The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• WorldVLA: Towards Autoregressive Action World Model [312d] [hn]
• The End of US Democracy [312d] [hn]
• Several Anker power bank models recalled: Supplier's batteries pose fire hazard [312d] [hn]
• Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations [312d] [hn]
• Commodore acquired for a 'low seven figure' price – CEO from retro community [312d] [hn]
• ICE test train reaches speeds of up to 405.0 km/h [312d] [hn]
• Finding former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number (2020) [312d] [hn]
• Bitcoin's Security Budget Issue: Problems, Solutions and Myths Debunked [312d] [hn]
• Honda Joins Space Race by Launching Successful Reusable Rocket [312d] [hn]
• Tesla sales drop for fifth month in a row in Europe [312d] [hn]
• Cell Towers Can Double as Cheap Radar Systems for Ports and Harbors (2014) [312d] [hn]
• China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide [312d] [hn]
• Reverse Engineering the Microchip CLB [312d] [hn]
• EU to ban carry-on baggage fees [312d] [hn]
• Anticheat Update Tracking [312d] [hn]
• ZeroRISC Gets $10M Funding, Says Open-Source Silicon Security Inevitable [312d] [hn]
• Asynchronous Error Handling Is Hard [312d] [hn]
• Error Handling in Rust [312d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) [312d] [hn]
• CEOs say AI is just a tool to help workers, but our jobs are already on the line [313d] [hn]
• Unhooking from Amazon Ebooks [313d] [hn]
• Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed [313d] [hn]
• Agile Was Never Your Problem [313d] [hn]
• Tools I love: mise(-en-place) [313d] [hn]
• Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban's Ban [313d] [hn]
• Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades' [313d] [hn]
• Show HN: Sharpe Ratio Calculation Tool [313d] [hn]
• Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field [313d] [hn]
• America's Coming Smoke Epidemic [313d] [hn]
• Europe's First Exascale Supercomputer Powers Up [313d] [hn]
• We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube [313d] [hn]
• The $25k car is going extinct? [313d] [hn]
• Show HN: A tool to benchmark LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, local/self-hosted) [313d] [hn]
• 4-10x faster in-process pub/sub for Go [313d] [hn]
• The Consciousness Gradient: When Machines Begin to Wonder [313d] [hn]
• The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger [313d] [hn]
• The Medley Interlisp Project: Reviving a Historical Software System [pdf] [313d] [hn]
• YouTube: Robotic translation annoys users and cannot be turned off [313d] [hn]
• I made my VM think it has a CPU fan [313d] [hn]
• Show HN: SmartStepper – Multi-Step Form Library with Config-Based Flow [313d] [hn]
• Performance Debugging with LLVM-mca: Simulating the CPU [313d] [hn]
• Europe approves first saliva-based contraceptive – no pill required [313d] [hn]