The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events? [2d]
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- PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry [2d]
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- 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight [2d]
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- I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis [2d]
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- Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework [2d]
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- The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before Sept25 Sabot Media [2d]
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- Identifying fake cosmetics using AI [2d]
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- A few feral cats in an ALGOL trenchcoat. [2d]
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- Stopping the smart TV from being used against you [2d]
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- Racter (1984) [2d]
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- The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager [2d]
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- Isitdoneyet.gg is a website I made to figure out if games are complete [2d]
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- 25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA [2d]
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- Show HN: Conduct, open-source guardrails for LLM and MCP tool calls [2d]
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- Chrome Deletes the Last Manifest V2 Extensions on August 31 [2d]
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- Aspirational Clownmaxxing and Joey's cadillac todo list [2d]
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- Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager [2d]
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- Bye, Bye GitHub [2d]
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- The Analytical AI Handbook [2d]
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- Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches this Sunday [2d]
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- I Design with AI [2d]
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- Secrets of the Atomic City [2d]
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- Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment [2d]
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- Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research [2d]
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- My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures [2d]
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- Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days [2d]
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- Nvidia Insists It Can Keep Printing Money to Fund the AI Boom [2d]
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- How Dactyl Works [2d]
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- It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell [2d]
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- Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio [2d]
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- EasyEffects: Essential for Enhancing Laptop Speaker Sound on Linux Distributions [2d]
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- Lake formed after ice-rock avalanche remains at a high level and is overflowing [2d]
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- GLM-5.3 is now open-weight [2d]
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- GLM-5.3 is now open-weight [2d]
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- Zig to remove support for wasi-libc [2d]
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- GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven [2d]
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- Don't use musl if you care about performance [2d]
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- Creating the Aetheryte Radio [2d]
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- Africa's Wild Dogs Are the Most Hated Carnivores on the Continent [2d]
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- Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation [2d]
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- Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need [2d]
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- Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits [2d]
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- How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? [2d]
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- "Weird" is a weird word [2d]
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- NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU [2d]
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- OpenStreetMap State of the Map 2026 [2d]
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- Autistici/Inventati case sets a new counterterrorism precedent, Irdi says [2d]
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- Get your Windows license refund [2d]
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- The Finn – an agent that lives in my router and complains about it [2d]
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- Htmx 4.0.0 has been released [2d]
