The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Scientists discover guidance system for migratory songbirds [8d]
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- Odin, Wikipedia and Engagement Farming [8d]
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- The circuit that lets your brain think and see [8d]
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- Ants: Who looks after the injured in a colony? [8d]
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- How Amsterdam invented the fire department [8d]
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- Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches [8d]
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- Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV [8d]
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- Elevating Privileges from Firefox to Android Root [8d]
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- Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models [8d]
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- GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card [8d]
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- Leanstral 1.5: Proof Abundance for All [8d]
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- Coding without AI: a revolutionary new way to work [8d]
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- Disputing the Declaration of Independence [8d]
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- Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021) [8d]
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- The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker [8d]
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- GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell [8d]
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- EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why [8d]
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- How to migrate from Proxmox VE 8 to 9: step-by-step guide (2026) [8d]
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- Software, from First Principles [8d]
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- Show HN: Updated my landing page with Fable (retro pixel style) [8d]
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- AI First: How the Federal Government Is Prioritizing AI over People and Planet [8d]
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- New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview [8d]
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- Africans Are Turning to Starlink [8d]
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- Show HN: ContextCodeCache in Rust [8d]
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- Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left [8d]
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- Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29 [8d]
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- Applied Category Theory Course (2018) [8d]
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- Espionage Against the European Parliament [8d]
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- Giving a domain a hill to climb: benchmarking as data activation [8d]
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- Doing the Work [8d]
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- Pet projects are getting too big to pet [8d]
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- Kagi Changelog (July 2): Heads, tails, and an AI toggle [8d]
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- Oak: Git for Agents [8d]
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- Egypt Is Building a New Nile [8d]
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- Show HN: Topics, Not Feeds [8d]
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- Not Dark Yet [8d]
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- Why Being Overqualified Is a Risk [8d]
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- The MJ Rathbun case: How an autonomous AI bot cyberbullied a human programmer [8d]
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- ClawdMojis – A Clawd for Every Occasion [8d]
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- Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip [8d]
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- Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip [8d]
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- How to Enjoy John Ashbery [8d]
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- FreeBSD Ate My RAM [8d]
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- HammerDB v6.0 Response Times, Percentiles and Reservoir Sampling [8d]
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- Inkfield [8d]
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- A Summer of Solar Cooking (2023) [8d]
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- A Cali. farmer is giving away tons of nectarines that he's not allowed to sell [8d]
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- Holes [8d]
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- I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination [8d]
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- Craig Mod built his own Good Reads [8d]
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- C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences [8d]
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- International chess federation sanctions Kramnik [8d]
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- AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money [8d]
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- Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI) [8d]
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- Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013) [8d]
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- Johnson Thermoelectric Energy Converter [8d]
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- US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials [8d]
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- The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything [8d]
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- 60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it [8d]
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- Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP [8d]
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- Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap [8d]
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- Costco Is the Anti-Amazon [8d]
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- Factories Are Just Rooms [8d]
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- America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are [8d]
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- Best Simple System for Now [8d]
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- Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally [8d]
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- It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026) [8d]
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- Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things [8d]
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- Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students [8d]
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- Show HN: TaskPeace – a task queue my AI coding agents pull work from over MCP [8d]
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- Anatomy of Persistent Memory's 3 Layers: Comparing ContextNest, Mem0 and Zep [8d]
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- Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may go [8d]
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- Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video] [8d]
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- Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access [8d]
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- Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own [8d]
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- PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why You Must Use Strict Memory Overcommit [8d]
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- The Fall and Rise of Screwworm [8d]
