The Brutalist Report - tech
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- 11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture [5d]
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- Show HN: One More Letter [5d]
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- Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite [5d]
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- Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials [5d]
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- The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996) [5d]
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- SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions [5d]
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- LLM Networking with MikroTik [5d]
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- P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC [5d]
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- Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf] [5d]
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- We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes [5d]
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- Odin 2 Portal Exploded [5d]
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- The End of Creativity [5d]
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- Must actively fund open source AI [pdf] [5d]
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- Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly [5d]
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- Grok Build is open source [5d]
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- The Rise of Grocery Tourism [5d]
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- GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend [5d]
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- Grok Build Is OSS [5d]
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- Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies (2021) [5d]
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- Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok [5d]
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- Voxatron [5d]
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- Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel [5d]
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- I Left Google DeepMind [5d]
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- Murati's Thinking Machines Releases Open-Weights 975B Parameter LLM [5d]
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- Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model [5d]
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- Show HN: Tarit – a hypervisor which is 2x faster than firecracker [5d]
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- US Debt Clock Live [5d]
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- Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders [5d]
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- Show HN: Painterly – Turn pictures into digital paintings without generative AI [5d]
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- Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Software Engineers [5d]
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- Rustwright: Playwright rewritten in Rust that uses 70% less memory [5d]
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- Primate Is the Last Great Web Framework [5d]
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- A General Goal-Conditioned Minecraft Model [5d]
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- Collection of Digital Clock Designs [5d]
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- FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from Its Base System [5d]
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- Starlink 2X Price Increase [5d]
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- What designing 54 computer science cards taught me about graphic design [5d]
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- The Psychology of Software Teams [5d]
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- Open-source memory for coding agents, synced over SSH [5d]
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- Unsolved Problems in MLOps [5d]
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- Purging George Orwell's books misses what drives the political right [5d]
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- Codex Micro [5d]
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- Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios) [5d]
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- J-space comparisons across open models [5d]
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- Launch HN: Coasty (YC S26) – An API for computer-use agents [5d]
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- Nat Slipstreaming v2.0 allows an attacker to remotely access any TCP/UDP service [5d]
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- When A.I. Is a Member of the Family [5d]
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- The age of the Universe from a large sample of the oldest Galactic stars [5d]
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- Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/SEC on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU [5d]
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- SendLang: A DSL for Email Automation [5d]
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- DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety [5d]
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- Show HN: Stacks – an hourly card solitaire about building four gardens [5d]
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- OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court [5d]
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- CVE-2026-59208: Cross-Issuer Account Takeover in n8n [5d]
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- My Midlife Crisis Corolla Is Fast, Furious, and Modded [5d]
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- The well-calibrated Bayesian [pdf] [6d]
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- Towards a Harness That Can Do Anything [6d]
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- The Chickens and the Bulls (2012) [6d]
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- Show HN: StyleSeed – a design-rules engine so AI agents stop building generic UI [6d]
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- US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent [6d]
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- Show HN: 18KB ls alternative in no_std rust and Libc [6d]
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- Pong Wars on the Commodore 64 [6d]
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- Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? [6d]
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- Show HN: Aict – Unix coreutils that output XML/JSON, built for AI agents [6d]
