The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• TapTrap: Animation‑Driven Tapjacking on Android [13d] [hn]
• Democrats are desperately trying to revive the click-to-cancel rule [13d] [hn]
• Algorithms for Modern Processor Architectures [13d] [hn]
• Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron Keyboards [13d] [hn]
• Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org [13d] [hn]
• Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World [13d] [hn]
• Firebender (YC W24) Is Hiring [13d] [hn]
• NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module [13d] [hn]
• Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience [13d] [hn]
• More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work [13d] [hn]
• We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries [13d] [hn]
• Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs [13d] [hn]
• Americans Are Paying for Tariffs, Not Foreign Companies [13d] [hn]
• Swift-erlang-actor-system [13d] [hn]
• Fun with gzip bombs and email clients [13d] [hn]
• I Watched Gemini CLI Hallucinate and Delete My Files [13d] [hn]
• Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76 [14d] [hn]
• LSM-2: Learning from incomplete wearable sensor data [14d] [hn]
• Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning [14d] [hn]
• Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76 [14d] [hn]
• Subliminal Learning: Models Transmit Behaviors via Hidden Signals in Data [14d] [hn]
• Stop Pretending LLMs Have Feelings Media's Dangerous AI Anthropomorphism Problem [14d] [hn]
• Show HN: Phind.design – Image editor & design tool powered by 4o / custom models [14d] [hn]
• Show HN: Any-LLM – lightweight and open-source router to access any LLM Provider [14d] [hn]
• Better Auth (YC X25) Is Hiring [14d] [hn]
• AI Market Clarity [14d] [hn]
• First Hubble Telescope Images of Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas [14d] [hn]
• Gemini North Discovers Long-Predicted Stellar Companion of Betelgeuse [14d] [hn]
• Gemini North telescope discovers long-predicted stellar companion of Betelgeuse [14d] [hn]
• Tiny Code Reader: a $7 QR code sensor [14d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Promi (YC S24) – Personalize e-commerce discounts and retail offers [14d] [hn]
• CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems [14d] [hn]
• Bypassing Watermark Implementations [14d] [hn]
• Blip: Peer-to-Peer Massive File Sharing by Former Dropbox Engineers [14d] [hn]
• Why Facts Don't Change Minds–Structure Does (A Systems Analysis of Belief) [14d] [hn]
• Mary had schizophrenia, then suddenly didn't [14d] [hn]
• Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting [14d] [hn]
• Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why [14d] [hn]
• 1KB JavaScript Numbers Station [14d] [hn]
• Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why HTTP Parsing at the Edge Is Harder Than It Looks [14d] [hn]
• Go Allocation Probe [14d] [hn]
• A big problem for Tesla isn't getting much attention [14d] [hn]
• Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 [14d] [hn]
• Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code [14d] [hn]
• The United States Withdraws from UNESCO [14d] [hn]
• OSS Rebuild: open-source, Rebuilt to Last [14d] [hn]
• Yt-transcriber – Give a YouTube URL and get a transcription [14d] [hn]
• DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components [14d] [hn]
• TODOs Aren't for Doing [14d] [hn]
• So you think you've awoken ChatGPT [14d] [hn]
• Show HN: My GPU Fan Saga – A DIY ATX Fan Controller [14d] [hn]
• The Role of Blood Plasma Donation Centers in Crime Reduction [14d] [hn]
• The vibe coder's career path is doomed [14d] [hn]
• Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base [14d] [hn]
• French petition against return of bee-killing pesticide passes 1M [14d] [hn]
• Tell HN: GPT a and B Chatted 32 Rounds via Our Mediation Layer – No Crashes [14d] [hn]
• Show HN: The Magic of Code – book about the wonders and weirdness of computation [14d] [hn]
• Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck [14d] [hn]
• The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble [14d] [hn]
• How to Firefox [14d] [hn]
• 'Shameful' CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians [14d] [hn]
• Raft Consensus Algorithms [14d] [hn]
• How to Migrate from OpenAI to Cerebrium for Cost-Predictable AI Inference [14d] [hn]
• Kapa.ai (YC S23) is hiring a software engineers (EU remote) [14d] [hn]
• Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic [14d] [hn]
• Workers of Snopes.com won voluntary recognition of their union, the Snopes Guild [14d] [hn]
• Reengineered carbon-to-acetylene process with negative carbon emission (2023) [14d] [hn]
• We Have Made the Decision to Not Continue Paying for BBB Accreditation [14d] [hn]
• AI could have written this: Birth of a classist slur in knowledge work [pdf] [14d] [hn]
• AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work [14d] [hn]
• Jujutsu for Busy Devs [14d] [hn]