The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership [31d] [hn]
• Printing Blogs [31d] [hn]
• Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say [31d] [hn]
• SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice [31d] [hn]
• NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address [31d] [hn]
• A website ranking judges by elo for the cases they dismiss in SF [31d] [hn]
• Write some software, give it away for free [31d] [hn]
• Why Most Product Tours Get Skipped [31d] [hn]
• Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm [31d] [hn]
• Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens [31d] [hn]
• .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? [31d] [hn]
• A Theory of Deep Learning [31d] [hn]
• The Traveling Salesdog Problem [31d] [hn]
• Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person [31d] [hn]
• The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape [31d] [hn]
• What five years of data tells us about lasting relationships [31d] [hn]
• What makes a good smartphone camera? [31d] [hn]
• The Brave Souls Who Bought a Used, 340k-Mile Rental Camper Van [31d] [hn]
• California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy [31d] [hn]
• Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks [31d] [hn]
• Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement [31d] [hn]
• Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue [31d] [hn]
• GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents [31d] [hn]
• Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Cryptography (QC) [31d] [hn]
• IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields [31d] [hn]
• Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC [31d] [hn]
• Easy Random Trees [31d] [hn]
• Why airlines are always going bankrupt [31d] [hn]
• GPT‑5.5 Instant [31d] [hn]
• Computer Use Is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs [31d] [hn]
• Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters [31d] [hn]
• UK: Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds strongly [31d] [hn]
• I'm Scared About Biological Computing [31d] [hn]
• Finding the differences in a series of power supplies [31d] [hn]
• Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8 [31d] [hn]
• EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [31d] [hn]
• Three Inverse Laws of AI [31d] [hn]
• New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS [31d] [hn]
• Agents for Financial Services and Insurance [31d] [hn]
• Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources [31d] [hn]
• It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs [31d] [hn]
• The best is over: The fun has been optimized out of the Internet [31d] [hn]
• Yet Another GitHub Incident [31d] [hn]
• AI didn't delete your database, you did [31d] [hn]
• Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev [31d] [hn]
• Google, Microsoft and xAI Agree to Share Early AI Models with U.S. [31d] [hn]
• Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion [31d] [hn]
• AI Product Graveyard [31d] [hn]
• Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader [31d] [hn]
• iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet [31d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak [31d] [hn]
• Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% [31d] [hn]