The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team [1d]
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- Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) [1d]
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- Donation Controversy [1d]
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- My falling-out with the rationalist community [1d]
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- The creepiest 'sales demo' of all time [2d]
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- I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs [2d]
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- Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco [2d]
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- The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism [2d]
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- Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled [2d]
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- Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models [2d]
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- Making ASCII Art in Vim [2d]
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- Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac [2d]
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- An Empirical Study: AI Agent Rules Need Context and Layered Enforcement [2d]
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- The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency [2d]
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- Agent swarms and the new model economics [2d]
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- That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing [2d]
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- Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files [2d]
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- Kimi Work [2d]
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- Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls [2d]
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- My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry [2d]
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- Over 30% of new ArXiv submissions now read as AI-written [2d]
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- Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12 [2d]
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- Czechia moves to ban mobile phones in schools from September 2027 [2d]
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- I Stopped "Creating Content" [2d]
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- Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig [2d]
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- Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser [video] [2d]
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- SaaS *is* dead. But not because AI "killed" it, because AI killed it [2d]
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- Show HN: DeepSQL – A self-hostable AI DBA agent for Postgres and MySQL [2d]
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- Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link [2d]
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- The Voice of Google [2d]
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- Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling [2d]
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- Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers [2d]
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- Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion [2d]
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- I Tracked 997 Chrome Extensions That Changed Their Titles [2d]
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- NYC Subway Signals: A Complete Guide [2d]
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- Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease: Aha Scientific Statement [2d]
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- Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs [2d]
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- American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing [2d]
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- Lossless model compression experiment: GLM-5.2 in 25% less memory [2d]
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- Perfection Is Not Over-Engineering [2d]
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- Firefox 153.0 Beta [2d]
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- Tested Kimi K3 for Coding (2026) [2d]
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- Show HN: The0 – self-hosted runtime for trading bots, bring your own language [2d]
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- Show HN: OTP Inspired actor supervisor based full stack templates [2d]
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- Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL [2d]
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- Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding [2d]
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- Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database [2d]
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- Modder Makes GTA: Vice City Playable Inside GTA 3 Inside GTA: San Andreas [2d]
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- Inertia-1: An Open Exploration to a Unified Motion Foundation Model [2d]
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- We're Squandering LEDs' Potential to Save Our Night Skies [2d]
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- Codex is wearing out our devices [2d]
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- Soofi – Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models [2d]
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- Stop Using OpenCode [2d]
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- The footprints of every building in NYC – updated weekly [2d]
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- The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel [2d]
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- Show HN: Read the Tape – Wordle for daytrading, five blind S&P 500 charts a day [2d]
