The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Blog about things you don't understand yet [1d]
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- How AI text watermarking works [1d]
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- US sells 30-year bonds at highest borrowing costs since 2001 [1d]
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- NP-Overrated [1d]
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- Airbnb Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale [2d]
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- How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf] [2d]
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- Show HN: Pixy, visual editor for coding agents, like Figma on your live site [2d]
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- Understanding Is the New Bottleneck [2d]
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- Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes [2d]
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- What Is Kimi K3? A Complete Developer Guide for 2026 [2d]
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- Hello, me. It's been a while [2d]
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- AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions [2d]
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- Show HN: OpenCode Senses, An insanely fast and highly accurate vision plugin [2d]
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- Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast [2d]
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- How Compaction Works in Pi [2d]
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- Solid 2.0 RC: The Big [2d]
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- Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out [2d]
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- Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory [2d]
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- Compute-Optimal Is Not Cluster-Optimal [2d]
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- I want extern "fil-C" [2d]
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- Gemini 3.7 Flash [2d]
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- JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes [2d]
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- Tocharian Online [2d]
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- Mistral OCR 4.1 [2d]
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- What I Learned Securing Sniffnet with the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund [2d]
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- Gemini 3.7 Flash [2d]
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- Mozilla says stricter antitrust measures against Google 'threaten Firefox' [2d]
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- GoAccess – open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer [2d]
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- We Have AI at Home Chapter 1: A Box of Scraps [2d]
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- Samsung is using Claude to verify chip designs. It's not going smoothly [2d]
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- Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove [2d]
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- McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I'll Never Stop Eating There [2d]
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- Flock Safety changes system defaults in response to criticisms [2d]
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- Kubernetes on Oxide: How Customer Needs Shaped Our Integrations [2d]
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- US vs. UK Baby Names 2025: The Biggest Top Differences Visualized [2d]
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- Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals [2d]
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- We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images [2d]
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- Spaghettifying DRAM [2d]
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- Heart Aerospace Completes First Flight of Largest Electric Aircraft [2d]
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- Build a Stratum 1 PTP Grandmaster on a Budget [2d]
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- Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5 [2d]
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- AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, but Almost No One Is Buying Them [2d]
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- Time to Move On: Querying Without Nulls and Bags [2d]
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- Gloomberb [2d]
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- Anthropic: Introducing The Conceptual Reasoning Index [2d]
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- Ordinary Abundance [2d]
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- I Built a 500k-Domain Search Engine for Makers in a Weekend for $10 [2d]
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- AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users [2d]
