The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Token-maxxing is dead, OpenRouter's token usage plateaus [3d]
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- WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator [3d]
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- “bonsoir, Elliot”: How abliterated models can get you pwned [3d]
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- GridFTP: A Brief History of Fast File Transfer (2024) [3d]
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- PyTorch-native TPU back end for vLLM [3d]
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- An ad-free Android TV [3d]
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- Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation [3d]
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- Does Ruby on Rails still make sense? [3d]
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- OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18 [3d]
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- Diablo 2 Survivors [3d]
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- Putting Linux on my RTX spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account [3d]
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- One Hash Bloom Filters [3d]
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- Germany's far-right AfD: half a million internal documents leaked [3d]
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- Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test [3d]
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- Eigenmoon: linear algebra puzzles by moonlight [3d]
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- Show HN: Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF? [3d]
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- The End of Rationing [3d]
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- My Neighbor, Me, and a Grand Principle [3d]
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- Show HN: RawLink – Building a VPN protocol from scratch [3d]
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- Towards Company World Models [3d]
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- The reverts will continue until morale improves [3d]
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- Cloud of suspicion lifted from NIST curves [3d]
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- C++ futures part 1: The mental model [3d]
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- Show HN: Open-source early-reading reader with phonics help [3d]
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- The Robot I Didn't Expect to Build [3d]
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- Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share [3d]
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- Inception "Mercury 3", 1000 tok/s diffusion LLM [3d]
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- Ukraine carries out first ever aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier [3d]
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- Evidence (YC S21) Is Hiring Software Engineers [3d]
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- Show HN: ULDA – Client-side encryption with a simple JavaScript API [3d]
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- Android apps running native on macOS [3d]
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- A train simulator game for console hackers [3d]
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- MiniMax M3.1 Flash [3d]
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- I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories [3d]
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- Spending 10 months building the most human-like chess bot [3d]
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- DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order [3d]
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- DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order [3d]
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- Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video] [3d]
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- Dungeon Generation in the Gnomish Mines of NetHack [3d]
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- Chain of Thought for Humans [3d]
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- AI companies are coming for the plumbers [3d]
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- Launch HN: Laminar (YC S24) – We trained a model to catch silent agent failures [3d]
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- Another day another GitHub incident [3d]
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- Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier [3d]
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- CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for science [3d]
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- Kevin Bacon's missing clothes finally delivered in Ireland [3d]
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- Code is clay now [3d]
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- Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix [3d]
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- One Manhattan power room took down FAA air traffic control in 1991 [3d]
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- Agentic Monitoring [3d]
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- I can't use generic lambdas at compile-time, now what? [3d]
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- Detecting model weight tampering in GPU memory (Rome attacks) [3d]
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- Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All [3d]
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- Show HN: Can you tell an AI's real 30-day memory from a fabricated one? [3d]
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- Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster [3d]
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- A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents [3d]
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- The Rise and Fall of the Plasma Screen [3d]
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- Beyond These Stars [3d]
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- Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache [3d]
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- Why Is Speculative Decoding Fast? [3d]
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- Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware [3d]
