The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Out with the JavaScript, in with the HTML [17m]
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- Checkmate in Iran [43m]
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- I keep tripping over "true, false, true" [1h]
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- OP's script shuts down every single computer in the company [2h]
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- From Today, Software Engineering Is Dead [2h]
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- Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb [2h]
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- European Money Pours into Palantir [3h]
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- Organized Dogmatism Controls the Message about Gender Bias in the Academy [3h]
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- I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Training AI [3h]
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- Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics [4h]
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- All Those A.I. Note Takers? They're Making Lawyers Nervous [4h]
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- When Is "Next Friday"? [4h]
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- Truth Social lays bare narrow obsessions of an online president [6h]
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- The Adventure Family Tree [6h]
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- Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax [6h]
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- Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message [7h]
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- Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability [7h]
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- Iran mulls taking control of all 7 cables passing through Strait of Hormuz [9h]
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- 7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010) [10h]
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- The Greatest Shot in Television: James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene [11h]
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- BSides Austin Is on Hold [12h]
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- Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code [12h]
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- I'm going back to writing code by hand [13h]
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- Make America AI Ready: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Recommendations [14h]
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- AI Productivity Fails [14h]
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- You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs [14h]
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- PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs [15h]
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- Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory [15h]
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- How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings? [15h]
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- Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan [16h]
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- Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin [16h]
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- Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did [17h]
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- Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI [17h]
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- SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites [18h]
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- Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler [20h]
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- Incident CVE-2024-Yikes [20h]
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- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026) [21h]
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- Local AI needs to be the norm [21h]
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- Tracesofhumanity.org by Joanna Rutkowska [21h]
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- Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s [21h]
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- Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms [21h]
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- I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care [22h]
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- Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how [22h]
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- YC's Biggest Scandals [22h]
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- GitHub Is Sinking [22h]
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- The Locals Don't Know [22h]
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- Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down [22h]
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- Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage [23h]
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- Shunting-Yard Animation [23h]
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- Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to 'Go (Bleep) yourself' [23h]
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- Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10 [23h]
