The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) [2d]
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- There Will Come Soft Rains [pdf] [2d]
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- Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage [2d]
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- ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode – Bumbershoot Software [2d]
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- Do birds enjoy flying? Analysis of affect after flight in galah (E roseicapilla) [2d]
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- LLMs reward expertise [2d]
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- AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T [2d]
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- DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status [2d]
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- The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real [2d]
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- KisakCOD – open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer [2d]
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- Ryg_rans Is Not a Library [2d]
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- ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound [2d]
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- Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech [2d]
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- The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare [2d]
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- Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale [2d]
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- Ask HN: Claude multisession [2d]
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- Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years [2d]
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- Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone [2d]
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- Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks [2d]
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- Help Wanted [2d]
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- SearXNG in Rust [2d]
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- Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents [2d]
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- Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP [2d]
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- Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer [2d]
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- What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? [2d]
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- Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed) [2d]
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- Taylor Farms Has Rewritten Its Cyclospora Statement Four Times in Sixteen Days [3d]
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- Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs [3d]
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- Twenty Years of Pandoc [3d]
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- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) [3d]
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- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026) [3d]
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- Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop [3d]
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- TSA Privatization Returns Airport Security to a Dangerous Past [3d]
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- Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email? [3d]
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- Devtools must be open source [3d]
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- Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, a new first [3d]
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- Andy Pavlo Joins ClickHouse to Establish ClickHouse Labs [3d]
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- The Future, Made in China [3d]
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- MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video [3d]
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- SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros [3d]
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- The Red Strings Club [3d]
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- Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100 [3d]
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- Frame selection is the whole game: notes on making LLMs watch video [3d]
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- Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo? [3d]
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- Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time [3d]
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- Rice Deserves Better Than a Kochbeutel [3d]
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- GLM-5.3 Soon [3d]
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- Texas halts approval of data center grid connections until audits are performed; projects representing 474+ GW are in the queue, over 5x the grid's peak demand (The Texas Tribune) [2d]
- Amazon becomes the fifth company to reach a $3T market cap, joining Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple; its stock closed up 4.58% on Monday (Jeran Wittenstein/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Snap reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $1.6B, vs. $1.54B est., DAUs up 5% to 493M, vs. 487M est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SNAP jumps 10%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [2d]
- Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, vs. $1.8B est., US commercial revenue up 149%, and raises FY 2026 revenue guidance; PLTR jumps 9%+ after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [2d]
- Samsung says it's restricting app registrations and removing apps with SDKs that can turn smart TVs into residential proxy exit nodes, after a similar ban by LG (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Court docs: an FBI agent has been charged with amassing ~$1M worth of cryptocurrency, largely by making unauthorized withdrawals from a criminal target overseas (Devlin Barrett/New York Times) [2d]
- US satellite internet provider Hughesnet files for Chapter 11 after losing subscribers to Starlink and plans to focus on business and government customers (Michael Kan/PCMag) [2d]
- Leaked doc: Microsoft plans to bring Xbox 360 games to PC, and the games will be able to run on the next-gen Project Helix console, "Xbox PCs", and handhelds (The Verge) [2d]
- The White House says it has met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models; it did not provide details of the framework (Maria Curi/Axios) [2d]
- China has revised regulations to tighten protection of chip layout designs, including punitive damages for serious infringement, taking effect on October 15 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters) [2d]
- Valar, which is making small modular nuclear reactors to power data centers, raised a $1B Series B led by Sequoia at a $6B post-money valuation (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Mariana Minerals, which builds and operates mines using its MarianaOS software platform, raised a $310M Series B, bringing its total funding to $400M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) [2d]
