The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The Universal Constraint Engine: Neuromorphic Computing Without Neural Networks [51d] [hn]
• Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor. Workers told to keep going [51d] [hn]
• YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts [51d] [hn]
• Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk' [51d] [hn]
• KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode [51d] [hn]
• The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments [51d] [hn]
• I Made a Terminal Pager [51d] [hn]
• Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling [52d] [hn]
• The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew [52d] [hn]
• Hacker News CLI [52d] [hn]
• ChatGPT for Excel [52d] [hn]
• Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself? [52d] [hn]
• One Interface, Every Protocol [52d] [hn]
• Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups [52d] [hn]
• In the last 30 years, the number of public companies has been cut in half [52d] [hn]
• Scientists discover "cleaner ants" that groom giant ants in Arizona desert [52d] [hn]
• PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux [52d] [hn]
• Farmer Arrested for Speaking Too Long at Datacenter Town Hall Vows to Fight [52d] [hn]
• Show HN: Jeeves – TUI for browsing and resuming AI agent sessions [52d] [hn]
• Flock employees caught watching kids gymnastic class and pools [52d] [hn]
• Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? [52d] [hn]
• Metatextual Literacy [52d] [hn]
• Turning a Chinese IoT camera into an owl livestream [52d] [hn]
• Jury Finds Live Nation Acts as a Monopoly in a Victory for States [52d] [hn]
• Live Nation Illegally Monopolized Ticketing Market, Jury Finds [52d] [hn]
• Thomson Reuters Fired Worker for Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says [52d] [hn]
• Coq theorem prover is now called Rocq [52d] [hn]
• Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store [52d] [hn]
• Generating a color spectrum for an image [52d] [hn]
• AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development [52d] [hn]
• Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases [52d] [hn]
• Michael Rabin Has Died [52d] [hn]
• Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data [52d] [hn]
• The Gemini app is now on Mac [52d] [hn]
• Ecovacs Wants to Weaponize Your Mop Water [52d] [hn]
• CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous [52d] [hn]
• Prove You Are a Robot: CAPTCHAs for Agents [52d] [hn]
• Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring Founding AI Engineers [52d] [hn]
• Introducing: ShaderPad [52d] [hn]
• Where the Heck Did My Taxes Go? [52d] [hn]
• The tiniest e-reader in the world, and you can build one yourself [52d] [hn]
• CRISPR takes a bold leap toward silencing Down syndrome's extra chromosome [52d] [hn]
• Minimal Viable Programs (2014) [52d] [hn]
• Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic [52d] [hn]
• Mechanical Keyboard Sounds - A listening Museum [52d] [hn]
• Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson [52d] [hn]
• Cal.com is going closed source [52d] [hn]
• The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Worse Than You Thought [52d] [hn]
• Daily Claude outage is upon us. Waiting for Claude Status to update [52d] [hn]
• Modern Common Lisp with FSET [52d] [hn]
• It's cool to care (2025) [52d] [hn]
• Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale [52d] [hn]
• Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 [52d] [hn]
• I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months [52d] [hn]
• Vibe Coding Fails [52d] [hn]
• Towards Trust in Emacs [52d] [hn]
• Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness [52d] [hn]
• Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) [52d] [hn]
• US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] [52d] [hn]
• The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs [52d] [hn]
• MCP as Observability Interface: Connecting AI Agents to Kernel Tracepoints [52d] [hn]
• Designing the Transport Typeface [52d] [hn]
• God Sleeps in the Minerals [52d] [hn]
• US national level OS-level age verification bill [52d] [hn]
• Binary Encodings for JSON and Variant [52d] [hn]
• AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you [52d] [hn]
• Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC [52d] [hn]
• Keep Android Open [52d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pseudonymizing sensitive data for LLMs without losing context [52d] [hn]
• Do You Even Need a Database? [52d] [hn]
• Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis [52d] [hn]
• Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure [52d] [hn]
• Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers [52d] [hn]
• Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters [52d] [hn]