Our Favorite Darn Tough Merino Wool Socks Are on Sale at REI
Get ready for winter: Darn Tough socks are on sale at REI and come with a lifetime warranty.
Trump announces mandate forcing AI data centers to pay energy dividends to the local community
Trump's latest post on Truth Social announces his plans to make data centers more popular among local communities.
PHP 8.2.35
Related ongoing thread: Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50182987 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180873 Points: 954 # Comments: 528
iPhone Duo adding Apple Pencil support next week with iOS 27.2
iPhone Duo reviews have arrived (read our in-depth review here). And a surprise bit of good news we’ve learned today is that Apple Pencil support on iPhone Duo will arrive much sooner than expected: it’s coming next week in iOS 27.2. more…
Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-research-for-complex-biological-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180752 Points: 123 # Comments: 75
Telehealth Giant Hims Wants to Test Every Dude for Low Testosterone
The company plans to offer testosterone replacement therapy, marking its first foray into prescribing controlled substances.
Heat pump tech is 170 years old — Pascal thinks it’s time for an update
Refrigerants startup Pascal has a new take on heat pump and cooling tech using a sponge-like material that promises to be 20% more efficient.
OneDrive gives Macs a million things to keep in sync
October preview raises supported limit from 300,000 items, with general availability penciled in for June 2027
Roku Pro Series OLED TV Review (2026)
It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but with a friendly user interface, great remote, and below-average price, it doesn’t have to.
Touchscreen Mac, or double your RAM or SSD size – what’s the better deal? [Poll]
We’re just a week away from the official announcement of the first ever touchscreen Mac. The upcoming MacBook Pro will also have an OLED screen, which may include a Dynamic Island, and is said to be lighter. We don’t yet know the price of the new model, but we can be sure it will carry a signifi...
How to spot a white label gadget, and why that's important
Sometimes the same product is sold under multiple brands, which means you might not be getting the best gear.
Qualcomm to cut jobs globally in "performance-based" layoffs, as company pivots to AI data center and edge computing markets
Qualcomm will begin performance-based layoffs worldwide in November as the chipmaker reallocates resources toward AI infrastructure, data centers, automotive, PCs, and edge computing, amid weaker consumer electronics demand.
Mach9 raises $34M after pivoting to AI CAD software
The startup initially set out to build better, faster, and cheaper surveying hardware in 2021.
OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/openai-models-google-cloud/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180079 Points: 214 # Comments: 93
AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap
Maintainers reckon a quarter of incoming pull requests are slop, rising to 31% on larger projects
A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse
The company is suspending the feature after security researchers discovered how easy it was to access sensitive information shared with the AI assistant.
FADU puts the filesystem inside the SSD's flash to bypass host CPUs
FADU’s FS-SSD carries NFSv3 file operations inside NVMe commands, letting GPUs, DPUs, and NICs read files without a host file system.
Microsoft PowerToys adds CursorHide, Button Lock mouse tools
Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.102, with two new mouse utilities, new command-line tools, and Command Palette improvements. [...]
Here's how SpaceX plans to catch Starship's upper stage for the first time
SpaceX has released a demo showing how it intends to catch Starship's upper stage, which could happen as soon as next month.
Apple blocks web certificates that could be used by scammers, but Mac vulnerability remains
Apple has blocked eight web security certificates that could have been used by scammers to impersonate legitimate websites. However, one cryptography engineer has warned that Macs may continue to trust the compromised certificates because macOS does not check for revocation … more…