The Brutalist Report - tech
- Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios [2d]
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- Securing edge device systems, including firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways [2d]
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- Nine – seemingly impossible C64 demo [2d]
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- Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website [2d]
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- What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF [2d]
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- Doge Sets Sights on Medicaid: New York Times [2d]
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- Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored [2d]
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- Infosec 101 for Activists [2d]
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- The APL Challenge [2d]
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- DeepSeek and Double Standards [2d]
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- Discord has ongoing major outage [2d]
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- Government planned it 7 years,beavers built the dam in 2 days and saved them $1M [2d]
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- Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring an AI Fullstack Lead [2d]
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- TrailBase: Sub-millisecond open-source application base with Rust, SQLite and V8 [2d]
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- How I use LLMs as a staff engineer [2d]
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- MathScroll – Infinitely Scroll Mathematics [2d]
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- Google Drops Pledge Not to Use AI for Weapons or Surveillance [2d]
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- Open Deep Research [2d]
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- GitHub Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases [2d]
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- How to Scale Your Model: A Systems View of LLMs on TPUs [2d]
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- WikiTok [2d]
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- Show HN: Mandarin Word Segmenter with Translation [2d]
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- TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race [2d]
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- How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop [2d]
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- Roc Rewrites the Compiler in Zig [2d]
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- Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation [2d]
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- Orion O6 ITX Arm V9 board – temper your expectations [2d]
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- Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer – Perform code reviews on a canvas [2d]
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- Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority' says CEO [2d]
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- How does fentanyl get into the US? [2d]
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- Introducing Apple Invites, a new app that brings people together [2d]
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- Jujutsu VCS Introduction and Patterns [2d]
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- Apple Launches Apple Invites [2d]
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- Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware [2d]
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- Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools [2d]
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- Poland's Justice Minister Arrested for Illegal Use of NSO Group Malware [2d]
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- America desperately needs more air traffic controllers [2d]
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- 100 Or so Books that shaped a Century of Science [2d]
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- Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More Than Last Year [2d]
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- Build a link blog like Simon Willison [2d]
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- NASA Told to to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites [2d]
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- Vanguard's Average Fee Is Now Just 0.07% After Biggest-Ever Cut [2d]
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- DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM [2d]
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- Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to Fedaral Payment System [2d]
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- The Lost Story of Alan Turing's "Delilah" Project [2d]
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- Programmers are modern-day computers [2d]
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- DeepRAG: Thinking to Retrieval Step by Step for Large Language Models [2d]
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- Words flagged in search of current NSF awards [2d]
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- Please help me find better blogs to read [2d]
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- Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata [2d]
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- Bouncing Beholder, my winning JS1k entry (2012) [2d]
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- Why employees smuggle AI into work [2d]
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- Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time [2d]
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- Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing [2d]
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- VSCode Marketplace Web Pages No Longer Allow Direct VSIX Downloads [2d]
