The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Today Intercom becomes Fin [22d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing [22d] [hn]
• Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea [22d] [hn]
• Content-defined chunking added to Bazel [22d] [hn]
• Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions [22d] [hn]
• Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads [22d] [hn]
• Princeton mandates proctoring in-person exams, upending 133 years of precedent [22d] [hn]
• Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs [22d] [hn]
• 3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend [22d] [hn]
• EditLens: Quantifying the extent of AI editing in text (2025) [22d] [hn]
• The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world [22d] [hn]
• Making the news available at no cost is a victory [22d] [hn]
• Trevor Howsam Limited: 19th- and 20th-Century Props and Wallpaper [22d] [hn]
• A SQL-Inspired Query Language Designed for Event Sourcing (2025) [22d] [hn]
• Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar [22d] [hn]
• Nginx.org/En/Changes [22d] [hn]
• MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble [22d] [hn]
• A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools [22d] [hn]
• Telegram Is Gone [22d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration [23d] [hn]
• Haiku [23d] [hn]
• U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities [23d] [hn]
• Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets [23d] [hn]
• Fragnesia Made Public as Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability [23d] [hn]
• S-100 Virtual Workbench [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence [23d] [hn]
• Kickstarter Is Forced to Ban Adult Content by Payment Processors [23d] [hn]
• 50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers [23d] [hn]
• Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time [23d] [hn]
• The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare [23d] [hn]
• EMiX: Emulating Beyond Single-FPGA Limits [23d] [hn]
• Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain [23d] [hn]
• The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly [23d] [hn]
• European Stagnation Is Real [23d] [hn]
• The nuclear-physics infrastructure behind PET scans [23d] [hn]
• The US Is Winning the AI Race [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: Rotunda - A browser built for agents with simulated typing [23d] [hn]
• Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains [23d] [hn]
• ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board [23d] [hn]
• Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent [23d] [hn]
• Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo [23d] [hn]
• Matlab: Communications Toolbox [23d] [hn]
• Substrate (YC S24) Is Hiring a Technical Success Manager [23d] [hn]