2026-10-07 刊号

What is the actual percentage of people For and Against AI? ↗

Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia ↗

While VCs crowd into San Francisco, Endeavor Catalyst raises $320M for founders ‘elsewhere’ ↗

I'm in love with a German film star ↗

BMW’s iX4 SUV is a 428-mile defensive weapon against China’s EV takeover

While much of the automotive world sits dumbfounded as China gobbles up all its customers, BMW continues to roll out extremely well-crafted, technologically advanced electric vehicles that impress in both drive quality and price. The latest is the BMW iX4, a coupe-shaped SUV that puts a sportier spin on the automaker's iX3. The iX4 is […]

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age ↗

Teenage Engineering’s CEO says it’ll stop making synths

Teenage Engineering founder and CEO Jesper Kouthoofd told Highsnobiety that it plans to stop making synths. And yes, that includes the iconic OP-1, which put the company on the map. TE isn't just a music gear maker; it's also a sought-after design firm. It's collaborated with Ikea, Nothing, and Playdate, among others. But almost everything […]

Margaret Hamilton has died ↗

WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload ↗

Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B valuation, launches AI agents for business users ↗

Android’s physical navigation buttons are back on Googlebooks, but not the way you think

A common misconception I've seen with Googlebooks is that the Quick Insert and Google logo keys are new. They're not, as they first debuted a couple of years ago on some Chromebooks. But there is something new for Googlebooks that's ripped straight from Android phones circa 2014. On every Googlebook keyboard, the F1, F2, and […]

We found some great October Prime Day deals under $50

Getting in on the Prime Day action doesn’t have to result in an empty wallet. Just as we found a couple handfuls of goodies that are under $25, there are plenty of deals during Amazon’s October sale that are $50 or less, many of which offer a lot of practical value. Everything from chargers to […]

I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again ↗

Microsoft releases new Nvidia-chip AI PCs with revamped Windows 11 ↗

A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th ↗

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth ↗

Photograph 49 is the key to understanding Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 ↗

Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs ↗

ZCode 增强工具：功能增强、样式自定义、多种插件管理 ↗

The Mathocalypse ↗

The Mathocalypse ↗

As We Become Cameras (2016) ↗

The Outing of Tinky Winky (2014) ↗

Roku’s OLED TVs are up to $400 off during Prime Day, starting at $700

Just over a week ago, we covered a deal at Amazon that knocked around 30 percent off Roku’s new (and first-ever) OLED TVs. The deal expired, but has returned for the final day of October Prime Day. The 55-inch Pro Series OLED is $699.99 at Amazon, which is 30 percent off its list price. The […]

Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024) ↗

zcode-plugins：不识图的模型也能看图、命令输出与对话历史双级压缩、AI 代码评审 ↗

ChatGPT’s ‘Intelligent UI’ update fills its responses with pictures, charts, and buttons

OpenAI is launching a new Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to answer your questions with interactive visuals. The update, which is rolling out to all users alongside GPT-6, gives ChatGPT the ability to combine a text response with diagrams, charts, forms, tappable buttons, and more. In a blog post explaining the […]

The first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops cost up to $7,000

The first array of laptops powered by Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip are designed to compete with high-end MacBook Pros - and they've got some high-end prices to match. The flagship Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark laptops from Dell, Lenovo, MSI, HP, and Asus start as low as $2,599 for configurations with an 18-core […]

ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains ↗

Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI ↗

It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains

For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as things like.com,.org, and.pizza. ICANN just announced the 1,615 applications […]

NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and AI Agents

At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs. NVIDIA was founded because of Windows, Huang said. Now AI agents are coming to Windows. “If you […]

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits ↗

Everything announced at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra event

Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra, its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip. The machine will start at $2,599 for a configuration with an 8-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB […]

Meta’s Muse launches on iPad just a month after its mobile debut ↗

I'm not paying $20 for ChatGPT or Claude because a free local LLM does ↗

ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises ↗

A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone ↗

When the machine boots but the reply disappears ↗

X expands its ‘Gametime’ sports hub beyond the NFL, starting with MLB ↗

AI Model Groupthink ↗

Show HN: Pointless but mostly-exact clone of Hacker News ↗

Claude Haiku 5.5 ↗

Microsoft is giving Copilot more control over Windows and your files

At today's Windows and Surface event, Microsoft showed off an upgrade to its Copilot AI system that will give it access to local files on your PC and the ability to take actions across the OS. It's part of an idea Microsoft is calling "Hybrid Intelligence," where apps and tools rely on a mix of […]

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone ↗

ChatGPT is getting a lot more visual, with the launch of a new interface ↗

The Meta Quest 3S gets a rare discount during October Prime Day

Until the end of Amazon’s October sale later tonight, you can grab the 128GB Meta Quest 3S for just $297.49 (usually $349.99) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. While the lenses and displays aren’t quite as sharp as the Quest 3, the underlying chipset is the same, and this is a much more reasonable price […]

How Microsoft built its MacBook Pro competitor

Before Microsoft releases a laptop to the public, it needs to put the device through its paces. That all happens inside a windowless, warehouse-like lab on the company's Redmond, Washington, campus, where the team developing Surface devices programs robots to press their buttons thousands of times, pelts devices with radio waves from giant antennas, and […]

Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks ↗

Fabrice Bellard: The Ghost in the Code ↗

Claude Haiku 5.5 ↗

What The Social Reckoning gets right — and wrong

Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning has its fair share of cinematic flair, but many details in the story hew closely to real life. The movie tells the story of how Frances Haugen, a Facebook civic integrity product manager, came to leak a large trove of internal documents to Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz, […]

No new Ghostty updates since March ↗

The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599

Months after revealing its Surface Laptop Ultra, Microsoft has announced that the Nvidia RTX Spark-equipped device will launch on October 16th. Pricing starts at $2,599 for the base configuration, featuring an 18-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. The Surface Laptop Ultra ships with a 15-inch HDR touchscreen display with up to 2,000 […]

Docker Agent ↗

Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder for $5,999

Microsoft's Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder now directly, and slated to ship in November for just about $6,000. It's pricier than the DGX Spark mini PC Nvidia launched last year, but PC prices have been climbing due to shortages of RAM and other components. The Dev Box's flat, 3D-printed anodized […]

The best October Prime Day deals from Apple, Sony, Google, and more

Day two of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days event is here, and the sale will end at 3AM ET on Thursday, October 8th. While a few of the best deals from yesterday have already ended, many are still happening, with fresh discounts emerging to make the last day of the sale just as worthy of […]

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra has built-in magnetic USB-C charging

Microsoft has created a magnetic charging solution for its Surface Laptop Ultra that uses USB-C. After scrapping its proprietary Surface Connect magnetic charging on its smaller Surface devices last year, the Surface Laptop Ultra has a charging cable that attaches magnetically to the right-side USB-C port. During Microsoft's Windows event on Wednesday, Windows and Surface […]

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$2599 Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra ↗