The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• 70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payment to avoid US tech giants [256d] [hn]
• Why the Internet Is Turning to Shit [256d] [hn]
• Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn't try AI immediately [256d] [hn]
• Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion [256d] [hn]
• I don't buy Macs anymore [256d] [hn]
• The use of LLM assistants for kernel development [256d] [hn]
• Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law [256d] [hn]
• Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math [256d] [hn]
• Transcribe music in abc with syntax highlighting [256d] [hn]
• Glyn: Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering [256d] [hn]
• Tesla Hasn't Filed Crash Reports on Time. Federal Investigators Want to Know Why [256d] [hn]
• Will AI Destroy the World Wide Web? [256d] [hn]
• U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel [256d] [hn]
• From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year [256d] [hn]
• Ejabberd 25.08 / ProcessOne – Erlang Jabber/XMPP/Matrix Server – Communication [256d] [hn]
• Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law [256d] [hn]
• Why was Apache Kafka created? [256d] [hn]
• Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor [256d] [hn]
• Harper Evolves [256d] [hn]
• Scientists just found a protein that reverses brain aging [256d] [hn]
• Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes [256d] [hn]
• The First Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare [256d] [hn]
• Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025 [256d] [hn]
• A Family Project (2022) [256d] [hn]
• Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0? [256d] [hn]
• The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables [256d] [hn]
• Sprinkling Self-Doubt on ChatGPT [256d] [hn]
• Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org [256d] [hn]
• XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites [256d] [hn]
• Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT [256d] [hn]
• Texas Instruments' $60B U.S. project, the next iPhone chips fabric [256d] [hn]
• Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City [256d] [hn]
• Ergonomic errors in Rust: write fast, debug with ease, handle precisely [256d] [hn]
• Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) - Making RNA Programmable [256d] [hn]
• Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes [256d] [hn]
• Punch cards and dollar bills [256d] [hn]
• The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst [256d] [hn]
• DeepSeek v3.1 is not having a moment [256d] [hn]
• Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust [256d] [hn]
• Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux [256d] [hn]
• Hacker and physicist – a tale of "common sense" [256d] [hn]
• My development team costs $41.73 a month [256d] [hn]
• Vibe Debugging: Enterprises' Up and Coming Nightmare [256d] [hn]
• FFmpeg 8.0 [256d] [hn]
• Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker [256d] [hn]
• Does MHz Still Matter? [257d] [hn]
• Making LLMs Cheaper and Better via Performance-Efficiency Optimized Routing [257d] [hn]
• A Guide to Gen AI / LLM Vibecoding for Expert Programmers [257d] [hn]
• Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update [257d] [hn]
• US to review all 55M visas to check if holders broke rules [257d] [hn]
• Build Log: Macintosh Classic [257d] [hn]
• Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack [257d] [hn]
• Optimizing our way through Metroid [257d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Inconvo (YC S23) – AI agents for customer-facing analytics [257d] [hn]
• The Management Skill Nobody Talks About [257d] [hn]
• Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash [257d] [hn]
• Being confidently wrong is the only thing holding AI back [257d] [hn]