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- Show HN: Goku – WASM (wllama)-powered LLM inference and model manager [6d]
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- Talk: The Art of Braiding Algorithms [6d]
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- Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved [6d]
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- Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers [6d]
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- Privacy Incidents – Real-world examples of why your photos need protection [6d]
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- The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence [6d]
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- Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled [6d]
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- Supabase just announced searchable encryption [6d]
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- If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic [6d]
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- SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status [6d]
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- What `for x in y` hides from you – From Scratch Code [6d]
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- What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles? [6d]
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- Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy [6d]
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- Briar Is in Maintenance Mode [6d]
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- The $110/month self-improving pipeline [6d]
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- Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine [6d]
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- Show HN: LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory, not max_iterations [6d]
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- Cadence unveils AuraStack AI Super Agent, an AI platform for PCB and advanced chip packaging design, with Nvidia, TSMC, and Schneider Electric among early users (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes) [5d]
- Sources: Microsoft security chief Hayete Gallot, who took over in February, has prioritized AI tools, cut several hundred roles, replaced senior execs, and more (The Information) [5d]
- Venture funding of fintech startups grew 22.7% YoY in H1 2026 to $28.6B globally, but deal count fell 25.7% and funding fell 17.3% vs. H2 2025's $34.6B funding (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) [5d]
- Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says Jordan Fish, aka "Cobie", will now lead the Base app team after acknowledging some of Base's bets on social features fell short (Daniel Kuhn/The Block) [5d]
- SpaceX shares fell for a fourth-straight session on Wednesday, briefly dropping below their $135 IPO price for the first time before closing at $135.27 (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [5d]
- Apple publishes a policy for upcoming Maps ads, says home services ads are banned, medical services ads will be "evaluated on a case-by-case basis", and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [5d]
- OpenAI details GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that helps it find and fix prompt injection vulnerabilities at scale before wider deployment (OpenAI) [5d]
- Uber and Waymo are engaged in a DC lobbying battle over AV legislation, with Uber supporting a hybrid human-robotaxi model and Waymo pushing for pure robotaxis (Liam Denning/Bloomberg) [5d]
- AWS SVP Dave Brown is leaving after 19 years for a new job; he led compute and machine learning services and is a member of the S-team advising Andy Jassy (Greg Bensinger/Reuters) [5d]
- Apple raises AppleCare+ prices for Macs and iPads by $0.50 per month and $5 per year; the increases are exclusively for new sign-ups (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area (Thinking Machines Lab) [5d]
- Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's $1.5B AI implementation company, announced in May, launches with the name Ode with Anthropic and 100 engineers (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) [5d]
- Lumin Digital, which provides cloud-based digital banking software to banks and credit unions, raised more than $115M at a $1.6B post-money valuation (Ryan Lawler/Axios) [5d]
- OpenAI employees donated a combined $215K+ to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC seeking stricter AI rules and opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) [5d]
- OpenAI launches Codex Micro, a $230 desktop keypad built in collaboration with keyboard maker Work Louder, with backlit keys, a rotary knob, and a tiny joystick (Megan Morrone/Axios) [5d]
- Sources: ASML has discussed raising prices for its EUV systems with TSMC and plans to charge 10% more for its DUV systems; TSMC is resisting ASML's plans (Qianer Liu/The Information) [5d]
- Source: OnePlus will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week and Realme will exit China as part of a restructuring by parent Oppo (Bloomberg) [5d]
- Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of the company deploying its new humanoid robot in factories (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal) [5d]
- Sources: Apple is looking for chip companies to buy to boost its AI server chip efforts as it struggles with the performance of its servers running on M2 Ultra (The Information) [5d]
- Spectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised a $100M Series D from AMD, LG, others at a $1B+ valuation, up from $750M in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios) [5d]
- How TikTok Shop sellers are using AI creators and AI twins to boost sales; eMarketer: US sales on TikTok Shop are expected to hit $23.4B in 2026, up 48% YoY (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal) [5d]
- Israel-based Hemispheric, whose AI model can analyze brain activity measured non-invasively and turn it into quantitative metrics for diagnoses, raised $52M (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes) [5d]
- Amsterdam-based Monumental, which develops autonomous robotics and software for the construction industry, raised a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu) [6d]
- Miami-based Cyclops, which sells an infrastructure platform that bundles crypto and stablecoin services to payments companies, raised a $20M Series A (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune) [6d]
- Rime, which helps companies field calls using AI voice models trained on conversational data it records in a studio, raised a $24M Series A led by M13 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [6d]
- How Anthropic is pursuing a state-by-state push for ever-tougher AI safety laws, in contrast with OpenAI's "reverse federalism" strategy for common state rules (Politico) [6d]
