The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• My take on vibe coding for PMs [46d] [hn]
• Lenovo's New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability [46d] [hn]
• 130k Lines of Formal Topology: Simple and Cheap Autoformalization for Everyone? [46d] [hn]
• Talos: Hardware accelerator for deep convolutional neural networks [46d] [hn]
• The Man Who Broke into Jail [46d] [hn]
• Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World [46d] [hn]
• Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death [46d] [hn]
• Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf] [46d] [hn]
• Zed will require age identification for its services [46d] [hn]
• The Lobster Programming Language [46d] [hn]
• Don't Make Me Talk to Your Chatbot [46d] [hn]
• Rubio to World: Stop Doing the Exact Same Thing the US Just Did [46d] [hn]
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff [46d] [hn]
• CIA Station Hit in Drone Attack [46d] [hn]
• Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software [46d] [hn]
• Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language [46d] [hn]
• We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell [46d] [hn]
• A ternary plot of citrus geneology [46d] [hn]
• Show HN: Online OCR Free – Batch OCR UI for Tesseract, Gemini and OpenRouter [46d] [hn]
• I Audited the Privacy of Popular Free Dev Tools, the Results Are Terrifying [46d] [hn]
• A US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in Foreign Spy and Criminal Hands [46d] [hn]
• Self-Hosted Software List [46d] [hn]
• GitHub Is Having Issues [46d] [hn]
• Iran War Cost Tracker [46d] [hn]
• Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues [46d] [hn]
• Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon [46d] [hn]
• I Built a Spy Satellite Simulator in a Browser. Here's What I Learned [46d] [hn]
• Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's [46d] [hn]
• Why payment fees matter more than you think [46d] [hn]
• El Paso ICE Camp East Montana under quarantine after measles outbreak [46d] [hn]
• Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes [46d] [hn]
• You are going to get priced out of the best AI coding tools [46d] [hn]
• GPT‑5.3 Instant [46d] [hn]
• Someone Needs to Go to Jail [46d] [hn]
• US Stock Market has lost $1 TRILLION in value since open Tuesday [46d] [hn]
• Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native [46d] [hn]
• FCC Chair Wants Networks to Pledge Loyalty for America's Big Bday [46d] [hn]
• Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports [46d] [hn]
• When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It? [46d] [hn]
• Show HN: A trainable, modular electronic nose for industrial use [46d] [hn]
• From Fargo to Zebra [46d] [hn]
• The Longing (1999) [46d] [hn]
• Why No AI Games? [46d] [hn]
• I Used Claude to File My Taxes for Free [46d] [hn]
• A [Firefox, Chromium] extension that converts Microsoft to Microslop [46d] [hn]
• Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers [46d] [hn]
• Charging a three-cell nickel-based battery pack with a Li-Ion charger [pdf] [46d] [hn]
• My first science video in 3 years (Pysics Girl) [46d] [hn]
• Florida public universities to pause hiring new H-1B workers [46d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents [46d] [hn]
• I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services [46d] [hn]
• Don't Become an Engineering Manager [46d] [hn]
• Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5 [46d] [hn]
• Apple Introduces MacBook Pro with All‑New M5 Pro and M5 Max [46d] [hn]
• Apple unveils new Studio Display and all-new Studio Display XDR [46d] [hn]
• Zen of AI Coding [46d] [hn]
• Show HN: Reconstruct any image using primitive shapes, runs in-browser via WASM [46d] [hn]
• AI-generated art can't be copyrighted (Supreme Court declines review) [46d] [hn]
• The Internet's Top Tech Publications Lost 58% of Their Google Traffic Since 2024 [46d] [hn]
• I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project [46d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country? [46d] [hn]
• Querying 3B Vectors [46d] [hn]
• We Automated Everything Except Knowing What's Going On [46d] [hn]
• To update blobs or not to update blobs [46d] [hn]
• Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK [46d] [hn]
• Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours [46d] [hn]
• India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders [46d] [hn]
• Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video] [46d] [hn]
• Data Does Not Speak to You [46d] [hn]