- India proposes extending tax exemptions until 2041 for foreign companies that provide machinery to contract manufacturers, something Apple had lobbied for (Reuters) [3d]
- Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework (The Information) [3d]
- UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a "backdoor" to access encrypted customer data (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) [3d]
- Zenity, which develops a platform for securing AI agents, raised a $125M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking its total funding to ~$185M (Meir Orbach/CTech) [3d]
- Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for ~$104.7M, reducing its holdings to 842,138, or ~4% of total supply, with a $10.9B paper loss at current prices (James Hunt/The Block) [3d]
- Beast of Reincarnation is an emotional journey from start to finish and excels with its Sekiro-like combat that is guaranteed to make players come back for more [2d]
- Panasonic's new gadget is a bread maker that also churns ice cream — I went hands-on with the wild two-in-one appliance, and the results were seriously tasty [2d]
- GMKTec pairs the fastest laptop CPU ever launched with a desktop RTX5070 GPU in an impressive Neo-X1 workstation PC [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, August 4 (game #1653) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, August 4 (game #1150) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, August 4 (game #884) [2d]
- Nvidia could invest $250bn in OpenAI's 10Gw Ohio data center — but costs could balloon to $500bn [2d]
- Let’s swing through the best Spider-Man: Brand New Day toys, collectibles, and gear worth adding to your web [2d]
- Quote of the day by filmmaker James Cameron on AI: 'All of human art and human experience put into a blender' — dismissing the rise of AI in creative industries [2d]
- I'm not convinced that Stuart Fails to Save the Universe titles are 'AI slop' — in fact HBO Max creators have teased that there really is a hidden message in the changes [2d]
- Someone just made the world's most elaborate Train Simulator controller — and it even includes real dashboard components from 'Class 80x' UK trains [2d]
- Liene PixCut S1 review: A compact, crowd-pleasing photo sticker printer and cutter for home and work [2d]
- 'Generative AI is already changing what malicious software packages look like and how threat actors are beginning to probe AI-based code systems': Amazon flags North Korean hacker group as being behind the surge in open source supply chain attacks [2d]
- I picked out 6 amazing back-to-school gadgets for under $60 — these are the desk upgrades I recommend for work and study [2d]
- After months of silence, the first Googlebook has been spotted — and it looks nifty, but will anyone really care? [2d]
- MySpace coming back — again — is no surprise; I’m only shocked it’s not been announced as the first all-AI social media platform [2d]
- 'We can push the limits of technology to pursue something mind-blowing': Disney Worldbuilders looks like a must-watch for Disney Parks fans [2d]
- Don’t worry about the MacBook Air shortages — these official Apple refurbished deals are a better buy anyway [2d]
- A study found 92% of workers over 50 showed signs of disordered sleep — these 3 ChatGPT tricks helped me switch off [2d]
- Satechi Thunderbolt 5 CubeDock review: I finally found the ultimate docking station for creatives [2d]
- Anthropic reveals Claude AI model hacked three companies during tests — so how worried should we be? [2d]
- Mystery Booster Commander Edition is everything I could want from a Magic: The Gathering set — please, Wizards of the Coast, print as much as possible [2d]
- Samsung warns RAM-pocalypse could last until 2028 — as its profits continue to rise [2d]
- Disney+ brings 4K streaming back to European customers, but HDR is still on the to-do list [2d]
- Solar energy just had its best-ever month in the UK — as the first plug-in solar kits prepare to go on sale within weeks [2d]
- No more boring back-to-school laptops: The 15.6" Lenovo LOQ with Ryzen 5 processor and RTX 4050 graphics is $300 off — and it's a dream for aspiring creators [2d]
- A torrent of states are repealing data center tax exemptions — but it could increase costs by upwards of 7% [2d]
- No shade Sony, but Hideo Kojima is celebrating his love of physical discs with a new limited edition version of my favorite mini CD player [2d]
- I tested the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, and it's truly like having an iPad mini or a Kindle in your pocket [2d]
- What is the release date for X-Men '97 season 2 episode 8 on Disney+? [2d]
- I scanned Best Buy's massive back-to-school sale — these are the 12 deals I'd buy on laptops, tablets, AirPods, TVs, and more [2d]
- Cape Fear ending explained: Who died, what happened to Max Cady, who is Natalie's real father, and possible season 2 predictions [3d]
- Laptops from Apple, HP, Lenovo, and more are up to 40% off in the back-to-school sales — here are the top 12 deals I'd buy [3d]
- I stopped starting every ChatGPT conversation from scratch — these 5 simple changes made it much more useful [3d]
- 'Every small business will eventually have a digital workforce of AI agents': Bluehost CEO on how AI agents are reshaping business [3d]
- Meet deGDID: Windscribe's answer to the Windows tracker that VPNs cannot mask [3d]
- Millions of downloads, zero security: how clone VPNs are gaming the Google Play Store [3d]
- Creality Falcon T1 review: A 5-star 5-in-1 laser engraver for businesses [3d]
- I tested the world's first AI spotting scope for birders — and it's brilliant in places, frustrating in others [3d]
- When AI inherits your technical debt [3d]
- Backpacks, USB hubs, and more: the essential accessories every student needs for their Mac [3d]
- Surfshark pulls the plug on Search as it shifts focus to fighting scams [3d]
- How to watch The Sky at Night for *FREE* – stream the long-running astronomy show from anywhere [3d]
- Why serious AI builders are skipping third-party evals [3d]
- Geekom IT13 Max review: An Ultra 9 mini PC held back by its own configuration [3d]
- Samsung's latest report suggests the RAM crisis is only just getting started — could we be looking at a new normal? [3d]
- Upgrading your PC for summer? Lightning-fast Samsung 990 SSD drops 30% at Amazon, combining high speeds with generous storage capacity for creators and pros [3d]
- Proton VPN quietly unveils a massive under-the-hood upgrade — here's all we know about 'Proton Protocols' [3d]
- 'Charging products really don’t get much better than the Anker Prime': Our favorite cable-decluttering device just got a price cut at Amazon — and it's perfect for the home office or back-to-school setup [3d]
- 'We’ve been behind the ball for so long': Experts say DNA samples from crime-scene forensics can be modified and even switched using an AI tool [3d]
- What is the release date for Ted Lasso season 4 episode 1 on Apple TV? [3d]
- Lies of P: Complete Edition is excellent on Nintendo Switch 2, packing solid performance and the excellent Overture expansion [3d]
- What is the release date for My Life with the Walter Boys season 3 on Netflix? [3d]
- Casio is going all-out on retro fitness trackers — as two vintage watches with Bluetooth step-tracking join a new version of its wild smart ring [3d]
- Google Search Console now lets you track social media and video content — here's how to get it up and running [3d]
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