love-llms.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48883343