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- Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective [8d]
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- Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17 [8d]
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- Please Stop the AI Confidence Theater [8d]
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- Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions [8d]
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- AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report [8d]
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- Goodebye Forever Probably: Why I'm leaving developer relations [8d]
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- A look at the quant fund frenzy in China, as assets under management have more than doubled to ~$384B in less than a year amid rapid AI adoption (Bloomberg) [8d]
- Meta could use its compute for its own models, ad scaling, SpaceX-like neocloud deals, and hosting 3rd-party models; it may be close to an Anthropic deal (Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros/SemiAnalysis) [8d]
- Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass) [8d]
- Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like "rape video" and "child video" and linking to Telegram channels (Divya Arya/BBC) [8d]
- An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says "there will not be an FDA for AI" under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industry's "doomer" messaging, and more (Financial Times) [8d]
- Texas AG Ken Paxton opens an investigation into StubHub following complaints of last-minute ticket cancellations for FIFA World Cup matches (Giles Turner/Bloomberg) [8d]
- How Jeff Bezos' changing relationship with President Trump has impacted Bezos' companies, including increased federal contract awards during Trump's second term (Wall Street Journal) [8d]
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- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, July 4 (game #1622) [8d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, July 4 (game #1119) [8d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, July 4 (game #853) [8d]
- How to watch Colombia vs Ghana: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time for FIFA World Cup 2026 as Los Cafeteros take on Black Stars [8d]
- How to photograph fireworks: my 5 expert tips for getting your best shots on the landmark 250th Independence Day [8d]
- Quote of the day by Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki on AI: "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself" — decrying the rise of machine-made art [8d]
- NASA and Red Hat are building an open source medical system to diagnose sick astronauts on the ISS — could a Star Trek Tricorder be next? [8d]
- 'We can tune the bass to get more output, pretty much for free': I asked audio specialist Audeze about its patented SLAM system for headphones, and the slam-dunks kept a-coming [8d]
- ErgoDriven Tempo Automatic Standing Desk review: An impressively well-built desk that actively encourages you to sit and stand [8d]
- Rocket Lab buys Iridium in an $8 billion deal to build the most formidable rival to Musk's SpaceX — will it change the Ukraine war? [8d]
- How to watch Argentina vs Cape Verde: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time as Lionel Messi faces FIFA World Cup 2026 upstarts [8d]
- This tiny dongle lets you take over an iPhone remotely from your Windows browser, and it costs only $89 [8d]
- This $550 Dell 15 Laptop beats those cheap 4GB laptop deals — with 16GB RAM and Core i5 power, it's a better buy for back-to-school and office work [8d]
- Dell 27 Plus QHD USB-C S2725DC review: A perfect budget business monitor for every kind of office [8d]
- I'm a tech journalist, and these are the top 5 business travel gadgets I never leave home without [8d]
- Breaking: Sony is launching a new RX10 bridge camera next week! Here's what we can learn from the shock teaser [8d]
- Malaysia is cracking down on VPN misuse, but your VPN stays perfectly legal [8d]
- GTA 6 developer Rockstar Games accused of enabling crunch, failing to address gender pay gap, and weaponizing bonuses [8d]
- Audio Pro takes aim at Sonos, Denon, WiiM and Bose with an all-new Wi-Fi speaker — and this one's got a portable battery and IP2 water resistance [8d]
- Tesla silences critics with knockout EV sales as Elon Musk controversy fades — but it still can't stop BYD from reclaiming the global crown [8d]
- VPN brands troll the gaming industry's digital-only push with fake physical services [8d]
- Steam Machine hits 'Red Line of Death' issues — but there's no need to panic about bricked PCs yet [8d]
- US Energy Dept tells data centers to use backup generators during heatwave to free up power for AC usage [8d]
- iBuyPower's 4th of July sale offers up to $350 off gaming PCs — here's our top pick with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM, and an RX 9070 XT [8d]
- I'm a homes expert — here are the outdoors gems I'd pick up in Walmart's big 4th July event [8d]
- The NHS plans to offer rewards to people who walk for 30 minutes a day — here's everything we know, including the tech you'll need to take part [8d]
- What would be your worst nightmare for Windows? Leaked Microsoft video from 2024 shows what many would regard with pure horror: a Copilot OS [8d]
- How to watch Australia vs Egypt: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time for FIFA World Cup 2026 as Mo Salah races to be fit [8d]
- India weighs stricter VPN regulations to stop users from bypassing internet blocks [8d]
- End of an era — the historic PlayStation factory that manufactured 24 billion gaming discs is already being turned into a micro-optics lab, just days after Sony announced its digital push [8d]
- Running on-premise in an agentic world [8d]
- SAP wants workers to create new AI-powered jobs, slashes travel and expenses budgets to up AI spend [8d]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (July 3) [8d]
- I’ve reviewed hundreds of laptops — these are the best ones that have launched so far in 2026 [8d]
- Reacher season 4 finally has a release date on Prime Video — and an unexpected surprise is coming along with it [8d]
- iPhone age verification is now nagging people who live outside affected regions — but the mystery has been solved [8d]
- If you love Star Wars and the Burnout games, then Galactic Racer is going to be right up your street [8d]
- 'Air conditioning units are not banned': despite misleading claims online, the UK Government makes clear that you can install air con — but there are rules that limit it, so here's what you need to know [8d]
- Withings BodyFit, a smart scale with a handle promising 'DEXA-level' body composition scanning, is now available in the UK — and it's got features geared towards GLP-1 users [8d]
- The Bose QuietComfort Headphones just dropped to their lowest price yet on Amazon [8d]
- Record-low prices on Canon, Sony, and Nikon cameras headline this year's huge 4th of July sales — including our top-rated models [8d]
- Dutton Ranch episode 9 recap: who dies, 10 Petal's biggest secret revealed, what's next for Beth and Rip, and what to expect from season 2 of the hit Yellowstone spinoff [8d]
- What is the release date for House of the Dragon season 3 episode 3? [8d]
- Ex-PlayStation boss calls Sony's plan to kill physical disc production 'fairly dramatic' and remembers a time when 'digital sales were zero percent because we didn't have a digital market' [8d]
- Why 'time to token' is the new battleground for data centers [8d]
- I was surprised by how well Keychron’s new mouse performed — but one aspect might disappoint FPS players [8d]
- The 6 best 4K Blu-rays released in 2026 that we've tested — which movies make the most of your TV and soundbar or speakers? [8d]
- What are 2026's 5-star tech products for far? Here are the 25+ products that earned top marks in our tough hands-on testing [8d]
- I test headphones and earbuds for a living — these are the 8 standout releases of 2026 so far, from Apple, Marshall, Shokz, Sennheiser and more [8d]
- A stunning low light capture of a volcanic eruption in Guatemala sweeps the 2026 iPhone Photography Awards — and it was taken on an iPhone 15 Pro [8d]
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