The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The people preserving the scientific practice of bird banding [28d] [hn]
• Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study [28d] [hn]
• Researchers discover advanced language processing in the unconscious human brain [28d] [hn]
• Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit [28d] [hn]
• Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect [28d] [hn]
• OpenClaw Had a Rough Week [28d] [hn]
• Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack [28d] [hn]
• Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack [28d] [hn]
• Why The Pentagon Is Quadrupling Missile Production, and Why It Won't Be Enough [29d] [hn]
• Utah senator smacks ABC reporters phone out of hand amid Data Center controversy [29d] [hn]
• Building for the Future [29d] [hn]
• Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce [29d] [hn]
• ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas) [29d] [hn]
• Draw Marc Andreessen on an Egg [29d] [hn]
• Cooking the Hashish Cookbook [29d] [hn]
• Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found [29d] [hn]
• Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives" [29d] [hn]
• Creating for a niche [29d] [hn]
• Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE [29d] [hn]
• Decoding raw digital photos in Linux (1997) [29d] [hn]
• Colored Shadow Penumbra [29d] [hn]
• AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities [29d] [hn]
• A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began [29d] [hn]
• A construction of the Hat tilings by a Markov partition [29d] [hn]
• Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text [29d] [hn]
• Brazil's Pix Payment System Faces Pressure from Visa and Mastercard [29d] [hn]
• Principles for agent-native CLIs [29d] [hn]
• Show HN: Full Python GUI apps in the browser – no JavaScript, no server [29d] [hn]
• OpenAI's WebRTC problem [29d] [hn]
• California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply [29d] [hn]
• Bubbles Are Really Evil [29d] [hn]
• Agents need control flow, not more prompts [29d] [hn]
• The rise and fall of snake oil [29d] [hn]
• Only 173? Tesla Cybertruck RWD Recall Reveals Low Sales [29d] [hn]
• Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement [29d] [hn]
• Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview [29d] [hn]
• I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook, and you can too [29d] [hn]
• Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers [29d] [hn]
• DS4, a specialized inference engine for DeepSeek v4 Flash [29d] [hn]
• DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal [29d] [hn]
• Show HN: Stage CLI – a tool to make reading your AI generated changes easier [29d] [hn]
• First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed [29d] [hn]
• Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI [29d] [hn]
• I Want to Live Like Costco People [29d] [hn]
• AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields [29d] [hn]
• MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport [29d] [hn]
• The ROKR wooden typewriter: a closer look [29d] [hn]
• The Serial TTL connector we deserve [29d] [hn]
• The Self-Cancelling Subscription [29d] [hn]
• The map that keeps Burning Man honest [29d] [hn]
• The River Otter's Remarkable Comeback [29d] [hn]
• Gode Cookery – Authentic Medieval Recipes [29d] [hn]
• From Buffon's Needle to Buffon's Noodle [29d] [hn]
• Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria [29d] [hn]
• Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria [29d] [hn]
• Cloudflare responded to the "Copy Fail" Linux vulnerability [29d] [hn]
• Jobs at mom-and-pop shops are disappearing [29d] [hn]
• Looking at the data behind prediction markets [29d] [hn]
• Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder) [29d] [hn]
• Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter [29d] [hn]
• How LEDs are made (2014) [29d] [hn]
• Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only) [29d] [hn]
• GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal [29d] [hn]