The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent [1d] [hn]
• Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence [1d] [hn]
• Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract [1d] [hn]
• South Park creators rename show 'South America' [1d] [hn]
• Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence' [1d] [hn]
• Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks [1d] [hn]
• Factoring RSA 260 [1d] [hn]
• I Don't Want to Interact with Stochastic Parrots [1d] [hn]
• Apple Watch Ultra 4 [1d] [hn]
• AirPods 5 [1d] [hn]
• Apple Unveils iPhone Duo [1d] [hn]
• iPhone Duo [1d] [hn]
• Apple Announces Foldable 'iPhone Duo' [1d] [hn]
• Show HN: Self-hosted company OS, Claude Code and Codex agents in departments [1d] [hn]
• Apple Watch Ultra 4 [1d] [hn]
• Apple Watch Series 12 [1d] [hn]
• Apple Introduces AirPods 5 [1d] [hn]
• Apple debuts iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max [1d] [hn]
• Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF [1d] [hn]
• Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills [1d] [hn]
• My Mental Model of AI Broke on September 8 [1d] [hn]
• Autonomous Cars Save Lives: Self-driving tech could prevent 580k deaths/year [1d] [hn]
• Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents [1d] [hn]
• Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents [1d] [hn]
• Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up [1d] [hn]
• Show HN: Rdltr – Inbox zero for your reading list [1d] [hn]
• Every Millisecond Counts [1d] [hn]
• I rank the open-source AI agents that launched in the last 30 days [1d] [hn]
• Muse's Social Media Handle Is Stolen by New Meta AI Tool [1d] [hn]
• The Invention of the MMO [1d] [hn]
• The UN challenges five centuries of cartography [1d] [hn]
• "Good" AI [1d] [hn]
• I Haven't Lost a Customer Service Fight in Seven Months [1d] [hn]
• Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: "Prolific AI Psychosis" [1d] [hn]
• Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists [1d] [hn]
• Understanding the Recent DDoS Attack Against Read the Docs [1d] [hn]
• GNU Radio in the Browser [1d] [hn]
• No Man's Sky Cosmos [1d] [hn]
• Better AI code comment detector [1d] [hn]
• Planet Labs' Open Satellite Feed [1d] [hn]
• Bomb Sense [1d] [hn]
• We Accidentally Built a Synthetic Cell Factory [1d] [hn]
• Authentication Is Largely Solved. Authorization Isn't [1d] [hn]
• Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans" [1d] [hn]
• Show HN: Give your AI agent on-screen guides that show users where to click [1d] [hn]
• Investing in Mothers? The Long-Run Impact of a Universal Child Care [1d] [hn]
• Show HN: Geiger – See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch [1d] [hn]
• Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls [1d] [hn]
• GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning [1d] [hn]
• Microsoft/TracerAI withdraws copyright takedown against Luanti [1d] [hn]
• The Ancient Greek Water Clock That Kept the Most Accurate Time for 1,800 Years [1d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work? [1d] [hn]
• Playing whack-a-mole is losing [1d] [hn]
• What will our economic future look like? [1d] [hn]
• Do people prefer stories written by AI? [1d] [hn]
• Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify [1d] [hn]
• Show HN: Persistent Jupyter kernel execution and live output streaming in VSCode [1d] [hn]
• Liesegang Rings [1d] [hn]
• One woman's Tesla was remotely controlled by an abusive ex-partner [1d] [hn]
• Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time [1d] [hn]
• Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor [1d] [hn]