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New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing

Article URL: https://support.withings.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/51887047154577-Unacceptable-Apple-Health-Sync-is-now-behind-a-99-year-paywall-for-new-accounts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109375 Points: 129 # Comments: 109
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What I Self-Host

Article URL: https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109715 Points: 185 # Comments: 96
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E Ink upgraded the screen found in most color e-readers

E Ink announced the next generation of its Kaleido color e-paper screen technology today, delivering several welcome improvements. The company's existing Kaleido 3 displays can be found in e-readers and tablets from companies like Kobo, PocketBook, and Boox, while Amazon's Kindle Colorsoft uses a customized version to improve performance. The new Kaleido 4 technology addresses […]
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Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents

There's a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it. Now, with the advent of "AI personal assistants" like Meta's Muse, you're being cheerfully asked not just to give up your own data, but also […]
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Sony’s WH-1000XM6 headphones are $130 off today only

If you missed out on Prime Day’s headphones deals, you’re in luck. Sony’s latest flagship headphones are selling for even less than they did during Amazon’s big fall sale. As part of B&H Photo’s Deals of the Day, you can currently pick up Sony’s WH-1000XM6 noise-canceling headphones in silver for just $328 at checkout ($130 […]
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Google is making inline links more prominent in AI responses

Google is updating its AI search results to make inline links appear "higher up in responses more frequently," according to a blog post. The company's search results from AI Overviews and AI Mode give you answers in a customized view instead of the traditional list of links, but there are concerns that the format reduces […]
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Alienware’s latest 34-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor is $50 off

The Alienware AW3426DW is discounted to $742.22 at Amazon, just over $50 off its usual price of $799.99. It’s not quite the lowest price we’ve seen on this well-equipped gaming monitor, but still a decent discount. The 34-inch screen just came out a couple months ago, and is equipped with Penta Tandem quantum dots for […]
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Volvo will use Nvidia’s tech for hands-free, point-to-point driving

Volvo plans to launch hands-free, point-to-point driving by 2030, powered by Nvidia's latest AI technology. The Chinese-owned, Swedish-designed automaker said Thursday it would use Nvidia's autonomous driving stack to power a new partially automated driving system similar to Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised). Volvo says the new point-to-point system will be Level 2++, meaning it can […]
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Sony made a $5,900 gold-plated Walkman MP3 player

Sony has announced a trio of new Walkman portable media players that start at an already absurd $1,899.99 for the NW-ZX900 and climb all the way up to $5,899 for the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3. Sandwiched in between is the $2,999.99 Walkman NW-WM1AM3, which is nearly identical to the WM1ZM3, just minus the gaudy gold shell. All […]
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Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs

Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class" that can "run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework." Meta and Apple, […]
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Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps

If you're a new user of Withings' fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it's now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings' support forums spotted by MacRumors, new Withings accounts created from October 13th, […]
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Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social

Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said […]
Let Claude Code Run git bisect in Its Own Worktree While You Keep Coding
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Let Claude Code Run git bisect in Its Own Worktree While You Keep Coding

Book: AI That Acts The series: AI in TypeScript — 5 books, from your first LLM call to agents in production — all five here My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub Your CLI's format 1234.5 used to print 1,234.50 . On main it prints 1234.5 . The last release tag where it worked is 200 commits back, and you are halfway through a feature with a dirty working t...
Tesla Wrap Design: Does It Read in a Small Preview?
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Tesla Wrap Design: Does It Read in a Small Preview?

Zoom in far enough and almost any wrap has something interesting to look at. Zoom out, and the question gets harder: can you still tell what the design is trying to say? Before adding another texture or tiny badge to a Tesla wrap design, look at the whole car in a small 3D preview. That quick change of scale can help you decide which details deserve more work. This is a composition check for digital vehicle visuals, not a test of printed vinyl or in-car compatibility. Give the eye...
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I built a PHP AI agent library with zero dependencies - here's the code

If you've tried to add an LLM agent to a PHP application, you've probably hit the same wall: every serious library is Python. So the "obvious" answer is to bolt a Python microservice behind your PHP app a sidecar that speaks to your agent, your agent speaks to your APIs, and now you're maintaining two runtimes, two deployments, and a network hop you didn't ask for. I got tired of that. So I built NanoAgent : a PHP library that does agents natively. One composer require . Zero runtime depend...
How to Measure Your Devtool's Visibility in AI Answers
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How to Measure Your Devtool's Visibility in AI Answers

TL;DR You can find out how often AI tools recommend your devtool with a free spreadsheet audit that takes about two hours. You don't need paid software or code. Write 12 questions a developer would really ask about your category, then ask each one three times in three AI tools. That gives you 108 answers to count. Count five things: how often you're named, how often you're in the first three, your share of all brand mentions, how often you're linked, and how often the AI gets you wron...