- Sources: the EU is set to fine Google hundreds of millions of euros over alleged self-preferencing of its services in Search and restrictions on app developers (Barbara Moens/Financial Times) [6d]
- American Growth Insurance, which aims to acquire struggling independent insurance firms and transform them using AI, raised almost $70M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) [6d]
- Gavin Newsom is tempering his pro-tech instincts with economic populism ahead of a likely presidential bid, proposing giving Americans equity in AI companies (Jeremy B. White/Politico) [6d]
- Indian AI coding startup Emergent raised a $130M Series C at a $1.5B post-money valuation, up from $300M in January, bringing its total funding raised to $230M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [6d]
- Hinge adds Friend's Take, a new feature that lets daters enlist 10 close contacts to share written feedback, photos, voice notes, or videos on their profiles (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) [6d]
- Israel-based Oak, which is building an AI-native identity access management system, comes out of stealth with a $60M seed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch) [6d]
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- 'Bose features at a non-Bose price, for the first time': Skullcandy launches its most premium headphones ever, getting by with a little help from its friend [5d]
- USAF wants to replace $30 million MQ-9 Reaper drones with cheaper UAVs after "dozens" were lost in Iran, costing taxpayers billions [5d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, July 16 (game #1634) [5d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, July 16 (game #1131) [5d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, July 16 (game #865) [5d]
- Quote of the day by Sam Altman: ;It also takes a lot of energy to train a human' — a staunch defense of the cost of AI training [5d]
- Orbiting space data centers may face an unexpected hurdle — from environmental politics [5d]
- Relax, Apple, OpenAI and its rumored AI smart speaker plans are no threat to you, Siri, HomePods, robots, or any other part of your business [5d]
- Top AI tools such as OpenClaw and Github Copilot can be hijacked to create new massive botnets [5d]
- This software team will charge you $10,000 a week to remove all AI-generated code from your systems — and use AI to do it [5d]
- Cheaper than an iPhone: Price of record-breaking Ukraine AI FPV drone slashed to $500 as range increases sixfold to 68 miles [5d]
- ‘A candidate who was hostile from day one never produces that baseline’: Nation states spies applying for legit jobs are hard to spot [5d]
- VPN deal of the week: After a year of testing it, this is the VPN I'll be using to stream England vs Argentina [5d]
- Experts flag new scam targeting fans seeking tickets for Celine Dion concerts [5d]
- England vs Argentina LIVE: Free Streams, TV Guide & How to watch from anywhere [5d]
- I spent 10 hours comparing two fantastic premium compact cameras, the Lumix L10 and Fujifilm X100VI — here’s which one I’d buy with my own money [5d]
- Viltrox unveils a miraculously small 'pancake' lens with bright f/2.8 aperture for Sony and Nikon cameras — and it has an innovative feature I love [5d]
- The GMKtec G10 mini PC is 'a terrific little system' — and now our top budget machine gets a big discount [5d]
- Steam fan finds 'cheap SSDs' to make retro 'game cartridges' system — the only problem is 2026 is the worst year in history to do it [5d]
- The Batman Part II's release date has been pushed back to early 2028 — and its latest delay is going to have a major impact on James Gunn's DC Universe [5d]
- You'll soon be able to play the biggest football game on your iPhone thanks to an upcoming Apple Arcade release with zero microtransactions [5d]
- Anker's compact Solix S2000 home backup battery is 50% off and can run your fridge for 35 hours [5d]
- HP's Smart Tank 5101 all-in-one cartridge-free printer includes up to two years of free ink and it's nearly 30% off right now [5d]
- Squarespace's new limited-release tools aim to help sellers tap into FOMO [5d]
- New phishing campaign hits LastPass, Bitwarden users - password manager customers warned not to fall for this scam [5d]
- Privado VPN unveils an MCP server on Windows and macOS to let your AI agent manage your connection [5d]
- I've been hunting for the perfect festival blackout tent — here are 9 easy-pitch options I'd happily stumble back to [5d]
- WD Red Plus 8TB deal: Our pick for 'the best value' NAS drive is nearly $100 off [5d]
- How to watch England vs Argentina: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time as Lionel Messi meets Three Lions in FIFA World Cup 2026 semi-final [5d]
- Sonos boosts its upgrade program with savings of up to 30% on speakers, soundbars, and more [5d]
- Work and study laptop deals: I found the HP OmniBook 3, Asus Vivobook 14, and Dell 15 under $600 right now [5d]
- 'We decided not to limit VPNs': UK government U-turns on age-gating privacy tools [5d]
- Hundreds of GitHub repos found posing as real software to push malware [5d]
- Denshattack! is a hybrid of all the best fast-paced platformers I've ever played, and I'm convinced it's a stand out indie game this year [5d]
- Lomography just created a super affordable, idiot-proof film camera that doubles your number of photos — and it comes pre-loaded with a roll and the instructions are literally printed on the body [5d]
- The Odyssey IMAX 70mm screening demand is so high that IMAX CEO confirms he'd 'like to see more' theaters — but actually getting them is more complicated than it looks [5d]
- Could now finally be a good time to buy an AI PC? This report says so [5d]
- "Players using CryoTherm Palm felt 60% cooler, held 2.45% higher speeds and preserved sprint velocity 4.7% better" — I asked Therabody's Chief Science Officer how England's World Cup squad is using a new cooling device to combat heat and boost performance [6d]
- Inkjet-printed OLED screens are reportedly in mass production at long last — here's why that's great news for monitor, laptop and even TV pricing [6d]
- How brands can preserve customer ‘digital patience’ [6d]
- I tried Android's underrated desktop app, and it's transformed the way I work [6d]
- How parked domains became a cybercrime goldmine [6d]
- 'No new vulnerability is needed to bypass UEFI Secure Boot': Experts find attackers can exploit decades-old flaws to gain access to key systems [6d]
- Spotify parents rejoice! KPop Demon Hunters need never cloud your Wrapped results again, thanks to Managed accounts launching on Spotify Free [6d]
- I test 4K Blu-rays for a living and these are my 6 picks from Amazon's big sale, including reference-level discs from Disney, Marvel, and 20th Century Studios that I use for AV testing [6d]
- Microsoft just released its biggest Patch Tuesday ever, with a mammoth 622 fixes including three dangerous zero-days [6d]
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