The Brutalist Report - tech
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- More Fucked Today Than Yesterday [6d]
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- Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others [6d]
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- Polishing Cloth Updated [6d]
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- Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM [6d]
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- Global demand for sand is so high that illegal mines are everywhere (2015) [6d]
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- One Go binary, one YAML file, one SQLite database: I wrote my monitoring tool [6d]
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- Ripping Off the Hey.com Band-Aid [6d]
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- Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird [6d]
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- XCancel also down, at least for time being [7d]
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- When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python – Seth Larson [7d]
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- Perplexity Portable Computer [7d]
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- C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality [7d]
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- A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation [7d]
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- FDA Authorizes First Wearable Device That Monitors Ketone and Glucose Levels [7d]
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- Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter [7d]
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- Dolly Parton Has Died [7d]
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- Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agents [7d]
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- Dolly Parton, queen of country music and humanitarian hero, dead at 80 [7d]
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- Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80 [7d]
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- Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms [7d]
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- Flyway for freeloaders, rollback implemented in Python [7d]
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- DOJ prosecutes single FOIA dodger while defending systemwide evasion [7d]
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- Clara (YC P26) Is Hiring a Growth Engineer to Bring AI Doctors to Market [7d]
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- Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month [7d]
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- Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go [7d]
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- Nitter project received cease and desist [7d]
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- Black hole singularity is a surface not a point [7d]
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- A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant is at most 0.1787854 [7d]
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- Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers [7d]
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- Orbs [7d]
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- My Friend Aaron [7d]
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- LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases [7d]
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- The ArtQrCode a twist on the classic black and white Quick Response Code [7d]
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- SpaceX – Starbase, LA [7d]
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- Tooltips Need a Delay, and Then They Need to Skip It [7d]
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- Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler [7d]
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- Why iPhone App Blockers Are Harder to Build Than They Look [7d]
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- Anthropic Sees over $30T in Potential Revenue [7d]
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- Run Minecraft in a Windows Sandbox for Computer Use Agents [7d]
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- Warnock: Harnessing GPU Geometry Amplification for Vector Graphics [7d]
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- How much of HN is AI? [7d]
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- Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI [7d]
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- Behaviorally fingerprinting Ox Alpha's provenance [7d]
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- Time complexity of operations on Python's built-in types [7d]
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- Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche and the Great War [7d]
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- Sort branches by last commit date [7d]
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- AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds [7d]
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- Polishing Cloth [7d]
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- Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth [7d]
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- Bomb Fishing Is Wreaking Havoc on Indonesia's Coral Reefs [7d]
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- Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown [7d]
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- MySQL CDC to BigQuery: what periodic syncs miss, and how binlog avoids it [7d]
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- Codes – typed application outcomes for Kotlin and Java [7d]
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- OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell [7d]
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- Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike [7d]
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- The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI [7d]
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- My life was changed by four sentences in four books [7d]
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- Tmp.0ut, Vol. 5 [7d]
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- Apple's new Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro [7d]
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- US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons [7d]
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- EVE Online moves to Python 3 [7d]
