The Brutalist Report - tech
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- HN: The Good Parts [1d]
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- Paul Atkins Misreads Adam Smith and the American Founding [2d]
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- Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha [2d]
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- Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team [2d]
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- Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after opposition to interference [2d]
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- I own 28,000 books – here's what I've learned [2d]
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- Three important steps in my maturation process [2d]
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- 'Ghost Job' Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them [2d]
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- Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters [2d]
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- The Creation of Abulafia [2d]
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- Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM [2d]
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- Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude [2d]
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- Church of the TigerBeetle: A Look at Tech Evangelism [2d]
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- Show HN: Zcomplete – Shell Typo Correction [2d]
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- Rust Glancer [2d]
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- One Night in Uzbekistan [2d]
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- Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler [2d]
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- Death to the Self-Playing Game [2d]
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- Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders [2d]
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- A look under our trunk: what's in our compute of Waymo taxis [2d]
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- How Thailand Resisted Colonization [2d]
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- Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025) [2d]
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- OTel isn't going well (and I made a spreadsheet about it) [2d]
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- Show HN: Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string [2d]
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- Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift [2d]
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- When the Shortage Is the Strategy [2d]
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- Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode [2d]
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- Man loses so much weight employer doesn't recognize him [2d]
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- Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection [2d]
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- LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers [2d]
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- Another Better Lower Bound for N=17 Square Packing [2d]
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- Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent [2d]
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- A self hosted AI software factory [2d]
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- Kobo can run apps now [2d]
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- What happens when a GPU reads memory [2d]
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- Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix [2d]
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- Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it [2d]
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- Omacom Foundation Launches with $8M [2d]
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- I Just Want to Search [2d]
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- LLMs are proof that Unix won [2d]
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- How We Made a Text-to-Speech Model Respond in Sub-50 ms [2d]
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- Flagwars.lol [2d]
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- My AI agents kept trying to cross red lines, so I wrote them a constitution [2d]
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- Every shape can be cut exactly in half with one straight line [2d]
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- Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) [2d]
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- New York’s office market is home to the most tech workers: CBRE report [2d]
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- Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor [2d]
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- AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows [2d]
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- Cancer-Related Mortality Among US Pilots and Flight Attendants [2d]
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- Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants [2d]
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- Show HN: AgentSight – eBPF observability for AI agents, no code changes [2d]
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- The B-right/V R2 Operating System [2d]
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- Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode [2d]
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- I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip [2d]
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- Felony Bench [2d]
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- c100 [2d]
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- Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing [2d]
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- I came to write THAT paper with Leslie Lamport [2d]
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- Claudette: Make Claude Stop Talking Like a BuzzFeed Article [2d]
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- Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat [2d]
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- WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust [2d]
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- What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think [2d]
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- Olympian Jenny Simpson Says Her Running Career Is Over After Cardiac Arrest [2d]
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- Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results [2d]
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- Kodak's "Pre-Invented" Lunar Orbiter Camera; Or, the Fate of SAMOS Readout [2d]
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- US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call? [2d]
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- Rama 0.4: System proxy and PAC support [2d]
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- How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt [2d]
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- Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3] [2d]
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- Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle [2d]
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- Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark [2d]
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- What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x [2d]
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- Convite [2d]
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- I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases [2d]
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- We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson [2d]
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- Show HN: Agent Office (Slack for AI Agents) – Similar to Grok Bot but older [2d]
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- Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera [2d]
