The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative [33d] [hn]
• The AirPods Effect [33d] [hn]
• How Smashing The NIMBYs Created Modern Capitalism [33d] [hn]
• Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP [34d] [hn]
• Shape Suffixes – Good Coding Style [34d] [hn]
• Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia [34d] [hn]
• Show HN: Are You in the Weights? [34d] [hn]
• Guide to the TD4 4-bit DIY CPU [34d] [hn]
• Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia [34d] [hn]
• McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? [34d] [hn]
• The Great Intermediary Panic [34d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pagecast – Publish Markdown/HTML Reports to Cloudflare Pages [34d] [hn]
• Integer Quantization: Deep Dive [34d] [hn]
• I Play Video Games with Spinal Muscular Atrophy [34d] [hn]
• I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M [34d] [hn]
• The AI Hate Progression [34d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What is the job market like? [34d] [hn]
• The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK [34d] [hn]
• Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi [34d] [hn]
• Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system? [34d] [hn]
• The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars [34d] [hn]
• Tech CEOs are breaking the law [34d] [hn]
• Securing the Future of AI Agents [34d] [hn]
• Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math [34d] [hn]
• Commodore Made a Digital Detox Phone That Isn't Dumb [34d] [hn]
• Mencius [34d] [hn]
• The Harajuku Moment [34d] [hn]
• Show HN: 10x better performance from the Coding Harnesses with LLM-wiki [34d] [hn]
• Package Managers need global hooks [34d] [hn]
• TerraPower in Deal with Meta for Eight Natrium 345 MW Advanced Nuclear Plants [34d] [hn]
• US Supreme Court drug users cannot be prohibited from firearms [pdf] [34d] [hn]
• A website that lists websites to submit your website to [34d] [hn]
• Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk [34d] [hn]
• Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps [34d] [hn]
• What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000 [34d] [hn]
• Migrate from OpenClaw [34d] [hn]
• Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS [34d] [hn]
• Usbliter8: an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit [34d] [hn]
• Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants [34d] [hn]
• Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts [34d] [hn]
• Fable 5 pushed Gemma 4 to 255 tok/s on WebGPU [34d] [hn]
• Converting Books into Visual Novels [34d] [hn]
• Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore [34d] [hn]
• Git platform built for agentic era [34d] [hn]
• Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean [34d] [hn]
• How Alberta Eradicated Rats [34d] [hn]
• Has W Social switched to closed source? [34d] [hn]
• The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy [34d] [hn]
• 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test [34d] [hn]
• Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly [34d] [hn]
• Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Daily Driving [34d] [hn]
• I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware [34d] [hn]
• Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further [34d] [hn]
• Challenging the Narrative of European Decline [34d] [hn]
• We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall [34d] [hn]
• Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course [34d] [hn]
• A Modern Proxmox Docker Architecture with Disposable VMs, VirtIO-FS, and ZFS [34d] [hn]
• Excessive nil pointer checks in Go [34d] [hn]
• Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at 90% lower cost [34d] [hn]
• .gitignore Isn't the Only Way to Ignore Files in Git [34d] [hn]
• Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography [34d] [hn]
• Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones? [34d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol? [34d] [hn]
• Djevops: Self-Host Django Easily [34d] [hn]
• I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle [34d] [hn]
• Can you see three trees? [34d] [hn]
• AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs [34d] [hn]
• War Books: The Marine Corps Commandant's 2026 Reading List [34d] [hn]
• The value of employee equity depends a lot on volatility [34d] [hn]
• A Perceptron in Age of Empires II [34d] [hn]
• The Forge We Deserve [34d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Am I being advertised an ARG via user agent logs? [34d] [hn]
• Show HN: Run Agent Skills with mistral.rs v0.8.10: /v1/skills support and more [34d] [hn]
• The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion [34d] [hn]
• How to Become a Person After Smartphones Have Rotted Your Brain [34d] [hn]
• DeepSeek Introduces Vision [34d] [hn]
• I Hate Compilers [34d] [hn]
• SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable [34d] [hn]
• Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20) [34d] [hn]
• Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs [34d] [hn]
• Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool [34d] [hn]
• Continue has been acquired by Cursor [34d] [hn]
• Scaling opencomputer from 1 VM to 1 million sandboxes [34d] [hn]
• [x86] AI Compute Extensions (ACE) Specification [34d] [hn]
• Midjourney Ultrasonic CT Scanner [34d] [hn]
• Midjourney Medical [34d] [hn]
• Show HN: Local personal data redaction for any AI tools [34d] [hn]
• UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025) [34d] [hn]
• HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero [34d] [hn]
• Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI [34d] [hn]
• ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery [34d] [hn]