The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby [4d]
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- My car's OTA update broke Android Auto, and it's a indictment of modern software [4d]
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- Show HN: Mojibake – a low-level Unicode library written in C [4d]
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- The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning [4d]
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- FIFA World Cup 2026 Data Portraits [4d]
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- Show HN: ReasonGate- An explainable gate that blocks LLM prompt injection [4d]
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- CVE-2026-25089: FortiSandbox unauthenticated command injection added to CISA KEV [4d]
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- 'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin [4d]
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- Just Do Things [4d]
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- We rewrote our custom visualisation renderers from SVG to be in Canvas [4d]
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- Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning [4d]
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- Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds [4d]
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- Mathematics of Data Science [4d]
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- Timeline Scan – AI fixes the dates on your scanned photos [4d]
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- Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone [4d]
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- Show HN: Libretto PR agents – Automatically fix failing playwright scripts [4d]
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- LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models [4d]
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- The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker [4d]
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- Show HN: Bonebox-01 – 29KB bare metal x86 OS (80 KiB, built to kill Tiny Core) [4d]
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- Kimi K3 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis [4d]
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- $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol [4d]
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- As a musician, I prefer illegal downloading over Spotify (2011) [4d]
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- Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence [4d]
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- AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes [4d]
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- SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock [4d]
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- German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks [4d]
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- Flight Planning with Little Navmap [4d]
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- CD Sales Growth Outpaced Vinyl in the First Half of 2026 [4d]
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- 42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support [4d]
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- Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring [4d]
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- Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Secure AI apps, one device at a time [4d]
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- Someone Used AI to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me [4d]
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- 1-Bit LLM in the Browser [4d]
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- 'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction' [4d]
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- Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with "Classical" Machine Learning [4d]
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- Show HN: Galois connections for composable numeric casts in Rust [4d]
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- What I Learned from Reimplementing 40 Multi-Agent LLM Papers [4d]
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- 56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up [4d]
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- Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes [4d]
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- Building scalable AI agents with modular prompt transpilation [4d]
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- Decoy Font [4d]
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- Show HN: A modern port of Linux to a ten-year-old QWERTY phone [4d]
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- Agent-talk: Enabling coding agents to work together [4d]
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- Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills without context bloat [4d]
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- NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook [4d]
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- Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source [4d]
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- Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer [4d]
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- Show HN: BambooGrid – Open-source web UI for power grid modeling and power flow [4d]
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- Show HN: Sentinel – open-source QA agent that reads your code before it clicks [4d]
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- Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures [4d]
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- Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public [4d]
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- How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM [4d]
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- Kimi K3 Is Live [4d]
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- Guide to data tools landscape for developers [4d]
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- Kimi K3 is now live [4d]
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- Show HN: AI Law Tracker – one audited API for US, EU and global AI law [4d]
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- How to spend 15 years perfecting a product [4d]
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- Show HN: We hid a backdoor in an LLM – $51,200 on finding it [4d]
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- My Homepage Has a Pulse [4d]
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- Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode [4d]
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- Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search [4d]
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- Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster [4d]
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- Moist Towelette Museum [4d]