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- Cowboy Space, led by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to build data centers in orbit, raised a $275M Series B led by Index Ventures at a $2B valuation (Bruce Einhorn/Bloomberg) [36m]
- OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a $4B+ investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acquires AI consulting firm Tomoro (Reuters) [1h]
- Google's TIG reports the first confirmed instance of "prominent cybercrime threat actors" using AI to find and weaponize a zero-day in a web-based admin tool (Dustin Volz/New York Times) [1h]
- Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving Nitro subscribers access to offers from gaming services like Xbox Game Pass and hardware like Logitech G at no extra cost (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) [1h]
- Sources: Masayoshi Son has held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about unveiling a multibillion-dollar AI data center project in the coming weeks (Bloomberg) [1h]
- In a two-week UK High Court trial, Shein accuses Temu of "industrial scale" copyright infringement of its photos; Temu says Shein is suing to stifle competition (Sam Tobin/Reuters) [1h]
- SEC filing: Cerebras upsizes its IPO to 30M shares at $150-$160 each, up from 28M shares at $115-$125, aiming to raise up to $4.8B at an up to $34.4B valuation (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg) [1h]
- Sources: Kuaishou plans to spin off its Kling AI video unit for an IPO in 2027 and is seeking a $20B valuation in pre-IPO funding talks with potential investors (The Information) [2h]
- The European Commission says it is in ongoing discussions with OpenAI and Anthropic to access their latest AI models; OpenAI is "proactively offering" access (Inti Landauro/Reuters) [3h]
- Microsoft's Playground Games accidentally uploads unencrypted pre-load files for Forza Horizon 6 to Steam, leaking the PC version before its release next week (Jez Corden/Windows Central) [3h]
- Circle raised $222M via the presale of its native Arc token at a $3B valuation; a16z led with a $75M investment, with participation from BlackRock and others (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC) [3h]
- Filing: Wise plans to debut on the Nasdaq as WSE, and relist in London for its secondary listing; Wise reports year-to-March net revenue up 19% YoY to $2.5B (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg) [4h]
- Musk v. Altman: profiles of US judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, an Obama-nominated blunt and efficient operator, and Elon Musk's and OpenAI's attorneys (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal) [4h]
- Turkish mobile gaming startup Grand Games raised a $70M Series B led by Balderton Capital, after raising $30M in 2025, taking its total funding to $103M (Tugce Ozsoy/Bloomberg) [4h]
- Dua Lipa files a $15M lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that it used her likeness to sell TVs without paying her and without permission starting in 2025 (Gene Maddaus/Variety) [4h]
- TikTok plans to roll out TikTok Ad-Free, a £3.99-per-month subscription for UK accounts aged 18 or older in the coming months, after testing the option in 2023 (Sean Keach/The Sun) [5h]
- The 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is dead, as LLMs compress bug finding and exploit development time, and critical issues must be patched immediately (Himanshu Anand) [6h]
- Brookings: clerical and administrative workers, 85%+ of whom are women, are among the most exposed to AI-driven displacement and least equipped to navigate it (Taylor Telford/Financial Times) [6h]
- A look at "YouTube whisperers" like Paddy Galloway and Mario Joos, a booming class of advisers that help popular YouTube creators grow their audiences (CNBC) [8h]
- Chinese state media: CAS Cold Atom Technology has built the 200-qubit Hanyuan-2, the world's first dual-core quantum computer, with a core for error correction (Luke James/Tom's Hardware) [8h]
- SoftBank partners with South Korea's Cosmos Lab and DeltaX to mass produce next-gen data center batteries in Japan at the scale of one GWh per year in FY 2027 (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg) [9h]
- Sources: OpenAI facilitated a $6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600+ current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of $30M (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal) [9h]
- Nvidia embraces its role as an AI investor in 2026, committing $40B+ to equity investments including a $30B stake in OpenAI, $3.2B in Corning, and $2.1B in IREN (CNBC) [10h]
- Q&A with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on 2026 as "year of agents", the end of the smartphone-centric world, 6G turning humans into "walking cameras", and more (Fortune) [11h]
- Corporate lawyers say AI-transcribed meeting notes may not have attorney-client privilege, making otherwise protected conversations discoverable in lawsuits (Sarah Kessler/New York Times) [13h]
- Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from $115-$125 per share to $150-$160 per share, potentially raising ~$4.8B at the top of the new range (Echo Wang/Reuters) [15h]
- A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women (Anna Tong/Forbes) [15h]
- Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising a ~$300M round led by a16z crypto at a ~$2B valuation (Bloomberg) [18h]
- Microsoft and G42's $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya stalls after the government couldn't provide annual payment guarantees that Microsoft requested (Bloomberg) [20h]
