The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Why is Zig so Cool? [59m] [hn]
• FAA restricts commercial rocket launches indefinitely due to air traffic risks [1h] [hn]
• Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content of brain activity [1h] [hn]
• How a devboard works (and how to make your own) [1h] [hn]
• Show HN: VoxConvo – "X but it's only voice messages" [1h] [hn]
• Using the Web Monetization API for fun and profit [1h] [hn]
• Becoming a Compiler Engineer [2h] [hn]
• AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service [2h] [hn]
• YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm' [3h] [hn]
• VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025 [3h] [hn]
• Ribir: Non-intrusive GUI framework for Rust/WASM [3h] [hn]
• Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line [3h] [hn]
• Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire? [4h] [hn]
• Show HN: Three Emojis, a daily word puzzle for language learners [4h] [hn]
• James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97 [4h] [hn]
• Ruby Solved My Problem [5h] [hn]
• Sam Altman Subpoenaed on Stage [5h] [hn]
• Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages [5h] [hn]
• Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts [5h] [hn]
• Gmail AI gets more intrusive [6h] [hn]
• Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time [6h] [hn]
• Angel Investors, a Field Guide [7h] [hn]
• Nasdaq 100 set for worst week since April meltdown [7h] [hn]
• Lose weight or lose your jobs, offshore workers told [7h] [hn]
• Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week [7h] [hn]
• 3I/ATLAS shows perihelion burst and radial-only non-gravitational acceleration [7h] [hn]
• Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15 [7h] [hn]
• Pressured on Israel work, Microsoft asks employees to flag violations [8h] [hn]
• A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot' [8h] [hn]
• Claude Is Down [9h] [hn]
• I Love OCaml [9h] [hn]
• I'm Making a Small RPG and I Need Feeback Regarding Performance [10h] [hn]
• OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation [10h] [hn]
• We chose OCaml to write Stategraph [10h] [hn]
• Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines? [10h] [hn]
• From Memorization to Reasoning in the Spectrum of Loss Curvature [11h] [hn]
• Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams [11h] [hn]
• 'You're just ready:' Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself [11h] [hn]
• Show HN: OSS implementation of Test Time Diffusion that runs on a 24gb GPU [12h] [hn]
• Sweep (YC S23) is hiring to build autocomplete for JetBrains [12h] [hn]
• Video games can alter reality [13h] [hn]
• Majority of teens hold negative views of news media, says report [13h] [hn]
• A startup’s quest to store electricity in the ocean [15h] [hn]
• Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site [16h] [hn]
• Photoroom (YC S20) Is Hiring a Senior AI Front End Engineer in Paris [17h] [hn]
• Leaving Meta and PyTorch [17h] [hn]
• JermCAD: Browser-Based CAD Software [19h] [hn]
• Dead Framework Theory [20h] [hn]
• A Fond Farewell from Farmers' Almanac [21h] [hn]
• A prvalue is not a temporary [21h] [hn]
• A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years [21h] [hn]
• My tutorial and take on C++20 coroutines (2021) [22h] [hn]
• HTML Slides with notes [22h] [hn]
• $40M 3D printing factory open for business on Guam, will produce parts for Navy [22h] [hn]
• Time Immemorial turns 750: The Medieval law that froze history at 1189 [22h] [hn]
• A Note on Fil-C [23h] [hn]
• IRS Ends Direct File [23h] [hn]
• Scientists find ways to boost memory in aging brains [23h] [hn]