The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features [19d] [hn]
• Julia [19d] [hn]
• The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal [19d] [hn]
• Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction [19d] [hn]
• xAI Joins SpaceX [19d] [hn]
• xAI Joins SpaceX [19d] [hn]
• GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations [19d] [hn]
• Mattermost say they will not clarify what license the project is under [19d] [hn]
• Ownership of open source flashcard app Anki transferred to for-profit AnkiHub [19d] [hn]
• Europe just started building a 'kill switch' for U.S. tech [19d] [hn]
• LinkedIn Is Down [19d] [hn]
• Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled [19d] [hn]
• Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS [19d] [hn]
• Fake Samsung 990 Pro passes basic checks but runs slower than a USB 2.0 drive [19d] [hn]
• The largest number representable in 64 bits [19d] [hn]
• Stop incentivizing surface parking lots [19d] [hn]
• EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair [19d] [hn]
• The Codex App [19d] [hn]
• Show HN: PolliticalScience – Anonymous daily polls with 24-hour windows [19d] [hn]
• Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena [19d] [hn]
• Linux from Scratch Ends SysVinit Support [19d] [hn]
• On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] [19d] [hn]
• Being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] [19d] [hn]
• Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls [19d] [hn]
• Zig Libc [19d] [hn]
• Todd C. Miller – sudo Maintainer for over 30 years [19d] [hn]
• Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control [20d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026) [20d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) [20d] [hn]
• Kernighan on Programming [20d] [hn]
• Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI (Swift FOSDEM 2026 Talk) [video] [20d] [hn]
• We asked 15,000 European devs about jobs, salaries, and AI [pdf] [20d] [hn]
• Rural Americans Are Trying to Hold Back the Tide of AI [20d] [hn]
• Greenland tensions harden Europe's push for energy independence [20d] [hn]
• Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS [20d] [hn]
• Waymo Seeking About $16B Near $110B Valuation [20d] [hn]
• Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route [20d] [hn]
• AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage [20d] [hn]
• UK Government Launches Fuel Forecourt Price API [20d] [hn]
• UK government launches fuel forecourt price API [20d] [hn]
• MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China [20d] [hn]
• Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works [20d] [hn]
• EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline [20d] [hn]