The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Human Canaries: Remembering the Munitionettes [7d]
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- What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025) [7d]
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- Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder [7d]
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- Show HN: ContextVault – Shared memory layer for your AI and your team [7d]
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- Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks [7d]
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- The AI Whale Fall and Open Source [7d]
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- An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold [7d]
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- Manifest Man [7d]
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- Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite [7d]
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- California rocked by another earthquake that will unleash the Big One [7d]
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- ‘Asia's cleanest village’ bans tourists on Sundays [7d]
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- Show HN: I built a one-prompt hackathon platform, free entry, sponsored prizes [7d]
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- Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks [7d]
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- The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard [7d]
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- Primate 0.40: Route pages, store enums, async schemas and events [7d]
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- MIT's New Method Flags AI Models Trained on CASM Without Generating It [7d]
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- A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI [7d]
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- SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF) [7d]
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- Accidental Anonymity [7d]
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- Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser [7d]
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- Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU [7d]
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- Show HN: Sigwire – a live TUI switchboard for every signal on your Linux box [7d]
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- The security checks in every Lionshead PR [7d]
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- Bootstrapping GDC with DMD [7d]
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- Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let them use it to train AI [7d]
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- Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL [7d]
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- Show HN: PlanWright – A control plane for AI coding agents [7d]
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- Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources [7d]
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- Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it [7d]
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- Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended [7d]
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- AI Is a Bad Tool [7d]
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- Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy [7d]
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- TFTP Honey Pot Results [8d]
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- The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes [8d]
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- The Chud Vision of Roman History [8d]
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- Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback [8d]
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- The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right? [8d]
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- New Flagship Grok Voices [8d]
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- Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans [8d]
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- The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed [8d]
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- Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode [8d]
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- A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking [8d]
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- Optimizing Lua string literals to save 400 bytes [8d]
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- Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway? [8d]
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- Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents [8d]
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- How the Elite See Rome [8d]
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- Latent Space as a New Medium [8d]
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- xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Git Repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket [8d]
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- Ask HN: Should I do a masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon? [8d]
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- The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USAID [8d]
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- NTSB Report on NetJets first fatality in 40 years (Josh Baer RIP) [8d]
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- Show HN: Super Dario [8d]
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- Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here [8d]
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- Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise [8d]
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- Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System [8d]
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- Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models [8d]
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- Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers [8d]
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- A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game [8d]
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- PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Software Engineer [8d]
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- Solod: Go can be a better C [8d]
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- Designing APIs for Agents [8d]
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- Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor [8d]
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- World GeoHistoGram [8d]
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- Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now [8d]
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- DOGE is done. What happened to its records? [8d]
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- Go-Flavored Concurrency in C [8d]
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- Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code [8d]
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- LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire [8d]
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- The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed [8d]
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- Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices [8d]
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- Precursor [8d]
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- Detained by settlers, US Democrat Ro Khanna now faces pro-Israel attacks [8d]
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- From Muon to Gradient Clipping: Some Thoughts on QK Stability [8d]
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- Revisiting Yliluoma's ordered dither algorithm [8d]
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- Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop [8d]
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- Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Afternoon [8d]
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- Editing React components that never rendered [8d]
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- Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads [8d]
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- Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers [8d]
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- Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS [8d]
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- MITS: Rockets, Calculators, and Personal Computers [8d]
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- A Right Too Expensive to Exercise Isn't a Right [8d]