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- Introduction to KizunaShelf: A shelf for everything you love [4d]
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- Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed [4d]
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- Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them [4d]
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- British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply [4d]
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- The Act and the Outcome of Creation [4d]
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- SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading [4d]
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- Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September (Rocket Drew/The Information) [4d]
- Source: PayPal's board sees Stripe and PE firm Advent International's $53B takeover bid as undervaluing the company and facing regulatory and financing hurdles (Reuters) [4d]
- A New York State school district is piloting a humanoid robot teacher by the company Realbotix to help students with summer school classes (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable) [4d]
- US Homeland Security says it seized 30k+ SIM cards in June and July in a nationwide operation it claims dismantled infrastructure used in telephone fraud (Lorelei Smillie/Bloomberg) [4d]
- Netflix says roughly 300 titles used generative AI this year, mostly in post-production, "to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost" (Emma Roth/The Verge) [4d]
- An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive "authors" proliferate (Kashmir Hill/New York Times) [4d]
- Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $12.56B, vs. $12.59B est., and says it will give fewer engagement updates starting in 2027; NFLX drops 7%+ after hours (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC) [4d]
- Kimi-K3 is now #1 on the Frontend Code Arena benchmark, surpassing Claude Fable 5; the model scored 88.3 on Terminal Bench 2.1, only below GPT-5.6 Sol's 88.8 (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) [4d]
- DoorDash launches a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, which lets users place orders via an AI agent, available by waitlist to macOS developers in the US and Canada (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [4d]
- Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and a feature that lets users create custom digital avatars using a selfie and voice recording (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [4d]
- Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter AI model that it says rivals Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5, and plans to release model weights by July 27 (Kimi) [4d]
- After reports of GPT-5.6 deleting files, OpenAI says the issue most often occurs in full-access mode without sandboxing and it is working to mitigate the risk (Tibo/@thsottiaux) [4d]
- Crypto.com raised $400M from Citadel Securities in its first institutional funding round, valuing the Singapore-based crypto exchange at $20B (CoinDesk) [4d]
- Sources: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro because the company has been trying to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding (Bloomberg) [4d]
- Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds programmatic ads and an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [4d]
- Meta's Oversight Board says top AI models may be restricting free expression in its first evaluation of LLMs, as it seeks to expand its influence beyond Meta (Karissa Bell/Engadget) [4d]
- Google says users in the US can now link to and interact with some apps in AI Mode, including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) [4d]
- Roblox unveils Build, which lets users create basic games through text prompts directly within its mobile app, powered by Roblox's models and open-source models (Jay Peters/The Verge) [4d]
- Fora, which connects travel agents with travelers and offers agents AI tools, raised a $60M Series D at a $1B valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) [4d]
- Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and rolls out an update giving every notebook a secure cloud computer, letting it write and execute code natively (Josh Woodward/Google) [4d]
- San Diego-based Self Inspection, which uses AI to assess body damage on a car with as little tech as a smartphone camera, raised $10M led by Sheryl Sandberg (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) [4d]
- Filing: a Chinese company says a fund in which its unit invested paid ~$420M for an indirect 0.8265% stake in DeepSeek, implying DeepSeek is valued at ~$52B (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters) [4d]
- Visa launches the Visa Stablecoin Platform, an internal system for its network of about 15,000 financial institutions and 200M+ merchants to use stablecoins (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune) [4d]
- OnePlus confirms it will no longer operate in North America or Europe but will continue in China, while Realme, another Oppo sub-brand, will exit China (CNET) [4d]
- China, Russia, Brazil, and 26 other countries sign an agreement to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization in Shanghai (Reuters) [4d]
- A hacker claims to have accessed Suno user info and source code, showing how it scraped music; Suno says no sensitive info was compromised in a November hack (Jason Koebler/404 Media) [4d]
- Runta, which provides isolated sandboxes and guardrails for AI agents to prevent operational risks, raised a $20M seed led by a16z at a $100M+ valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) [4d]
- Sources: Moonshot plans to launch Kimi K3, China's largest model to date with 2T-3T parameters, in the coming days; it's expected to outperform Claude Opus 4.8 (Financial Times) [4d]
- Sources: Apple is prepping an iPad overhaul, including an iPad mini with an OLED screen by October and refreshed versions of entry-level iPad and Airs in 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [4d]
- Sable, which is building an AI agent named Aiden that lives on a company's website to run live product demos and more, raised $45M from Sequoia and 8VC (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) [4d]
- Grubhub parent Wonder raised a $650M+ Series D at a $9B valuation, bringing its total raised to $3B+ since its founding in 2018, and plans to go public in 2027 (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) [4d]
- 1Password launches a new Claude integration for Mac that lets Anthropic's AI agent sign in to websites without seeing the user's password or 2FA code (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [4d]
- Fireworks, which helps developers access AI chips and open-source models, raised $1.5B at a $17.5B valuation and says it has exceeded $1B in annualized revenue (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [4d]
- TMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms (Sara Fischer/Axios) [4d]
- Bunkerhill Health, which uses AI agents for hospital tasks like managing wait times, raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla, bringing its total funding to $55M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) [4d]