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- Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra [7d]
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- Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute [7d]
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- France's tax agency got hacked (in French) [7d]
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- OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users [7d]
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- Solving the 1+N Query Problem [7d]
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- State AGs' trial: Adam Mosseri denies Instagram stalled by not making its "Take a Break" teen safety feature the default until nearly three years after launch (Reuters) [6d]
- Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [6d]
- Intuit reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.35B, vs. $4.27B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue growth of 9% to 10%, below ~11% est.; INTU drops 8%+ after hours (Wall Street Journal) [6d]
- Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $1.28B, vs. $1.27B est., enterprise revenue up 7.8% to $787.5M, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS below estimates (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) [7d]
- Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning (Skild AI) [7d]
- Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal) [7d]
- Keenable, which is building a web search index for AI agents and says several AI labs are using its API, raised a $26M seed led by Accel (Anna Heim/TechCrunch) [7d]
- An ex-Meta staffer testified that less than 1% of teens used Instagram's opt-in "Take a Break" tool when it launched; the feature is now on by default for teens (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg) [7d]
- UK filing: in FY 2025, OnlyFans paid out $6.3B to creators, net revenue rose 10% YoY to $1.55B, and creator accounts hit 5M; 5,076 creators made $1M+ since 2016 (Todd Spangler/Variety) [7d]
- Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out (David Gewirtz/ZDNET) [7d]
- The EPA plans to eliminate a federal rule that US states must publicize and solicit public input on air pollution permit applications for data centers (Maxine Joselow/New York Times) [7d]
- Stability AI, which has deals with UMG, WMG, and EA to build AI models from their IP, raised a $76M Series B from them, Sony Music, and others (Corbin Bolies/Variety) [7d]
- Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019 (Corrie Driebusch/Wall Street Journal) [7d]
- Nvidia unveils the Jetson Orin Nano 2 edge AI computer that it says doubles inference performance, with 78 TOPS of AI compute and an eight-core Arm CPU (Eugene Demaitre/The Robot Report) [7d]
- A detailed look at Jalapeño, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-source models (SemiAnalysis) [7d]
- Uber launches an optional safety feature allowing parents or guardians to watch a livestream of their teen's ride via the driver's front-facing phone camera (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) [7d]
- Mexico-based Primero, which aims to modernize legacy software used by Latin American companies with AI, raised a $12M seed co-led by Kaszek and General Catalyst (Kylie Madry/Reuters) [7d]
- Tel Aviv and NYC-based Alice, which works to protect AI models from misuse and rogue behavior, raised $140M led by Apax Digital at a valuation "close to $1B" (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg) [7d]
- Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform running fully on-device with zero token costs, starting with Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX Linux PCs (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) [7d]
- Waymo plans to offer ride-hailing services in Germany, starting with Munich, by the end of 2027, marking its third international market and the first in the EU (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) [7d]
- Autonomous trucking startup Gatik raised $200M, two months after striking a multi-year commercial agreement with PepsiCo, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) [7d]
- OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency vs. Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T (Emma Roth/The Verge) [7d]
- Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are $899+ and $1,699+, $100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is $5,499+, up $200 (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal) [7d]
- WhatsApp upgrades its two-step verification, letting users replace the six-digit PIN with a longer alphanumeric password, and adds support for multiple passkeys (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) [7d]
- Apple says M5 Ultra uses a quad-die 3nm architecture, "a first for Apple silicon", with inter-die bandwidth of 4.4TB/s+ and up to a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU (Steve Dent/Engadget) [7d]
- Apple unveils M6, a 2nm chip with a 12-core CPU and GPU, and up to 32GB of unified memory, saying it provides "the world's fastest single-threaded performance" (Jay Peters/The Verge) [7d]
- Apple unveils a Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, with up to 4x faster AI performance and up to 2x faster graphics, for $899+ with M6 and $1,699+ with M5 Pro (Apple) [7d]
- Apple updates the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, with up to 4.3x faster AI performance, faster graphics, and up to 512GB of unified memory for $2,499+ (Apple) [7d]
- Asus opens pre-orders for the standalone Xbox Ally X20 at $1,300+, with shipments from October 15; a $2,500 bundle includes the X20 and ROG Xreal R1 glasses (Sean Hollister/The Verge) [7d]
- Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey (Mike Scarcella/Reuters) [7d]
- Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil the $250 Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety band, set to ship in early 2027 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) [7d]
- Emerald AI, which uses AI to optimize data center power consumption based on grid demands, raised $150M led by DCVC and Energize Capital at a $1.05B valuation (Sri Muppidi/New York Times) [7d]
- OpenAI bans a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to evade restrictions and run an influence operation, including creating social media comments (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) [7d]
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- 'The right approach is for people to deeply control the future': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is worried about AI being controlled by just a few powerful players [6d]
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 just released a sneak peek at its incredible shortlisted winning entries — and it proves that DSLR cameras still rule this photography genre [6d]
