The Brutalist Report - tech
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- The Origin Story of Kid Pix [10d]
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- SQL Injection found on ibm.com subdomain [10d]
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- Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20 [10d]
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- Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand [10d]
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- A shared, verifiable fix database that AI agents read and write themselves [10d]
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- Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP [10d]
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- GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle [10d]
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- Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34 [10d]
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- Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD [10d]
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- AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill. [10d]
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- Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch [10d]
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- Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X [10d]
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- Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd? [10d]
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- Kcgi – minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++ [10d]
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- Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser [10d]
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- In Praise of John Cale, the Superior Velvet [10d]
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- Rediscovering the Romance of Travel Clocks [10d]
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- The Genealogy of Eliza [10d]
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- Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done [10d]
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- Muse DAU dropped and Meta insiders decided to sell [10d]
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- Martin Odersky – Keynote: The End of Programming? [video] [10d]
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- Who Taught the Machines Mathematics? [10d]
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- Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum [10d]
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- Making big downloads resumable in Firefox [10d]
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- MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors [10d]
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- AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter [10d]
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- Introducing OpenFatigue [10d]
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- David Rudnick on "borderline impossible" process of designing Arsenal typeface [10d]
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- Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default [10d]
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- Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers [10d]
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- FCSS 2: Utility CSS that reads like CSS [10d]
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- Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction [10d]
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- Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic [10d]
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- French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack [10d]
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- Show HN: Opus 5.5 made a fully featured Figma clone in 3 hours / 8 prompts [10d]
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- My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping [10d]
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- 'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey [10d]
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- 'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey [10d]
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- Hiking the world in search of rare cheeses [10d]
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- AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software [10d]
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- Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon's Producer [10d]
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- Thinking Will Become a Hobby [10d]
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- Muse Wonder [10d]
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- Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents [10d]
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- Casio F-91W using Statecharts [10d]
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- Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries [10d]
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- IDRs as Records of Intent [10d]
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- French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack [10d]
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- The Haunted Toys R Us [10d]
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- A Modern Web App in C [10d]
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- GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence [10d]
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- How Do Cuttlefish Hide? [10d]
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- French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack [10d]
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- How to Select an Experiment [10d]
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- Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later [10d]
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- Rebuilding the Original Odhner Model 127 Pinwheel Calculator [10d]
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- A Strongly Aperiodic Monotile in Three Dimensions [10d]
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- Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack [10d]
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- Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses [10d]
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- Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? [10d]
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- Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture [10d]
