The Brutalist Report - tech
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- The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility [2d]
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- Why I Created phpc.tv [2d]
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- Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video] [2d]
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- Let's Buy Spirit Air [2d]
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- The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions [2d]
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- Agentic Coding Is a Trap [2d]
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- DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper [2d]
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- Introduction to Atom [2d]
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- Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013) [2d]
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- Make Your Own Microforest [2d]
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- Simulating Cells Fighting to the Death [2d]
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- Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O" [2d]
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- Statue of a man blinded by a flag put up by Banksy in central London [2d]
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- Why TUIs Are Back [2d]
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- The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left [2d]
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- Talking to Transformers [2d]
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- Separating what AI does well from what code does well [2d]
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- Past Ferrari Models, 1947–2023 [2d]
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- Show HN: Ableton Live MCP [2d]
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- BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth [2d]
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- LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction [2d]
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- I Recreated the Apple Lisa Computer Inside an FPGA – The LisaFPGA Project [2d]
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- Maybe AI Isn't a Bubble After All [2d]
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- Collaborative Editing in CodeMirror [2d]
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- The Oscars Just Banned AI from Winning Acting and Writing Awards [2d]
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- How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website [2d]
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- What Chromium versions are major browsers are on? [2d]
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- Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars (2023) [2d]
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- Southwest Headquarters Tour [2d]
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- Largest electric autonomous container ship begins commercial service [2d]
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- Metal Gear Solid 2's Source Code Has Been Leaked on 4Chan [2d]
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- Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time [2d]
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- Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors [2d]
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- Uncle Bob: It's Over [2d]
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- Ghost Operators: How Israeli telecoms were exploited to track citizens worldwide [2d]
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- Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors [2d]
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- For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day [2d]
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- Testing macOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs [2d]
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- Israel Said It's Applying the Gaza Model in Lebanon [2d]
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- A Desktop Made for One [2d]
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- Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases [2d]
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- Business Owners Are Worst Clients [2d]
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- Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad [2d]
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- Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races [2d]
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- Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons [2d]
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- The Hiddn Financial Bubble in AI Infrastructure [pdf] [2d]
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- Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs [2d]
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- Breaking Up with WordPress After Two Decades [2d]
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- Five Banana Lessons [2d]
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- Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery [2d]
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- Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015) [2d]
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- Alert-Driven Monitoring [2d]
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- The Petroleum System Is Entering Its Volatile Decline Phase [2d]
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- I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now [3d]
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- I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph [3d]
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- Virtual violin produces realistic sounds [3d]
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- The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory [3d]
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- Show HN: I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success [3d]
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- Show HN: I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM [3d]
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- All Four Sentinel-1 Satellites Are Now Live [3d]
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- Coffee doesn't just wake you up–a biological pathway illuminates health effects [3d]
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- Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services [3d]
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- Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security [3d]
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- Thoth – open-source Local-first AI Assistant [3d]
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- Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web [3d]
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- Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer [3d]
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- Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 [3d]
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- Learning Pseudorandom Numbers with Transformers [3d]
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- Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me (BBC) [3d]
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- Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML [3d]
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- The Reality of Being a Man in Your 50s in South Korea [3d]
