The Brutalist Report

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• Photos: New Phoenix Microcenter is a 'tech-heaven' for geeks [2d] [hn]
• The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf] [2d] [hn]
• Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers [2d] [hn]
• A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios [2d] [hn]
• I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist [2d] [hn]
• Tesla's German car sales more than halve in October as wider EV sales jump [2d] [hn]
• Solarpunk is already happening in Africa [2d] [hn]
• 3D Geological Models in Minecraft [2d] [hn]
• New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair [2d] [hn]
• Fiber reduces overall mortality by 23% [2d] [hn]
• Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost [2d] [hn]
• The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025 [2d] [hn]
• Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser [2d] [hn]
• OpenAI ends legal and medical advice on ChatGPT [2d] [hn]
• Ex-FTC chair Lina Khan joins Mamdani's transition team [2d] [hn]
• Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model [2d] [hn]
• Why aren't smart people happier? [2d] [hn]
• Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses [2d] [hn]
• Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud [2d] [hn]
• Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk [2d] [hn]
• Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery [2d] [hn]
• Michael Burry is back with two bets against Nvidia and Palantir [2d] [hn]
• Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else? [2d] [hn]
• Carice TC2 – An fully analog electric car [2d] [hn]
• Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End" [2d] [hn]
• The Shadows Lurking in the Equations [2d] [hn]
• Removing XSLT for a more secure browser [2d] [hn]
• A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024) [2d] [hn]
• Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities [2d] [hn]
• Radiant Computer [2d] [hn]
• NY Smartphone Ban Has Made Lunch Loud Again [2d] [hn]
• Optimism Associated with Exceptional Longevity [2d] [hn]
• iOS 26.2 to Allow Third-Party App Stores in Japan Ahead of Regulatory Deadline [2d] [hn]
• The grim truth behind the Pied Piper [2d] [hn]
• YouTube Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations [2d] [hn]
• Founder in Residence at Woz (San Francisco) [2d] [hn]
• 72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study [2d] [hn]
• A Quote from Belligerentbarbies [2d] [hn]
• The Hackers Manifesto (The Conscience of a Hacker) (1986) [2d] [hn]
• Epic vs. Google settlement: Opening up Android [2d] [hn]
• Live Updates: Mamdani Wins NYC Mayor's Race After Highest Turnout in Decades [3d] [hn]
• Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python [3d] [hn]
• Preventing Kubernetes from Pulling the Pause Image from the Internet [3d] [hn]
• What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise [3d] [hn]
• The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory [3d] [hn]
• Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race [3d] [hn]
• Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states [3d] [hn]
• GM Deprecating In-Car App Store for Models as Recent as 2020 [3d] [hn]
• Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes [3d] [hn]
• At least 3 dead after cargo plane crashes at Kentucky airport [3d] [hn]