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- Microsoft Is Dead (2007) [2d]
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- Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost [2d]
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- Nvidia open-source nanite: continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library [2d]
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- Backblaze seemingly does not support files greater than 1 TB [2d]
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- OmniHuman-1: Human Animation Models [2d]
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- The Final Frontier with Steve Jurvetson [2d]
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- Platform for supporting local sellers and buyers [2d]
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- El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nation [2d]
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- OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10 [2d]
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- OWASP Non-Human Identities Top [2d]
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- Alibaba/T-HEAD's Xuantie C910 [2d]
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- Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping [2d]
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- The Situation: What's Going on at the FBI? [2d]
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- I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up [2d]
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- Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I Left AWS [2d]
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- Implementing a linear collider facility at CERN [2d]
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- Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world [2d]
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- The Video Game History Foundation Library Opens in Early Access [2d]
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- Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf] [3d]
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- El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment [3d]
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- Snap says TikTok uncertainty benefited its business [2d]
- A16z hires acquitted former Marine Daniel Penny as an investor [2d]
- AMD pulls up the release of its next-gen data center GPUs [2d]
- Miist, founded by a 25-year-old, wants people to vape their way out of smoking addiction and migraines [2d]
- Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website [2d]
- Spyware maker Paragon confirms U.S. government is a customer [2d]
- Okta competitor SailPoint races toward $11.5B IPO [2d]
- Figure drops OpenAI in favor of in-house models [2d]
- Hugging Face researchers aim to build an ‘open’ version of OpenAI’s deep research tool [2d]
- Amazon continues renewable energy spree with 476 MW purchase [2d]
- A review of Tapestry, an app powered by the growing open web [2d]
- E-fuels startup will make diamonds before powering jet planes [2d]
- TED Talks has put out an all-call for a new leader [2d]
- Challenging Bluesky, Threads now allows for public custom feeds [2d]
- This Week in AI: Billionaires talk automating jobs away [2d]
- An angel investor was so intrigued by this startup, he joined as a co-founder [2d]
- Okta lays off 180 employees – nearly one year after last workforce reduction [2d]
- China may probe Intel for antitrust: report [2d]
- EU puts out guidance on uses of AI that are banned under its AI Act [2d]
- A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs [2d]
- Cruise to slash workforce by nearly 50% after GM cuts funding to robotaxi operations [2d]
- Deel unloads $300M in secondary sale, brings General Catalyst on as an investor [2d]
- DSTLRY, the comic books marketplace, launches new customization features for artists [2d]
- How Max Altschuler accidentally founded a VC firm that just raised another $54M [2d]
- Apple launches Invites, a new app for creating custom invitations [2d]
- Former Tesla engineer heading government agency reportedly outlines ‘AI-first strategy’ [2d]
- Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good [2d]
- LogicStar is building AI agents for app maintenance [2d]
- Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes [2d]
- Spotify reports its first full year of profitability, adds 35M monthly active users [2d]
- OpenAI’s Operator agent helped me move, but I had to help it, too [2d]
- Sotira lands $2M to help brands offload and monetize their surplus inventory [2d]
- Snap unveils AI text-to-image model for mobile devices [2d]
- Team behind Twitterrific launches a multi-feed app called Tapestry [2d]
- LinkedIn amps up vertical video tools as uploads jump 36% [2d]
- Walkstar is a new iOS app that pauses songs when you stop moving [2d]
- Canada’s StackAdapt snaps up $235M for its AI-based programmatic platform [2d]
- Archive raises $30M to solve fashion’s pollution problem with online resales [2d]
- Egypt’s Khazna banks $16M for its financial super app and expansion into Saudi [2d]
- Grubhub confirms data breach affecting customers and drivers [2d]
- OpenAI doubles down on Asia, partners with Kakao after its big deal with SoftBank [2d]
- Waabi and Volvo team up to build self-driving trucks at scale [2d]
- SoftBank-backed billionaire to invest $230M in Indian AI startup Krutrim [2d]
- Opera launches a mindfulness-focused browser with break reminders and soundscapes [2d]
- AI agents for e-commerce startup, founded by Google and DeepMind alums, raises $10M seed [2d]
- Neuralk-AI is developing AI models specifically designed for structured data [2d]
- China hits back at Trump tariffs with Google antitrust investigation [2d]
- Accel backs Indian AI startup building ‘ChatGPT for presentations’ [2d]
- Adam Candeub, a vocal critic of Big Tech, will reportedly join the FCC [2d]
- Ontario cancels, then restores, $68 million Starlink contract after protesting US tariffs [3d]
- Is this 4K projector inspired by turtles? Fujifilm's latest UST projector has a folded rotatable popup lens [2d]
- New info about Sonos' streaming box sounds like a dream product, apart from the 2 horrendous flaws [2d]
