The Brutalist Report - tech
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
        
    
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
            
            - How Meta trains large language models at scale [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Nietzsche's Guide to Greatness [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Martin-Baker Ejection Seat Made Its First of 7,722 Saves 75 Years Ago Today [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Gerald Sussman: Programming is (should be) fun (2022) [video] [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - 21.2× faster than llama.cpp? plus 40% memory usage reduction [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Apple is shipping WebXR on Safari for Vision Pro [video] [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - The legacy of Lynn Conway, chip design pioneer and transgender-rights advocate [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Japan enacts law to curb Apple, Google's app dominance [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Photographer Disqualified from AI Image Contest After Winning with Real Photo [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Forget Copilot+, Windows is already tracking everything you do [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Etleap (YC W13) Is Hiring Customer Success Manager (SF) [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Honda's Hidden Resonators Keep Tire Noise to a Minimum [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Boeing Starliner Stuck on Space Station as More Leaks Discovered [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Pg_lakehouse: A DuckDB Alternative in Postgres [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Using AI to spark connections at a conference [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Cheapest source of fossil fuel generation is double the cost of solar [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - I asked ChatGPT how to profit from the impending AI stock crash. Oh, the irony [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Japan enacts law to curb Apple, Google's app dominance [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - ChromeOS to Migrate to Android-Based Tech Stack [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Hybrid working has benefits over in-person working – the evidence mounts [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Bibliography keys: It's as easy as [1], [2], [3] [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - The diminishing returns of in-office mandates [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - iOS 18 cracks down on apps asking for full address book access [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with the best of Google [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Hybrid working from home improves retention without damaging performance [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Patterns of data loading: Topics and broadcast [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - AI is not a Net Positive for Society [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Is Google SEO Gaslighting the Internet? [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Apple didn't fix Swift's biggest flaw [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Designing the Avocado of Uncertainty Visualization [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Remote Amazon Tribe Did Not Get Addicted to Porn [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Group chats rule the world [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Don't bother voting in European election [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Databricks to Open Source Unity Catalog [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Diffractive Chocolate [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - The Safety-Critical Rust Consortium [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Streak (YC W22) is hiring a remote web designer (senior) [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro? [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Draft Legislation to End Federal Dependence on Insecure, Proprietary Software [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Calm Company Fund Is Taking a Break [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Code Finder – The ultimate search engine for GitHub repositories [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Apple surpasses Microsoft as most valuable company [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Accessing Math Solutions via Monte Carlo Self-Refine with LLaMa-3 8B [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Alexa Dropped the Ball on Being the Top Conversational System on the Planet [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Launch HN: Overwatch (YC S22): OSINT platform for cyber and fraud risk [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Show HN: Restate – low-latency durable workflows for JavaScript/Java, in Rust [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Python wheel filenames have no canonical form [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - We just broke ground on America's first next-gen nuclear facility [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Google Launches New Dataset Search Engine [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - YouTube experimenting with server-side ad injection [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Drawing Machines [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19 [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - The Oldest Ecosystems on Earth [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Samsung Document Showed 126 Ways iPhone Was Better Than S1 (2010) [pdf] [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Fini (YC S22) Is Hiring a Front-End Engineer [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Show HN: I 'integrated' ChatGPT in iOS-iPadOS-macOS with out official support [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Faxes from the Far Side of the Moon (2018) [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27 [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Reminiscences of the VLSI Revolution – Lynn Conway [pdf] [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Raspberry Pi is now a public company [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a pole [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - ASHA for Linux [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Spreadsheet Assassins – A short history of "software as a service" [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - My thoughts on Python in Excel [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Germany gets informal EU go-ahead to support gas-fired power, sources say [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - ARM torpedoes Windows on ARM: Demands destruction of all PCs with Snapdragon X [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Google still recommends glue for your pizza [509d] 
                 
                 
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            - Denmark recalls Korean ramen for being too spicy [510d] 
                 
                 
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            - Why SQLite Is Taking over with Brian Holt and Marco Bambini [510d] 
                 
                 
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            - Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret: Founder Liquidity [510d] 
                 
                 
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            - Silicon Valley salaries are shrinking, leaving workers in the lurch [510d] 
                 
                 
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            - Safari 18 will automatically transition users to passkeys [video] [510d] 
                 
                 
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            - IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024 [510d] 
                 
                 
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            - Debian is the greatest Linux distro of them all [510d] 
                 
                 
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            - T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next [510d] 
                 
                 
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            - Show HN: PDF to Podcast – Convert Any PDF into a Podcast Episode [510d] 
                 
                 
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            - Implications of ultra-processed plant origin foods on cardiovascular risk [510d] 
                 
                 
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            - AES-GCM and breaking it on nonce reuse [510d] 
                 