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- Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal [3d]
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- Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives [3d]
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- Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge [3d]
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- The first photo published in a newspaper [3d]
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- Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API [3d]
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- AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share [3d]
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- Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community [3d]
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- Care Homes and Hotels in Japan Shut as Expansion Strategy Unravels [3d]
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- Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores [3d]
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- Clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout [3d]
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- Am I the only one who hates delivery robots? [3d]
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- OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors [3d]
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- A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury [3d]
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- GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen says he is making an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay and will take the offer to shareholders if the company is not receptive (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~$2.5B with 2M+ paying users and $300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes) [2d]
- A look at Atlassian and Twilio earnings beats, with early signs of Atlassian's AI response success and Twilio becoming a picks-and-shovels layer for AI agents (Jason Lemkin/SaaStr) [2d]
- Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from 65% in 2025, as latest wave of collaborations shifts from chips to physical AI (Abhishek Vishnoi/Bloomberg) [2d]
- JLL: Japan's $23B data center market is set to grow ~50% by 2030, with 90% of sites concentrated in densely populated regions, prompting pushback from residents (Financial Times) [2d]
- How Amazon's expansion into fashion helped Jeff Bezos enter fashion's inner circle, as he and Lauren Sánchez Bezos become underwriters for this year's Met Gala (Chavie Lieber/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- Nintendo's share price has fallen by ~45% since August 2025, as rising memory chip costs drive investor concerns over profit margins for the Switch 2 (David Keohane/Financial Times) [3d]
- A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date (NIST) [3d]
- A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids (Rachyl Jones/Semafor) [3d]
- Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally over failures to alert law enforcement when users describe plans for real-world violence to ChatGPT (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at $120M-$140M (The Economic Times) [3d]
- Amadeus IT Group, which operates the world's largest travel booking system, plans to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, for €1.2B in cash (Javi West Larrañaga/Reuters) [3d]
- Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC "continues to sharpen its focus"; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable) [3d]
- Maryland becomes the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores, as other states including CO, CA, MA, IL, and NJ consider similar bills (Sanya Mansoor/The Guardian) [3d]
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- Quordle hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #1561) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #792) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #1058) [2d]
- The biggest surprise of my recent San Francisco trip? Hearing how much Steve Wozniak loves his iPhone Air [2d]
- MacBook Pro M4 vs Mac Pro M2: which Mac is best for you? [2d]
- 'Unprecedented drought conditions': More than 500 data centers across Nevada, California, and Arizona could feel the pinch as the iconic Hoover Dam potentially loses 40% of its power output because of poor rainfall and abnormally low snowpack numbers [2d]
- The US just found millions of tons of lithium in Appalachia, enough for 500 billion cellphones — and experts say it could power the next century of American tech and weaken China's grip on batteries [2d]
- ‘We pride ourselves on human curation’: Vocana is an indie music service determined to challenge Spotify’s payment system — I spoke with the platform’s President about the company’s inception, and how it’s planning to fix music streaming [2d]
- 'A dream technology': Japanese scientists might have unlocked the next generation of solar panels that stay cooler and last longer thanks to "spin-flip" material that achieves 130% energy conversion efficiency — and here's how it works [2d]
- ‘When I compare it to Spotify Lossless, Apple Music is the clear winner’: I signed up to Apple Music again, and this time it’s all about spatial audio — these are 5 Dolby Atmos-supported albums I think are perfect for new subscribers [2d]
- These 20 clever kitchen storage ideas from IKEA will give you heaps of extra space to cook, with no DIY necessary [2d]
- Windows 11 is such a memory hog that I've had to resort to RAM optimizers — but can Microsoft turn things around with project K2? [2d]
- I've been gaming on my phone with the GameSir G8 Galileo, and it's the closest I've come to replacing my console [2d]
- iPhone 17 vs iPhone Air: do you want specs or style? [2d]
- 'No single vendor can (or should) dictate the full solution' — AMD positions itself as the open platform champion in the space race in a veiled dig at its arch-rivals and up-and-coming challengers [3d]
- What is the release date for The Testaments episode 7 on Hulu and Disney+? [3d]
- The Laifen P3 Pro is a fantastic travel shaver with great battery life, but not suitable for more beardy users [3d]
- Man Utd vs Liverpool Live Streams: How to watch Premier League 2025/26 from anywhere in the world [3d]
- Adobe's legal chief calls for creator protection as policymakers and tech companies reframe copyright in the era of AI [3d]
- Should a print subscription be considered? I used HP’s All-In Plan for two months to find out [3d]
- Verizon deal includes not one, not two, but four Galaxy S26 on a super cheap unlimited plan — and you don't have to trade [3d]
- Microsoft's CEO promised the world to consumers in a speech about fixing Windows 11 — but one thing Satya Nadella said worries me [3d]
- 'The only worry is for your budget': Microsoft briefly says 32GB of RAM is the 'no worries' level for gaming on Windows 11, but users fear getting priced out [3d]
- From controller to camera — this photography sim is the ultimate training tool for your next shoot in the real outdoors [3d]
- "Despite the name, they lack nuance" I've got a hearing impairment, so I tried the high-tech Nuance Audio smart glasses to see if they really can help me hear better without the hassle of a hearing aid [3d]
- I'm a trained barista, and these are the top 3 budget-friendly coffee makers I recommend for cafe-quality drinks at home, from De'Longhi, Ninja and Philips [3d]
- How to watch Murphy vs Wu for FREE: Live stream World Snooker Championship 2026 Final from anywhere [3d]
- My least favorite Dyson innovation has snuck its way into its new cordless vacuum — but this bit of small print might just have restored my enthusiasm [3d]
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