The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage [1d]
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- Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him [1d]
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- The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious [1d]
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- AWS Lightsail's $0.09/GB Bandwidth Overage Is a Trap for Small Projects [1d]
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- Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers [1d]
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- Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement [1d]
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- Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters [1d]
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- The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox [1d]
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- Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS [1d]
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- This Month in Ladybird - April 2026 [1d]
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- Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago [1d]
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- Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB [1d]
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- I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden [1d]
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- VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage [1d]
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- Unsigned Sizes: A Five Year Mistake [1d]
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- World's biggest RC A380 [video] [1d]
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- NetHack 5.0.0 [1d]
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- California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws [2d]
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- Do_not_track [2d]
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- Videolan Dav2d [2d]
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- Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents [2d]
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- Welcome to Hell Developer [2d]
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- Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad? [2d]
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- Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings [2d]
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- Meta's Pyrefly sabotages competing Python extensions without telling you [2d]
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- New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content [2d]
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- Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for AV companies [2d]
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- Zugzwang [2d]
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- Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art [2d]
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- LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models [2d]
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- America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance [2d]
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- Mini PC for local LLMs in 2026 [2d]
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- Oil tanker hijacked off Yemen, steers toward Somalia [2d]
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- Russia Poisons Wikipedia [2d]
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- Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers? [2d]
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- An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years [2d]
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- Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine [2d]
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- The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics [2d]
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- Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79 [2d]
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- From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control [2d]
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- Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum [2d]
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- Pushed by Trump policies, top U.S. battery scientist is moving to Singapore [2d]
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- GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay [2d]
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- Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend [2d]
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- Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks [2d]
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- How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? [2d]
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- Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data [2d]
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- Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling [2d]
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- Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s [2d]
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- Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013) [2d]
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- Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables, and which one is right? [2d]
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- Shadcn/UI: A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize [2d]
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- SKILL.make: Makefile Styled Skill File [2d]
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- Show HN: Hollow is an open-sourced self-modifying agentic system [2d]
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- Open source ballistic simulator with NASA SRTM terrain masking (Python/C#) [2d]
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- Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations [2d]
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- Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds [2d]
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- Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? [2d]
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- CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring [2d]
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- Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? [2d]
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- Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer [2d]
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- Ask Jeeves Shut Down [2d]
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- K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes [2d]
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- Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed [2d]
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- Governor – a Claude Code plugin to reduce token/context waste [2d]
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- I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings [2d]
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- Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising [2d]
