The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Why our website looks like an operating system [174d] [hn]
• Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' SSA database 'immediately' [174d] [hn]
• Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook [174d] [hn]
• Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores" [174d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pbar.io – Distributed progress bars that work in terminals and browsers [174d] [hn]
• A joint statement from OpenAI and Microsoft [174d] [hn]
• How Palantir Is Mapping Everyone's Data for the Government [174d] [hn]
• How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data [174d] [hn]
• Unusual Capabilities of Nano Banana (Examples) [174d] [hn]
• C# Will Become F# – Gautier Talks About Microsoft Technology [174d] [hn]
• Randomly selecting points inside a triangle [174d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app [174d] [hn]
• Rails on SQLite: new ways to cause outages [174d] [hn]
• Claude's Memory Architecture Is the Polar Opposite of ChatGPT's [174d] [hn]
• We Melted iPhones for Science - Apple Just Spent $10B Proving We Were Right [174d] [hn]
• Making io_uring pervasive in QEMU [pdf] [174d] [hn]
• Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench [174d] [hn]
• Adam (YC W25) Is Hiring to Build the Future of CAD [174d] [hn]
• Oracle stock gains 36% to post best day since 1992, adding $244B in value [174d] [hn]
• Bulletproof host Stark Industries evades EU sanctions [174d] [hn]
• A Web Framework for Zig [174d] [hn]
• Native ACME Support Comes to Nginx [174d] [hn]
• 'Robber bees' invade apiarist's shop in attempted honey heist [174d] [hn]
• Every Keystroke You Make: A Tech-Law Measurement and Analysis of Event Listeners [174d] [hn]
• Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype [174d] [hn]
• Windows KASLR Bypass – CVE-2025-53136 [174d] [hn]
• Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years [174d] [hn]
• Spiral [174d] [hn]
• The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware [175d] [hn]
• Social Media Is Navigating Its Sectarian Phase [175d] [hn]
• NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent [175d] [hn]
• Conway's Game of Life, but Musical [175d] [hn]
• CRISPR Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes [175d] [hn]
• Teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban [175d] [hn]
• An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project [175d] [hn]
• GrapheneOS and Forensic Extraction of Data [175d] [hn]
• Behind the Scenes of Bun Install [175d] [hn]
• CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up [175d] [hn]
• The Rise of Async Programming [175d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a minimal Forth-like stack interpreter library in C [175d] [hn]
• Gregg Kellogg has passed away [175d] [hn]
• Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring Back End Engineer [175d] [hn]