The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Where USB Memory Sticks Are Born [5d]
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- The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4 [5d]
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- Interview with Boris Cherny [video] [5d]
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- Show HN: Trylle – The Next-Gen Git Platform for Modern Teams [5d]
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- Show HN: Dowe – A full-stack language for server, web, desktop, Android, and iOS [5d]
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- Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise [5d]
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- Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise [5d]
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- Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions [5d]
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- DConf 2026 in London [5d]
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- C/C++ projects packaged for Zig [5d]
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- America has become an entrepreneur's paradise [5d]
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- Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API [5d]
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- A Discord Alternative – Echoed [5d]
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- 60 Years Ago, a Submerged Submarine Circled the Globe for the First Time (2020) [5d]
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- Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench [5d]
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- Hard Road – A beautiful procedural post-apocalyptic game [5d]
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- A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months [5d]
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- Our position on open-weights models [5d]
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- The fragile foundations of CoT monitoring [5d]
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- Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware [5d]
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- US DOT deleting bike lane references [5d]
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- Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles [5d]
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- Forth [5d]
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- Platform engineering 2.0 mitigates AI security and compliance risks [5d]
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- Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine [5d]
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- Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals [5d]
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- The Author of Clean Code No Longer Reviews AI-Generated Code [5d]
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- My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents [5d]
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- Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI [5d]
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- Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions [5d]
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- Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download [5d]
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- The Artist Who Colored Ghibli [5d]
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- Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine? [5d]
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- Bytecode-to-Source Mapping [5d]
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- This is an accidental duplicate post, please delete [5d]
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- Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped [5d]
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- Google's own system admits the back end never deletes – video proof included [5d]
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- Fixing miss-aligned monospace text in Android browsers [5d]
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- Beyond Greece and Rome [5d]
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- Jensen Huang's first-ever post on X is in defense of open access to AI models [5d]
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- The American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay (2024) [5d]
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- Canceling "Hey" [5d]
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- I Buy Belgian [5d]
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- Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library [5d]
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- MAI-Cyber 1 [5d]
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- Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website [5d]
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- Show HN: Infrawrench – a tool to manage cloud and svcs with workflows and chat [5d]
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- Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears [5d]
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- All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time [5d]
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- Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted [5d]
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- Bad Apple but It's Traceroute [5d]
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- How real are real numbers? (2004) [5d]
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- Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf] [5d]
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- Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition [5d]
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- How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods [5d]
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- Tokio Gives Progress, Not Ordering: Scheduling 1M Tasks [5d]
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- Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles [5d]
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- Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts [5d]
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- Can LLMs identify 16 cards in 45 bit-queries? [5d]
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- EU to make more money from fining US tech companies than taxing its own [5d]
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- Paged Out #9 [pdf] [5d]
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- The Glass Famine [5d]
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- AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying [5d]
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- DIY Home Solar System for under $5000 [5d]
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- We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles [5d]
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- The Royal Order of Operations [5d]
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- Should you wash your solar panels? [5d]
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- Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes [5d]
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- 108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering [5d]
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- Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner" [5d]
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- AI companies are shredding rare books [5d]
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- AI companies are shredding rare books [5d]
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- Worse on Purpose [5d]
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- Tanker hits mine in the Strait of Hormuz as Iran intercepts six vessels [5d]
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- Apple releases updates for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS with a huge number of security fixes; macOS Tahoe 26.6 alone addresses 155 CVEs (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [5d]
- Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a "noindex" tag (Maddy Varner/Wired) [5d]
