The Brutalist Report - tech
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
        
    
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
            
            - GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - DOJ asks for judgement requiring Google to divest Chrome [pdf] [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Why do I find Rust inadequate for text compression codecs? [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico now 208 cases, 2 deaths [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - We found a DOGE guy at NASA because his Google Calendar was public [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Musk/DOGE efforts to sell off civil rights historical site [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Letta: Letta is a framework for creating LLM services with memory [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Monotype and Phototypesetting (2000) [pdf] [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - From Prompt to Adventures:Creating Games with LLMs and Restate Durable Functions [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Virtual Punch Card Creator [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Rust Database Engineer [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - 'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Deriving Muon [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - The Take It Down Act isn't a law, it's a weapon [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder – and that of my colleague [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Great software design looks underwhelming [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video] [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools [241d] 
                 
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            - Two weak spots in Big Tech economics [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Impact of 8 lifestyle factors on mortality and life expectancy among US veterans [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Extracting time series features: a powerful method from a obscure paper [pdf] [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - First Porn, Now Skin Cream? 'Age Verification' Bills Are Out of Control [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Cliff Asness: The New 'Crypto Fort Knox' Is as Dumb as It Sounds [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - AMD YOLO [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - What if America turned off Britain's weapons? [241d] 
                 
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            - Show HN: A big tech dev experience for an open source CMS [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Introducing command And commandfor In HTML [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Optimistic Locking in B-Trees [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Building your sense of what's important at a tech company [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Reflection – AlphaGo / Gemini team building superintelligent coding agents [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"? [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Kraftful (YC S19) is hiring a founding eng to support our hockey-stick growth [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Show HN: IEMidi –  Cross-platform MIDI map editor for arbitrary controllers [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Why reading Martha C Nussbaum's philosophy is pure pleasure [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Kitchen foil and Algerian markets: When your phone is stolen in London [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Female brewers are back – 500 years since their heyday [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Woman's DNA discovered in 20k year old deer-tooth pendant [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - A collection of website seizure banners created by government agencies [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - When Europe needed it most, the Ariane 6 rocket delivered [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - The Official Aztec C Online Museum [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring a Chief of Staff [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - The Landscape of Lisp [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Zig's dot star syntax (value.*) [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Ten Digit Problems (2011) [pdf] [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - How often are children genetically unrelated to their presumed fathers? [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Days Since Starship Exploded counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Google begins testing AI-only search results [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - 40% of Britons haven't read a single book in the last 12 months [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Bye, Prime [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Cargo (YC S23) Is Hiring [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Bitcoin's Fatal Flaw: Why Financial Surveillance Is Inevitable Without Privacy [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Ladder: Self-Improving LLMs Through Recursive Problem Decomposition [241d] 
                 
                 
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            - Rules to improve air quality are under attack [242d] 
                 
                 
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            - Hacked firm demanded journalist 'take down' breach reporting, citing UK court [242d] 
                 
                 
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            -  Cybercriminals used vendor backdoor to steal almost $600,000 of Taylor Swift tickets  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  I compared GPT-4.5 to Gemini 2.0 Flash and the results surprised me  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Brother denies claims it locked down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The anti-Cybertruck? This new electric pick-up is the size of a Mini and the cutest way to haul your gear  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Apple officially delays the AI-infused Siri and admits, ‘It’s going to take us longer than we thought’  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  AMD officially announces price and release date for Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D processors  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  This is Amazon's first foray in servers, and certainly not the last: MicroTik franken-router is powered by the AWS Graviton 1 Arm CPU  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Samsung, Apple and Meta want to use OLED in their next VR headsets – but only Meta has a plan to make it cheap   [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Ransomware’s favorite Russian crypto exchange seized by law enforcement  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  There's something strange going on with Google Pixel phone vibrations after the latest update  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  NordVPN reacts to results from its latest security audit  [241d] 
                 