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- Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar [2d]
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- DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser [2d]
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- Nothing Doing [2d]
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- AI;DR or Don't be a meat proxy [2d]
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- Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border [2d]
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- If Your New People Are on X, Maybe Your New People Suck [2d]
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- The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 [2d]
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- Helcim, a payments processor for SMBs, raised a CA$53M Series C led by Business Development Bank of Canada's Growth Venture Fund at a CA$250M valuation (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit) [1d]
- OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico) [2d]
- Gurman: as part of Vision Pro cuts, Apple is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming and reducing the size of a unit producing immersive video content (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) [2d]
- Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites (Rashika Singh/Reuters) [2d]
- OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters) [2d]
- Sources: Devoted Health, which uses AI to help coordinate medical care for those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, is raising new funding at a $25B valuation (Katie Roof/Business Insider) [2d]
- Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels (Terry Chen/NVIDIA Technical Blog) [2d]
- Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) [2d]
- DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others (Omarchy News) [2d]
- Source: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, prompting others on the sales team to consider resigning (Laura Bratton/The Information) [2d]
- The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 (Ashley Gold/Axios) [2d]
- Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools (Claude) [2d]
- Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: US Department of Energy is investigating whether Chinese lidar sensors might pose a security risk if they become widely used on vehicles in the US (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says it will soon start rolling out the tech, which supports Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Filings: Apple paid Ireland $17B in taxes last year, after an EU court ordered it to pay €13B in back taxes; Apple paid $43B in corporate income taxes globally (Jamie John/Financial Times) [2d]
- Uber is set to be fined €825M by the Dutch data watchdog over its use of automated systems to deactivate driver accounts, in the second largest fine under GDPR (Financial Times) [2d]
- Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a new company tentatively named KakaoAI, which it expects to relist in Korea in 2027 (Reuters) [2d]
- Filings: China-based chipmaker YMTC's application to list its shares on Shanghai's STAR Market has been accepted, setting the stage for a $4.9B share sale (Reuters) [2d]
- DeepSeek unveils an experimental version of its V4 Flash model that can understand visual prompts, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Patreon announces new and overhauled features, including changes to its recommendation system to make it easier for smaller creators to get discovered (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) [2d]
- A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services (Financial Times) [2d]
- Taiwan taps US startup Vatn for modular S12 undersea drones – Washington’s ally turns to cheaper underwater systems [2d]
- $16,000 Quad AI Geekom mini PC cluster gets DeepSeek V4 Flash treatment with 512GB RAM — reaches 14.61 tokens per second [2d]
- ‘Better move would be to ban it’: Apple Music steps up plan for AI-generated song labels, but some users think it doesn’t go far enough [2d]
- Experts warn expired credit cards can be brought back from the dead to make contactless payments [2d]
- Insidious: Out of the Further review — the new horror movie is the franchise's scariest yet, but that doesn't mean it's good [2d]
- This 9-in-1 USB dock with a Blu-ray drive just smashed its Kickstarter goal by 300x—as backers succumb to dongle fatigue and physical media nostalgia [2d]
- 'Took me months to work this out': Redditor explains how Windows 11 can end up stripping out the GPU driver on your gaming laptop [2d]
- 'We're offering gamers not just two more headsets, but two different ways to experience their games' — Audio specialist beyerdynamic announces two new, affordable wireless headsets, the MMX 100 and MMX 130 [2d]
- No driver, no problem — devs use Claude AI to craft native macOS tool for an 'obscure' Windows-only printer [2d]
- Back to school on a budget: Our top 5 mini PCs under $600 for work and study [2d]
- I spent six months with the Poco F8 Ultra, and it delivers a mobile streaming experience ‘that simply can’t be matched by any phone of a similar price’ [2d]
- Even dead websites aren't safe — experts warn hackers are spending millions on expired domains to enable malware scams [2d]
- Canon's Pixma TS6520 wireless all-in-one inkjet is a true back-to-school printer pick for $79 [2d]
- The 5 best 4K Blu-rays for showing off your TVs vibrant colors — with titles from Disney, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros [2d]
- Aldi just brought out a £60 stick vac — as a vacuum reviewer, these are the cheap alternatives I'd buy instead [2d]
- A new Gemini for Home update is rolling out, but users are slamming Google for not fixing ‘missing and broken features’ despite the voice upgrades [2d]
- How to watch Arsenal vs Coventry: Live streams and TV channels for the Premier League 2026/27 game [2d]
- Target may have suffered another damaging data leak as hackers claim 8.6GB haul [2d]
- The JBL Live Beam 4 are my favorite wireless earbuds of 2026 after weeks of testing — and I swear it’s not just because of their awesome touchscreen charging case [2d]
- What is the release date and launch time for Lanterns episode 2 on HBO Max? [2d]
- 'There was never really any big plan that these two games would both release next to each other' — FromSoftware president suggests a return to single-player games after Nightreign and The Duskbloods [2d]
- Smaller than a PS5 and our Best-in-Class gaming mini PC, the Asus ROG NUC drops to $3499 — but it's still an absolute fortune [2d]
- Mullvad VPN is testing smarter multi-hop and a spinnable server globe on Android [2d]
- Are Meta smart glasses doomed to fail like Google Glass? Have your say on what fate is most likely for wearable cameras [2d]
- Outer Banks 'gets the Yellowstone treatment' as new prequel goes ahead at Netflix — and fans are more open to it after divisive season 5 ending [2d]
- This new malware can use Google passkeys even after a victim resets their password [2d]
- How to watch Premier League 2026-27 for *FREE* [2d]
- TechRadar's weekly crossword — puzzle #4, Friday, August 21 [2d]
- Beats leak reveals the name of its next headphones plus most of its specs — but there could be one disappointing omission [2d]
- Leaker claims the Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition will launch in November for an estimated $899.99 [2d]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (August 21) [2d]
- Proton VPN on Linux gets a huge accessibility boost with 20 new languages [2d]
- This TeamGroup 16GB DDR5-6000 RAM kit drops to $215 in a memory market where prices have tripled since last year [2d]
- Digital camera sales are up, and Fujifilm just leapfrogged Nikon — here's what the numbers tell us [2d]
- Security experts targeted by fake crypto conference in scam to hand over details [2d]
- Best Buy's massive Anniversary sale is like a Labor Day preview — 60% off TVs, AirPods, laptops, appliances and more [2d]
- 26 best early bank holiday deals at Amazon UK — get up to 40% off Blink, Fitbit, Lenovo, Lego, Ninja, and more [2d]
- The back-to-school sales are drawing to a close — these are the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5070 gaming laptops I'd buy [2d]
- Forget Weatherspoons — patchwork bans won't fix the Meta glasses' privacy crisis, so what comes next? [2d]
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