The Brutalist Report - tech
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- I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me [60d]
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- Everything I own, owned [60d]
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- Parallel development without the headaches using Git worktree [60d]
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- The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago [60d]
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- A complex structure on S^6 [pdf] [60d]
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- Implementation of GPT-2 in pure CMake [60d]
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- Cicada.os – Graphene.os for Your Laptop [60d]
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- Residential proxies scraping your site? Drain their bandwidth [60d]
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- Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions [60d]
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- I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch [60d]
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- Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms [60d]
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- Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG [60d]
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- Training AI to Paint with Code [60d]
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- 'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics' [60d]
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- Reaganomics Didn't Trickle Down – It Just Broke Unions [60d]
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- Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider [60d]
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- How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer [60d]
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- Fable and the End of the Free Lunch [61d]
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- Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? [61d]
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- Say It Four Times (In Your System Prompt) [61d]
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- The Vibe Tax [61d]
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- Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026) – Spheron Blog [61d]
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- Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive [61d]
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- My Obituary for Dr Tim King, Tripos, AmigaOS, Helios and UK Online Pioneer [61d]
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- Yuval Noah Harari on the economic and political perils of AI [61d]
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- AI and Infrastructure Engineering [61d]
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- Explain it to me like I'm ten [61d]
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- Predicting AI model release dates with stats [61d]
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- I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI [61d]
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- My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality [61d]
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- From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8 [61d]
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- Powerful extensions do not need powerful code [61d]
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- I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines and ported it to Windows [61d]
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- Dutch regulator fines Uber $966M for automating driver suspensions [61d]
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- We must not grant AI agents legal personhood [61d]
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- The Remote Work Challenge: Lessons from 5 Cities [61d]
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- Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely [61d]
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- A website for debloated open source alternatives [61d]
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- Phoenix tried a reflective coating on black asphalt; noon surface heat fell 12°F [61d]
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- Vit D assoc w better cognition in those w sleep disturb./mild cognitive impair [61d]
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- Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II [61d]
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- GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost [61d]
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- Being nude in public can make us feel better about our bodies [61d]
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- Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling [61d]
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- Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests [61d]
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- So, You Found a Foden Steam Lorry in a Field. What Next? [61d]
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- Universal Housing [61d]
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- Blueprint for how to be self sufficient in a 1/4 acre backyard [61d]
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- Hacker News in Uncompromised Detail [61d]
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- Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi [61d]
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- Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras [61d]
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- Authoritarianism of Code [61d]
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- What Is a Harness? [61d]
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- I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day [61d]
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- Death to px, long live ch [61d]
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- My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes [61d]
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- Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware [61d]
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- 'AI refuser' quit her dream job, and hopes others follow [61d]
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- Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium [61d]
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- Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days [61d]
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- I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes [61d]
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- Canada now 'at war' with United States over trade, Prime Minister says [61d]
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- The Sloppification of Peptides [61d]
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- Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive [61d]
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- Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after [61d]
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- Rust 1.98 got a P-critical miscompilation [61d]
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- Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical [61d]
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- Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed [61d]
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- This Silicon Valley campus was a paradise. Bulldoze it [61d]
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- Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products [61d]
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- JIT Compiling Code in 5μs [61d]
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- The End of an Athlon [61d]
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- Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has [61d]
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- The Covid-19 scandal is still unfolding [61d]
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- Microsoft Blames Windows Gaming Issues on RGB Lighting Devices [61d]
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- The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer [61d]
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- MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust [61d]
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- I Dream of Quieter Computing [61d]
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- AI Chip Architectures [61d]
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- The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner [61d]
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- Software Engineering in the Agentic Era [61d]
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- US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired [61d]
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- Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf] [61d]
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- Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on Sept. 1, seeking up to $1.8B in its IPO with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan as joint sponsors (Julia Fioretti/Bloomberg) [60d]
- Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade "a lot of liberty for safety" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider) [60d]
- Greg Abbott says data center companies "dug their own grave" by moving into communities without first gaining support, signaling growing Republican backlash (Axios) [60d]
- Sources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to gauge bidders' interest (Katie Roof/Business Insider) [60d]
- Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 (George Hammond/Financial Times) [61d]
- Alibaba plans to raise ~$10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close (Reuters) [61d]
- Sources: foldable iPhone feels durable, fits well in a pocket, has useful iPad-like app layouts, excels as a camera viewfinder but lacks telephoto and Face ID (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [61d]
- The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal) [61d]
- A profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and oversaw the Musk v. Altman trial (Jeffrey Kopp/CNBC) [61d]
- The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course (Financial Times) [61d]
- Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [61d]
- Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses (Financial Times) [61d]
- Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal) [61d]
- Sources: Iran-linked hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, coinciding with a wave of Iran-affiliated attacks on US water utilities (Telegraph) [61d]
- Sources and documents detail how Tether's plan to build two bitcoin mining sites in Uruguay fell apart amid a dispute with state utility UTE over power supply (Reuters) [61d]
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- How to Watch the GTA 6 Extended Preview Today, Whether You Have Netflix or Not [60d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Aug. 24, #1170 [60d]
- Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 24, #1892 [60d]
- Ninja’s BlendBoss Is My Favorite Personal Blender for Quick, On-the-Go Smoothies [61d]
- My Go-To Personal Blender, the Ninja BlendBoss, Is Powerful, Adorable and on Sale [61d]
- After Weeks of Testing, This Is My Favorite Personal Blender [61d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 24, #904 [61d]
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