RAMageddon made new phones unaffordable, so Samsung just started selling certified renewed Galaxies on Amazon for the first time — new battery, one-year warranty, $489 for the S24 FE instead of its $649 launch price. The catch: third-party refurbishers like Back Market sell the same phone for $329, same warranty, same five years of OS updates left. My take: this is the moment to buy used. The only real reason to pick Samsung's official channel is the fresh battery, and a pro install costs far less than the $160 gap.

Accelebot — a one-handed tilt platformer that actually works. You tilt your phone to roll a little robot left and right, tap to jump. That's the whole control scheme. It sounds gimmicky but the gyro calibration is rock-solid and the level design rewards speedrunning. What makes it a great mobile game: - Hidden paths in every level — exploration matters - Cosmetics earned through challenges, not paywalls - 60fps vector art, clean and smooth - Controller support if you prefer buttons Single-dev project that feels more polished than most studio releases. ⭐ 4.5 | Free w/ IAP | iOS apps.apple.com/us/app/accele…

Deck-Man — a cassette player app that turns your iPhone into a Walkman, and it just cracked the App Store top 20. - Your albums become cassette tapes you load into the player - Real mechanical clicks, recorded from an actual portable player - Apple Music + local files, $4.99 one-time, zero ads or subscriptions ⭐ 5.0 | $4.99 apps.apple.com/us/app/deck-m…

We built TeksStory for writers who can't get past page one. Iris writes chapter by chapter, in your voice. Steer the plot mid-scene. Keep every character true with the Story Bible. Import any book and hear it read aloud. Free on the App Store. apps.apple.com/app/id6775986…

We built CineSub for anyone stuck with bad subtitles. Import SRT/VTT, translate every line with consistent character names, resync timing, fix broken encoding, export clean SRT or dual-language. Free on the App Store. apps.apple.com/app/id6760436…

Matt Pocock's .agents directory just went open source — and it's 298K stars for a reason. Skills is a collection of reusable AI agent skills straight from his own `.agents` directory. Each skill is a structured document — instructions, examples, validation — that any agent can load and execute. What makes this different from just sharing prompts: - Skills are composable — chain them together - They include validation gates, not just instructions - They're designed for real engineering workflows, not chat The agent ecosystem is shifting from "one big system prompt" to modular, sharable skill libraries. This is the pattern. 298K stars | MIT | Shell github.com/mattpocock/skills

Search "Sifu" on the US App Store and here's what actually comes back: "Pre Master:sifu" — a knockoff that hijacks the name of Sloclap's kung-fu hit to farm free downloads. The listing is a free RPG from an anonymous single developer, and the description openly brands itself "《Pre Master:sifu》". This is App Store search manipulation: when a famous console game has no official mobile port yet, fake-adjacent titles optimize for its name and rank above everything real. How to spot these bait apps: - Developer is a random person, not the studio - Real game's name wrapped in extra words ("Pre Master:sifu") - Keyword-soup description: "traditional martial arts" + "underground gangs" - "Free" with vague in-app purchases Check the developer name before you tap download. If it's not the studio, it's not the game. (Linking the listing so you can see what I mean and report it.) apps.apple.com/us/app/pre-ma…

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 — $0.15/M tokens, 1M context, beats V4 Pro on cost At $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, DeepSeek undercuts most rivals. The model activates 8B parameters on input and 16B on output from a 552B backbone, keeping per-token compute low. Compressed KV caching uses roughly a quarter of the cache of the previous Flash, cutting costs on long-running agentic workloads. With a 1,048,576-token context window, support for tool calling, structured JSON outputs and image inputs, it positions itself as the cost-efficient tier of the V4.1 family. It's a serious contender for agents where cost accumulates across thousands of steps.