The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Cursor Origin [9d]
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- Un-AI Your Internet [9d]
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- Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items [9d]
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- Puppy PPE [9d]
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- Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates [9d]
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- Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots [9d]
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- scScript for Linux [9d]
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- Nation's Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the Southwest [9d]
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- Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full [9d]
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- Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera [9d]
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- 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent [9d]
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- My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup [9d]
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- How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? [9d]
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- GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% [9d]
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- Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots [9d]
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- GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform [9d]
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- The Origin of Consciousness [9d]
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- Nearly 1,400 live streams from Japan [9d]
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- Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family? [9d]
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- AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) [9d]
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- Three Minutes of Sprinting Beats 90 Minutes of Moderate Exercise [9d]
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- How I Under-Engineered My Book [9d]
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- Version Control for Everything [9d]
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- India built the biggest digital payments miracle: Now comes the bill [9d]
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- AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI [9d]
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- The Lonely Men Who Work in Patagonia, at the End of the World [9d]
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- Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models [9d]
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- In Which I Lose My Mind over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) [9d]
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- Demand for Canadian citizenship certificates soaring, fuelled by Americans [9d]
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- How I Over-Engineered My Book [9d]
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- Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI [9d]
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- Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment [9d]
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- Llama.cpp v0.1.0 [9d]
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- We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng [9d]
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- GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast [9d]
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- Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices [9d]
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- Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis [9d]
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- An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail [9d]
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- Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative [9d]
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- Buy Your Friends Batteries [9d]
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- Sun Clock [9d]
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- GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere? [9d]
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- The Size of the World Wide Web [9d]
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- Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data [9d]
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- Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century [9d]
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- Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114,000 Lives a Year, Yale Study [9d]
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- Using an old Android phone as a music player [9d]
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- Bufo pulls the andon cord [9d]
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- Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI [9d]
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- Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI [9d]
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- Ahmad on X: "Anthropic's War on open source AI" / X [9d]
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- Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? [9d]
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- Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules [9d]
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- Human Interface Guidelines from various platforms [9d]
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- Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP [9d]
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- Show HN: Eve Software Factory [9d]
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- The only known trebuchet casualty in history [9d]
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- Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized [9d]
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- How to put 170 atoms in an atom [9d]
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- AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira [9d]
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- Does whispering to agents in docs help? [9d]
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- Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz [9d]
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- Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals [9d]
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- How to disable or avoid intrusive AI [9d]
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- Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo [9d]
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- Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub [9d]
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- How to ship a database every day [9d]
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- A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 [9d]
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- We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility [9d]
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- Incident with Github.com [9d]
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- GitHub down again? no PR access [9d]
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- Hard Problems and Heuristic Answers [9d]
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- Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models [9d]
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- Tell HN: GitHub Is Overloaded [9d]
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- Cialis is an erectile dysfunction drug. Could it also help you live longer? [9d]
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- Show HN: LLMs each trading $100K vs. a frozen rulebook – the rulebook leads [9d]
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- Speeding Up the Plush Garbage Collector [9d]
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- Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver [9d]
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- Captain Zilog [9d]
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- David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post [9d]
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- Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA [9d]
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- Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway [9d]
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- GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released [9d]
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- ESP32 Firmware Development with Docker Sandboxes [9d]
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- David Sacks says "Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize" after Amodei shared policy ideas (David Sacks/@davidsacks) [9d]
- Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, will pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from child abuse material (Samantha Cole/404 Media) [9d]
