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Apple sues OpenAI, ex-employees, alleging systematic theft of hardware trade secrets.
Commenters are stunned by the brazenness of the alleged theft, calling the behavior flagrantly stupid.
QuadRF, a phased-array radio using a Raspberry Pi 5, can detect drones and visualize WiFi signals through walls.
Correction: QuadRF only detects drones on 5.8 GHz, not all drones.
New York City bans deceptive subscription practices, including hidden fees and difficult cancellations.
Commenters single out NYT as a major offender, questioning the law's teeth against industry lobbying.
Good tools become invisible when they serve users without demanding attention or effort.
Two camps emerge: those who see vim's macro complexity as a valid productivity tool versus those who agree its friction is overhyped.
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces a claimed proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture.
Skepticism over proof correctness and verification, with discussion of the prompt strategy used.
The Late Bronze Age Collapse involved a wave of site destructions from 1220 to 1170 BC, but the scale and causes remain debated.
Drought and trade disruption, per Eric Cline, are seen as central causes the article underplays.
Duplicated code trains LLMs to write more of the same bad patterns.
Strong agreement, with practical tips on taming LLM comment habits.
Einstein's relativity smears sigma and pi bonds in heavy elements like bismuth.
Chemistry education debate: rote memorization vs. intuitive physics, with a nod to Pauling's textbooks.
NEvo evolves AI videos to maximally drive target brain regions, mapping social-dynamic selectivity.
A split between those fearing supernormal stimuli/control and those seeing potential for neurorehabilitation.
EU preliminarily finds Meta's Instagram and Facebook addictive design breaches the Digital Services Act.
Mixed reactions: some see political censorship, others support curbing manipulative design.
Emacs behaves like a client that treats external programs and networked services abstractly as services.
Users agree Emacs is a Lisp environment with a text editor, not a mere editor, enabling deep system integration.
AI training-data scrapers are intensifying, overwhelming sites via residential proxy networks.
Thread questions why residential-proxy networks aren't illegal, with a subthread on data-poisoning as countermeasure.
An oral history of ILM inventing CGI tools for the T-1000 in 1991.
Nostalgia for T2's minimal CGI and practical effects, with specific praise for squibs and twins.
SpaceX seeks FCC approval to launch 100,000 Gen3 Starlink satellites promising gigabit speeds.
Two camps: environmentalists decry pollution and demand pre-paid cleanup; defenders cite 12 million subscribers and rural necessity.
Companies that succeed and then stop hiring competent engineers go blind to their own declining standards.
Thread largely affirms the blindness analogy, adding that self-reinforcing feedback loops produce the same effect.
Report finds Boko Haram systematically uses frontier AI for attack planning and bomb design.
Skepticism that AI gives terrorists material advantage over widely available bomb-making knowledge.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Correction on strength types and mockery of the article's unit analogies.
New York City finalizes rules requiring one-click subscription cancellation and transparent all-in pricing.
Scarf moved from Haskell to Python after 7 years, citing AI-driven compile-time costs.
Commenters split on whether Haskell's compile-time cost outweighs its type safety for LLM workflows.
An interactive map plotting every named war across human history from 3000 BCE.
Crashes Firefox with memory leaks; accuracy and casualties questioned.