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- The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research [2d]
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- Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars? [2d]
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- Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? [2d]
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- Airport Simulator [2d]
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- GitHub's 2FA is to become mandatory on September 2, 2026 [2d]
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- Airbus Takes Flight from AWS [2d]
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- US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again [2d]
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- Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25 [2d]
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- I'm Done with Mullvad [2d]
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- Taking OCaml and Eio for a Spin [2d]
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- EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods from Battery Removal Requirements [2d]
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- My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault [2d]
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- How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in [2d]
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- Xiaomi-Robotics-1 [2d]
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- Big Tech Needs to Justify AI Spending as Investors Dump Stocks [2d]
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- LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques [2d]
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- Power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for data centers [2d]
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- When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure? [2d]
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- Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture [2d]
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- Big Tech Is Now Targeting Native American Land for Data Centers [2d]
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- Delete Your Data with Drop [2d]
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- Satan's 19th-Century Bank Note [2d]
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- The Anti-Palantir Manifesto [2d]
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- DeKalb deputy charged with Flock camera misuse; more Georgia officers fired [2d]
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- Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight [2d]
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- CO2 overload in blood suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years [2d]
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- Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40% (Kate Conger/New York Times) [1d]
- Researchers found sandbox escapes or boundary bypasses in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity by writing files trusted tools later use; most are patched (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer) [1d]
- Samsung debuts Samsung Galaxy Card, its first-ever US credit card, a Visa from Barclays; it offers 5% rewards for purchases directly from Samsung (John Velasco/Tom's Guide) [1d]
- Judge approves Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with authors, the first major US case of its kind to settle; some authors opted out and have other ongoing lawsuits (Blake Brittain/Reuters) [1d]
- Source: Ancestry.com pitches a risky $1.75B term loan at 4 to 4.25 percentage points above the benchmark to refinance debt from its 2020 Blackstone acquisition (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Snap reaches a deal to settle the second case set for trial over social media harm to minors, following TikTok and YouTube, leaving Meta as the only defendant (Bloomberg) [2d]
- X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rewrite from scratch; Nikita Bier calls it "one of the largest engineering projects" in the company's history (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Taiwan indicts former TSMC deputy manager for allegedly stealing trade secrets, in what authorities say is the first National Security Act case involving China (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia) [2d]
- Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [2d]
- OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly found ways to act outside its sandbox (OpenAI) [2d]
- Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft platform designed for commercial and military uses, along with an autonomous attack rotorcraft called Thunder (Reuters) [2d]
- Source: Z.ai completed construction of a 1 GW data center housing only Chinese chips; Z.ai has built or operates several computing clusters each with 10K+ chips (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Chicago-based Empirical Security, which uses AI to help companies predict threats by monitoring exploited vulnerabilities, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios) [2d]
- Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5 (Matthew Sparkes/New Scientist) [2d]
- Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) [2d]
- CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning just three months after taking over the federal AI testing institute (Maria Curi/Axios) [2d]
- Source: Tencent is in talks to acquire Israeli game developer SuperPlay in a deal valuing SuperPlay at $1B-$1.5B; Playtika acquired SuperPlay in 2024 for $690M (Golan Hazani/CTech) [2d]
- Billionaire-backed Building A Better California reserves $87M in TV ad time to oppose California's proposed one-time wealth tax; Sergey Brin put $82M into BABC (New York Times) [2d]
- Chinese open models are proper competition that should be welcomed, not something to ban or treat as a danger, and open-sourcing is an old business strategy (Bill Gurley/Washington Post) [2d]
- Sensor Tower: in H1, the number of new apps released in the App Store doubled to ~560K, on track to pass 2025's ~600K total, as vibecoded apps flood the store (Kalley Huang/New York Times) [2d]