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- I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp [8d]
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- A Farewell to ARPs: IPv4 Service on IPv6-Only Networks [8d]
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- Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance [8d]
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- Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures (TechCrunch) [7d]
- Sources: Trump admin and industry groups have discussed streamlining releases of US open models of equal or lesser capability than leading Chinese open models (Benjamin Guggenheim/Washington Post) [7d]
- Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the public debut of the new Siri AI (Will Shanklin/Engadget) [7d]
- Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) [8d]
- Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge) [8d]
- Doc: DHS analysts twice dismissed signs of intruders inside the DHS' network, first detected in May, as harmless activity before confirming a breach in June (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW) [8d]
- A coalition of 12 states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets (Gene Maddaus/Variety) [8d]
- London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) [8d]
- Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered "Smartbadges" worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire) [8d]
- Gauntlet, which helps institutions and crypto companies allocate their digital assets, raised a $125M Series C from Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings (Ben Weiss/Fortune) [8d]
- Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to the lowest Q2 levels since 2013 amid the DRAM and NAND shortage; Samsung returns to #1 with a 24% market share (Shilpi Jain/Counterpoint Research) [8d]
- Apple's stock is up 15% since June 25, adding nearly $600B in market value and pushing shares back to record territory, as investors flee an AI stock selloff (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg) [8d]
- Sources: US officials estimate unauthorized distillation costs US AI labs up to $6B/year; Silicon Valley told the Trump admin it could be an existential threat (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) [8d]
- Source: OpenAI still believes it is on track to unveil its first device in 2026 and release it in 2027; Apple's lawsuit may complicate hiring and supply chains (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [8d]
- Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder and one of the biggest names in UK tech, to join its compute team; he is taking a leave of absence from YC (Robert Scammell/Business Insider) [8d]
- Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufacturing at its Leixlip facility in Ireland; in 2025, Intel canceled a planned €30B factory in Magdeburg, Germany (Financial Times) [8d]
- 'We have not ruled this out': The water-based battery that could turn whole data centers into energy storage [7d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, July 14 (game #1632) [7d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, July 14 (game #1129) [7d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, July 14 (game #863) [7d]
- Like photosynthesis in plants: This CPU uses solar power to 'run computations' without the need for batteries [7d]
- Quote of the day by Steve Jobs: 'The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste' — a potshot at a bitter rival [7d]
- Like Google’s Project Loon, but for missiles: Ukraine is weaponizing stratospheric balloons to boost strike range [7d]
- How to download the iOS 27 public beta — and 3 new things to try first [7d]
- Watch out Windows users, a Secure Boot update has been blocked on Windows 11 PCs due to failing on some devices — here's how to check if you're affected [7d]
- Space Force has a new weapon to target enemy satellites — Meadowlands electromagnetic beam marks a 'huge milestone' in US capability [7d]
- This AI-powered shape-shifting wing could make aircraft tails obsolete — and slash travel costs [8d]
- ‘The fate of humanity must not be decided behind closed doors’: US artificial intelligence sovereign wealth fund sees surge in support as AI job losses mount — 69% of Americans want to see half of AI stock placed into new state-owned investment fund [8d]
- No room in your kitchen for a Ninja Slushi? We tested 3 blenders that make perfect slushies for one for a fraction of the price, and actually fit in your cupboard [8d]
- 'The precision and quality of the print finish are exceptional': We love the beginner-friendly Anycubic Kobra S1 Combo 3D printer — and it's got a massive discount right now [8d]
- 'Exceptional performance for an extremely balanced price': GMKtec M6 Ultra is our number one mini PC for work and study — and it's $100 off at Amazon right now [8d]
- 'Class-leading 4K camera': The impressive DJI Osmo Pocket 3 Creator Combo delivers 'amazing video quality and beautiful slow-motion scenes' — and content creators will love the Amazon discount too [8d]
- Ransomware negotiator jailed for 70 months after he just helped infect victims with malware [8d]
- Best SSD deals 2026 — big savings on Samsung, SanDisk, WD and more [8d]
- I tested the first Freely 4K streaming box that instantly upgrades your TV with tons of live channels with no monthly subscription or aerial, plus access to the key streaming services — here’s why it impressed me [8d]
- Apple vs OpenAI lawsuit: 8 bombshell accusations and how the legal war might change your next iPhone [8d]
- Experts say they were able to create a rogue agent in Google’s AI platform with just a single edit permission [8d]
- New Steam Machine red light warning isn't anything to worry about — an overzealous overheating warning is reportedly due to a BIOS bug [8d]
- A superb open world racing game is coming to Nintendo Switch 2, finally giving us a proper Forza Horizon alternative [8d]
- Moana's live action remake failed to make a splash at the box office as movie fans call it a 'lifeless carbon copy' [8d]
- The FCC is going after third-party companies that it suspects are sneaking rebranded DJI drones and cameras into the US [8d]
- Amazon launches a big Fire TV sale — streaming sticks, TVs, and soundbars from $19.99 [8d]
- Confused about your PC specs or hardware? Windows 11's Copilot app is getting new powers to help you 'understand your device' [8d]
- NordVPN is now part of Mastercard’s lifestyle perks — find out if you are eligible [8d]
- We've tested 28 pairs of headphones this year — these are our favorite over-ears, from budget to blowout [8d]
- Tom Cruise's new movie Digger just got an absolutely unhinged first full trailer — but the Mission: Impossible star's 'wild' transformation is not what I'm most excited about [8d]
- Vibe coded threats shift again — hackers are using AI chatbots to write malware using natural language [8d]
- It looks like Garmin is finally preparing its Google Fitbit Air-style screenless band, the Cirqa, for launch — but I hope it doesn't copy Google's approach to revamping its fitness app [8d]
- TeraBox AI review [8d]
- What the CAIO wave signals for UK companies yet to follow suit [8d]
- 'The death of privacy online' — Proton launches interactive map to show age verification laws are spreading fast [8d]
- The House of the Dragon season 3 episode 5 trailer teases a game-changing betrayal that you won't see coming — here's why it'll be so important to the HBO Max show's story [8d]
- 'Cryptomining can be a lucrative post-compromise activity in cloud environments': Experts warn AI gateways connected to Amazon Bedrock are being hijacked to steal crypto [8d]
- Brave Leo AI review [8d]
- I compared the affordable Viltrox 90mm f/2.2 lens with Fujifilm’s legendary 90mm f/2 portrait optic — I have one surprising favorite [8d]
- Apple’s app subscription bundles are too rigid and inflexible — here's how I'd overhaul them if I were CEO-to-be John Ternus [8d]
- Why AI coding agents keep stalling before production and the governance controls that fix it [8d]
- HuggingChat AI review [8d]
- Are VPNs under threat in Australia? FOI documents reveal plans to block age verification workarounds [8d]
- Zoom will let you add an AI receptionist at work, as 'businesses shouldn’t have to replace their phone system to benefit from AI' [8d]
- What is the release date for X-Men 97 season 2 episode 5 on Disney+? [8d]
- The Westies stars J.K. Simmons and Tom Brittney clap back at fan complaints that new MGM+ mob crime thriller is 'too tame' — 'we can't put everything in the trailer' [8d]
- Mayor of Kingstown season 5 release date predictions resurge as Jeremy Renner and cast wrap production — here's my best guess for when new episodes will arrive on Paramount+ [8d]
- Ireland’s data center electricity consumption rises 360% in ten years, and is set to account for as much power as every home combined — 23% of national power sent to servers despite moratorium on new data center grid connections [8d]
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