The Brutalist Report - tech
- Property-Based Testing Caught a Security Bug I Never Would Have Found [1d]
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- My First Impression on HP Zbook Ultra G1a: Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Strix Halo 128GB [1d]
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- Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science [1d]
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- Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts [1d]
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- 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 [1d]
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- AI vending machine was tricked into giving away everything [2d]
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- Two Kinds of Vibe Coding [2d]
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- Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring an ML Engineer [2d]
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- Local WYSIWYG Markdown, mockup, data model editor powered by Claude Code [2d]
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- Interactive Fluid Typography [2d]
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- T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models [2d]
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- How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick [2d]
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- Public Makes Millions on Plunging Crypto [2d]
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- We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack [2d]
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- Top Banned Books: The Most Banned Books in U.S. Schools – Pen America [2d]
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- Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL acceleration built on Vortex [2d]
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- Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF) [2d]
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- How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips [2d]
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- FunctionGemma 270M Model [2d]
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- Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features [2d]
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- MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro found shot dead in home in Mass [2d]
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- GPT-5.2-Codex [2d]
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- Military Standard on Software Control Levels [2d]
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- Agent Skills is now an open standard [2d]
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- Show HN: Paper2Any – Open tool to generate editable PPTs from research papers [2d]
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- Making the most of bit arrays in Gleam [2d]
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- Show HN: Composify – Open-Source Visual Editor / Server-Driven UI for React [2d]
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- Valve Is Running Apple's Playbook in Reverse [2d]
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- Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access [2d]
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- Launch HN: Pulse (YC S24) – Production-grade unstructured document extraction [2d]
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- Finland gave two groups identical payments – one saw better mental health [2d]
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- Heart and Kidney Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes May Be One Ailment [2d]
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- The immortality of Microsoft Word [2d]
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- Using TypeScript to Obtain One of the Rarest License Plates [2d]
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- Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work [2d]
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- Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals [2d]
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- Are Apple Gift Cards Safe to Redeem? [2d]
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- systemd v259 Released [2d]
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- Please Just Try Htmx [2d]
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- Virtualizing Nvidia HGX B200 GPUs with Open Source [2d]
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- Partial Inlining [2d]
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- AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs [2d]
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- Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content [2d]
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- Classical statues were not painted horribly [2d]
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- Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring [2d]
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- A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet [2d]
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- Creating apps like Signal could be 'hostile activity' claims UK watchdog [2d]
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- America's Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision [2d]
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- We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars [2d]
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- Slowness Is a Virtue [2d]
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- After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up [2d]
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- It's all about momentum [2d]
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- How getting richer made teenagers less free [2d]
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- Online Textbook for Braid groups and knots and tangles [2d]
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- GitHub Actions for Self-Hosted Runners Price Increase Postponed [2d]
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- RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD [2d]
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- What Is an Elliptic Curve? [2d]
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- Security vulnerability found in Rust Linux kernel code [2d]
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- SF lawmakers vote to create reparations fund $5M per Black resident [2d]
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- Learn Egyptian Hieroglyphs [2d]
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- More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance [2d]
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- 'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them [2d]
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- Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser" [2d]
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- Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL [2d]
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- Ringspace: A proposal for the human web [2d]
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- Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video [2d]
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- I Have to Live in a Forest to Work on Open Source [2d]
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- The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page [2d]
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- Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell [2d]
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- TikTok unlawfully tracks your shopping habits – and your use of dating apps [2d]