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- Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? [2d]
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- Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data [2d]
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- PBS loses 50TB of data; 70 years of TV history after cloud vendor defunct [2d]
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- Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results [2d]
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- My Rules for Using Spreadsheets [2d]
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- DeepSeek Harness [2d]
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- DeepSeek Harness developer preview [2d]
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- DeepSeek API Pricing Update [2d]
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- Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe [2d]
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- ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform) [2d]
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- Applied Materials reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $9.12B, vs. $8.99B est., net income up 43% to $2.54B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Charter receives final state approval to buy Cox for $21.9B after making concessions to California regulators, including low-cost internet for some households (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Epic v. Apple: Apple proposes commissions on US linked-out purchases of 15% for standard apps, 10% for partner programs and renewals, 5% for Small Business apps (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac) [1d]
- A judge orders Kalshi to stop offering most of its prediction contracts in Washington state, after finding it likely violated state gambling-related laws (J.J. McCorvey/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Sources: OpenAI is on track to generate annualized revenue of $40B+ based on its current performance, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025 (Bloomberg) [1d]
- A profile of Camilla Clark, quiet adviser to husband Dario Amodei and behind-the-scenes player at Anthropic; she once pitched a porn startup to Jeffrey Epstein (The Information) [1d]
- Reddit will join the S&P 500 on August 18, becoming only the second pure-play social media company in the index after Meta; RDDT jumps 10%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [1d]
- OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer activity on macOS into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack) [1d]
- Netflix is closing game studios Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Moonloot, and is also cutting jobs from its internal games team (Stephen Totilo/Game File) [1d]
- Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a "turf war" over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Sources: Silver Lake is in talks to acquire HR and financial management software maker Workday, which has a market value of ~$43B; WDAY jumps 18%+ (Milana Vinn/Reuters) [2d]
- Tether says KPMG completed Tether's first full audit and found its 2025 financial statements fairly presented its financial position in all material respects (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) [2d]
- Sources: Vantage Data Centers, a major hyperscale developer, is exploring options including a sale or an IPO at a valuation of about $100B as soon as next year (Reuters) [2d]
- US-based robot vacuum maker Matic rolls out a firmware update that lets users control its $1,245 vacuum with voice commands in more than 70 languages (Chris Welch/Bloomberg) [2d]
- OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster and generates up to 750 output tokens per second (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [2d]
- Google unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash, its "most intelligent workhorse model" for coding and agents, pricing it at $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens at launch (Tulsee Doshi/Google) [2d]
- X makes the source code for its For You timeline available on GitHub and adds tools to let users see if X's ranking systems "shadowbanned" them (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Ramp's July AI index: Anthropic's market share hit 43.5%, widening its lead over OpenAI; Fable 5 is only 6% of tokens businesses bought, likely due to high cost (Ara Kharazian/Ramp) [2d]
- OpenAI hires Dali Rajic, COO of Alphabet's Wiz, as chief revenue officer, replacing ex-Slack CEO Denise Dresser, who was hired in December 2025 and will leave (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) [2d]
- HPE secures court approval for its settlement with the US DOJ over its takeover of networking company Juniper, defeating a challenge by Democratic state AGs (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Tech hardware companies report the highest US CBP tariff refunds at $2.5B across six companies, including $2.2B in refunds to Apple alone; Amazon received $640M (Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Sources: AMD plans to raise as much as $5B in what could be the chipmaker's biggest-ever investment-grade bond sale, as it ramps up spending to meet AI demand (Brian W Smith/Bloomberg) [2d]
