The Brutalist Report - tech
- GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet [46d]
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- DOJ asks for judgement requiring Google to divest Chrome [pdf] [46d]
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- Why do I find Rust inadequate for text compression codecs? [46d]
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- How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? [46d]
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- AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement [46d]
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- Measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico now 208 cases, 2 deaths [46d]
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- We found a DOGE guy at NASA because his Google Calendar was public [46d]
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- Musk/DOGE efforts to sell off civil rights historical site [46d]
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- Letta: Letta is a framework for creating LLM services with memory [46d]
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- Monotype and Phototypesetting (2000) [pdf] [46d]
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- From Prompt to Adventures:Creating Games with LLMs and Restate Durable Functions [46d]
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- Virtual Punch Card Creator [46d]
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- ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Rust Database Engineer [46d]
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- Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere [46d]
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- 'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability [46d]
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- Deriving Muon [46d]
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- No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard [46d]
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- The Take It Down Act isn't a law, it's a weapon [46d]
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- Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle [46d]
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- Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder – and that of my colleague [46d]
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- Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk [46d]
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- Great software design looks underwhelming [46d]
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- Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener [46d]
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- Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video] [46d]
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- Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools [46d]
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- Two weak spots in Big Tech economics [46d]
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- Impact of 8 lifestyle factors on mortality and life expectancy among US veterans [46d]
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- Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI [46d]
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- Extracting time series features: a powerful method from a obscure paper [pdf] [46d]
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- WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely [46d]
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- How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars [46d]
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- First Porn, Now Skin Cream? 'Age Verification' Bills Are Out of Control [46d]
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- Cliff Asness: The New 'Crypto Fort Knox' Is as Dumb as It Sounds [46d]
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- AMD YOLO [46d]
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- Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon [46d]
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- What if America turned off Britain's weapons? [46d]
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- Show HN: A big tech dev experience for an open source CMS [46d]
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- Introducing command And commandfor In HTML [46d]
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- Optimistic Locking in B-Trees [46d]
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- Building your sense of what's important at a tech company [46d]
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- Reflection – AlphaGo / Gemini team building superintelligent coding agents [46d]
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- Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment [46d]
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- Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"? [46d]
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- Kraftful (YC S19) is hiring a founding eng to support our hockey-stick growth [46d]
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- Show HN: IEMidi – Cross-platform MIDI map editor for arbitrary controllers [46d]
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- Why reading Martha C Nussbaum's philosophy is pure pleasure [46d]
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- Kitchen foil and Algerian markets: When your phone is stolen in London [46d]
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- Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it [46d]
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- Female brewers are back – 500 years since their heyday [46d]
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- Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market [46d]
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- Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology [46d]
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- Woman's DNA discovered in 20k year old deer-tooth pendant [46d]
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- A collection of website seizure banners created by government agencies [46d]
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- When Europe needed it most, the Ariane 6 rocket delivered [46d]
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- The Official Aztec C Online Museum [46d]
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- Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring a Chief of Staff [46d]
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- The Landscape of Lisp [46d]
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- Zig's dot star syntax (value.*) [46d]
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- Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects [46d]
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- Ten Digit Problems (2011) [pdf] [46d]
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- How often are children genetically unrelated to their presumed fathers? [47d]