- Dario Amodei says Anthropic has never backed an open-weights model ban, lists reasons top chips shouldn't be sold to China, calls for global model testing, more (Anthropic) [5d]
- Cadence reports Q2 revenue up 24.2% YoY to $1.58B and raises its annual revenue forecast to between $6.26B and $6.34B vs. $6.21B est.; CDNS up 4%+ after hours (Reuters) [5d]
- A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking Minnesota from enforcing a newly enacted law that banned prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket (Nate Raymond/Reuters) [5d]
- French carrier Orange and infrastructure investor Morrison agree to create a data center platform in France targeting 400 MW, backed by a €3B investment program (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg) [5d]
- X rolls out X Money to US Premium and Premium+ subscribers, combining a deposit account with up to 6% APY, free instant transfers on X, and a Visa debit card (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [5d]
- The US National Vulnerabilities Database recorded 45,207 software security flaws so far in 2026, on pace to roughly double the tally of flaws recorded in 2025 (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Xbox says it is working to resolve a "major outage" affecting its Account & Profile, Store & Subscriptions, and Apps & Mobile services (Chris Scullion/Video Games Chronicle) [5d]
- Microsoft says MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and MDASH, its vulnerability identification harness, deliver "world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models" (Microsoft AI) [5d]
- Sources: Nvidia has committed to invest $5B in Ilya Sutskever's SSI; the startup has previously raised about $3B in funding and was valued at $32B last year (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, an AI model trained for cybersecurity, and launches Perception, an agentic security system to patch vulnerabilities (New York Times) [5d]
- Moonshot AI releases model weights for Kimi K3 under the "Kimi K3 License" (Bloomberg) [5d]
- ASML shares fall 7%+ after a report that a Chinese state-backed company has begun manufacturing DUV machines; Applied Materials fell 6.5%+ and Lam Research 7%+ (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Antares, which is developing reactors with 1 MW of capacity for US military bases, raised $370M in equity and $100M in debt co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated (Will Wade/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Source: Sam Altman will meet with senior US officials, lawmakers, and economists in Washington, DC, this week to preview OpenAI's upcoming family of AI models (CNBC) [5d]
- Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: very good Intel Core Ultra X7 performance, excellent build quality and keyboard, but expensive because of high RAM prices (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge) [5d]
- NBCU and YouTube reach a multiyear deal to include all Peacock content in YouTube Premium subscriptions in the US starting in early 2027 (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC) [5d]
- Amazon files an FCC application to deploy a constellation of up to 5,105 satellites starting in 2028 to provide direct-to-device voice and data connectivity (Akash Sriram/Reuters) [5d]
- Enigma, which runs large-scale experiments exploring how humans interact with robots, emerges from stealth with a $70M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [5d]
- Nvidia says it made a "substantial" investment in Safe Superintelligence, which will get access to Nvidia GPUs to up computing power by an "order of magnitude" (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal) [5d]
- How TikTok, Reels, and Amazon storefronts enabled microinfluencers with less than 100K followers to earn middle-class salaries via brand and affiliate deals (Melos Ambaye/Bloomberg) [5d]
- Sources: A Chinese state-backed company has begun manufacturing DUV machines, a key step in Beijing's effort to reduce reliance on foreign chipmaking technology (The Information) [5d]
- Chinese officials said they will take "all necessary measures" to protect Chinese AI models from US sanctions stemming from allegations of training on US models (Bloomberg) [5d]
- Way Security, which uses AI automation and agentic workflows to help deploy IAM systems, raised a $20M seed from Insight Partners and Glilot Capital (Chris Metinko/Axios) [5d]
- Nvidia launches the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition with Hugging Face and others to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters) [5d]
- Elon Musk's age of abundance is an AI pipe dream soaked in snake oil, and I've about had it [5d]
- Nvidia signs deal to deploy edge AI on future Moon missions — laying the groundwork for a permanent human home in space [5d]
- I swapped my iPhone's camera for this Y2K-inspired digicam — and there’s only one point-and-shoot I want in my pocket for capturing memories [5d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, July 28 (game #1646) [5d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, July 28 (game #1143) [5d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, July 28 (game #877) [5d]
- Can you really rent out the sea bed? Oregon set to start charging service providers for undersea cables within three miles of its coastline [5d]
- Quote of the day by Barack Obama: 'Our new information ecosystem is turbocharging some of humanity's worst impulses' — a warning against rampant disinformation [5d]
- AMD's Venice is the first 2nm x86 server chip, but the stack doesn't fully ship until 2027 [5d]
- Can’t find the Chrome extension you want? I used Claude to make me two personalized ones — and they’re working flawlessly [5d]
- AMD says the MI430X is the fastest FP64 GPU ever built, but you can't buy one until 2027 [5d]
- I transformed Gimp into Adobe Photoshop — and I might just cancel my Creative Cloud subscription now [5d]
- I tried to test China’s newest ChatGPT rival but couldn’t get in — and it exposed the next big problem facing the major AI players [5d]
- I’ve spent months with the Honor Magic V6, and no other foldable can touch it for durability or battery life [5d]
- Ukraine turns $200,000 AN-196 Liutyi kamikaze drone into reusable bomber to launch jet-powered missiles [5d]
- I've been shooting on my iPhone 17 Pro Max with the DJI Osmo Mobile 8 and Mic Mini for a month — and I'm never going back [5d]
- The AI pricing paradox: AI PCs might be the answer to spiralling cloud costs for some, but that doesn't mean cloud computing's days are numbered [5d]
- How the odd after-market CD player in my mom’s old car helped me deal with the grief of losing her — and why I can’t sell it now (even though I should) [5d]
- A $400 SSD that was previously as low as $79.99 shows just how bleak PC gaming is in 2026 — are the days of good deals over? [5d]
- ‘The only losers from this will be Cloudflare’s customers. Mainly, publishers’: What businesses can do as Cloudflare readies to categorize AI traffic [5d]
- 'The biggest shift happens when AI stops being a tool people occasionally use and becomes part of the operational fabric of the business': Why Arm is set to help power the next generation of AI workloads — and beyond [5d]
- 9 tips to get more from your fan or air conditioner — air quality experts on how to keep your whole home cool without spiking your energy bill [5d]
- Enterprises and the customer experience problem [5d]
- How to watch Commonwealth Games for free in the UK [5d]
- Britain’s AI problem isn’t innovation, it’s execution [5d]
- How to watch Love Island UK S13 final for *FREE* from anywhere [5d]
- "Search is getting noisier, not clearer": Is curation the answer to better Squarespace websites? [5d]
- I watched every A24 horror movie available on streaming services and ranked them from worst to best — but my favorite one might divide readers [5d]
- 'The art of the possible is becoming possible': How Salesforce is helping Formula 1 tackle its mountains of data to make it useful for fans around the world [5d]
- What is the release date for X-Men 97 season 2 episode 7 on Disney+? [5d]
- Exclusive: ‘Young people are obsessed by music, but no one's talking to them’ — the new boss of Q Acoustics, QED, and Goldring has plans to give hi-fi its ‘mojo’ back, and it involves opening more ‘kissa’-style listening cafes and ditching Led Zeppelin [5d]
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