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- Thousands of Pentagon Civilian Workers Will Be Fired Next Week as Purge Begins [2d]
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- Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language [2d]
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- A Physics Engine with Incremental Rollback for Multiplayer Games [2d]
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- What did you love about VB6? [2d]
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- Analysis: after Trump's World Liberty raised $550M from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions in USD were privately sold in "white glove" transactions (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg) [1d]
- An investigation finds Nobitex was founded by two brothers from Iran's Kharrazi family; the crypto exchange processed hundreds of millions beyond US sanctions (Reuters) [1d]
- A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate staff just to replace them with AI, following a similar ruling by another Chinese court in December 2025 (Victor Swezey/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors (Robert Booth/The Guardian) [1d]
- Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing for a US IPO at a $4B valuation with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase advising (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI chips from UK-based Fractile when they launch in 2027, as it seeks deals to gain more leverage with suppliers (The Information) [2d]
- A look at casino-style games, considered gambling in some US states, where player "whales" spend tens of thousands via IAP on Apple, Google, and Meta platforms (Bloomberg) [2d]
- A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Ripple Labs investor and exec Chris Larsen plans to spend $3.5M to help Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation (New York Times) [2d]
- Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay after quietly building a stake; GameStop had a market cap of ~$11B as of May 1, while eBay had ~$45B (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised $125M+ across seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1B valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) [2d]
- A UK court orders Samsung to pay ZTE $392M for patents needed to enable phone network access; Samsung faces similar suits from ZTE in China, Germany, and Brazil (Sam Tobin/Reuters) [2d]
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- Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, May 3 (game #1560) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, May 3 (game #791) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, May 3 (game #1057) [1d]
- 'We’re not selling and we’re not giving way': Lone farmer defeats Tennessee's TVA as US electricity giant grapples with exploding demand from AI-fuelled data centers from Google and Elon Musk's xAI, encouraged by slow legislature [1d]
- 'It took 9 seconds': tech founder outlines how rogue Claude-powered AI tool wiped entire company database and backups [1d]
- How to watch Kentucky Derby 2026: live stream horse racing online from anywhere [1d]
- 'Build AI that can accurately represent the full complexity of biology': Mark Zuckerberg wants to cure all diseases but needs far more data to deliver a digital twin of human cells—As genetic data becomes the next frontier, will you trust him with yours? [1d]
- Mac Pro M2 vs Mac Studio M2: Which is the one for you? [2d]
- 'The potential to make existing infrastructure produce more output is what makes space solar worth investing in now': Meta wants to power its future data centers with solar energy beamed from space — meaning solar plants can operate even at night-time [2d]
- I took a great cheap Bluetooth speaker to the rainiest place possible, and it survived 7 busy days of abuse without a complaint — I'd definitely recommend it as a reliable music companion for your adventures [2d]
- The Nacon RIG R8 Spectre Pro HS proves that headsets can still be great value in 2026 [2d]
- How to watch Miami Grand Prix 2026 F1: Live Stream, Preview, Schedule [2d]
- OnePlus is reportedly merging with Realme and 'evaluating' its future — but I'm convinced that this is fantastic news for Android fans [2d]
- Google's $3 USB stick for revamping old laptops with ChromeOS Flex has sold out — and proves I was right about Chromebooks [2d]
- 8 new 4K Blu-rays from April 2026 to add to your collection [2d]
- Film fans, assemble! Vote in TechRadar's blockbuster movie season poll to tell us which one you're most excited to see in mid-2026 [2d]
- “The more experienced listeners are, the less bass-heavy they want the sound”: JBL is changing the way its flagship headphones sound, and I've heard the difference — here’s how I rate it [2d]
- Obsessed with Tomodachi Life? You need a Nintendo Switch stylus — here are our top picks for getting creative with your Miis [2d]
- Some good news for Elon Musk: FCC ruling means 'faster speeds, lower costs, and greater reliability' for SpaceX Starlink and other satellites [2d]
- This free WordPress tool could save businesses billions every year by slashing the AI tokens needed to read the web — saving enough electricity to power the entire USA for 24 hours [2d]
- I'm a VPN expert, and I've been using this $2 per month VPN deal for over two years to protect my phone, computer, and TV, as well as protect my devices from viruses and data breaches — here's how you can claim it yourself [2d]
- 'No viewfinder, no deal' — why Nikon's new rumored full-frame compact is already dividing fans [2d]
- Mayor of Kingstown season 5 — everything we know so far about the hit Taylor Sheridan show's final series [2d]
- 'That is why it is important to have full control': Dutch government launches its own self-hosted GitHub alternative in the latest blast against US tech giants such as Microsoft [2d]
- Brentford vs West Ham FREE Live Streams: How to watch Premier League 2025/26 from anywhere in the world [2d]
- 'Light years ahead of the rest of the world': China shows off the future of EV batteries at the Beijing Auto Show — as CATL and BYD race to cut charging times down to just five minutes [2d]
- How to watch Leinster vs Toulon: Free Streams & TV Channels for 2025/26 Investec Champions Cup semi-final [2d]
- ICYMI: the 8 biggest tech stories of the week, from new Moto foldables to electric air taxis [2d]
- 'No other smartwatch has this feature': the Apple Watch's most innovative running feature is one you've probably never used [2d]
- The Garmin Venu 4 is your 'do-it-all companion' and our favourite smartwatch from the manufacturer — get it now for a record-low price [2d]
- Apple Mac Studio M2 vs iMac M4: Which is the one for you? [2d]
- How to watch Naoya Inoue vs Junto Nakatani: live stream boxing online, preview, ringwalks, fight card [2d]
- One of Verizon’s best-ever deals returns with a huge Apple bundle — get an iPhone 17, iPad, and Apple Watch included with a new line [2d]
- It's simple to start your own help desk with HESK [2d]
- Lego’s Star Wars Day celebration starts early with new Mandalorian sets, double points for Insiders, and three gifts with purchase, including a free Darksaber build [2d]
- I'm a long-time Garmin user and the Vivoactive 6 for AU$388 would be my pick over the Apple Watch SE 3 — here's why [2d]
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