- A profile of Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, a Palantir alum and self-identified Democrat, as Anduril's defense tech shakes up the US military-industrial complex (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) [22h]
- Sources: Apple is working on a "slight redesign" for macOS 27 to address Liquid Glass issues, plans a feature to automatically group Safari tabs in "27" OSes (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [23h]
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- Navigating the rise of agentic AI in 2026 [3m]
- 'I have zero evidence in front of me that users are being driven away from Fedora because of AI': Ubuntu and Fedora confirmed to both get AI support soon [27m]
- Directive 8020 is Dark Pictures' most ambitious entry yet – and its most forgiving [37m]
- The Tom's Guide Savings Squad is here to help you upgrade your life for less — here's how [48m]
- DJI drone ban still in full-force — but the US government has issued a small software reprieve, and is letting you have your say [58m]
- Palantir contractors working for NHS to receive ‘unlimited access’ to patient data [1h]
- Top download manager JDownloader hacked — installers replaced with dangerous malware [1h]
- What is the release date for The Punisher: One Last Kill on Disney+? [1h]
- OnePlus 15 vs OnePlus 15R: an extra letter for a lower price [1h]
- HBO wants Rooster season 2 'within a year or less' according to the show's creators — here's what we know so far [1h]
- Airbnb CEO admits 'I do not think anyone has figured out AI for travel or e-commerce yet' — but says AI now writes 60% of its new code [2h]
- ‘The way Apple’s design team intended it from the start’: Liquid Glass is getting a macOS 27 overhaul to fix its most glaring problems [2h]
- Netflix just added the steamiest, bonkers, and most iconic horror movie from the 2000s — if you haven't streamed it yet, you haven't lived [2h]
- What is the release date for Dutton Ranch episodes 1 and 2 on Paramount+? [2h]
- And so it begins — Sony has pledged to AI use for PlayStation, claiming it will 'unleash the creativity of our studios', and this is what I've been worried about [3h]
- 6 smart plant-care gadgets that will help your houseplants thrive, with minimal effort and expertise required [3h]
- Zara data breach saw 197,000 people have information exposed — but luckily, hackers may not have accessed private info [3h]
- AI memory crunch will make smartphones more expensive [3h]
- Gmail is adding new AI tools to make your work emails sound even more like you [3h]
- Digital sovereignty is no longer a policy debate, it’s technology decision [3h]
- Trump Mobile’s terms and conditions have been updated to suggest the T1 Phone might never ship, surprising almost no one [4h]
- 'AI is no longer a future concept, but an operational reality': New KPMG report claims firms are "racing" to deploy AI - but need to ensure they have the right security protections [4h]
- Why AI-generated ads are becoming indistinguishable [4h]
- Gartner: GenAI has broken traditional cybersecurity awareness – what comes next? [4h]
- Your humble digital wallet may soon become the gatekeeper to your purchases [5h]
- 'The next few months and years will be pivotal': Most tech workers aren't sure MPs understand what AI actually does [5h]
- Compression’s new goal: Reducing how much an AI ‘overthinks’ [5h]
- VPN deal of the week: Get Norton VPN Standard at half-price with TechRadar's exclusive deal where you get a $30 Amazon gift card with any two-year Norton VPN plan – perfect for keeping data secure on your phone, tablet, or computer [5h]
- Everyone’s doing AI, but who’s seeing value? [5h]
- These bookshelf speakers just replaced basically every part of my hi-fi set-up in one fell swoop — after months of testing, I really appreciate the Edifier M90's sheer range of connectivity [13h]
- Rivals season 2 review: Jilly Cooper bonkbuster is still as steamy as ever — but troubling tensions take over in first three-episode release [15h]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, May 11 (game #799) [15h]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, May 11 (game #1065) [15h]
- Quordle hints and answers for Monday, May 11 (game #1568) [15h]
- I'm impressed that Microsoft keeps on improving PowerToys with smart additions — but I wonder why the newest monitor trick isn't in Windows 11 by default [16h]
- Tiny company steals AMD's thunder and challenges Nvidia with old-tech PCIe AI accelerator that runs 700B LLMs locally, sipping just 240W thanks to decade-old DDR4 and 28nm chips [18h]
- Samsung has a massive TV sale ahead of Memorial Day — up to $1,500 off top-rated 4K, QLED, and OLED TVs [18h]
- I’ve been testing controllers for half a decade, and not a single budget option has impressed me like the 8BitDo Pro 3 [19h]
- These 18 clever outdoor kitchen solutions from IKEA will let you create a stunning summer cooking space on a budget [19h]
- 'It feels like a slap in the face' — never fact-check your doctor with ChatGPT as study shows doing so 'undermines' your relationship with human experts — and could even offend them by making them feel 'disrespected' [20h]
- How to watch Barcelona vs Real Madrid: Live Streams & TV Channels for El Clasico 2025/26 [22h]
- 'People use smartphones more but invest less in their security': New report claims McAfee and Norton remain the most loved antivirus brands as users ditch lesser-known security products for free tools like Microsoft Defender or Apple Xprotect [23h]
- I’m a certified TV calibrator, and I tested the LG C6 and LG G5 OLEDs side-by-side to see which is better value — and I was surprised by the result [23h]
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