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Genie 4

https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/
174•acossta•58m ago•78 comments

New iMac with M6

https://www.apple.com/imac/
163•notfried•4h ago•154 comments

Python's experimental JIT to be removed

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/
293•f311a•5h ago•152 comments

Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup
278•rbanffy•5h ago•121 comments

The US government is hiding secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans

https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-...
339•helterskelter2•2h ago•94 comments

Why Micron Is Suddenly Ditching 4F² DRAM as Rivals Double Down

https://hothardware.com/news/why-micron-is-suddenly-ditching-4f-dram
65•rbanffy•1d ago•8 comments

Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/
38•beex•56m ago•26 comments

Here be monsters: What do you still need to know when agents do the work?

https://blog.adrq.dev/here-be-monsters-what-do-you-still-need-to-know-when-agents-do-the-work
89•adrq•3h ago•21 comments

PHP2Shell, LiteLLM, GitLab: Find What You Need to Patch

https://cloudsleuth.io/blog/php2shell-litellm-gitlab-find-what-you-run/
8•bigfish2026•39m ago•0 comments

PHP2Shell: Exploitation attempts and remediation trends

https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-exploitation-so-far
146•acossta•3h ago•50 comments

Classification of Finite Simple Groups Formalized in Lean

https://cfsg.axiommath.ai/
14•pfdietz•35m ago•9 comments

Microsoft and Others Tell Crypto Platform Not to Tokenize Their Stocks

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-mcdonalds-verizon-and-others-tell-crypto-platform-not-to-tokenize-t...
7•gumby•2d ago•0 comments

A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There

https://www.wired.com/story/a-28-year-old-doge-operative-gutted-usaid-hr-had-no-record-of-him-wor...
36•ck2•26m ago•1 comments

Police Are Using AI to Pull over Drivers for 'Suspicious' Behavior

https://gizmodo.com/police-are-using-ai-to-pull-over-drivers-for-suspicious-behavior-2000831220
13•gumby•24m ago•2 comments

OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp

https://atgreen.github.io/repl-yell/posts/openldk-java-in-common-lisp/
23•atgreen•2d ago•0 comments

We let our cloud agents query prod (with OIDC, not secrets)

https://www.formal.ai/blog/cloud-agents-oidc-infrastructure/
8•saligrama•39m ago•0 comments

Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books

https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/27/professors-books-pirated-to-train-claude/
84•car•1h ago•34 comments

The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI

https://j11g.com/the-mythical-man-month-in-the-age-of-ai
357•ilreb•10h ago•233 comments

Gforth 1.0

https://gforth.org/manual/1.0/NEWS.html
111•joshcsimmons•6h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Specification First Agentic Development Plugin and Prove

https://spec-first.dev/
9•hleichsenring•1h ago•0 comments

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-Octob...
753•vok•19h ago•271 comments

Vicious Cycles: Theses on a philosophy of news

https://harpers.org/archive/2020/01/vicious-cycles-theses-on-a-philosophy-of-news/
3•eustoria•37m ago•0 comments

Is my data used for model training?

https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996868-is-my-data-used-for-model-training
159•jonpizza•3h ago•75 comments

A Stackless Floodfill Automaton

https://t3x.org/files/floodfill.pdf
22•andsoitis•1d ago•6 comments

Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems (1972) [pdf]

https://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~sgk/teaching/grad/handouts/karp.pdf
3•liamswayne•42m ago•0 comments

Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

https://www.bitlog.com/2026/10/27/software-may-be-getting-worse-but-it-used-to-be-horrible/
229•jakevoytko•5h ago•187 comments

A $300B 'Debt Wall' Is Looming over Private-Equity Backed Companies

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/a-300-billion-debt-wall-is-looming-over-private-equity-back...
39•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•7 comments

Data Recovery CEO Indicted for Allegedly Scamming Ransomware Victims

https://www.propublica.org/article/zohar-pinhasi-monstercloud-ransomware-indictment
29•hn_acker•1h ago•5 comments

New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/
128•meetpateltech•4h ago•142 comments

Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking

https://open3dlab.com/news/roblox-downloaded-145-gb-of-models-from-our-sites/
410•choult•6h ago•236 comments
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Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/
36•beex•56m ago

Comments

ritzaco•48m ago
> Phenomenal battery life: In addition to the huge leap in performance, battery life gets up to 14 additional hours for Intel-based upgraders

the m2/m3 announcements were already kind of cringe to keep saying 'HEY IT'S BETTER THAN INTEL' but at this point it's just embarrassing?

anamexis•39m ago
I would guess there's still quite a lot of people on Intel Macs out there (they were sold 5 years ago), so it is still very much worth it for Apple to market to them.
zaphar•38m ago
Why? Apple devices have the best battery life in the market right now to my knowledge. It's an important part of the evaluation for a laptop which is the opposite of cringe.
Grombobulous•28m ago
Actually, they don’t! Intel Core Ultra Series 3 beats Apple laptops as of the M5 on battery life.

