November 27th, 2025
What are OpenAI cooking now?
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Here’s today’s lineup: Supercut brings its native Windows recorder to anyone tired of laggy captures, Links 2.0 lands with a cleaner way to save and find the stuff you actually want to revisit, and InsightTube turns long YouTube videos into something you can learn from without the time sink.
Plus, today’s forum thread digs into Sam Altman’s “calmer than the iPhone” hardware tease and what that could realistically mean.
A screen recorder that stays out of the way

Supercut for Windows is a native screen recorder built to be fast, light, and not make your machine wheeze. It records your screen and camera in up to 4K, saves instantly the moment you stop, and gives you a link you can share without waiting around. The whole thing is built in native code so you get the speed without the bloat.
🔥 Our Take: Screen recorders are one of those tools you only notice when they slow your computer down or make you sit through a processing bar. Supercut leans the other direction: smooth capture, quick save, no drama. If you record a lot and don’t want the tool to become part of the problem, this is a cleaner option.
OpenAI is coming for the iPhone?

Nika started a thread reacting to Sam Altman’s comment that OpenAI is working on hardware “calmer than the iPhone.” The details so far are vague: something pocket-sized, something screenless, something that avoids the buzzy distraction loop phones live in.
Now she’s asking the community what that even points to. Is “calmer” a real design direction or just marketing language. Could anyone realistically out-Apple Apple. And what a device with no screen and fewer notifications is supposed to look like in the first place.
If you’ve got thoughts on where hardware is heading or what this thing might actually be, this is the place to drop them.

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Your links, actually findable

Links 2.0 is a full redesign of the app for saving, organizing and finding links across all your devices. It adds a new navigation bar, a refreshed Home with Recent Links, improved filters, custom accent colors, a cleaner settings screen and a new icon. Everything is private by default, synced with iCloud, and works without accounts or tracking.
🔥 Our Take: Saving links is easy. Coming back to them without digging through a mess is the hard part. This leans into that second part with small but useful details: a home view that shows what you just saved, filters that are actually usable, and sync that does not require yet another login. It is not trying to reinvent how you browse, just giving you a calmer place to put the stuff you care about.
Make YouTube actually teach you

InsightTube takes regular YouTube videos and gives you the parts you actually need. You search inside the app, open a video, and it pulls out the ideas, the chapters, translations, and lets you ask questions about what’s being explained. You can save the processed version and jump back to the moments that mattered instead of guessing where something was said.
🔥 Our Take: Learning from YouTube is great until you realize you’ve sunk half an hour into finding one answer. This just cuts the friction. Same videos, same content — you just get to the useful parts faster.
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