- DeepSeek raises prices, adding dynamic pricing, ahead of a potential IPO; V4-Flash output tokens go from $0.28/1M to $1.32 during peak hours and $0.66 off-peak (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Databricks closed a $5B funding round at a $190B valuation, six months after raising $5B at a $134B valuation, and says it has crossed $7B in revenue run rate (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [2d]
- Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout in mid-August and desktop in mid-September (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) [2d]
- Inside SK Hynix's $720B Yongin Cluster, which it calls the world's largest network of memory factories and is set to go into production in February 2027 (Katie Tarasov/CNBC) [2d]
- Flock CEO Garrett Langley acknowledges the company "got this one wrong" and is assuming greater responsibility for preventing US law enforcement misuse (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) [2d]
- Flock says it will now require US law enforcement to attach a criminal case number to license plate searches, after a WaPo investigation into police misuse (Washington Post) [2d]
- Didi reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$9.3B, net income of ~$128M, after two consecutive quarterly losses, China mobility transaction value up 9.5% to ~$13.4B (Luz Ding/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Experts warn ChatGPT isn't just predicting words anymore — It's now predicting human thoughts [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, August 14 (game #1663) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, August 14 (game #894) [1d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, August 14 (game #1160) [1d]
- Japan launches sovereign satellite navigation network as GPS cannot reach all of its country [1d]
- 'When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before' — Quote of the day by NASA's former software director Margaret Hamilton on the birth of software engineering [1d]
- $130 billion worth of AI data center projects were cancelled or delayed in Q1 2026 — developers sick of losing are fighting back, and are already finding victory [1d]
- World-first autonomous ‘end-to-end’ AI attack against Taiwan tied to Chinese hackers — and the scariest part is that it was fully open source [1d]
- Wait, is this actually a good gaming laptop deal? This Gigabyte A16 features an RTX 5070 and 32GB of RAM for $1,249 [1d]
- There's at least 200 hours of Disney X Square Enix RPG magic in the Kingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece Collection — and it's now only $30 / £25.50 [1d]
- The Pentagon has unveiled an improved online store to buy counter-drone kits, but you probably won't ever be able to see it [1d]
- I'm a professional photographer and I have zero regrets that I simply enjoyed the solar eclipse with my family, and a colander [2d]
- Linus Torvalds says 'huge' Linux kernel updates are now the status quo — and it's all thanks to AI [2d]
- Dutton Ranch season 2 confirms Taylor Sheridan will have a 'bigger writers room presence' as more behind-the-scenes 'drama' leaks — but it's the new showrunner I'm the most worried about [2d]
- How to watch NFL Pre-Season Games 2026 for FREE: TV channels, live streams and schedule [2d]
- The RAMpocalypse is suffocating Apple's MacBook Air supply, with delivery delays up to a month — here's what to buy instead [2d]
- Microsoft's nemesis returns: Nightmare Eclipse is back with a new zero day which could be bad news for Windows users [2d]
- Fans believe they've solved the secret name of The Elder Scrolls 6, and the clue might have been hidden in Starfield the whole time [2d]
- Scientists are developing a ‘magnetoelastic’ tent that makes its own electricity like a wind turbine — but don’t expect to be able to take one to Glastonbury next year [2d]
- Android users targeted by new WindRelay malware which can clone contactless cards in just 13 minutes [2d]
- New leak claims the first special edition Nintendo Switch 2 will be released to celebrate The Legend of Zelda's 40th anniversary — and yes, there are pictures [2d]
- I shot the Perseid meteor shower after the eclipse with my Pixel and a pro Nikon camera — here’s which one I’d recommend for the spectacular celestial show tonight [2d]
- The travel-friendly ProtoArc XK01 TP is an ultra-portable 88-key folding keyboard with touchpad and three-device Bluetooth switching to turn your tablet or phone into a mini workstation — and Amazon just cut the price [2d]
- Nintendo is now warning customers about upcoming Switch 2 price hike in stores — and it's a reminder to buy ASAP if you want one [2d]
- 9 of the best photos from Europe's 2026 solar eclipse, including that viral shot of an Olympic skateboarder's rad ollie [2d]
- How AI agents will change how people work — and what they need from a PC [2d]
- Bad news: your AI application isn't that special [2d]
- ‘A full 40-hour week now takes just 60 minutes’: Ahrefs’ new AI agents promise 'always-on' marketing support [2d]
- 1 in 3 Windows users have 'fallen into a reset trap' and can't escape Edge — I think it's high time Microsoft stopped messing around with default browser choices [2d]