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- 'Recent revelations' prompt Pflugerville to abruptly kill Flock camera access [2d]
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- EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws [2d]
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- I Used AWS Cognito for a Startup. I Wouldn't Do It Again [2d]
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- Bugatti CEO Mate Rimac: The future of supercars is combustion engines [2d]
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- Interactive pattern discovery in binaries (FF-16-TUI) [2d]
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- U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective [2d]
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- Are Crows Our Friends? [2d]
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- Daycare Pseudoscience [2d]
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- Teleport: Pack an agent session, resume it anywhere on any harness [2d]
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- "IT WoRKs BeTter in the App " [2d]
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- Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions [2d]
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- Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise [2d]
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- Show HN: Talos – An AI agent with a permission kernel between model and shell [2d]
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- Terry Rozier and the Teleprompt Operator [2d]
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- What Running Kafka on VMs Taught Us About Systems Thinking [2d]
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- AI Agent Has Root [2d]
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- ALMA Reveals Long-Lived Hotspots on Betelgeuse's Bubbling Surface [2d]
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- Bhartrhari's Paradox [2d]
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- Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks' [2d]
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- OpenAI: Migrating to HTTPX2 [2d]
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- httpx2 [2d]
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- Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules [2d]
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- South Korea's 'AI for All' Push Gives Free Access to Every Citizen [2d]
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- Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material [2d]
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- I Cut 80%+ of Context Overhead in My Coding Agent [2d]
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- Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem [2d]
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- Overcooked? Why robotic pizza makers are failing [2d]
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- Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map – Cartographia Imperialis [2d]
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- Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest [2d]
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- Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS [2d]
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- Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice [2d]
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- A Looming Rare Earth Shortage Threatens Critical Tech [2d]
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- Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak [3d]
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- My Business Is Dying [3d]
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- We will need more (not fewer) scientists [3d]
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- Synchronisation and SMPTE timecode (time code) [3d]
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- Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV [3d]
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- CSV merger that lines up mismatched columns by header, browser-only [3d]
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- Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why [3d]
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- Show HN: IndexFlow – Open-source indexing infrastructure built with Rust [3d]
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- USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida [3d]
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- Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal [3d]
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- Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal [3d]
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- Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look [video] [3d]
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- Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows [3d]
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- Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with $10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack) [2d]
- Shares of French quantum computing company Pasqal closed up 95% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday following a merger with a SPAC (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg) [2d]
- An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws (Lauren McCarthy/New York Times) [2d]