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- Oracle has one last Ampere hurrah - new cloud platforms offer up to 192 custom Arm cores, and aren't OCI exclusive, unlike Graviton or Cobalt [1d]
- I tried the Apple Music app for ChatGPT, and it felt like talking to a music‑obsessed friend [1d]
- Just in time for Christmas, the Apple Watch 11 is up to AU$132 off – a new Aussie low that's better than Black Friday! [1d]
- It's about time! Microsoft finally kills off encryption cipher blamed for multiple cyberattacks - RC4 bites the dust at last [1d]
- This new ‘smallest’ subwoofer packs deep bass into a 10-inch cube – 1 driver, 2 radiators, 25Hz, 200W of power [2d]
- It's not just RAM getting more expensive - the tools to make chips are set to explode in cost too, experts warn [2d]
- “Open innovation is the foundation of AI progress” says Jensen Huang as Nvidia reveals big open source AI push - major acquisition sealed and new models on the way [2d]
- Anyone for a slice of record Pi? New landmark sees 314 trillion digits calculated as news site trounces Google Cloud - for now [2d]
- The age of next-gen RGB TVs is here — Samsung, LG, TCL and Hisense have all revealed models of the ‘OLED-beater’ tech [2d]
- A massive new DDoS botnet has already snared 1.8 million devices - here's what we know about Kimwolf [2d]
- 3 Wear OS features you're probably not using, but should be [2d]
- 'A lot of people cry using the app — we’ve had users say it put into words things they’d been struggling with for years' : Mark Manson on the problem with self-help and why his AI app is different [2d]
- Hurry! Claim your free ByteSim for your next trip to Japan exclusively on TechRadar [2d]
- The Fujifilm Instax Mini 12 is our favorite instant camera — and it's now down to a record-low price on Amazon [2d]
- For a relatively cheap device, the I found the Alldocube IWork GT Ultra is an impressively specified Intel 2-in-1 tablet [2d]
- Salesmate CRM review [2d]
- Bethesda reportedly held a secret Starfield event to showcase an upcoming update that will add faster loading times and technical improvements to the Creation Engine, along with a PS5 port that will be announced in 2026 [2d]
- Forget Chromebooks - this Windows 11 laptop with an Intel i3 just dropped to under £200 at Currys [2d]
- Amazon is bringing back Black Friday prices on its best-selling devices — 50% off Kindle, Echo, Fire TVs and more [2d]
- ChatGPT calls this mini PC "a steal" while Gemini says it's "insane" value for money — Meet the $379 AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS powerhouse that AI is raving about [2d]
- Larian Studios CEO says RAM crisis will affect game development – but I think it's actually a blessing in disguise [2d]
- As a PC gamer priced out of gaming laptops and PCs, these are the must-have PC gaming handhelds to get this Christmas [2d]
- Amazon's Fallout characters are coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone Season 01 Reloaded [2d]
- Having Windows app issues? Microsoft is making businesses reach out directly to get a fix [2d]
- Worried about ransomware? IDrive launches new Salesforce Backup tool for greater data protection [2d]
- How to watch Sports Personality of the Year 2025 — stream SPOTY free from anywhere [2d]
- Meta Quest 3S slashes price to £249.99! A perfect last-minute Christmas VR gift [2d]
- 5 things businesses and users should remember when using AI chatbots [2d]
- Auto giant LKQ says it's the latest firm to be hit by Oracle EBS data breach [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, December 19 (game #1425) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, December 19 (game #922) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, December 19 (game #656) [2d]
- The best laptop deal right now isn’t from Dell or HP - it’s this $430 Intel i9-12900H beast [2d]
- New data shows that only 1.6 million units of video game hardware were sold in the US in November, making it the worst month since 1995 [2d]
- Don’t gift earbuds or headphones ‘til you read this! My job is testing audio – these are 6 best cheap buys for 2025 [2d]
- Fallout 5 will 'be existing in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening', says Todd Howard [2d]
- CISA reveals warning on Asus software flaw, here's what you need to do to stay safe [2d]
- Your Ring doorbell can now use Alexa+ to identify who's calling and give them an appropriate greeting [2d]
- I tested the Enlaps Tikee mini+ 4K timelapse camera – it’s a breeze to use, but the extra costs sure do add up [2d]
- Meta just u-turned on the best VR announcement it ever made — and might have handed the win to Android XR [2d]
- Segway e-scooters are under half price at Best Buy thanks to huge last-minute price cuts of up to $650 [2d]
- Cisco says Chinese hackers are exploiting its customers with a new zero-day [2d]
- The Star Trek Holodeck just got closer – Apple’s new AI tool generates 3D scenes from your photos in under a second for VR memories [2d]
- ExpressVPN rolls out major Qt update to boost speed and unify desktop apps [2d]
- HoneyBook CRM review 2026 [2d]
- Bosses are getting tired of AI at work, and preferring to hire humans for "specialist" roles once again [2d]
- Currys has slashed the prices on all its PS5 consoles just in time for Christmas [2d]
- Agile CRM review 2026 [2d]
- These Amazon Luna gaming bundle deals could save your wallet this Christmas at better than half price discounts [2d]
- Emily in Paris season 5 dedication explained: who is Diego Borella? [2d]
- From SaaS to AI: the technological and cultural shifts leaders must confront [2d]
- iOS 26.3 is now out in beta – here are 3 new features to expect on your iPhone soon [2d]
- Get this speedy Crucial X9 2TB Portable SSD for £105.99 at Amazon [2d]
- The UN just made a significant decision on who governs the Internet [2d]
- Google TV Freeplay adds even more free streaming channels, bringing its library total to over 250 [2d]
- The Poco Pad X1 is an excellent budget tablet – but there's a problem [2d]
- Smart new features for Android smartphones just arrived in Windows 11 – including remotely locking your PC via the phone [2d]
- ACT! CRM review [2d]
- The ChatGPT app store is now live — and these are the 5 apps you should try first [2d]
- The Game Awards announces an estimated 171 million global livestreams of the full broadcast, breaking the show's record for its 11th year [2d]
- AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output [2d]
- There's still time to get 512GB of Switch 2 SD Card storage at a heavy discount before the Holidays [2d]
- Gaming hardware sales data reveals Xbox and its price hikes to be the biggest loser of 2025 [2d]
- Gemini 3 Flash is now powering AI Mode in Search — but can it actually replace how we use Google? [2d]
- Insightly introduces AI into its CRM platform [2d]
- Save now on the next-gen AI workstation from Corsair that is designed for creators and developers [2d]
- Emily in Paris season 5 ending explained: does Emily return to Paris, do Emily and Gabriel get back together and our season 6 predictions [2d]
- Emily in Paris season 5 isn't home sweet Rome, but an Italian holiday from hell — and Marcello is the biggest disappointment of all [2d]
- I tested the Geekom AX8 Max - and this mini PC is ideally balanced for the office, but I’m not sold on the color [2d]
- Privacy vs control: a “whack-a-mole game” with no clear winners [2d]
- The Gozney Dome (Gen 2) might be the ultimate backyard pizza oven – but its pro features come with a steep price tag [2d]
- I tried talking to Google Maps with Gemini, and it actually understood what I wanted [2d]
- LG’s 2026 TVs and soundbars get the Dolby Atmos FlexConnect treatment [2d]
- ‘I think $2.3 billion says you might be wrong on that’: James Cameron shoots down critics of 3D in Avatar, as fresh lawsuit emerges from animator [2d]
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