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- Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer [3d]
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- Wine Ported to OpenBSD [3d]
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- Cairn: Open windows into AI-driven cyber operations [3d]
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- Stripe will acquire OpenRouter for $7.5B [3d]
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- Show HN: I built a task system to handle the drudgery so I could focus on tasks [3d]
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- Honey, I shrunk the TV [3d]
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- Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out [3d]
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- 8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution [3d]
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- Borrow Checking Zero-Cost Cyclic Mutability [3d]
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- Bonanza of new dates rewrites the history of the Inca [3d]
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- Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the body [3d]
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- The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO [3d]
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- Sources: OpenAI is racing to secure investor commitments before Anthropic's expected IPO in mid-Nov. and aims to raise ~$30B; the round could value it at $1.4T+ (Reuters) [3d]
- Sources: Ted Sarandos complained for months of a lack of new hit shows at Netflix and US watch time being down; it just fired its film chief and content chief (Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- Sources: Waymo aims to expand its fleet to 8K by the end of this year, up from 4K today, and to 20K by the end of 2027, after raising $5B in debt this month (Ellen DiMauro/Semafor) [3d]
- Sources: Eric Schmidt, who owns ~1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions in its Series A, is poised to have one of the largest windfalls from its IPO (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Cloudflare debuts Clairic, a System One-class extraction model it says processes unstructured data faster, more cheaply, and more accurately than normal LLMs (Cloudflare) [3d]
- The US FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp acquisition, subject to a consent decree requiring equal access to LiveRamp's data connectivity tools for all clients (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Dream Labs, which offers an API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures (John Koetsier/Forbes) [3d]
- Ramp says it applied to the US OCC for a trust bank charter that, if approved, would allow it to offer fiduciary investment management and digital asset custody (Paige Smith/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Sources: Nscale is in talks for a second deal with Anthropic worth ~$45B to deliver 460MW of computing power at its West Virginia campus using Vera Rubin chips (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Meta details Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale supercluster in Ohio, which will have ~1M GPUs at full scale and was used to train its Muse foundational models (Engineering at Meta) [3d]
- Town, which develops enterprise AI assistants, raised a $108M Series B at a $1B valuation, after announcing a $55M Series A in June (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Developers and vibe coders are using AI tools like Claude Code to get rid of sponsored ads on their smart TVs, disable tracking features, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Prism Data, which provides credit-scoring data and analytics that help lenders assess borrowers, raised a $20M Series A led by Story Ventures (Ryan Lawler/Axios) [3d]
- Tolan, an AI assistant focused on users that are not tech-savvy, raised $30M from USV, Khosla Ventures, and Homebrew, and says 70% of its users are women (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media) [3d]
- Sources: DeepSeek and Huawei are collaborating on future AI chip designs; DeepSeek plans to start using Ascend 950DT for pre-training as soon as 2026's end (The Information) [3d]
- SCOTUS rejects an appeal by BMG, Sony Music, UMG, and Warner Music, upholding a decision that copyright termination rights apply globally, not just in the US (Blake Brittain/Reuters) [3d]
- Apple announces a "Pro and tell" event on October 28 10am PT in LA, where its first touchscreen MacBook, a 14" MacBook Pro with M6, and more are expected (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) [3d]
- Amazon introduces TorchNeuron, an open-source tool that will allow developers to run code written in PyTorch on Amazon's Trainium chips with no rewrite (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) [3d]
- AI infrastructure startup Modal says it plans to start using Nvidia's Vera CPUs for the first time for hosting agents, alongside existing Intel and AMD chips (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) [3d]
- MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, saying it delivers "a generational leap" in agentic tasks, coding, computer use, and cybersecurity, with weights due October 23 (MiniMax) [3d]
- Sources: DHS officials asked CISA to hack a voting machine to report vulnerabilities to the White House without telling the vendor; the request wasn't acted on (ProPublica) [3d]
- The US DHS orders all federal civilian agencies to remove any DeepSeek tech from their IT systems and prohibits future procurement of its products and services (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- Sources: US investigators pursuing ShinyHunters, which stole FBI data, identified executives at two ransomware negotiation firms who had unusually close ties (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security) [3d]
- Filing: US prosecutors say OpenAI suspect Abdulrahman Alfozan maintained frequent WhatsApp contact in 2025 and 2026 with an unnamed Saudi Royal Family member (Dan Mangan/CNBC) [3d]
- Source: Anthropic is preparing a model with superior intuition and reasoning that can discern unstated intentions and is better at thinking outside of the box (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) [3d]
- Microsoft unveils new security tools in its 365 E7 bundle and Project Perception system to treat AI agents as potential insider threats via risk assessments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) [3d]
- How Democrats, who polls predict will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, are preparing to aggressively scrutinize the AI industry (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) [3d]