- A deep dive into Grok Bot, including its architecture, use cases, and alternatives, as xAI adds shareable bot templates and online purchases through Stripe Link (Flavio Copes) [2d]
- Meta intensifies its pressure campaign on TikTok and YouTube, running full-page ads in US newspapers demanding they adopt comparable teen safety protections (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Modders get an experimental version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering library running in over a dozen games after it leaked in NBA 2K27's early access build (VideoCardz.com) [2d]
- Owner, which makes AI agents that manage restaurants' websites, marketing, and other functions, raised a $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation (Joe Guszkowski/Restaurant Business) [2d]
- Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~$1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft (Emily Graffeo/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Exponential growth across 2 dimensions, users and tokens per user, makes this AI era different from earlier buildouts, and allows AI labs' compute math to work (Fin/@fi56622380) [2d]
- FIling: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M Series A from Thrive Capital and others (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider) [2d]
- Sources: the US is drafting a rule to close an export controls loophole that lets Chinese companies access AI chips via data centers in countries like Thailand (The Information) [2d]
- a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to "open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI" (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Stock trading app Ajaib raised a $270M Series C from SBI Holdings, the largest round since 2022 in Indonesia, where startups raised just ~$340M last year (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg) [2d]
- How Meta founded FAIR in 2013, fell behind as it was distracted by the metaverse, and is spending an unprecedented amount of money trying to catch up (Harry McCracken/Fast Company) [2d]
- Apple TV raises prices in the US, with the monthly price up by $2 to $14.99, its fourth increase in four years; the individual Apple One tier rises $2 to $21.95 (Todd Spangler/Variety) [2d]
- Sources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs (Paresh Dave/Wired) [2d]
- Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [2d]
- A look at Beijing's AGI Bar, the unofficial clubhouse for China's AI industry where entrepreneurs trade gossip, recruit talent, and court investors over beers (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT reports H1 revenue of ~$22.4B, more than double its 2025 sales, and ~$11.5B in profit, compared to a loss a year earlier (Bloomberg) [2d]
- South Korea unveils a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, a move that treats AI like a public utility (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal) [2d]
- Bluesky launches a feature to let users hide their posts from non-followers in its Discover feed; other AT Proto apps can choose whether to respect the opt-out (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [2d]
- Sources: Shein pivoted to a Hong Kong IPO and sought to build Chinese government ties, after its New York and London bids failed to secure Beijing's approval (Reuters) [2d]
- Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter foundational model with a 1M context window that it says outperforms Z.AI and Moonshot models in internal tests (Bloomberg) [2d]
- The UK Treasury gives the Bank of England a new legal objective to support payment systems and digital money innovation, seeking to keep London competitive (Financial Times) [2d]
- Sources: some tech companies are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House (Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- BitGo agrees to buy NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, expanding BitGo's derivatives offerings; ~30 NYDIG employees are joining BitGo (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC) [3d]
- Sources: federal authorities prepare to charge a US serviceman and a KPMG employee with insider trading on prediction markets, as part of a new batch of cases (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal) [3d]
- Sources: Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B (Bloomberg) [3d]
- A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was "illegal and baseless" (Jack Queen/Reuters) [3d]
- CISA says that cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure targeted 100+ internet-exposed water and wastewater systems in July, largely attacking PLCs (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Workday reports Q2 revenue up 12.8% YoY to $2.65B vs. $2.63B est., and total subscription revenue backlog up 8% YoY to $27.4B, vs. $28.6B est. (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) [3d]
- ‘Decent visuals, useful satellite speakers, and handy portability’ — testing the Soundcore Nebula P1, I’ve been impressed how many quality features it offers for its modest price [2d]
- The US Navy wants its next drone-mounted torpedo to be able to glide silently through the air [2d]
- 'The best way to predict the future is to invent it' — quote of the day by physicist Dennis Gabor on the nature of innovation [2d]
- Ukraine has built its own jet-powered drone interceptor — and it'll easily fit in the back of a pickup truck [2d]
