The Brutalist Report - tech
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- The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms [1d]
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- U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947 [1d]
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- AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says [1d]
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- So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now [1d]
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- Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500 [1d]
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- John Leeson (the voice of K9) has died [1d]
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- Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? [1d]
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- Proposed data centre will release 23 Hiroshima atomic bomb worth of energy a day [2d]
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- It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge [2d]
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- Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare [2d]
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- US Jobs Pickup May Keep Fed on Track to Hike Rates Again [2d]
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- Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it [2d]
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- Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power [2d]
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- I Am the Reason OpenAI Is Killing Unlimited Chats [2d]
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- Frontier Airlines Likely Breached [2d]
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- Alleged Mythos Class Anthropic Checkpoint Leak [2d]
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- Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter [2d]
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- Seoul Biosys Begins Production of Rare Earth-Free White Micro LEDs [2d]
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- Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books recommended on HN [2d]
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- Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face [2d]
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- Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions [2d]
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- Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release [2d]
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- Police chief unplugs Flock cameras after company ignores contract cancellation [2d]
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- Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case [2d]
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- Pi Is the Last Harness [2d]
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- Novellas with Groff [2d]
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- AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy [2d]
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- Proving and Improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs [2d]
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- The "Moon Trees" [2d]
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- A 90% Chance of AI Saving Humanity [2d]
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- Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust [2d]
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- The question we should all be asking about AI [2d]
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- Is It EDT or EST? [2d]
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- Everyone Has Email. Nobody Uses It Right [2d]
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- noyb win: French electronics retailer Fnac Darty fined €7M [2d]
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- Norway makes shithouses great again [2d]
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- Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) [2d]
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- Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) [2d]
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- Sam Altman says DRAM capacity should go to data centers, not personal computers [2d]
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- A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income [2d]
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- OpenIDEA: The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust [2d]
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- Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard? [2d]
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- Pac-Man's Siren Call [2d]
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- The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks [2d]
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- Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing [2d]
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- OTape [2d]
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- Hermantown approves controversial Google Data Center during late night meeting [2d]
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- Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM [2d]
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- Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards [2d]
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- How IShowSpeed became YouTube's top livestreamer with 62M+ subscribers, as his 24/7 "IRL streams" that last days mingle childlike wonder with teenage mischief (Jon Caramanica/New York Times) [1d]
- Saudi Aramco acquires a 49% stake in AI startup Humain, contributing ~$2.6B in cash in 2026 plus AI, compute, and digital assets; Saudi Arabia's PIF retains 51% (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat) [1d]
- OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses" (Axios) [1d]
- How "get-paid-to" apps like Freecash, briefly a top five App Store app in September, pay users small sums to play games and help publishers find big spenders (John Herrman/New York Magazine) [1d]
- ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to speed up customers' migrations to its CRM, for an undisclosed price estimated at hundreds of millions (Allon Sinai/CTech) [1d]
- Analysis: candidates backing a data center moratorium could win up to 15 of 36 US governors' races on Tuesday, including in Texas, Ohio, Michigan, and New York (Shane Burke/The Information) [2d]
- A look at VC-backed glossy magazine Colossus, whose glowing profiles of Zuckerberg and other tech titans win industry praise, as Kara Swisher says it is PR (Andrew Fedorov/The San Francisco Standard) [2d]
- Binance says net outflows were $3.64B, or 2.1% of assets, in the 9.5 hours after it began restoring withdrawals; DefiLlama puts 24-hour net outflows at $4.05B (Zack Abrams/The Block) [2d]
- Google's data center energy head says space data centers cost up to 100x more than Earth-based ones, and US power supply is sufficient but permits are slow (Amir Efrati/The Information) [2d]
- A profile of White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, an ex-Peter Thiel aide who is among a handful of players steering the Trump administration's AI policy (Harry Lambert/Colossus) [2d]
- Solve: the cost of insuring against debt defaults at hyperscalers Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle has hit its highest level since 2021 (Gunjan Banerji/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Lumaril, which develops AI software for optimizing industrial production by connecting to existing control systems, raised a $66M Series A at a $400M valuation (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Binance says it plans to resume withdrawals in phases starting Sunday, after covering 95% of the ~$6.3B in tokens stolen in the hack, including BTC and ETH (Reuters) [2d]
- Shanghai-based NeuroXess, which is developing BCI technology for movement support, speech decoding, and control of external devices, raised a ~$105M Series B (TechNode) [2d]
- Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M+ and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [2d]
- DeepSeek open sources Super-Agent as a research prototype, a proactive coding agent it says can monitor group chats for coding issues and suggest solutions (Debby Wu/Bloomberg) [2d]
- A look at a crude campaign of cyberattacks by Russia-linked hacktivist groups that have caused physical damage in NATO-aligned countries over the past two years (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyperexponential, which makes AI-powered insurance underwriting and pricing software, for $1.7B in cash (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters) [2d]
- The FBI attributes the $6B+ Binance hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor hacking group, which the agency also previously blamed for the Bybit hack (Kevin Whitelaw/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers; Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22% (Washington Post) [2d]
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- Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Monday, Nov. 2, #1962 [1d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Spangram and Answers for Monday, Nov. 2, #974 [1d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Monday, Nov. 2, #1240 [1d]
- Disney Plus in November: A New Season of ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians,’ ‘Mickey’s Home Alone’ and More [2d]
- Premier League Soccer: Stream Liverpool vs. Arsenal Live From Anywhere [2d]
- Watch ‘Dig,’ ‘The Good Daughter’ and More on Peacock This November [2d]
- Smeg Stand Mixer vs. KitchenAid: More Power, More Style, Same Price Tag [2d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Nov. 1 #769 [2d]
- Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Nov. 1 [2d]
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