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‘Carrie’ Has Power but Doesn’t Quite Stick the Landing

Mike Flanagan’s new Prime Video series adaptation boasts an excellent cast and some intriguing expansions of Stephen King’s world.

An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan

A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and re-create that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at. In the image above, for example, the left-ha…

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The Horror Films and Shows You Should Be Streaming in October 2026

We've picked out only the best spooky titles coming to Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and more this month.

Amazon introduces Kindle Click, a $35 remote for turning pages

The compact Bluetooth remote is designed to let readers turn pages without touching their Kindle.

Exclusive: Homeward Raises $120M To Help Homeowners Buy And Sell More Quickly As Housing Market Stalls

Homeward, a startup that helps homeowners buy before selling their existing homes or get cash offers for their properties, has raised a $120 million Series D round, Crunchbase News reports exclusively.

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IEEE Celebrates Innovators Shaping the Future

Every year, IEEE recognizes individual researchers, innovators, and collaborative teams whose technical achievements and leadership have made a lasting impact on technology, engineering, and society worldwide with its Technical Field Awards. The honorees are selected by the IEEE …

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Horizon Robotics Releases HSD V2.1 With End-to-End Reversing, iCAR V27 First in Line for OTA

Horizon Robotics' HSD V2.1 adds end-to-end reversing in all scenarios, with 43% more miles per intervention and 255% better interactive lane changes. iCAR V27 OTA starts October 8.

[UPDATE] Moneyview Shares End Market Debut 59% Above Issue Price

Update | October 1, 2026 17:00 IST Digital lending platform Moneyview’s stock closed its maiden trading session at ₹54.03 on…

Meituan releases LongCat-2.5-Preview with image understanding

Meituan made LongCat-2.5-Preview available through its API platform on September 25, adding image understanding to the company’s AI model lineup. The new model can answer questions about images, summarize visual content and handle more complex visual reasoning tasks, according to…

30 Startups To Watch: Startups That Caught Our Eye In September 2026

September was a busy month for India’s tech and startup ecosystem, with AI and deeptech dominating the conversation. Funding activity…

ByteDance reportedly tests standalone Doubao personal assistant app

ByteDance is reportedly testing a personal AI assistant tied to Doubao and plans to release it as a standalone app. The product has been given the tentative Chinese name Xiaodou (小豆), according to a report cited by IT Home. The app remains in internal testing, and its public name…

Bilibili Open-Sources Index-Translate, a Qwen3.5-Based Translation Model Family for 150 Languages

Bilibili's Index LLM team released Index-Translate under Apache-2.0: 2B, 9B and 35B-A3B preview text models for 150 languages, plus dubbing, syllable-control and long-document variants.

Amazon Refreshes Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft E-Readers With Flush Screens

There are also fun new colors and two page-turning accessories—a wireless remote and a cover case—that keep the e-reader fresh.

Govee’s Holiday Projector Beams Spooky Ghosts (or Santa) Onto Your Home

The Holiday Pattern Projector Light uses dual lighting for maximum holiday effects.

Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy

Echo Wang, reporting for Reuters yesterday: Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. This is a strong clear lede, but even so…

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AI Agents Can Think. Now They Can Pay.

I attended a MPP event at Stripe HQ, where I spoke with Emily Sands and Matt Schulman from Stripe, along with Brendan Ryan from Tempo.

The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)

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SDR– Lets You Patch Together Your Setup

It is often helpful to think of a radio as a series of interconnected functional blocks—hence the use of block diagrams to convey how a given radio operates. [Julian Haag] …read more

Will Superconducting Transistors Help Quantum Computers?

Despite all the glamorous promises made about quantum computing, it’s hard to make the argument that today’s quantum computers hold a candle to the sheer practicality of classical computers, especially …read more

Why Do LLMs Lie?

In this article, we will look at why this problem of hallucinations happens with LLMs and the techniques that can help make LLMs more dependable for answering.

DIY Game Console Does It With Optical Disks

Optical media may be dead for video games on the big corporate consoles, but not in [Emmet]’s heart– or on his DIY game console, that he built specifically to use …read more

The Whole Computer Is Vim

Love it or hate it, Vim, the vi-compatible minimalist editor, is a common denominator between a huge array of operating systems. If you need to edit a file, it’s usually …read more

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StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

Article URL: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920160 Points: 200 # Comments: 44