- In an era of deepfakes, can digital evidence still be trusted? [2d]
- 'Scammers often take advantage when temperatures rise' — industry experts explain how to spot fake air conditioner storefronts before you lose your money this summer [2d]
- Secure your data on the new Google Pixel 11 for less than $2.20 per month [2d]
- Crunchyroll is coming to BMW and Mini vehicles with 40 other brands to follow — and I can't wait to watch anime in my car [2d]
- Xbox unveils new limited edition Gears of War controllers, and fans say 'they look frigging awesome' [2d]
- Good news, 4K Blu-ray fans: Dolby confirms that Dolby Vision 2 HDR can work on existing players and disc tech — bad news: it's up to the manufacturers, and Sony already said 'we do not plan to provide an update' [2d]
- 'One of the best 3D printers out there': Anycubic Kobra S1 ACE 2 Pro Combo brings fast four-color printing and filament drying together for $100 less [2d]
- I’ve played Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, and it could be the epic tactical RPG that defines the Nintendo Switch 2 — here’s why it’s already got me hooked [2d]
- The $535,000 TLD: Could .ai dethrone .com? [2d]
- This GTPlayer Big and Tall chair gives you extra space, thick spring cushioning, and room to stretch your legs — and it's 10% off right now [2d]
- Get your next graphics card, monitor, or motherboard for just £1 thanks to MSI's new UK store promotion [2d]
- Elegoo's 3D printer back-to-school sale is live — and these 3 machines smashed our workshop tests [2d]
- Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 are getting a free update with 4 new features, announced quietly alongside Pixel 11 phones at the Made By Google event — including a new way to use Gemini [2d]
- ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’: Amazon’s AI is being trained on your Twitch streams unless you turn it off — here’s how to stop it [2d]
- Trump signs memo calling for cyber privateers to conduct cyberattacks abroad against criminal groups targeting Americans — but they have to escrow $1 million to join [2d]
- Google’s New Pixel 11 Phones Get Higher Starting Prices — Blame the RAM Shortage [1d]
- We Spotted So Many Workarounds for Flock’s New Rules on Police Camera Surveillance [1d]
- Pixel 11 vs Pixel 10: How Google’s New $899 Flagship Compares With the Old $799 One [1d]
- WhatsApp Fights Back Against Scammers With New AI Alert Tool [1d]
- Pets Left in a Ruff Spot After Automatic Feeders Go Down [1d]
- Pixel Watch 5 vs. Galaxy Watch 9: Comparing Google and Samsung’s New Watches [1d]
- Using AI Shopping Carts Could Lead You to Spend More Money, Study Says [1d]
- Pixel Watch 5 Will Call Emergency Services if It Detects a Breathing Emergency [1d]
- OpenAI Now Has a ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux [1d]
- Shoppers Outside the US May Have to Wait Longer for the Folding iPhone, Report Suggests [1d]
- What’s a Good Case for My Next iPhone? A Complete Guide to Practical Protection [1d]
- Our Favorite NordicTrack Treadmill Is 30% Off, Bringing This Fancy Machine Down to $3,000 [1d]
- Our Favorite NordicTrack Treadmill Is 30% Off, Bringing This Fancy Machine Down to $3,000 [1d]
- This AI Chatbot Was Just One Busy Guy, and He Has Hit His Limit [1d]
- My Favorite Sunrise Alarm Clock Now Tracks Your Sleep — No Wearable Required [1d]
- My Favorite Sunrise Alarm Clock Now Tracks Your Sleep — No Wearable Required [1d]
- Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 14, #1882 [1d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 14 #894 [1d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Aug. 14, #1160 [1d]
- Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 14, #1882 [1d]
- These Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 Deals Can Help You Save Big on the Stylish Foldable [2d]
- What Wowed Us at Google’s Pixel Event? Tech Editors React to Made by Google [2d]
- Instagram Has a New Logo for Some Reason [2d]
- The Pixel 11 Is Stale: Down With HiLight and AI, Bring Back Exciting Design [2d]
- Gear Up for Game Day With Up to $800 Off LG’s Class B6 OLED TVs [2d]
- With $570 Off, It’s Time to Kick Back and Let This Dreame Robot Mower Take the Strain [2d]
- Head Back to School With a Lifetime License to Microsoft Office Pro Plus for Just $20 [2d]
- This Is the Droid You’re Looking For: Piaggio’s Grogu Gitamini Following Robot Is Now $1,075 Off [2d]
- Best Buy Just Slashed Over $600 Off a Seriously Stunning HP Omen Gaming Monitor [2d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: Why Fight for the New Pixel 11 When the Nothing Phone 3 Is at a Record-Low Price? [2d]
- Walmart Deals of the Day: Save $150 on a Hair-Eradicating Tineco Go Pet Stick Vacuum [2d]
- Rivian R1S, R1T See 2027 Updates, Including Second-Row Captain’s Chairs [2d]
- These Ecovacs Deals Have Me Wanting a Robot at Home [2d]
- The Tax Credit Is Gone, but Power Outages Aren’t. Why a Home Battery Purchase Is Still Worth It [2d]
- Ninja Just Launched Its First Water Filter. Here’s What It Does That Others Don’t [2d]
- Google Has a Secret Weapon It Didn’t Use on the Pixel 11, and I Don’t Know Why [2d]
- The Pixel 11 Pro’s HiLight Is Off to a Dim Start [2d]
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