- UK government data: ~35% of UK businesses with 10+ staff report using AI, up from 12% in September 2023; average number of AI tools is 1.6, up from 1.4 in 2023 (Delphine Strauss/Financial Times) [2d]
- AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M+ (Katie Tarasov/CNBC) [2d]
- Sources: Google is developing a specialized server chip, informally dubbed "Frozen v2", that integrates Gemini AI model blueprints in the silicon, set for 2028 (The Information) [2d]
- How "synthetic insider" attacks raise the stakes for corporate cyber defense; a Verizon analysis of 22K incidents finds 12% were carried out by internal actors (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times) [2d]
- Sources: parts of the Trump administration are reigniting efforts to implement de facto bans on foreign open-source models, as Chinese AI models gain momentum (Maria Curi/Axios) [2d]
- Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) [2d]
- An interview with Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, who calls AI "a growth opportunity", as she prepares the online travel company to face potential disruption from AI (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times) [2d]
- How PayPal CEO Enrique Lores, appointed earlier in 2026 to revive the payments pioneer, may handle Stripe and Advent's takeover offer, based on his HP tenure (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- The EU fines Alibaba's online marketplace AliExpress €550M for failing to do enough to prevent the sale of illegal products, the largest DSA fine to date (Barbara Moens/Financial Times) [2d]
- Sources: Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking formal approval from investors to start a Hong Kong IPO process, which could happen in as soon as six months (Juro Osawa/The Information) [2d]
- A look at Israel's influence campaign in the US that's included millions of AI-driven texts and a $45M+ contract with ex-Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Trial lawyers, with big liability litigation earnings, are among the most active lobbyists against autonomous vehicles, even as data shows clear safety benefits (Alex Tabarrok/Marginal Revolution) [2d]
- How smart home devices have given abusive partners a new tool to remotely manipulate, intimidate, and disturb their victims, in a form of tech-assisted abuse (Financial Times) [2d]
- Cambridge-based CuspAI raised a $450M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, and launched a coalition for AI materials discovery for chip and other industries (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Retail traders are shifting from Big Tech to stocks boosted by AI like SK Hynix and Marvell; five of the Magnificent Seven stocks trail the market this year (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- LSEG: Morgan Stanley collected $2.3B in debt and equity capital market fees in H1 2026, up from $1.4B in H1 2025, driven by AI infrastructure financing deals (Financial Times) [2d]
- Blackstone agrees to invest an undisclosed sum in South Korea-based Futronic, which makes actuators used in industrial robots, sources say at a ~$675M valuation (Manuel Baigorri/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources detail Kalshi's and Polymarket's efforts to undermine each other, including lobbying regulators, trying to derail deals, and waging influence campaigns (New York Times) [2d]
- Filing: Zhongji Innolight, China's leading optical transceiver maker, aims for an $8B Hong Kong IPO, the city's largest since Alibaba's $12.9B debut in 2019 (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Draft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico) [2d]
- As memory shares fall, investors worry capacity expansion could lead to oversupply, while others believe AI demand will break the industry's boom-and-bust cycle (Financial Times) [2d]
- SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won says the memory shortage has prompted governments to intervene for domestic industries, and SK Hynix must expand capacity faster (Moon Joon-hyun/The Korea Herald) [2d]
- Sources: the EU Parliament plans to launch EPGenAI Hub as early as September, giving MEPs and staff access to Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral models (Max Griera/Politico) [2d]
- France's National Gambling Authority blocks access to Polymarket's website, citing concerns of exposing users to significant losses and manipulated trading (Sudip Kar-Gupta/Reuters) [2d]
- TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says TSMC will use its new $100B US commitment, announced last week, to expand its Arizona capacity amid a "multi-year demand mega trend" (Jenny Lee/CNBC) [2d]
- As companies stay private longer, VC firms, like Spark, Gigafund, and Greenoaks, are investing in companies later on and buying stakes without seeking influence (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- I swapped my mechanical keyboard for Turtle Beach’s new Hall effect, touchscreen-equipped TKL model — and its smooth typing and high customizability made me never want to go back [1d]
- Garmin just accidentally revealed pricing for its own Fitbit Air rival — but leaked images look awfully dubious [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, July 21 (game #1136) [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, July 21 (game #1639) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, July 21 (game #870) [1d]
- Xpeng claims China is close to making a Tesla Model Y beater — but my experience suggests it'll fall short for two big reasons [1d]
- Quote of the day by Alan Turing: 'We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done' — key guidance on the road to building AI [1d]
- IKEA just dropped its Halloween collection in the middle of summer — and these ghostly lights are so cute, I can't wait until October [1d]
- NATO is getting its own Starlink satellite constellation as HALO brings Europe and Canada together to improve resilience and high-speed comms [2d]
- Ukraine claims $400 FPV drone destroyed Russia's $19 million 'Apache rival' attack helicopter [2d]
