Hacker News — 2026-07-10#

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Apple has dropped a massive lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former design VP Tang Tan and other ex-employees stole proprietary secrets to benefit OpenAI’s new hardware push under Jony Ive. It’s top-tier industry drama that underscores just how aggressive the talent and IP wars have become as OpenAI attempts to build consumer physical devices.

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Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests · GitHub It was only a matter of time before the “Rewrite it in Rust” crowd came for Postgres, but pgrust just hit a massive milestone by matching Postgres 18.3’s output across over 46,000 regression queries. The goal isn’t just memory safety, but making deep architectural changes—like multithreading and fast branching—easier to explore using AI-assisted programming.