- DeepSeek became the world's most popular AI term for 24 hours when it caused the biggest drop ever in stock markets [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, February 5 (game #605) [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, February 5 (game #1108) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, February 5 (game #339) [2d]
- Another mini PC with a Ryzen AI 9 HX CPU has emerged, and not only does it support four 4K monitors, it can also take up to 96GB memory [2d]
- Did extreme overclockers inspire Microsoft to develop closed loop liquid cooling for data centers? I'd like to think so [2d]
- AMD’s big RX 9070 launch might happen later in February – and we could find out how these GPUs compare to the Nvidia RTX 5070 [2d]
- Sony needs a bit of gentle encouragement with the PlayStation 5, and this rumored Steam console from Valve might be the perfect answer for that [2d]
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7: latest news, rumors, and everything we’ve heard so far [2d]
- Apple’s new Invites app gives iCloud+ subscribers an easier way to organize parties – and Android fans are invited too [2d]
- Nintendo is already preparing for Switch 2 scalpers ahead of the console's release [2d]
- The Nothing Phone 3a could borrow the iPhone 16’s best feature – and I think it’s a great idea [2d]
- Anthropic has a new security system it says can stop almost all AI jailbreaks [2d]
- Meta sets Oculus Quest headset shelf-life at six years, but there's still hope that the Meta Quest 2 will survive past 2026 [2d]
- GrubHub reveals massive data breach - customers, drivers, businesses all affected, here's what we know [2d]
- An all-digital PS6 doesn't seem possible, according to ex-PlayStation boss Shawn Layden: 'I think it would be hard for them to go fully disc-less' [2d]
- New EU Chat Control makes scanning encrypted chats optional – but privacy experts are still worried [2d]
- Nvidia RTX 5090 seemingly has a spanner thrown in the works by new graphics driver, but we should be very careful around reports of ‘bricked’ GPUs [2d]
- Phishing campaign targets prominent X users, accounts at risk [2d]
- Apple Music’s year-round alternative to Spotify Wrapped has just landed – here’s how to find it [2d]
- Mastering data overload by implementing AIOps [2d]
- Better together: AI, no-code, and the human workforce [2d]
- Meta reveals what kinds of AI even it would think too risky to release [2d]
- Warframe’s next big update was apparently designed for me personally, as it includes a David Bowie-themed frame, a tonne of great QOL improvements, and a horribly mutated boy band [2d]
- I’ve tried the new Opera Air browser – here are 3 features that have already convinced me to ditch Chrome [2d]
- Optoma's new 4K laser projector promises high brightness with both Dolby Vision and HDR10+, so it knows what to do with it [2d]
- The iPhone’s first official porn app has just landed in the EU – and Apple really isn’t happy about it [2d]
- Everything new on Paramount Plus in February 2025 [2d]
- A major US TV broadcaster leaked over a million sensitive files online [2d]
- Nvidia's RTX 5090 and 5080 are sold out everywhere, but that doesn't mean you have to miss out on the fun - RTX 5000 series gaming laptops are already showing up at retailers [2d]
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer has lift off as Marvel finally reveals the MCU movie's unique visuals, charming cast, and high-stakes plot [2d]
- Google Gemini update makes the AI much more useful when your phone is locked [2d]
- Minecraft gets new cow variants, bush types, and ambient sounds to desert biomes in the latest public testing update [2d]
- Cloudflare's new tool wants to help you spot doctored images online [2d]
- Millions of cheap EVs in China will get advanced self-driving features this year – leaving the rest of the world far behind [2d]
- OpenAI's Deep Research smashes records for the world's hardest AI exam, with ChatGPT o3-mini and DeepSeek left in its wake [2d]
- The Ninja Double Stack is the best air fryer in the world – and it just got a 2025 revamp that makes it better than ever [2d]
- Google Pixel Watches may be about to get a battery-extending charging feature - and it's one Pixel owners already love [2d]
- Everything new on Prime Video in February 2025 [2d]
- Google Maps could get its most useful Gemini AI upgrade so far soon to speed up your searches [2d]
- Sick of your MacBook starting when you open the lid? Apple has just revealed a fix [2d]
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2's second hotfix fixes crashing issues and addresses a frame rate-related bug [2d]
- Former PlayStation boss is hoping for ‘something that is still hidden to us’ to be revealed in the Nintendo Switch 2 direct to make the console more exciting [2d]
- Google Sheets is getting faster and more effective, and I can't wait to ditch Excel for good [2d]
- How emotionally intelligent AI cranks up CX potential [2d]
- Google Messages will get a big emergency texting upgrade soon –here's what's coming [2d]
- The next ID@Xbox showcase is scheduled to take place later this month [2d]
- Samsung Galaxy Ring patent reveals that it could one day control your Galaxy Tab or laptop [2d]
- Nintendo Switch 2 has some big shoes to fill as the original Switch officially surpasses 150 million lifetime sales [2d]
- Could AI be the key to solving our productivity woes? A personal assistant could solve many issues [2d]
- Casio’s online store hit by bogus credit card stealing checkout form [2d]
- Microsoft quietly removed its instructions for installing Windows 11 on an unsupported PC – is this something to do with the 24H2 update? [2d]
- Sonos may have finally fixed its app’s biggest remaining problem [2d]
- Salesforce is slashing 1,000 jobs, but says workers will be able to reapply [2d]
- I tested OpenAI's o1 model in Microsoft Copilot and it's a little overwhelming [2d]
- Stuck in the app trap? Why more software isn’t the answer to business growth [2d]
- Turns out Dyson's new handheld vacuum is just a V8 without its wand, and I feel cheated [2d]
- Microsoft Paint brushes up on AI [3d]
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