The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? [6d] [hn]
• Explaining the Widening Divides in US Midlife Mortality: Is There a Smoking Gun? [6d] [hn]
• Venezuela's Navy Begins Escorting Ships as U.S. Threatens Blockade [6d] [hn]
• Gut Bacteria from Amphibians and Reptiles Achieve Complete Tumor Elimination [6d] [hn]
• American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. [6d] [hn]
• Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT [6d] [hn]
• A look back: LANPAR, the first spreadsheet [6d] [hn]
• Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review [7d] [hn]
• Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out most applicants [7d] [hn]
• I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero [7d] [hn]
• OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer [7d] [hn]
• AI Isn't Just Spying on You. It's Tricking You into Spending More [7d] [hn]
• Inside PostHog: SSRF, ClickHouse SQL Escape and Default Postgres Creds to RCE [7d] [hn]
• GitHub postponing the announced billing change to GitHub Actions [7d] [hn]
• "There are more Japanese [VRChat] creators than all other countries combined " [7d] [hn]
• Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: X Writer – Tweet from VS Code Without Distractions (BYOK, Open Source) [7d] [hn]
• Pornhub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data [7d] [hn]
• FIFA Arrives on Netflix Games [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust [7d] [hn]
• GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: GitForms – Zero-cost contact forms using GitHub Issues as database [7d] [hn]
• Hack Reveals the A16Z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok with AI Influencers [7d] [hn]
• How SQLite Is Tested [7d] [hn]
• FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement [7d] [hn]
• Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents [7d] [hn]
• Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability [7d] [hn]
• Put SSH keys in .git to make repos USB-portable [7d] [hn]
• Beyond RC4 for Windows Authentication [7d] [hn]
• Tiffany lamp coveted by Steve Jobs sells for $4.4M [7d] [hn]
• A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images [7d] [hn]
• AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' [7d] [hn]
• AI capability isn't humanness [7d] [hn]
• Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Founding Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking [7d] [hn]
• Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it [7d] [hn]
• Ford Has Steered Its Former EV Truck and Plant Plans in to a Ditch [7d] [hn]
• Tell HN: HN Was Down [7d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Was HN just down for anyone else? [7d] [hn]
• The State of AI Coding Report 2025 [7d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor [7d] [hn]
• Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed [7d] [hn]
• Learning the oldest programming language (2024) [7d] [hn]
• Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems [7d] [hn]
• Coursera to combine with Udemy [7d] [hn]
• Short-Circuiting Correlated Subqueries in SQLite [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: Mephisto – A RAM-only, ad-free disposable email PWA built with React [7d] [hn]
• Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? [7d] [hn]
• AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating [7d] [hn]
• TLA+ Modeling Tips [7d] [hn]
• US threatens EU digital services market access [7d] [hn]
• P: Formal Modeling and Analysis of Distributed (Event-Driven) Systems [7d] [hn]
• Subsets (YC S23) is hiring engineers in Copenhagen, Denmark [7d] [hn]
• FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison [7d] [hn]
• A Guide to Magnetizing N48 Magnets in Ansys Maxwell [7d] [hn]
• Why many Asian megacities are miserable places [7d] [hn]
• Tesla Robotaxis in Austin Crash 12.5x More Frequently Than Humans [7d] [hn]
• Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account [7d] [hn]
• CS 4973: Introduction to Software Development Tooling – Northeastern Univ (2024) [7d] [hn]
• Sei AI (YC W22) Is Hiring [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing [7d] [hn]
• Windows 11 will ask consent before sharing personal files with AI after outrage [7d] [hn]
• WikiFlix shows us what Netflix would have been like 100 years ago [7d] [hn]