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$2599 Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-laptop-ultra
10•cromka•47m ago

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cromka•42m ago
I got to admit that the 15" miniLED with 4:3 ratio and a nice, big haptic touchpad plus RTX Spark make it probably a perfect... Linux laptop, right next to Framework 13 Pro. Except Spark should actually support running powerful local models, if you can afford it, starting at USD 2599.

They also added magnetic USB-C port, which is interesting, considering it's typically Apple's avenue of innovation.

WarOnPrivacy•38m ago
Not shown, price. It is expected to start out at $3k and top out over $7k.

    Thank you hyperscalar platforms for brutalizing
    the consumer ram/nvme market.
ref:https://us.smartprix.com/laptops/microsoft-surface-laptop-ul...

ref:https://www.tweaktown.com/news/113957/microsofts-rtx-spark-s...

cromka•38m ago
They just announced it live, seconds ago. Starats at $2599, not sure the config, presumably 32GB. So not the worst.
cromka•34m ago
They also announced the price for Surface RTX Spark Dev Box (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-rtx-...): $5999

Planet Candidate Found with Claude

https://zenodo.org/records/22967456
1•kinduff•38s ago•0 comments

Helping teens learn, plan, and shape the future of AI

https://openai.com/index/teens-learn-and-plan/
1•saikatsg•1m ago•0 comments

Nano Banana 2.1 Model Card

https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/nano-banana-2-1/
2•tethys•1m ago•0 comments

Half Idle Busy

https://kylecho.com/notes/half-idle-fully-busy/
1•bucket2015•1m ago•0 comments

An open letter to GitHub Desktop (also disables auto-update)

https://github.com/creativefoundrysg/desktop
1•neya•2m ago•0 comments

New Patches for Linux's Zswap Show Major Improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Better-Zswap-Performance
2•Bender•4m ago•0 comments

XMFS: Experimental File-System Being Worked on by Huawei Modern Linux Servers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XMFS-Linux-File-System
4•Bender•4m ago•0 comments

Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra Wants to Bring the Only Laptop You'll Ever Need

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-specs-pricing-2000822871
3•flowerlad•4m ago•0 comments

70 years of rebranding intelligence [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh9LF6Lc3Vs
2•spudlyo•4m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.xda-developers.com/im-not-paying-20-for-chatgpt-claude-or-gemini-because-a-free-local...
4•hsnewman•5m ago•0 comments

Half a Century: From Dial-Up Modems to AI, and Everything in Between

https://medium.com/@akumpera/half-a-century-from-dial-up-modems-to-ai-and-everything-in-between-b...
2•gfalcao•7m ago•0 comments

Will Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman movies make a dent on tech giant evangelism?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/07/the-social-reckoning-musk-and-artificial-zuckerberg-...
6•devonnull•8m ago•1 comments

You have to be able to reason about the verification

https://www.brandons.me/blog/you-have-to-be-able-to-reason-about-the-verification
3•brundolf•8m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10546-z
2•bryanrasmussen•9m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1006915/microsoft-surface-rtx-spark-dev-box-preorder
3•flowerlad•10m ago•0 comments

The Terminal Dev Stack I Wanted 10 Years Ago

https://sarah-robin.com/blog/ultimate-terminal-dev-stack-neovim
2•sarah-robiin•11m ago•0 comments

GTA V in a browser tab: Rockstar's own engine, recompiled to wasm64 and WebGPU

https://ai.thesatyajit.com/articles/gta5-in-the-browser
2•part_of_light•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Which frontier model can do code security reviews

3•Bender•12m ago•0 comments

Neanderthals Were Adept Woodworkers Too

https://nautil.us/neanderthals-were-adept-woodworkers-too-1285608
2•Tomte•13m ago•0 comments

The Superexponential Research Publication Boom

https://paradigm.xyz/research/publication-boom/
2•ckraeuter•13m ago•0 comments

When the machine boots but the reply disappears

https://mainbrella.com/blog/inside-our-brella/
3•cs1996•13m ago•0 comments

Mistral Large 4: Is It a Failure? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkUwqqGK5pw
2•rene_d•14m ago•1 comments

Back to BASICs with a Pro Micro Microcontroller

https://kevinboone.me/pmbasic.html
3•andrewstuart•15m ago•0 comments

AI Model Groupthink

https://magicnumbers.io/2026/10/06/ai-model-groupthink/
3•io84•15m ago•0 comments

Decode Decoded

https://zhebrak.io/posts/decode-decoded/
2•speckx•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: POSIX-UEFI

https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/posix-uefi
2•skrellm•18m ago•0 comments

The Future of Knowledge Inside the Enterprise

https://philippdubach.com/posts/future-of-knowledge-inside-the-enterprise/
2•7777777phil•18m ago•0 comments

The Canada-US border runs through a 1904 library's reading room

https://pub-a941bfd863a24f91a60e6c4979c18a84.r2.dev/pi-sandbox-uploads/364168757079183360/2026-10...
3•offthemapalex•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Karotte, a framework for building robust RL envs

https://github.com/preferencemodel/karotte
6•256•18m ago•0 comments

The Surface Laptop Ultra coming on Oct 16 – and a starting price of $2,599

https://www.theverge.com/news/1006378/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-pricing-release-date
4•utiiiD•19m ago•0 comments