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- An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki [10d]
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- Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall Are About to Be Everywhere [11d]
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- "Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill [11d]
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- AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety [11d]
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- The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024) [11d]
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- Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver [11d]
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- (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers [11d]
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- Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues [11d]
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- Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges [11d]
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- Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age [11d]
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- Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age [11d]
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- Show HN: Yagi DSP Modulation SIM [11d]
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- Sources: JPMorgan and Goldman, leading a $5B loan sale with a yield of ~11% for AI startup Volta, took a rare move to limit exposure by underwriting just $1.3B (Claire Ruckin/Bloomberg) [10d]
- Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes (Anthropic) [10d]
- Sources: Epic has delayed the release of an upcoming game, instructing developers to implement an "AI first" production model with "no more hand-written code" (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg) [10d]
- Suki, an AI ambient scribe for healthcare providers, raised a $90M Series E led by Healthier Capital; a source says it projects $60M-$80M in revenue this year (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios) [10d]
- Sources: Bumble is in advanced talks to be taken private at a ~$1B valuation; the buyer is Ithaca Holdings, a firm founded recently by two Silicon Valley execs (Cara Lombardo/Wall Street Journal) [10d]
- Muse Wonder Full (max) outperforms Fable 5.1 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, matches Sonnet 5.5 (max), and is just shy of Opus 5.5 (max) (@artificialanlys) [10d]
- Meta says Muse Wonder is available to Muse app subscribers, via Meta Model API, and Muse Code; Wonder Full is available to Muse Code subscribers (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [10d]
- Meta says Wonder includes Active Memory and Active Focus, two features designed to help AI systems perform more useful work over extended periods (Ina Fried/Axios) [10d]
- Meta says it plans to power its Muse AI agent with Wonder, starting with subscribers, and will develop specialized models it "can bring to everyone using Muse" (Robert Hart/The Verge) [10d]
- An interview with Mark Zuckerberg, who says Meta has caught up with rivals at the frontier of AI with its Wonder model and rejects calls for a slowdown (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times) [10d]
- Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying they deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks (Meta AI Research) [10d]
- Getty enters a restructuring agreement to take the company private, with Getty family and Koch Equity committing to invest up to $533M to own 100% of Getty (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters) [10d]
- Microsoft says Maia 300 racks will hold 96 chips and use ~167 kW of power and plans to roll out "multi-gigawatt deployments" of the chip starting next year (Reuters) [10d]
- AI is supercharging a ~$442B scam economy that is bigger than the global cocaine trade, as the Chinese scam industry spreads beyond Asia's fortified compounds (Bloomberg) [10d]
- Cyberattacks on Sunday night targeted Danfoss-managed refrigeration systems across hundreds of French supermarkets, heating them to 50°C for roughly six hours (Jenny Che/Bloomberg) [10d]
- Googlebooks hands-on: a rocky start, with severe connectivity, file-sharing, and software stability issues; core productivity software lacks full desktop parity (Dominic Preston/The Verge) [11d]
- Global smartphone shipments fell 20% YoY in Q3 to a 14-year low amid memory shortages; Apple's share crossed 20% for the first time in any Q3, reaching 22% (Counterpoint Research) [11d]
- Analysis: constructing and equipping a 1GW AI data center in Abilene, Texas, could cost ~$30B, including $17B on chips, $3B on power, and $2.4B on construction (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg) [11d]
- A profile of Microsoft EVP of Copilot Charles Lamanna, a potential Satya Nadella successor; a source says Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic $2B+ per year (Aaron Holmes/The Information) [11d]
- Google says Health Guardian is launching later in October on the Fitbit Air and Edge for Google Health Premium users, and expands automatic activity tracking (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget) [11d]
- Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC's N2P process node and aimed at serving as its "primary AI inference system" (Tom Warren/The Verge) [11d]
- Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an oval, 1.34" display and shipping October 27, replacing the Fitbit Charge 6 and discontinuing the Charge line (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) [11d]
- Elon Musk contributed $276M+ since July to Republican entities, including $158M to the Senate Leadership Fund; sources: he is taking a more hands-off approach (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times) [11d]
- Speaking in Singapore, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warn that access to capital and rising borrowing costs could become AI's main bottleneck (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC) [11d]
- Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startup Winverse AI's seed funding round of tens of millions of dollars, valuing the startup at ~$400M post-money (Bloomberg) [11d]
- Hamilton CEO reveals how the watchmaker is leveling up its entertainment heritage in new Modern Warfare 4 special edition [10d]
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants your PC to become 'an infinite software factory' in final blow to the app store concept — but I'm afraid businesses won't bite the AI apple [10d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, October 13 (game #1723) [10d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, October 13 (game #1220) [10d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, October 13 (game #954) [10d]