IIRC the Framework 13 Pro beats the MacBook Pro at both video streaming tests and office productivity with 300 bits brightness tests. (Framework live-streamed the video playback test, and the office provided productivity tests I referred to were done by Just Josh Tech)

Perhaps the M6 has leapfrogged but that remains to be seen.

jwilcoxson•21m ago
Competition is a beautiful thing.
porridgeraisin•19m ago
In usual developer type tasks, among my friend group what I hear is that panther lake laptops are competitive with M4 laptops. But, M4s do that with a 55Wh battery, whereas most panther lake laptops come with a 70Wh battery. So if you're discussing chip performance per watt then it's probably an edge to apple silicon.
Grombobulous•13m ago
72.4 Wh is the size of the M4 MacBook Pro battery, about the same size as the Framework 13 Pro.

Intel and now Qualcomm are really not far off on performance per watt. Mostly Apple maintains an advantage on single core performance.

The Panther Lake integrated GPU in the X7/X9 SKI is actually faster than the one you get in the base M5.

thibaut_barrere•33m ago
More people than you think (outside tech) are using Intel Macs at the moment (family computers etc).
jwilcoxson•23m ago
Exactly. A late model Intel Mac is still a perfectly cromulent computer in 2026.
Razengan•15m ago
"cromulent" sounds like such a disgusting word that isn't.

probably because of its adjacency to "corpulent" lol

anamexis•6m ago
The word "cromulent" was coined by the TV show The Simpsons in a gag.

> Mrs. Krabappel: "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield.

> Ms. Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

But now it has made it into the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

wtallis•32m ago
There's no happy medium here that would satisfy everybody: when they make marketing claims about improvements relative to products from several years ago, they get criticized for not focusing on the improvements relative to last gen (even if those comparisons are also somewhere in the announcement). When they focus on the most recent generations, people complain that it doesn't make sense to upgrade every year.

Just accept that even if you aren't still using an Intel MacBook Pro, the comparison is still relevant to some part of their target market.

They only just dropped support for Intel Macs from this fall's operating system release (but are still doing security patches for the releases that Intel Macs can run). A year from now, it actually will be fairly reasonable to expect them to give up marketing to the holdouts.

Grombobulous•30m ago
Fun fact: the laptop in this size/performance class with the best battery life is a Windows Intel Core Ultra Series 3 laptop, not a MacBook Pro!

So Apple is now comparing against computers they were selling 7-8 years ago rather than what Intel is delivering now.

ErneX•11m ago
They want those users to upgrade, I don’t see the problem.
BugsJustFindMe•45m ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258521
villgax•36m ago
About time they put a battery in the lid, which is what an iPad already manages to do with thinness. Boom another half a decade of updates all the way to 48hrs
at1as•25m ago
I'm currently on a marathon to keep my M1 Pro running until the M7 Pro/Max is available. Not sure if I'll make it, but I'm not eager to pay $6000+ for a decent spec dev computer, until I really have to
jwilcoxson•16m ago
My M1 Pro has been great, certainly doesn’t feel like a 5-year old computer.
freakynit•11m ago
M1 Air guy here... I'm not looking for a replacement still. Almost 7 years now. Runs butter-smooth. Best tech purchase I ever made.
TrainedMonkey•9m ago
Biggest issue with my M3 Max is apple mandatory fun bloatware. I think it's the same playbook as phones long term. The hardware is still powerful but the software is optimized for the latest CPU, so older models run hot, take a fraction of the second longer to load the resources, etc. That stacks up over 5-6 years of releases to make older models feel slower.
ErneX•12m ago
If the rumours are true (about AI capabilities) it’d be best to wait yes.
hmokiguess•10m ago
which rumours?
epistasis•7m ago
I'm loving my M1 Macbook Air still, and only a few weeks away from six years of use Sometimes it lags a bit when I'm running a macOS VM, and all the coding agent VMs, so I'm kind of interested in going to 32GB of RAM, but honestly this computer is still faster than any of my laptops that came before, even with the visual atrocity of Liquid Glass.

I'll go and look at this new box, drool a little, and realize that I'd get more personal utility from donating $3k (or whatever the trade in delta is) to a charity than upgrading my computer.