- Sources detail how xAI has been slowed down by internal chaos as Musk pushed for Grok to match Claude, amid signs it is turning a corner under Michael Nicolls (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg) [4d]
- London-based Applied Computing, which is developing AI models for energy operations, raised $20M led by KBR, with participation from Databricks Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu) [4d]
- Munich-based Microagi, which collects factory and household data to train humanoid robots, raised $55M led by Hummingbird in Germany's largest ever seed round (Éanna Kelly/Sifted) [4d]
- Ocado stock drops 14%, hitting a 13-year low, after it failed to show tangible progress in talks to secure new US partners for its warehouse automation tech (Sarah Young/Reuters) [4d]
- The EU issues two decisions under the DMA, requiring Google to provide rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and some Search data (Robert Hart/The Verge) [4d]
- Two Scattered Spider members who pleaded guilty in the UK to an August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London are jailed for five and a half years (Joe Tidy/BBC) [4d]
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- MacBook users are filing off the sharp corners of their laptops for better wrist comfort [4d]
- Ukraine wants combat humanoid robots — but expect Wall-E over Terminator, as simpler, wheeled tech still wins [4d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, July 17 (game #1132) [4d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, July 17 (game #1635) [4d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, July 17 (game #866) [4d]
- This year's Microsoft Excel World Championship was the wildest yet — so who came out on top in the annual spreadsheet super-battle? [4d]
- 'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place; — quote of the day by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt [4d]
- Belkin’s new gadget is a power bank, night light, and SOS signal all in one [4d]
- China and Russia have a secret 'no limit' pact to eliminate Elon Musk's Starlink at all cost, researchers claim [4d]
- Neo robot hands breakthrough can build LEGOs, unzip jackets, and open a bag of Funyuns — I can't tell if I'm thrilled or terrified [4d]
- AI-powered software could recover 300GW of hidden capacity for the US power grid, enough to power thousands of AI data centers [4d]
- No sleep score, no steps: this Signal smart ring from an ex-Google head is focused on cracking cuffless, calibration-less blood pressure readings [4d]
- China beats Elon Musk’s Neuralink to the world’s first commercial brain-computer interface implant — car crash victim given coin-sized chip that turns neural signals into hand movements [4d]
- Russia to launch Rassvet Starlink rival within days with 318-strong satellite constellation expected by 2028 [4d]
- The Odyssey IMAX 70mm screening prep causes confusion as projectors loaded into theaters spark new fan outrage — as some dub Christopher Nolan's filming choice 'anti-art' [4d]
- Firefox vs Edge: fresh shots fired in browser wars as Mozilla report accuses Microsoft of using 'harmful design' to undermine choice in Windows 11 [4d]
- Suno trained its AI on millions of songs from YouTube Music, Deezer and other sites, new hack reveals — and critics have branded it 'staggering theft' [4d]
- 12 actually useful desk upgrades that are all under $100 — I review work gear for a living, and these practical gadgets are more than just office eye-candy [4d]
- Microsoft nemesis returns with another zero-day PoC — but is 'LegacyHive' as nasty as expected? [4d]
- TobenONE UDS060 review: This compact 11-in-1 USB-C dock is one of the smallest I've ever tested [4d]
- ‘It wasn't a decision made in a rush’: OnePlus explains why it’s just quit the US and Europe — and answers our 5 biggest questions about what it means [4d]
- 47 requests, zero answers — How Proton VPN keeps saying no to data demands [4d]
- Former PlayStation boss says Sony needs 'more games for more people' to justify a $1,000 PS6 [4d]
- Seagate IronWolf Pro and WD Red Pro NAS drives are all discounted — here's why I'd buy the most expensive model [4d]
- Russian hacker turns Gemini CLI into a hacking agent, creates small-scale botnet [4d]
- Mike Flanagan's Carrie series has a first look — and the Prime Video horror series has the potential to be the best adaptation of the book yet [4d]
- The Google Pixel 11 will be available to preorder on August 12 and the brand is already teasing an 'exclusive offer' — here's what we think it is [4d]
- Shark upgrades its acclaimed CryoGlow blemish-busting LED face mask – it costs a little more but it delivers better coverage around the crows' feet area and its battery life is better too [4d]
- Dragon's Dogma 2 producer says Capcom is improving performance on PS5 and Xbox ahead of Dark Arisen's launch and that the Switch 2 version is 'exceeding' expectations [4d]
- Samsung's lightning-fast 990 EVO Plus SSD is on sale at Amazon — with big savings on 1TB and 2TB models [4d]
- Amazon is clearing stock of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 with this absurd price cut on the 4.5-star smartwatch [4d]
- Thousands of US military beneficiaries have data breached following TRICARE cyberattack — DoD Benefits Numbers and some Social Security numbers leaked [4d]
- It’s a microwave, it’s an air fryer, it’s a... soup-maker? Ninja’s latest launch could be the only appliance your kitchen needs [4d]
- On the hunt for the perfect fan? We've tested dozens of different models, and these are our top scorers [4d]
- It was about time for another deal on the Breville Barista Express at Amazon — one of the best espresso machines we've tested [4d]
- 6 hardware-encrypted portable hard drives and SSDs — I've used PIN-protected storage for years and these are the ones I trust to keep my data secure [4d]
- Cloud sprawl taught organizations a lesson. AI is testing whether they learned it [4d]
- How to watch Commonwealth Games 2026 free from anywhere with this VPN deal [4d]
- Why OpenAI could become the next Netscape [4d]
- Zoom patches critical security flaw which could have let hackers hijack accounts [4d]
- You've never seen an Aston Martin like this — legendary car maker reveals SUV designed exclusively for Modern Warfare 4 [4d]
- The dream of AirPods with removable batteries is still seemingly out of reach, and it's all because of a new EU ruling [4d]
- Russians need a VPN to access Google and Apple as unexplained nationwide outages hit [4d]
- The new AI risk problem no one leader fully owns [4d]
- 'Everyone else is selling parts — we’re selling the full end-to-end system': Microsoft is allegedly telling its salespeople to take the fight to OpenAI and Anthropic [4d]
- 12 clever desk upgrades under $50 that instantly fix your home office [4d]
- PlayStation has postponed the release of its FlexStrike Wireless Fight Stick 'due to unexpected production delays,' says it 'will launch at a later date' [4d]
- 8 of the best back-to-school laptop deals for students — my top picks from Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and more [4d]
- Trump hits back at New York's data center ban, says rule should change 'immediately' [4d]
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