- Kioxia beats its own world record with the fastest SSD ever produced — new PCIe 6.0 GP1 tops 20M IOPS and is part of Kioxia's plan to challenge DRAM in AI markets [10d]
- The WoW: Forever team says it learned a lot from Classic: Season of Discovery, including managing the in-game economy and RMT — but Blizzard will be 'more careful and cautious' with class changes as it 'knew we were going too far' [10d]
- Quote of the day by iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks: "The world is its own best model" [10d]
- The US Army is handing out over $4.15 billion to any company able to stop low-cost drone attacks on home soil [10d]
- Valor Mortis review: even with satisfying parry-focused combat, it's impossible to overlook flaws [10d]
- The Apple Upgrade program is great for consumers and Apple, but bad for carriers like Verizon and AT&T — here's why [10d]
- Has OpenAI started the 'mathpocalypse'? Experts say AI's solving of iconic math problems may cause huge issues in the long run [10d]
- VisionQuest review: Paul Bettany and James Spader delight in Wanda/Vision TV trilogy capper [10d]
- Trying to change your browser? It might be harder than you think, based on one simple thing [10d]
- The Sihoo B100 is still my favorite cheap office chair — an affordable mesh ergonomic seat that beats most cheap chairs we test with its adaptive lumbar support [10d]
- Experts warn cheap Android phones are being shipped with malware built in, so be on your guard [10d]
- With 99% DCI-P3 color accuracy, this 27-inch Asus OLED monitor is a $384 steal for creators at its lowest ever price [10d]
- TP-Link's Archer BE670 tri-band Wi-Fi 7 router with a 10Gbps port is a future-proof multi-gig upgrade at $250 [10d]
- As laptop price hikes loom, this future-proof 32GB HP OmniBook AI laptop drops to $1,300 [10d]
- Tor Project refuses to cut ties with Mullvad following controversial political donation [10d]
- RAM is pricey, so take this 32GB DDR5-6000 kit for $68 off in Newegg's big computing sale [10d]
- Hackers hide behind Microsoft's own websites to get past email filters and launch phishing campaigns [10d]
- PSA: iPhone Duo Preorders open Friday — here’s a useful trick you can use to get ahead of everybody [10d]
- An AI scammer tricked a woman into believing she was dating Jon Bon Jovi [10d]
- AI agents are great at writing new code — but then the human bottleneck slows everything down [10d]
- 'GPU pricing to climb significantly' warns a PC maker in the US [10d]
- Our favorite new drones: these are the models that soared through our tests [10d]
- NordVPN brings Message Protection to iPhone alongside new free scam-blocking app [10d]
- Ugreen DXP8800 Ultra vs Plus: Which 8-bay NAS should you buy? [11d]
- The new Microsoft Copilot app is getting the full Office experience — here's what you can look forward to from Word, Excel and more [11d]
- What data centers need to consider when storing produced water [11d]
- iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone Air: which should you choose? [11d]
- The last Fitbit app holdouts are being forced to switch to Google Health [11d]
- Laptop sales are in freefall and price hikes could mean 2027 is worse still [11d]
- Citroen takes the Paris Motor Show by storm with retro-inspired 2 CV concept [11d]
- Surfshark just launched the first Black Friday VPN deal of 2026 — here's how much you can save [11d]
- Microsoft unveils Maia 300, its most powerful AI chip yet - and it might make using Teams, Copilot and Cowork much better at last [11d]
- Google Fitbit Edge unveiled, reinventing the old pebble-style Fitbit [11d]
- Why small businesses can’t afford to treat cybersecurity as an afterthought [11d]
- How to watch Clown Panic online from anywhere – guide to stream the doc now [11d]
- Technics EAH-A1000 review: over-ear headphones with class, detail and comfort that err just slightly on the side of caution [11d]
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- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Tuesday, Oct. 13, #1220 [10d]
- Microsoft President Says AI Has Fewer Regulations Than Milk. So Now What? [10d]
- Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Tuesday, Oct. 13, #1942 [10d]
- Meta Launches Muse Wonder AI Models to Play Catch-Up With Rivals [10d]
- Sleep Better While Boosting Your Memory with Memory Air [10d]
- Smartphone Shipments Just Hit a New Low. Thanks, RAMageddon [10d]
- Beats Teases Upcoming Pokemon Portable Pill Speaker: Gotta Hear ‘Em All [10d]
- Beats Reveals How to Buy Pokemon Portable Pill Speaker: Gotta Hear ‘Em All [10d]
- Get Your Kitchen Thanksgiving-Ready With This $36 Crock-Pot Slow Cooker [10d]
- Cyberattack Targets French Supermarket Refrigerators, Forcing Mass Food Disposal [10d]
- The 50-Inch Hisense CanvasTV Is a Beautiful $650 Off at Amazon [10d]
- More Indigenous Languages Come to iPhone and iPad Keyboards in New Apple Update [10d]
- Grab an Apple Pencil for $69 and Upgrade Your iPhone Duo Experience [10d]
- GTA 6 Blamed for PlayStation Pro 5 Shortages [10d]
- ‘VisionQuest’ Review: A Spectacular, Fitting End to One of the MCU’s Most Noteworthy Sagas [10d]
- Hallmark’s Annual Keepsake Ornaments Are Here. Grab Your Favorites Before They Sell Out [10d]
- Score a New 14-Inch M5 Pro MacBook for a Massive $600 Off Right Now [10d]
- Total Wine’s 2026 Wine Advent Calendar Is Back, But Not for Long [10d]
- It’s Never Too Early for an Advent Calendar, Especially When This Lego Disney Princess One Is Over 30% Off [10d]
- Walmart Deals of the Day: Snag Samsung’s Best-Sounding Earbuds for a Record-Low Price [10d]
- Hit the Ground Running With a Record-Low Price on These Cleer Workout Earbuds [10d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: Off for a Run? Don’t Forget Your Shokz Open Ear Pro Headphones, Now 39% Off [10d]
- Save Your Back and Money. This Worx Robot Lawn Mower Is Now $1,400, Its Lowest Price Yet [10d]
- I Tested the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max’s Batteries and Was Awestruck by One Change [10d]
- Samsung’s New Galaxy Tab S12 Plus Comes With a Free $200 Gift Card for Prime Members [10d]
- Get 2 Years of Proton VPN Online Protection for $2.99 a Month, Saving 70% Off [11d]
- Expectation vs. Reality: We Tried a Smart Doggy Doorbell for Potty Training [11d]
- The Thermal Master Thor 002 Thermal Camera Drops to $323 With Code [11d]
- The Fitbit Air Is Getting an Upgrade [11d]
- Fitbit Edge May Be the Sweet Spot for Smartwatch Noncommittals [11d]
- At Just $57, This Logitech Keys-to-Go Bluetooth Keyboard Hasn’t Been This Cheap All Year [11d]
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