- Russia says it will start selling its 'suicide drone' to foreign nations — but won't name them [2d]
- 12 Mac mini alternatives for Windows I'd actually buy [2d]
- 7 of the coolest turntables of 2026 — including a superbly tacky anniversary edition, and an ode to Rammstein [2d]
- The Garmin Enduro 4 was a no-show at the Fenix 9 launch — but a fresh leak suggests the mega-battery smartwatch could be imminent [2d]
- Well it's about time - McKinsey report says AI is 'on the road to ROI' at last [2d]
- Analysts say getting GTA 6 to run at 60fps is 'extremely unlikely on console hardware,' as Rockstar confirms 30fps limit [2d]
- X says it found and took down a Chinese bot farm posting anti-AI data center content to thousands of followers [2d]
- I tested the new Hard Boiled 4K Blu-ray, and this long-awaited classic is a new reference showcase for what Ultra HD and Dolby Atmos is capable of [2d]
- Rockstar reveals it built a GTA 6 team that focused solely on creating more realistic NPCs with over 600,000 animations — twice as many as Red Dead Redemption 2 had [2d]
- How does Sony's new Bravia 6 OLED TV compare to the LG C6 and Samsung S90H? Here's what we know [2d]
- You can get an RTX 5070 gaming laptop with 32GB RAM for under $1,500 right now — finally, a deal that's not a complete rip-off [2d]
- 'The writing tablet of my dreams': I love my reMarkable devices more than my Moleskine collection — and Amazon just cut up to £100 off all of them [2d]
- How to watch Crystal Palace vs Man City: Live streams and TV channels for the Premier League 2026/27 game [2d]
- How to watch Miss Teen USA 2026 online and from anywhere [2d]
- What is the release date and launch time for Lanterns episode 3 on HBO Max? [2d]
- Millions of VPN users in the US are inadvertently putting their privacy at risk, Proton warns [2d]
- Best Buy's Labor Day appliance sale is live, and the retailer says 'we won’t be beat on appliance pricing' — 45% off Samsung, LG, GE and more [2d]
- US government alcohol and firearms agency ATF declares ‘major incident’ after ransomware gang claims cyberattack [2d]
- Gen Z workers now see themselves as part of a global workforce — but AI remains a major concern [2d]
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and more this weekend (August 28) [2d]
- GTA 6 will be a massive game and Rockstar's longest yet, as the studio confirms it can take up to 80 hours to beat [2d]
- 'Illegal and baseless': US judge blocks the Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic as a supply chain risk [2d]
- VPN deal of the week: Save nearly $10 on Surfshark’s best-value plan [2d]
- Scammers are weaponising QR codes — here’s how to avoid getting caught [2d]
- Amazon fights price hikes with its massive Labor Day sale — 60% off Apple devices, TVs, appliances, smart home and more [2d]
- Hulu's Furious has been renewed for season 2 — here's what star Quincy Tyler Bernstine hopes to see in the next installment [2d]
- Rockstar says if you want GTA 6's romance between Jason and Lucia to flourish, you have to nurture it, but it's completely optional — 'It's not something that we want to foist upon players' [2d]
- Stuart Fails to Save the Universe cast are '4 inept Doctor Who's' in their own words — but the HBO Max series could save the classic sci-fi IP after Disney+ and BBC fallout [2d]
- CIOs must rethink identity now people are being outnumbered by nonhuman entities [2d]
- OpenAI reveals group calling for greater cybersecurity protection against AI, signs up Microsoft, Google and many more [2d]
- 'I am so done with this': Google Messages bug that's driving users crazy is finally acknowledged by Google [2d]
- How to accelerate AI adoption without creating unnecessary security risk [2d]
- GTA 6 will launch at 30fps on PS5 and Xbox 'for now', confirms Rockstar — but while 60fps is reportedly possible, it's a 40fps mode we really want to see [2d]
- Windows 11 update arrives with much-wanted features — and very-much unwanted bugs that mess up the mouse cursor and wallpaper [2d]
- Nearly 9 million users hit in cyberattack on UK's biggest airport owner - email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registrations and postcodes all stolen [2d]
- How to watch Champions League 2026-27 for free from anywhere in the world with this VPN deal [2d]
- The smarter way to manage offices in a hotter world [2d]
- Why print and scanning remain an unmitigated risk [2d]
- How to watch College Football 2026/27 for FREE: NCAA live streams, TV channels, preview [2d]
- 'We don't want another damaged generation' — Inside the grassroots campaign demanding a ban on smart glasses [2d]
- How to watch 270 Bundesliga games for free online from anywhere [2d]
- AI is making people less confident in professionals such as doctors and teachers [3d]
- I’m not buying a Garmin Fenix 9 at those prices — here’s what I’m looking at instead [3d]
- Father's Day gifts for a dad who wants nothing: 16 tech ideas he'll actually use [3d]
- US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate, and more [3d]
- This company wants to help universities get around Microsoft 365's extra costs as it moves away from unlimited cloud storage [3d]
- Laser internet breakthrough sees scientists hit 98% fidelity over hundreds of meters —magnetic 'skyrmions' shield data from distortion in alternative to fiber-optic cables [3d]
- AT&T Sues Charter Over ‘Fiber’ Internet [2d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 29, #909 [2d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Aug. 29, #1175 [2d]
- Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 29, #1897 [2d]
- The Crazy Taxi Remake Revives the Dreamcast Era’s Zany Energy [2d]
- Eyes Up, Stargazers! Here’s What You Can See in September Night Skies [2d]
- Tech Companies Call for Improved Cyber Defenses After AI-Enabled Attacks [2d]
- Samsung’s Powerful Dolby Atmos Soundbar Is 50% Off, but Only Until Tonight [2d]
- Apple’s Most Affordable iPhone Is $99 Off Right Now at Best Buy [2d]
- Premier League Soccer: Stream Crystal Palace vs. Man City Live from Anywhere [2d]
- Premier League Soccer: Stream Crystal Palace vs. Man City Live from Anywhere [2d]
- Gaming Has Never Been Better. So Why Does It Feel Like the Worst Time to Be a Gamer? [2d]
- Tour Championship 2026: TV Schedule, How to Watch All the PGA Golf Action [2d]
- Will Map Apps Rename Lake Ontario After Trump’s Order? It’s Too Soon to Say [2d]
- Skip the iPhone 18 With Up to $291 Off iPhone 17 Pro Models [2d]
- Why Wait for Labor Day? You Can Already Save Up to 58% Off EcoFlow Power Solutions [2d]
- Meta Keeps Trying to Fix Glasses Privacy Concerns With New Update [2d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: This Award-Winning Game Console Is for the Whole Family, and Its Now 20% Off [2d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: This Award-Winning Game Console Is for the Whole Family, and Its Now 20% Off [2d]
- Apple TV Now Costs More. Here’s What to Know [2d]
- I Started Wearing a Pebble Watch Again: Time 2 Took Me Back to the 2010s in the Best Way [2d]
- Apple’s M6 Mac Mini Was Just Announced, and You Can Already Save on Your Preorder [2d]
- The 2026 Midterms Are Coming. Political Deepfakes Are Already Here [2d]
- Apple Isn’t Following Its Typical Playbook for the September iPhone Event [2d]
- Apple Couldn’t Wait on New Macs [2d]
- The iPhone Air Is One of Apple’s Most Important Products, Even if It Wasn’t a Blockbuster [2d]
- ‘MobLand’ Returns to Paramount Plus in September, Along With ‘Scary Movie 6,’ ‘Golden Axe,’ and More [2d]
- Sony Bravia 9 II TV Review: The Best RGB LED TV I’ve Tested, but Here’s What to Buy Instead [2d]
- The Roborock Qrevo 2 Pro Is $250 Off and Your Cleaning Routine Is About to Get Easier [2d]
- Power Through Any Storm With the Jackery HomePower 1000 Plus V2 [2d]
- Power Through Any Storm With the Jackery HomePower 1000 Plus V2 [2d]
- What Meta’s All-New Social Media Guidelines Promise to Change for Teen Users [3d]
- What Meta’s All-New Social Media Guidelines Promise to Change for Teen Users [3d]
- Google rounds the week out with Android 17 QPR2 Beta 4 for Pixel testers [2d]
- Google is finally fixing one of Calendar’s most annoying meeting features [2d]
- Forget screenless: Fitbit Air users have started going bandless [2d]
- Spotify could soon let you host a Jam without Premium [2d]
- Now Brief can now tell you what movies you should watch next [2d]
- Haven’t ordered your Pixel 11 yet? Here’s what your trade-in delay is costing you [2d]
- Google confirms: Keep lists on Home devices are working again [2d]
- Garmin’s Fitbit Air rival is having major issues with one of its most popular features [2d]
- Need a cheap outdoor speaker? The 4.5-star AOC Bluetooth speaker is half-price at just $24.99 [2d]
- Deal: The TCL NXTPAPER 14 tablet is just $349.99 right now, saving you 26% off [2d]
- Amazon drops the Roborock Q7 M5 Plus to $279.99, saving you 35% [2d]
- Google Health gets better workout logging, improved maps, and Health Connect fixes [2d]
- Galaxy Watch 8 owners in the US can now take One UI 9 Watch for a spin [2d]
- The new Samsung Freestyle Plus Smart Projector falls 21% in its first price drop [2d]
- Philips Hue shares how Nanoleaf panel control through its app is going to work [2d]
- The 44mm Apple Watch SE 3 just crashed to an all-time low of $199.99 [2d]
- Apple TV follows Apple Music with a price hike of its own [2d]
- I turned ChatGPT into my personal development powerhouse — here’s how [2d]
- Samsung made Privacy Display cool, and another Android brand is almost ready with its own take [2d]
- Google Flow just got much better at turning ideas into finished videos [2d]
- Roborock’s new robot vacuum is so hands-off, you might forget it’s there [2d]
- Galaxy S26’s latest beta update makes Bixby easier to use [2d]
- Activating VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling on your Pixel just got much easier [2d]
- Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra owners should sit down before they watch JerryRigEverything’s durability test [2d]
- I was planning to skip the Pixel 11. These 5 upgrades changed my mind [2d]
- Samsung isn’t just copying Apple anymore — it is Apple [2d]
- Want Google’s smartest Gemini features? You’ll need one of these phones [2d]
- Google’s latest attempt at fast wired charging on the Pixel 11 Pro XL is a disaster [2d]
- Latest Galaxy S26 beta update comes with plenty of goodies from the Fold 8 [2d]
- This wide phone has a smart trick for one-handed use, and Samsung and Apple should take notes [2d]
- Samsung doesn’t care about the Galaxy S27, and the leaked renders prove it [2d]
- Breaking: Galaxy S26 series gets seventh One UI 9 beta release with new AI features [2d]
- The first phone with three 200MP cameras (!) is coming soon, and we have high hopes [2d]
- Gemini Notebook now imports your Google Play Books titles, turning shelfware into notes [3d]
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