- Researcher: a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to target 1,200+ websites and breach 100+ entities, including Deere and SharkNinja, spending ~$5,000 total (Raphael Satter/Reuters) [3d]
- Tel Aviv-based doubleAI releases its debut code execution model to optimize GPU and CPU performance; doubleAI raised $220M and acquired 1,000 Nvidia B300 chips (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- Vinted faces an influx of listings suspected of containing stolen goods following widespread French riots, which targeted Sephora, Louis Vuitton, and Burberry (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Resident Evil 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 review: a good, but imperfect port [3d]
- Workers are spending more time correcting AI-generated content than doing actual work [3d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, October 20 (game #1730) [3d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, October 20 (game #1227) [3d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, October 20 (game #961) [3d]
- 'Turn any tank into your next UGV': France's Foreign Legion may get thousands of XXL robot mules built from retired tanks — though the demo inconveniently sits on one of only two AMX-32s ever made [3d]
- This 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 kit is the $205 memory upgrade I’d give an older PCs [3d]
- Kia's remotely-operated car-sharing trial in Korea takes the pain out of parking [3d]
- The Commodore C64's spiritual godson surfaces on HP's online store — EliteBoard G2a brings 'Gorgon Point' Ryzen AI 7 Pro APUs to a novel form factor with a battery and an eye-watering $4,200 price tag [3d]
- Where to watch Capturing Bigfoot online and from anywhere [3d]
- There's a new free hi-res music streaming app on iPhone and Android with no ads and no subscription [3d]
- Kaspersky's VPN and password manager went dark for days worldwide — and the timing has raised awkward questions about Russia's drone-hit data centers [3d]
- Is the new-look Kindle Colorsoft 2026 worth buying? Here's what you need to know [3d]
- What happens when an AI interviewer meets AI interviewee? YouTuber stands up for those facing faceless hiring processes [3d]
- How to watch Vanderpump Rules: Lisa Las Vegas online — stream reality TV from anywhere [3d]
- Russian bot activity plunged 84% after Ukraine hit Yandex data centers, but the bots were back at full strength within two days [3d]
- How to watch Aberfan: The Village That Fought Back for free online from anywhere [3d]
- 'AI is no longer just supporting the business — it has become the business model': IBM VP tells us how your business can balance AI excitement with realism as governance becomes more important than ever [3d]
- Reserve EcoFlow's new Titan 5000 home battery systems for $50 and get free solar panels [3d]
- Apple promises to ‘Pro and Tell’ on October 28, and a touchscreen MacBook Pro could finally arrive [3d]
- Watch out — these are the phishing scams experts say are most likely to catch your workers out [3d]
- I knew 4K Blu-ray film restoration couldn't be easy, but after Hammer's Dracula I have a newfound appreciation [3d]
- Acemagic S16 Ryzen 7 laptop with 24GB DDR5 RAM drops to $569 when you stack Newegg's gift card promotion [3d]
- Apple’s HomeView costs $299 / £299 — but that doesn't unlock all of its best features [3d]
- Logitech G Pro X2 Rapid review: rapid by nature [3d]
- Russia's next tool to fight VPNs appears to be AI — and the numbers suggest it's scarily effective [3d]
- FBI warns of torrent of scams and deepfakes ahead of US midterm elections [3d]
- Fuse Energy reveals UK's first plug-in solar and battery system combo [3d]
- Social media: How to maximize your privacy (and the top settings to change right now) [3d]
- Samsung Week sale teases early Black Friday deals on the Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, OLED TVs, Mini-LED TVs, and more [3d]
- US federal court work hit after BAE Systems cyberattack affects bankruptcy court systems [3d]
- Chinese RAM surge through 2028 isn't likely to help the average consumer [3d]
- This is the cheapest 4TB SSD you can buy — Team Group T-Force G50 EVO Gen4 SSD costs $370 or $0.09 per GB, $554 less than Samsung 990 Pro [3d]
- Vodafone, Orange, and others eye European Starlink alternative [3d]
- I’d trust this 16TB Seagate Expansion drive with my backups and media library [3d]
- Zoom can now tell you for sure that the person you're speaking to isn't a deepfake — Sam Altman’s World debuts ID verification for AI Agents [3d]
- AI keeps breaking old encryption mysteries — and is dunking on humans too [3d]
- TT Nature bird feeder review: two weeks with the budget wooden smart feeder camera [3d]
- AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X, is 'hands down the best processor on the market for most people' — now it's dropped to $209 with a free 240mm AIO cooler [3d]
- Microsoft ditches residency plans at UK's largest data center over power supply concerns [3d]
- How to stack Newegg gift cards to cut fast 32GB DDR5 RAM deals down to $420 [3d]
- Anthropic says its workforce has been getting older, but is also spending more time in meetings [3d]
- PlayStation 6 may cost over $1,000 as leaker predicts huge component costs [3d]
- Save $150 on Apple's Mac mini M4 instead of buying the M6 [3d]
- Whopper of a data breach sees Burger King Japan expose over 11 million customer records [3d]
- Logitech MX Anywhere 3S wireless mouse is just $69.99 now [3d]
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- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Tuesday, Oct. 20, #1227 [3d]
- Expect Next-Gen Consoles to Cost More Than $1,000, According to Leaks [3d]
- Meta Blames Bot Traffic for No Kings Day Instagram Suspension [3d]
- Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Tuesday, Oct. 20, #1949 [3d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Spangram and Answers for Tuesday, Oct. 20, #961 [3d]
- Get Up to $1,000 Off Your New iPhone Duo When You Port Your Number to T-Mobile [3d]
- Japan Is Launching a Mission to Mars Moons and Plans to Bring Samples Home [3d]
- Save Over $3,500 Off This HP EliteBook 8 Laptop While You Still Can [3d]
- You Have Just Hours Left to Grab an M4 Apple Mac Mini for a Massive $150 Off [3d]
- Apple Sends Invites Out for ‘Pro and Tell’ Special Event on Oct. 28 [3d]
- Breakthrough Glasses Slow Nearsightedness in Kids. We Try Stellest Ourselves [3d]
- The NBA, WNBA and AT&T Are Boosting Bandwidth to Improve Arena and Home Hoops Experiences [3d]
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