The Brutalist Report

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• Strange Balls found on Queensland beaches could be toxic 'space debris': experts [16d] [hn]
• Egg companies made $1.22B in profit off $6 carton [16d] [hn]
• Building Agents That Don't Break Themselves [16d] [hn]
• The Private Capture of Public Genius [16d] [hn]
• Has_not_been_viewed_much [16d] [hn]
• Connections in Math: the two kinds of random [16d] [hn]
• Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents? [16d] [hn]
• Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978) [16d] [hn]
• The Backstory of Jiki [16d] [hn]
• The AI Compass Quiz [16d] [hn]
• The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits [16d] [hn]
• DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world [16d] [hn]
• Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly? [16d] [hn]
• Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects [16d] [hn]
• CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats [16d] [hn]
• Had an idea for a Rust editor with simple Vim mode for learning [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years [16d] [hn]
• Completing a Computer Science Degree on Coursera [16d] [hn]
• Reparaible and open source paper printer [16d] [hn]
• Dungeon Proof Crawler: learn how to write proofs with RPG [16d] [hn]
• Y Combinator.singles [16d] [hn]
• Pint in England [16d] [hn]
• Dependencies should be fetched directly from VCS [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: Osint tool that finds exposed files on domains [16d] [hn]
• Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy [16d] [hn]
• Tripadvisor AI summaries give glowing reviews to dangerous hotels [16d] [hn]
• Trouble Transitioning (2025) [16d] [hn]
• Speech and Noise Corpora for Pitch Estimation of Human Speech [16d] [hn]
• Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier [16d] [hn]
• Understanding B-Tree Indexes in PostgreSQL: A Comprehensive Guide– Part 1 [16d] [hn]
• The Strange Locomotion of Spirocuta [16d] [hn]
• The full stack of terminals explained [16d] [hn]
• Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July [16d] [hn]
• Small Penis Rule [16d] [hn]
• New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf] [16d] [hn]
• You Need a Webring [16d] [hn]
• Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs [16d] [hn]
• Outfit makes you unrecognizable to cameras [16d] [hn]
• The first programmer I know who was murdered in a targeted strike was Haitham [16d] [hn]
• The Future of Flipper Zero Development [16d] [hn]
• Every Postcard Tells a Story [16d] [hn]
• Do you hate XML? (2010) [16d] [hn]
• Australia probes mystery space balls that washed up on beach [16d] [hn]
• Moving Back Home Used to Be a Sign of Failure. Now It Shows Financial Savvy [16d] [hn]
• Cursed Gemstones – The Koh-I-Noor Diamond [16d] [hn]
• The Computers Used in Movies [16d] [hn]
• Taphonomic analysis reveals behavioral & tech capabilities of Homo floresiensis [16d] [hn]
• Neoengineers [16d] [hn]
• Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline [16d] [hn]
• Combustion Engine Web-Based Simulator [16d] [hn]
• "These cameras are just like the Eye of Sauron" [16d] [hn]
• Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough [16d] [hn]
• Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit [16d] [hn]
• Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers [16d] [hn]
• Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s [16d] [hn]
• The Plight of the Martian Farmer [16d] [hn]
• Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight [16d] [hn]
• Lean Software Scaling Laws [16d] [hn]
• Train and run transformers directly on Apple's Neural Engine [16d] [hn]
• Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC [16d] [hn]
• It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership [16d] [hn]
• Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland [16d] [hn]
• Morphometrics: Introduction to the Analysis of Shape [16d] [hn]
• My road trip with the do-gooding cactus smugglers [16d] [hn]
• Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork [16d] [hn]
• Hi, I am a 10 years old kid and made a Cool app [16d] [hn]
• Catastrophe theory; geniuses and maniacs (2011) [16d] [hn]
• Phosh 0.56.0 [16d] [hn]
• TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type [16d] [hn]
• Scheme Is a Hoot [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: Neil the Seal Game [16d] [hn]
• Home made GPU escalated quickly [video] [16d] [hn]
• Educators disciplined over Charlie Kirk posts are securing big payouts [16d] [hn]
• The Engineer in the Half-Space [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: KiCad in the Browser [16d] [hn]
• Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart Attack [16d] [hn]
• Introduction to Compilers and Language Design [16d] [hn]
• EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track [16d] [hn]
• Spain's cadastre API is SOAP from 2003, so I built a JSON wrapper (+MCP) [16d] [hn]
• Returning to Zig after losing trust in Rust's governance [16d] [hn]
• Pi square is nearly 10 [16d] [hn]
• Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks [16d] [hn]
• Common 3D Benchy Problems, Causes and Fixes [16d] [hn]
• Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid [16d] [hn]
• Europe's new climate in seven charts [16d] [hn]
• Scientist who cleaned space toilet on work now leading Mars exploration [16d] [hn]
• Intuitive Quantum Electrodynamics [16d] [hn]
• Claude Design System Prompt [16d] [hn]
• Train SIM Created by Just One Person Is Being Called the Best Ever Made [16d] [hn]
• Apocketlypse [16d] [hn]
• Knowledge Should Not Be Gated [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: I trained a language model that thinks the capital of Japan is Paris [16d] [hn]
• Programmers need to start meditating now [16d] [hn]
• Reducing Assumptions, Exploding Your Code [16d] [hn]
• Dark Mode with Web Standards [16d] [hn]
• Is The Economist Always Wrong? [16d] [hn]
• EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles [16d] [hn]
• sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25) [16d] [hn]
• Megawatts by Microwave [16d] [hn]
• Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter [16d] [hn]