The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Zo Computer [17d] [hn]
• Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray [17d] [hn]
• Reflections on the Guillotine [17d] [hn]
• Mapping with In-Memory Layers to Reduce LLM Overload [17d] [hn]
• Drone Autonomy Crash Course [17d] [hn]
• Recovering garbled Bitcoin addresses (2024) [17d] [hn]
• Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets [17d] [hn]
• New bacterial species discovered in NASA's cleanrooms [17d] [hn]
• Automate Excel with Python: From manual grind to one-click workflow [17d] [hn]
• 3D Airplane tracker on Mercator map [17d] [hn]
• GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance [17d] [hn]
• Australian influencer Lily Jay's tangled web of AI manipulation [17d] [hn]
• My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress [17d] [hn]
• Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share [17d] [hn]
• Better Models: Worse Tools [17d] [hn]
• AI has torched the market for junior programmers [17d] [hn]
• Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable [17d] [hn]
• Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference [17d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas? [17d] [hn]
• EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists [17d] [hn]
• As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers [17d] [hn]
• Verizon is About to Break our Watches [17d] [hn]
• BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments [17d] [hn]
• Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels [17d] [hn]
• Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe [17d] [hn]
• No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth [17d] [hn]
• Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console [17d] [hn]
• EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet? [17d] [hn]
• Plein Air [17d] [hn]
• Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years [17d] [hn]
• Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty [17d] [hn]
• Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years [17d] [hn]
• Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply [17d] [hn]
• Leaking YouTube Creators Private Videos [17d] [hn]
• Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] [17d] [hn]
• Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System [17d] [hn]
• The End of North America [17d] [hn]
• Curveball [17d] [hn]
• Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D [17d] [hn]
• Airplane Boneyards List and Map [17d] [hn]
• Fable created novel 4D splat format [17d] [hn]
• Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world [17d] [hn]
• Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) [17d] [hn]
• I found a malware hiding in my TailwindCSS config file [17d] [hn]
• California Bans 'Sell by' Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste [17d] [hn]
• 'All men are created equal': America has lost its values. It's time to go back [17d] [hn]
• Does average person understand that all disc media dies too? [17d] [hn]
• Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts [17d] [hn]
• How working memory could give rise to consciousness [17d] [hn]
• A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why [17d] [hn]
• EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster [17d] [hn]
• Show HN: Foundation, a different approach to software and AI [17d] [hn]
• Lead Mines of Galena, Kansas [17d] [hn]
• Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux [17d] [hn]
• The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode [17d] [hn]
• In-browser programmable robot simulator [17d] [hn]
• Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb's New Universe [17d] [hn]
• But Nothing Has Changed on Our Side [17d] [hn]
• Unearthing the Reality of "Zombie Energy Systems" in Africa's Energy Transition [17d] [hn]
• The Factorio Effect [17d] [hn]
• The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure [18d] [hn]
• Godot bans "vibe-coded" code contributions [18d] [hn]
• The bottleneck might be the air in the room [18d] [hn]
• Bloomberg Terminal Is Ugly and Clunky–Everyone Still Uses It [18d] [hn]
• David Beazley – Programming Courses [18d] [hn]
• 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results [18d] [hn]
• Agentic coding notes from Galapogos Island [18d] [hn]
• Maybe you should learn something [18d] [hn]
• A 2048-spin bulk acoustic wave Ising machine for number partitioning and Sudoku [18d] [hn]
• Synthesis is harder than analysis [18d] [hn]
• CueBench for Developers is live: score how well you drive coding agents [18d] [hn]
• MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds [18d] [hn]
• Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models [18d] [hn]
• I Could Kill You with a Consumer Drone [18d] [hn]
• What does privatization of the US Postal Service mean? [18d] [hn]