2026-09-14 刊号

I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information ↗

The Register of British Slave-Traders ↗

Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS ↗

Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to "pace the frontier," signing on at least partially to a […]

LLMs are real, AI is fake ↗

Apple Home’s new security camera features cost as much as $60 a month

With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of Apple Intelligence - but you'll have to pay more for it. Apple Intelligence for Home brings AI-powered video summaries to HomeKit Secure Video, so you can get short text descriptions of who and what compatible security cameras saw, […]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’ ↗

Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet ↗

Charts built for Chat ↗

Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled ↗

What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development

Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we've compiled some of […]

A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals ↗

Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ↗

US coal 'biggest contributor by far' to rise in global emissions ↗

AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop

“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”

Trump throws out power plant climate pollution rules

The Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans today to kill any remaining standards on how much greenhouse gas pollution power plants are allowed to emit in the US. The move will only make electricity dirtier as AI, electric vehicles, and a revival of domestic manufacturing drive up power demand. The EPA's proposal today is a […]

OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says ↗

Proposed Rule: Eliminating the Discretionary 60-Day Grace Period ↗

A Beginning for Mathematics ↗

AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance ↗

Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on Monday while onstage at the All-In Podcast's All-In Summit. It's not the first time Huang has taken a call from the president during work, but this time he put Trump on speakerphone before a big crowd. During the call, the president launched into his […]

GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review? ↗

Show HN: Pull every comment out of a Google Sheet, in the browser ↗

Valve’s virtual reality plans hit actual reality

The Steam Frame headset is here, and it may not surprise you: it was supposed to cost less than $1,059. "We set out to come out with a device that would have been far more affordable, but the global RAM market, the global storage market have impacted us the same way they've impacted everybody," Valve […]

Neo Emacs – Emacs from the Future ↗

The best deals from Nintendo’s ‘customer appreciation’ sale

As promised, Nintendo has marked down a wide variety of Switch games and accessories at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, as well as its own digital storefront. Its “Customer Appreciation” sale is happening because of tariff-related refunds it received from the US government, and it ends on September 26th at 8:59 PM PT. Nintendo games […]

Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts ↗

Watch astronaut Christina Koch and Google’s James Manyika discuss space, technology, and discovery.

Christina Koch sits down with James Manyika, Google’s Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society.

Amazon Prime Video takes on TikTok with short-form news clips ↗

ClickFix attacks are tricking Mac and Windows users into hacking themselves ↗

Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding ↗

Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions ↗

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 ↗

The madman's guide to stamp collecting ↗

Volkswagen’s crazy-efficient EV borrows an idea from Slate ↗

TIFF 2026: The latest movie reviews from Toronto

If you want an idea of what’s next in film, the Toronto International Film Festival is a good place to start. Every year TIFF features a huge range of features from around the world, and often some of them go on to be huge hits or awards contenders; the 2025 edition, for instance, included the […]

Steam Frame starts at $1059 ↗

Destroy After Reading: photocopiers,cheap paper and DIY gave metal it's look ↗

Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously ↗

US 10-Year Breaches 5% as Inflation, Supply Worries Mount ↗

With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again ↗

macOS 27 is available now

Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate on Monday, which brings the new Siri AI assistant, Liquid Glass improvements, improved performance, and more. The update is compatible with all Macs with Apple Silicon, but not Intel Macs - Apple released its final big update for Intel-based Macs last year with macOS Tahoe. Siri AI is arguably […]

macOS 27: new Siri takes on AI productivity apps ↗

Apple releases iOS 27 with Siri AI overhaul

Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 updates. Siri AI is the headline feature across all four updates, the delayed AI-powered overhaul of the Siri assistant. Siri AI is available as a beta today for English-only devices, and Apple says […]

It's a Scam ↗

Patients Who Fight Health Insurance Denials Often Win ↗

Cloudflare AKE cuts origin HelloRetryRequests from 52% to 3.7% ↗

Valve has ported Half-Life: Alyx to ARM, and it’s free with Steam Frame

Today, Valve is launching its first headset since 2019 - the new Steam Frame - while dodging our questions about whether it'll ever make another VR game to go with it. But buyers of the $1,059 gadget will get one flagship VR game anyhow, and it's great. Every Steam Frame comes with a copy of […]

Valve’s Steam Frame costs $1,059

Valve is finally releasing its Steam Frame headset, which can run both flat and VR games locally and stream both kinds of games from your PC. The Steam Frame will start at $1,059. Valve will also offer a 1TB model that starts at $1,299. Every Steam Frame will come with a copy of Half-Life: Alyx, […]

The Steam Frame is made for irresponsible hardware nerds like me

For nearly three weeks, I've been testing the limits of Valve's Steam Frame, the company's new wearable PC. At first glance, it's easy to write it off as a pricey headset that missed the VR craze. At $1,059 with 256GB of storage or $1,299 for 1TB, it costs two to three times as much as […]

The Dell XPS 13 is the first real competitor to the MacBook Neo

Dell's last XPS 13 was meant to be a farewell before the company sunset the entire XPS brand. But it was a bitter ending, and an overpriced one as well. Earlier this year, Dell resurrected the XPS name with the excellent (and very expensive) XPS 14 and 16. And now, it's reinvented the XPS 13 […]

I reviewed Valve’s Steam Frame, ask me anything

Hey! I'm Sean Hollister, you might have seen me around this place a few times, and I just spent three weeks beta-testing the Steam Frame, Valve's hotly anticipated new don't-call-it-a-VR-headset that might also be an early glimpse at the future of games that run everywhere. At 4PM ET today (that's 1PM PT for West Coasters […]

Fashion app Daydream uses Apple Intelligence to help you shop the outfits in your camera roll ↗

iOS 27 Released ↗

Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus ↗

Netflix is making a Crazy Taxi movie and a Sonic show with ‘edge’

Netflix has announced three new adaptations of Sega games: a Crazy Taxi film, a Sonic animated series "built for kids who want to feel a little edge," and a live-action movie based on the upcoming Stranger Than Heaven from Yakuza developer RGG Studio. The Crazy Taxi movie will be the first project released, though it […]

open minis ↗

AI Is in Dangerous Hands ↗

Fitting Neural Textures and PBR Material Maps with ES (No Backprop) ↗

Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter ↗