                 
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            - Why being the last company to launch in a category can pay off [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - This humanoid robot can drive cars — sort of [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Ahead of Tesla’s big shareholder vote, let’s re-read the judge’s opinion that got us here [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - iOS 18 cracks down on apps asking for full address book access [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Generative AI takes robots a step closer to general purpose [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Ford’s secretive low-cost EV team is growing with talent from Rivian, Tesla and Apple [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Tern AI wants to reduce reliance on GPS with low-cost navigation alternative [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Fintech Brex abandons co-CEO model, talks IPO, cash burn and plans for a secondary sale [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - This Week in AI: Apple won’t say how the sausage gets made [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - India’s 360 One acquires mutual fund app ET Money for $44M [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Helen Toner worries ‘not super functional’ Congress will flub AI policy [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Layoffs Got You Down? Get a Half-Price Expo+ Pass at Disrupt 2024 [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - YouTube creators can now test multiple video thumbnails [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Waymo issues second recall after robotaxi hit telephone pole [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Insight Partners backs Canary Technologies’ mission to elevate hotel guest experiences [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Here’s everything Apple announced at the WWDC 2024 keynote, including Apple Intelligence, Siri makeover [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - VC Sheel Mohnot leads $4.3M seed in automated financial reporting fintech InScope [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Foresite Capital raises $900M sixth fund for investing in healthcare and life sciences companies [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Databricks expands Mosaic AI to help enterprises build with LLMs [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - YC grad, RetailReady raises $3.3M for an AI warehouse app that hopes to save brands billions [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Databricks launches LakeFlow to help its customers build their data pipelines [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Bonus: An extra week to apply to Startup Battlefield 200 [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Restate raises $7M for its lightweight workflows-as-code platform [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Civic Renewables is rolling up residential solar installers to improve quality and grow the market [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Friends & Family Capital, a fund founded by ex-Palantir CFO and son of IVP’s founder, unveils third $118M fund [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Fisker’s troubled Ocean SUV faces first recall [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Gorilla, a Belgian startup that helps energy providers crunch big data, raises $25M [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Fabless AI chip makers Rebellions and Sapeon to merge as competition heats up in global AI hardware industry [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - The apps that Apple Sherlocked at WWDC [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Germany’s Black Semiconductor raises $273M for graphene-based chip tech [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Let there be Light! Danish startup exits stealth with $13M seed funding to bring AI to general ledgers [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Apex’s off-the-shelf satellite bus business attracts $95M in new funding [510d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - DC’s political class doesn’t know Y Combinator exists, but it’s trying to change that [510d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - FTC Chair Lina Khan says the agency is going after the ‘mob bosses’ in Big Tech [510d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            
        
     
    
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
            
            -  Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, June 13 (game #871)  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Thursday, June 13 (game #368)  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Thursday, June 13 (game #102)  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Tired of AI and Apple Intelligence? This privacy-focused minimalist phone now boasts an OLED screen  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Your old photos are getting a 3D makeover thanks to this huge Vision Pro update  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Here's one awesome iOS 18 update that's coming to all iPhones  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Russia's largest tech company just released a free AI tool that could save Microsoft, Google and Facebook tens of millions of dollars  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Honor’s new AI-powered portrait mode made me feel like a movie star  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  16TB Portable SSD devices in the pipeline as key component vendor debuts world's first native USB4 controller — with 4GB/s read/write performance, it may even outperform your system SSD  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Samsung's wild new Shortcut sneakers let you play music and make phone calls by dancing  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The future of hunting down security flaws could be multiple LLMs working together  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Max just gave a big TV show update for Harry Potter, The Batman spinoff and Euphoria season 3 – here’s what you need to know  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Brave's user base exploded in May, but it can still do more  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Microsoft warns Azure Tags could be targeted by hackers  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  If your Windows 11 taskbar’s been acting weird, you’re not seeing things – but don’t worry, there’s a fix  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Hackers are hijacking Windows Search to hit victims with malware  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  There are no insignificant breaches: Why all compromised data matters  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Bluehost adds AI to its WordPress website builder  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Lotus Emeya sets new EV record by fast-charging faster than an iPhone  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Always-on endpoint AI: Balanced system design  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Oracle confirms Microsoft is using its cloud infrastructure to support OpenAI  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Pure Storage confirms data breach — Snowflake attack again thought to be involved  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  EU anti-encryption crusaders seek to turn your digital devices into spyware   [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  VMware signs major new OEM deals, with Dell joining HPE and Lenovo  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Jabra's super-cool new earbuds will be its last – and that's a real shame  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  IT downtime is costing companies billions every year — and they aren't getting any better at fixing it  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Spotify will soon give you a mini version of Wrapped all year round –but does it justify the price hikes?   [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  'I would never claim that it’s 100%’: Tim Cook says Apple can’t guarantee its AI won’t screw up  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Yahoo will take on Apple Intelligence and Google Gemini with its own AI features, in a move that will definitely make it relevant again  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  I downloaded the macOS 15 Sequoia beta and fell in love with the Classic Mac dynamic wallpaper  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Sonos reveals when the Ace headphones' best feature will be supported on Android and more soundbars… well, roughly  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Fitbit fans are fuming again as Google axes popular web dashboard feature  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Your iPhone 15 Pro will soon get a built-in AI image generator – here’s how it works  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Thousands of FortiGate VPN systems hit by Chinese hackers  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  AMD admits Ryzen 9000 CPUs won’t steal the gaming crown – is this why 3D V-Cache chips might be coming early?  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  AWS unveils major investment, new cloud region in Taiwan as cloud demand grows  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Star Wars Outlaws will take roughly 30 hours to finish and double that for completionists  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Your iPhone 15 can’t run Apple Intelligence because of one key spec weakness  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Nintendo is hiring engineers for its online service, hinting that it could make the jump to Switch 2  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  'We like to be ready': House of the Dragon season 3 hasn't been announced but it's being written, co-creator says  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  iOS 18 has two useful tricks to solve your iPhone charging headaches  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Assassin's Creed Shadows will feature a more compact open world  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  A handy Apple Intelligence-like feature could land on a Samsung phone first  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Increasing stress is making it harder for companies to keep key workers  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself  [509d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Adopting GenAI starts with the right storage solution  [509d] 
                 
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            -  The importance of Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) strategy explained  [510d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  MacOS Sequoia's wildest update – iPhone mirroring – might be more useful than you think  [510d] 
                 
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