The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Reduce Productivity [301d] [hn]
• Turkey bans Grok over Erdoğan insults [301d] [hn]
• An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education [301d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels [301d] [hn]
• The FBI Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials' Loyalty [301d] [hn]
• Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation [301d] [hn]
• Holographic memory storage and information processing in Quantum Brain Dynamics [301d] [hn]
• U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications [301d] [hn]
• Grok 4 [301d] [hn]
• Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online [301d] [hn]
• Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones [301d] [hn]
• Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones [301d] [hn]
• eBPF: Connecting with Container Runtimes [301d] [hn]
• Belkin ending support for older Wemo products [301d] [hn]
• Millions of Cars Exposed to Remote Hacking via PerfektBlue Attack [301d] [hn]
• Exploiting a 20 years old NTFS Vulnerability [301d] [hn]
• EU rules ask tech giants to publicly track how, when AI models go off the rails [301d] [hn]
• George Orwell Diaries 1938-1942 [301d] [hn]
• Bitchat - P2P Chat on Bluetooth (no Internet, phone number, etc.) [301d] [hn]
• US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data centre demand booms [301d] [hn]
• Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods [301d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Leaping (YC W25) – Self-Improving Voice AI [301d] [hn]
• Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet [301d] [hn]
• Show HN: asyncmcp – Run MCP over async transport via AWS SNS+SQS [301d] [hn]
• Measuring the Impact of AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity [301d] [hn]
• Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn [301d] [hn]
• Graphical Linear Algebra [301d] [hn]
• Bret Victor on why current trend of AIs is at odds with his work [301d] [hn]
• Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide [301d] [hn]
• Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in UK exhibition (2021) [301d] [hn]
• Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough [301d] [hn]
• Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video] [301d] [hn]
• Could a Paper Plane Thrown from the ISS Survive the Flight? [301d] [hn]
• Python 3.14 will officially support free-threading [301d] [hn]
• Millions of tonnes of nanoplastics are polluting the ocean [301d] [hn]
• ChatGPT Guessing Game Leads to Users Extracting Free Windows OS Keys and More [301d] [hn]
• AI is turning Apple into a "loser" [301d] [hn]
• Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs [301d] [hn]
• FOKS: The Federated Open Key Service [301d] [hn]
• Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes? [301d] [hn]