- The death of the human web? Report finds over a third of web pages pushed live since the launch of ChatGPT show evidence of being written by AI [6d]
- IBM reveals plans for 'quantum fridges' — its next-gen cooling hardware, which could be the key to quantum computers finally reaching their potential [7d]
- Get ready for even more game reveals — here's how to watch the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2026 [7d]
- 'We wanted to go out with a bang' — Geralt returns in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past's new trailer, promising a final action-packed journey ahead of The Witcher 4 [7d]
- Garmin Fenix 9 revealed — here are 5 things you need to know about the new flagship smartwatches [7d]
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered is a free upgrade with revamped gameplay systems — here's everything confirmed at the ONL reveal [7d]
- Of course, this fake GTA VI ISO download is malware — testers reveal 113GB download is 99.99% empty zeroes, with a tiny virus attached [7d]
- Everything announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 — from Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Remake to The Witcher 3 remastered and more [7d]
- Even just an hour with Gears of War: E-Day's explosive campaign left me hungry to fill more E-holes across its semi-open world [7d]
- The studio behind Crusader Kings and Hearts of Iron just revealed its first non-historical title in a decade — Afterworld is a new strategy game set in an original post-apocalyptic America [7d]
- Why 0s and 1s aren't enough — 3-part biological memory model exposes limits of AI silicon [7d]
- Even more Grand Theft Auto 6 footage has leaked, this time of Vice City beach showcasing impressive crowd tech — here's the full timeline of everything that has leaked so far [7d]
- Don't wait for Labor Day — Lowe's summer clearance sale has the cheapest prices of the year on patio furniture, grills, outdoor tools and more [7d]
- The White House says it no longer considers data storage and data centers 'critical' technology [7d]
- Seagate's 8TB BarraCuda drops to $250 at Best Buy — and it's the internal hard drive I'd grab for cheap DAS storage [7d]
- Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 — live build-up and all the ONL announcements as they come in [7d]
- MSI is on a mission to upgrade your WFH setup with this 27-inch budget business monitor dropping to under $90 [7d]
- How to watch LASK vs Celtic: Free Streams & TV Channels for Champions League 2026/27 Play-Offs [7d]
- The Gentlemen season 3 gets green light after bogus Meghan Markle rumors — but could this be bad news for a MobLand season 3 renewal? [7d]
- The Anker Prime fast-charge 14-in-1 docking station 'hits the right notes in all the crucial areas' — and it just got a big price cut at Amazon [7d]
- Buying a Pixel 11? Don't miss this $200 Amazon bonus — it could prove very handy indeed [7d]
- TP-Link's 'amazing value for money' Wi-Fi 7 router is one of the cheapest ways to get faster speeds in your home office or small business — as it drops to under $80 at Amazon [7d]
- The pros and cons of managed VPS hosting [7d]
- Meta's apps hoover up triple the data of Apple and Microsoft, new study finds [7d]
- An analog tube stereo amp for under $800 / £800? From an actually good audiophile brand? Oh, Christmas has come early… [7d]
- 'There's zero Lucia content' — GTA 6 fans believe the person responsible for the gameplay leaks has access to a restricted build containing only the prologue [7d]
- New Windows malware lays dormant until a custom command activates it like a sleeper agent [7d]
- BBC fights Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit over VPN jurisdiction limits [7d]
- Meaco fans sold out completely during the last heatwave — but the company just launched two new tower models, and they're both in stock right now [7d]
- Gaming needs a ‘vinyl revival’ — I spoke with gaming and music experts to find out whether physical games could make a comeback [7d]
- PlayStation Blackout won't matter — and the reasons are as obvious as the physical media you never owned [7d]
- 'The version Microsoft will build should be known as Copilot OS': Windows built around AI may not be happening, but leaked concept remains a grim portent for desktops [7d]
- The Apple Watch 12 is rumored to be released next month — get the Apple Watch 11 in stock and on sale for just $299 at Amazon [7d]
- Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is a phenomenal fighting game hampered by corporate meddling [7d]
- I'm a home appliances expert, and these are the air fryer accessories I recommend to everyone — including a £3 buy that'll double your usable cooking space [7d]
- Currys launches an epic bank holiday sale — here are 12 of the best deals I'd buy from Acer, Bose, Dyson, Apple, LG, and more [7d]
- The AI industry is about to relearn every lesson of the ad blocking wars [7d]
- 'A dream come true': Sihoo Doro C300 Pro V2 ergonomic office chair offers adaptive lumbar support, 8D armrests and a 135-degree recline, and it's a price cut in the Labor Day and back-to-school sale [7d]
- How to self-host your own AI agent [7d]
- 'A computer should not make decisions on its own': Uber fined $1 billion for using automated systems to suspend 171 drivers [7d]
- A modern endpoint does not mean you have modern applications [7d]
- Philips Hue and Nanoleaf could soon reveal an unlikely tie-in — leaked adapter promises to bring Nanoleaf LED modules to your Hue app [7d]
- Logitech MX Ergo S trackball mouse and Ergo K860 split keyboard bring ergonomic comfort for your employees, and both are 15% off right now [7d]
- How to watch The Airport Chaplain online from anywhere — stream aviation drama for free from anywhere [7d]
- 'An exceptional machine capable of producing some of the best 3D prints': Creality K2 Pro Combo offers 4-color support, active chamber heating and dual AI cameras, and it's got a huge discount in Creality's back-to-school sale [7d]
- What is the release date for The Shards episodes 6 and 7 on Hulu and Disney+? [7d]
- Android car systems abused by hackers to launch new malware that pulls devices into a hidden proxy network [7d]
- I was ready to discount the stumpy Galaxy Z Fold 8, but a week-long vacation proved Samsung's new form factor is a winner [7d]
- Apple’s new Mac mini looks the same, but the M6 inside brings a major performance boost [7d]
- 'Let the team cook. It will be worth the wait' — CD Projekt Red confirms The Witcher 4 is 'targeting' a 2028 launch [7d]
- Some Mac users think they're installing OpenAI Codex, but it's actually a malware that can steal passwords in seconds [7d]
- Making Real Connections [7d]
- Nokia’s latest retro feature phone comes with a super-bright flashlight and built-in power bank — and yes, there’s a headphone jack too [7d]
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