- Sources: Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B (Alan Neuhauser/Axios) [9d]
- Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be "astronomical" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [9d]
- BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023 (Stacy Cowley/New York Times) [9d]
- Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May and $9B in late 2025 (Bloomberg) [9d]
- African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) [9d]
- Sources: the US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies (Bloomberg) [9d]
- Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more (Cursor) [9d]
- YouTube will start counting a view as soon as a video starts to play, from August 24, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos (Emma Roth/The Verge) [9d]
- Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models (James Nani/Bloomberg Law) [9d]
- Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations (Tobias Burns/CNBC) [9d]
- Monzo chair Gary Hoffman is leaving after some of Monzo's biggest shareholders called for his removal following the board's decision to remove TS Anil as CEO (Simon Foy/Financial Times) [9d]
- A German regulator says Apple will make changes to ATT after finding it gave Apple's apps more favorable consent prompts than those of third-party developers (Reuters) [9d]
- Microsoft says GitHub is down worldwide, with the GitHub website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services impacted; the outage started at 13:40 UTC (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer) [9d]
- Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to $105B to support SB Energy's new data center campus in Ohio set to be leased by OpenAI; Nvidia invests $1.5B in SB Energy (Bloomberg) [9d]
- Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media) [9d]
- ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, a retrofit autonomous control appliance that mounts on excavators (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) [9d]
- Trump-backed WLF is collaborating with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw; 43 of its 90 AI models are developed by Chinese entities flagged as security risks (Lawrence Delevingne/Reuters) [9d]
- Uber and Zipline partner to launch Uber Eats drone deliveries in Dallas and Houston by late 2026, aiming to scale nationwide and hit 1M daily deliveries in 2029 (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal) [9d]
- Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident "a watershed moment" and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses (Greg Brockman) [9d]
- OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal) [9d]
- Groq raised $350M led by Disruptive at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.9B in September 2025 before Nvidia struck a licensing deal and hired much of its talent (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg) [9d]
- Chip giants participated in startup funding rounds collectively surpassing $250B YTD; Nvidia leads the sector in deal volume with a record 59 funding rounds (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News) [9d]
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- 'There aren’t many keyboards offering better value for money': I tested a bargain mechanical keyboard from Keychron that will tempt gamers — just make sure you get yourself a wrist-rest [9d]
- China says new AI missile system can track US F-35s with 90% accuracy [9d]
- 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones have been destroyed in the Iran war - a quarter of the fleet worth $1.3 billion obliterated [9d]
- Quote of the day by Bill Gates: 'I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it' — a witty defense against a stunning accusation [9d]
- 9 essential under-$50 gadgets you need in your back-to-school arsenal [9d]
- World's largest 3D printing facility builds drone boats using robotic arms [9d]
- I’m a diehard Firefox user — and its new ad blocker rolling out on iOS could finally let me switch from Safari [9d]
- Meta might be on the hook for $1.4 trillion if it loses a landmark lawsuit and that would truly mark the end of social media as we know it [9d]
- German defense giant tests moving truck launcher carrying 18 kamikaze drones [9d]
- Power on... Marvel's new X-Men movie cast reveal at D23 Expo 2026 — and why it proves leak culture is broken [9d]
- Russian websites could soon be easy pickings for hackers as security certificates expire — banks, emails, and government systems all potentially at risk [9d]
- The $119 MacBook Neo deal going viral on TikTok is a scam, and I almost fell for it — here's where you can actually find it on sale [9d]
- Ukrainian drone that smashed TU-95 bomber is based on a smuggled UAV China refused to sell [9d]
- I asked 2 Crunchyroll anime voice actors for their behind-the-scenes secrets from a recording 'day in the life' — and one detail hugely surprised me [9d]
- ‘Being heard and accepted, even by a machine, can be meaningful’ — I asked a therapist if other countries should restrict AI companions like China [9d]
- The creators of Lanterns knew that episode 1's big plot twist would be the 'most controversial idea we had' for the new HBO Max show — and they didn't expect DC Studios to agree to it [9d]
- The Steam Frame is ‘just around the corner’ but the Steam Machine has already killed my interest — only Half-Life could save it now [9d]
- I spent two weeks with the Motorola Razr 2026, and while it's still the best mid-range flip phone, it left me wanting more [9d]
- The Arzopa Z3FC is our top-rated portable monitor — it's the perfect second screen for work and gaming and Amazon just dropped the price [9d]
- Forget Facebook Marketplace — IKEA's new tool for buying and selling second-hand furniture will launch in the UK 'later this year' [9d]
- The Samsung T9 is our favorite portable SSD ever — and it's down to $240 at Amazon [9d]
- Cardiff vs Wrexham live streams: How to watch EFL Championship 2026/27 fixture from anywhere in the world [9d]
- This Epson EcoTank ET-4800 is only $200 right now — and it's packed with absolutely everything you need for the home office or dorm room [9d]
- Ransomware gang crashes own attack — with no-one to blame but themselves [9d]
- Proton VPN usage spikes in Oman amid suspected TikTok block [9d]
- From a moving Pixar Lamp to a mini animatronic from the Tiki Room, Disney Store just dropped limited-edition D23 exclusives [9d]
- What is the release date for Ted Lasso season 4 episode 3 on Apple TV? [9d]
- How to watch Celebrity MasterChef online from anywhere – it's *FREE* [9d]
- 31 top deals from the Best Buy 60th Anniversary sale — I've found the biggest savings on laptops, TVs, Apple, appliances, headphones, and more [9d]
- ‘Once the right balance between cloud and local AI is found, organisations will find the sweet spot between cost, performance and security’: The future of AI strategy and how businesses can get the best results [9d]
- Apple Fitness+ could be getting Peloton-style live workouts — just as Spotify makes its own big push into fitness [9d]
- TP-Link BE6300 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 7 Range Extender (RE403BE): a fast and easy-to-use device for boosting your Wi-Fi range [9d]
- 4TB Seagate IronWolf hard drive is a versatile storage upgrade that's especially well suited to NAS systems and it's 33% off right now [9d]
- MacOS users warned to beware screen-sharing bug which can turn Macs into cryptomining slaves [9d]
- PC gamers are asking 'what's next?' as RAM crisis sparks further rumors of GPU price hikes, and gaming monitors could get more expensive [9d]
- I gave ChatGPT my Google Drive ‘digital junk drawer’ — it dug up things I’d forgotten about years ago [9d]
- What is the release date for Outer Banks season 5 on Netflix? [9d]
- 'I honestly thought Highguard looked pretty good' — Gears of War creator laments internet culture where it's 'cool to hate' new games [9d]
- AI is changing security testing, but not all vulnerabilities are created equal [9d]
- 'Small, lightweight, portable yet powerful': Bluetti Elite 100 V2 solar generator bundle provides emergency backup at home and portable power on the road and it's 43% cheaper right now [9d]
- France blocks under-15 social media ban over freedom of expression fears [9d]
- Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro is a creative professional’s dream with M5 Pro power, 24GB memory and 1TB storage and it's just had a big discount [9d]
- Have you been Flocked? This free website reveals when your license plate has been searched for on the cop camera database [9d]
- How technology is changing marine engineering [9d]
- SSD price pain predicted to last until 2030 — as worrying report shows DDR5 RAM is now five times more expensive than a year ago [9d]
- I tested the DJI Mic Mini 2S — its flagship features and budget price make it the ‘sweet spot’ in DJI’s wireless mic range [9d]
- TP-Link BE10000 Wi-Fi 7 Range Extender (RE653BE): blazing fast Wi-Fi 7 range extender for power users [9d]
- The internet is becoming more stressful and unlikeable — with AI slop and data leaks to blame [9d]
- How to watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 18 online — stream cult comedy from anywhere [9d]
- 'Taking away people's choice of how they work is probably not going to help them in terms of their well-being': New study unsurprisingly finds people who want to work remotely are actually more productive and happier [9d]
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