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- Days Since Starship Exploded counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now [47d]
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- Google begins testing AI-only search results [47d]
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- US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report [47d]
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- 40% of Britons haven't read a single book in the last 12 months [47d]
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- Bye, Prime [47d]
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- Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled [47d]
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- Cargo (YC S23) Is Hiring [47d]
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- Bitcoin's Fatal Flaw: Why Financial Surveillance Is Inevitable Without Privacy [47d]
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- Ladder: Self-Improving LLMs Through Recursive Problem Decomposition [47d]
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- Rules to improve air quality are under attack [47d]
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- Hacked firm demanded journalist 'take down' breach reporting, citing UK court [47d]
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- Cybercriminals used vendor backdoor to steal almost $600,000 of Taylor Swift tickets [46d]
- I compared GPT-4.5 to Gemini 2.0 Flash and the results surprised me [46d]
- Brother denies claims it locked down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates [46d]
- The anti-Cybertruck? This new electric pick-up is the size of a Mini and the cutest way to haul your gear [46d]
- Apple officially delays the AI-infused Siri and admits, ‘It’s going to take us longer than we thought’ [46d]
- AMD officially announces price and release date for Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D processors [46d]
- This is Amazon's first foray in servers, and certainly not the last: MicroTik franken-router is powered by the AWS Graviton 1 Arm CPU [46d]
- Samsung, Apple and Meta want to use OLED in their next VR headsets – but only Meta has a plan to make it cheap [46d]
- Ransomware’s favorite Russian crypto exchange seized by law enforcement [46d]
- There's something strange going on with Google Pixel phone vibrations after the latest update [46d]
- NordVPN reacts to results from its latest security audit [46d]
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- AMD's new driver adds AFMF 2.1 support for improved frame generation - and it could be a game-changer for handheld gaming PCs [46d]
- Thousands of WordPress sites targeted with malicious plugin backdoor attacks [46d]
- Budget gamers rejoice as Nvidia RTX 5050 and RTX 5060 are rumored to launch in April [46d]
- Another huge new botnet is infecting thousands of webcams and video recorders for DDoS attacks [46d]
- The era of Agentic AI [46d]
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- Victrola has put Bluetooth, UPnP and Roon in its Sonos-only turntables and it's the hi-fi equivalent of ‘I think we should see other people’ [46d]
- Disco Elysium successor XXX Nightshift nets some serious musical talent [46d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, March 8 (game #1139) [46d]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to stream on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, and more this weekend (March 7) [46d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, March 8 (game #636) [46d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, March 8 (game #370) [46d]
- AMD might go for Nvidia’s jugular in Q2 with a faster RX 9070 ‘Extreme’ GPU that could leave the RTX 5070 Ti in the dust [46d]
- New benchmark suggests Apple's M3 Ultra may not be much faster than the M4 Max - only a minor uplift in multi-core performance [46d]
- The Spotify bug that shows ads to Premium subscribers has finally been fixed - for now at least [46d]
- Microsoft reveals over a million PCs hit by malvertising campaign [46d]
- UK government guidelines remove encryption advice following Apple backdoor spat [46d]
- Android 16 beta users are reporting major battery drain issues – but I’m not too worried about it [46d]
- Android 16 brings a much-needed upgrade to Google Maps that iOS users already have [46d]
- Malicious "polymorphic" Chrome extensions can mimic other tools to trick victims [46d]
- Samsung says ‘millions’ are using Galaxy AI regularly, despite surprising survey results [46d]
- Apple Music gets the royal treatment with special King Charles show – and the playlist has some real jewels [46d]
- United Airlines successfully installed Starlink on its first aircraft, and the promised speeds are up to 50 times faster [46d]
- Garmin Fenix 6, Enduro, Marq and Tactix watches are getting fixes to solve some frustrating problems – here's what's new [46d]
- ExpressVPN releases a major upgrade to its Linux app [46d]
- Hackers spotted using unsecured webcam to launch cyberattack [46d]
- iPhone 17 Air leaks suggest it'll get next-gen battery – as offset the 17 Pro Max's weight gains [46d]
- Are you an Xbox Insider? I'm here to warn you that the latest update might wipe your console [46d]
- Latest leaked Google Pixel 9a images hint at new purple color and the tiniest of camera bumps [46d]
- Want to expand your Philips Hue setup? These 3 new lights will let you take it outdoors [46d]
- The ChatGPT Mac app just got a massive coding upgrade – and it’s coming to Windows soon [46d]
- Balancing innovation and security in an era of intensifying global competition [46d]
- We’re locked inside a creative bubble, will AI burst it or throw away the key? [46d]
- Google Chrome launches better warning labels to make sure you know you're using a company profile [46d]
- This compact new headphone amp from a hi-fi legend will boost sound quality for wired or wireless headphones [46d]
- Don’t panic, gaming laptop buyers – Nvidia assures us that mobile RTX 5000 graphics cards won’t have the chip-level fault that hit desktop GPUs [46d]
- The new Shark fan can blast blades of air in any direction, and it's set to make summer far more bearable [47d]
- HPE set to cut thousands of employees despite results rise [47d]
- Severance season 2 episode 8 just revealed four big details about Harmony Cobel's past – and spawned two new theories about Cold Harbor and Kier Eagan [47d]
- I was impressed by the Nacon Revolution X Unlimited Xbox controller at a recent event, and you can pre-order one right now [47d]
- Google Meet is finally giving you the tools to create better AI-generated video backgrounds [47d]
- 1Password is making it easier to find passwords based on where you are [47d]
- Five ways to save time and money with your IT in 2025 [47d]
- The multidimensional strategy enterprises need for AI and cloud workloads [47d]
- How to use ChatGPT to prepare for a job interview [47d]
- The M3 MacBook Air is officially discontinued, but the M2 MacBook Air will live on elsewhere and that's good news [47d]
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