- China is banning AI-generated companions to encourage users to form real-life relationships, sparking nationwide virtual breakups — and therapists think it's for the best [2d]
- Nvidia is building the world's first 'national AI' — Japan's FRONTia Project could be the next big step forward in global progress, but is this a step too far? [2d]
- University engineers have figured out how to build an 'invisible' drone — here's the science behind it [2d]
- New report claims working late really could help you get promoted - so much for the 'right to switch off' [2d]
- Netflix shows its love for AI once again — the platform has acquired Ben Affleck’s firm InterPositive for $587 million, and it’s just given me another reason to cancel my subscription [2d]
- 70% of Americans don’t want data centers built nearby, but the government is seizing private property to force construction to start [2d]
- I tested Sony's new entry-level turntable and, though it sounds decent enough, you deserve so much more than a brand logo for this money [2d]
- Ofcom promises 'faster Wi-Fi and better mobile performance' in the UK thanks to pioneering 6GHz plan that uses 'air traffic control' wizardry for Wi-Fi and 6G [2d]
- 'It’s time to punch more holes in the closed Internet' — This free VPN now promises to be even better at evading censorship [2d]
- I’ve been using the Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 (2026), and this is the best (and biggest) gaming laptop you can buy right now [2d]
- 'This one was different from anything we had handled before': Hugging Face confirms it was hit by cyberattack powered by an AI agent [2d]
- Sleepy Hollow is getting a reboot from Sony — and an unexpected Euphoria star is reportedly leading the cast [2d]
- 'Update your app' — Private Internet Access finally breaks its silence with a wave of network upgrades [2d]
- 'A well-balanced and genuinely impressive home and office mini PC': The Geekom A5 Pro with Ryzen 5 gets a big price cut [2d]
- I loved this portable DIY 35mm film scanner with built-in light, and it could save me a lot of money — but it’s not as simple as it sounds [2d]
- ShinyHunters hit medial giant Abbott, disrupting cancer drug research and more [2d]
- Little House on the Prairie star teases first details of season 2's On the Banks of Plum Creek adaptation as production begins — 'It's going to be very exciting' [2d]
- 'A high-performing endurance watch that operates wonderfully' — the Garmin Epix Pro (2nd Gen) crashes to $549.99 at Best Buy [2d]
- LibreOffice says Microsoft 'lock-in' with Office files is hurting users around the globe [2d]
- Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender should be released in IMAX rather than on Paramount+ — the jaw-dropping animation is easily the best part of the hero's return [2d]
- I wore the Samsung Galaxy XR headset for a whole work week, and it’s so close to greatness — but the head strap lets it down [2d]
- I've found the 45 top tech deals in the Best Buy Black Friday in July sale — get up to 50% off Apple, LG, Nintendo, Garmin, and more [2d]
- Agentic commerce: why AI agents are transforming the ecommerce landscape [2d]
- Colombian energy giant Ecopetrol says thousands of user accounts hit in cyberattack [2d]
- Best Buy Black Friday in July: Save $550 on the HP Victus, one of our our favorite budget laptops for creators with Ryzen 5 and RTX 3050 performance [2d]
- When IT works best, employees never notice [2d]
- ‘Parliament has not been immune to AI slop’: The EU is about to roll out its own AI platform — including tools from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Mistral [2d]
- I asked ChatGPT to change my mind about something I strongly believed — and it almost did [2d]
- Avengers: Doomsday official trailer breakdown live — all of our analysis and theories on the new Marvel movie's latest teaser [2d]
- This $450-off HP OmniBook 2-in-1 is the work and study laptop I'd buy in Best Buy's Black Friday in July sale [2d]
- 'For humans, the capacity to say, 'I don't know,' is very important': Report finds AI really might be harming our critical thinking skills [2d]
- What is the release date for Marvel's X-Men 97 season 2 episode 6 on Disney+? [2d]
- Ransomware attacks hit SMBs harder than ever as cybercrime gang rivalry heats up [2d]
- Microsoft fixes Windows 11's nasty bugs with Dell laptops — and shows there's a catch to jumping the update queue [2d]
- An Apple 'Find My' mystery keeps sending strangers to a Reddit user's house in search of lost iPhones —here's what's likely happening [2d]
- Still don't own an air fryer? The excellent Ninja Foodi Max is down to its lowest price since Black Friday [2d]
- Ernst & Young reveals data breach following hack on support system [2d]
- YouTube picture-in-picture mode seems to be broken on Android and iOS, and Google is 'actively investigating' [2d]
- Kapwing AI video editor review [2d]
- I've reviewed or covered about 17 power banks — and Iniu's chic MagSafe 45W is the first one that feels like it actually has some personality [2d]
- “Brain fry” and broken promises: The hidden cost of AI without architecture [2d]
- The HP Omen 35L Ryzen 7 PC for $2140 is my top pick in Best Buy's Black Friday in July sale (and you can get a $50 office chair with it too) [2d]
- Microsoft is cutting support for some older OneDrive systems soon - here's what you need to know [2d]
- What is the release date for Ransom Canyon season 2 on Netflix? [2d]
- The World Cup stress test is here. Here are three ways employers can come out ahead [2d]
- Avengers: Doomsday tickets are going on sale shortly — and some fans are convinced that Marvel will surprise us and reveal the new MCU movie's official trailer, too [2d]
- Quantum Finally: Why the next computing revolution will be hybrid, human and unpredictable [2d]
- Ever wondered whether upping the sound quality of your PS5 might improve your gaming chops? If so, Topping’s cheap new DAC is worth an audition [2d]
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's leather jacket sells for nearly $1 million at Sotheby’s auction [2d]
- Everyone is now an AI company. But here’s the real challenge [2d]
- Artificial intelligence agents need access, not secrets [2d]
- Solving the energy conundrum is key to unlocking the UK’s AI economy [2d]
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