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            -  AMD's new driver adds AFMF 2.1 support for improved frame generation - and it could be a game-changer for handheld gaming PCs  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Thousands of WordPress sites targeted with malicious plugin backdoor attacks  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Budget gamers rejoice as Nvidia RTX 5050 and RTX 5060 are rumored to launch in April  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Another huge new botnet is infecting thousands of webcams and video recorders for DDoS attacks  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The era of Agentic AI  [241d] 
                 
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            -  Victrola has put Bluetooth, UPnP and Roon in its Sonos-only turntables and it's the hi-fi equivalent of ‘I think we should see other people’  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Disco Elysium successor XXX Nightshift nets some serious musical talent  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, March 8 (game #1139)  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  7 new movies and TV shows to stream on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, and more this weekend (March 7)  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, March 8 (game #636)  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, March 8 (game #370)  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  AMD might go for Nvidia’s jugular in Q2 with a faster RX 9070 ‘Extreme’ GPU that could leave the RTX 5070 Ti in the dust  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  New benchmark suggests Apple's M3 Ultra may not be much faster than the M4 Max - only a minor uplift in multi-core performance  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The Spotify bug that shows ads to Premium subscribers has finally been fixed - for now at least  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Microsoft reveals over a million PCs hit by malvertising campaign  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  UK government guidelines remove encryption advice following Apple backdoor spat  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Android 16 beta users are reporting major battery drain issues – but I’m not too worried about it  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Android 16 brings a much-needed upgrade to Google Maps that iOS users already have  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Malicious "polymorphic" Chrome extensions can mimic other tools to trick victims  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Samsung says ‘millions’ are using Galaxy AI regularly, despite surprising survey results  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Apple Music gets the royal treatment with special King Charles show – and the playlist has some real jewels  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  United Airlines successfully installed Starlink on its first aircraft, and the promised speeds are up to 50 times faster  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Garmin Fenix 6, Enduro, Marq and Tactix watches are getting fixes to solve some frustrating problems – here's what's new  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  ExpressVPN releases a major upgrade to its Linux app  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Hackers spotted using unsecured webcam to launch cyberattack  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  iPhone 17 Air leaks suggest it'll get next-gen battery – as offset the 17 Pro Max's weight gains  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Are you an Xbox Insider? I'm here to warn you that the latest update might wipe your console  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Latest leaked Google Pixel 9a images hint at new purple color and the tiniest of camera bumps  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Want to expand your Philips Hue setup? These 3 new lights will let you take it outdoors  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The ChatGPT Mac app just got a massive coding upgrade – and it’s coming to Windows soon  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Balancing innovation and security in an era of intensifying global competition  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  We’re locked inside a creative bubble, will AI burst it or throw away the key?  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Google Chrome launches better warning labels to make sure you know you're using a company profile  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  This compact new headphone amp from a hi-fi legend will boost sound quality for wired or wireless headphones  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Don’t panic, gaming laptop buyers – Nvidia assures us that mobile RTX 5000 graphics cards won’t have the chip-level fault that hit desktop GPUs  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The new Shark fan can blast blades of air in any direction, and it's set to make summer far more bearable  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  HPE set to cut thousands of employees despite results rise  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Severance season 2 episode 8 just revealed four big details about Harmony Cobel's past – and spawned two new theories about Cold Harbor and Kier Eagan  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  I was impressed by the Nacon Revolution X Unlimited Xbox controller at a recent event, and you can pre-order one right now  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Google Meet is finally giving you the tools to create better AI-generated video backgrounds  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  1Password is making it easier to find passwords based on where you are  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Five ways to save time and money with your IT in 2025  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The multidimensional strategy enterprises need for AI and cloud workloads  [241d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  How to use ChatGPT to prepare for a job interview  [242d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The M3 MacBook Air is officially discontinued, but the M2 MacBook Air will live on elsewhere and that's good news  [242d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            
        
     
    
    
    
    
    
 
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