The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• No One Can Afford to Make Myst Games Anymore [36d] [hn]
• Literary Sins [36d] [hn]
• Your phone is the most intricate machine you've ever held. Let's take it apart. [36d] [hn]
• Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster's Wheel to Strava. It Runs Far Every Night [36d] [hn]
• The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing [36d] [hn]
• Nvidia's Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose [36d] [hn]
• Nikita Bier Steps Down as Head of Product at X [36d] [hn]
• Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent [36d] [hn]
• OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record [36d] [hn]
• Cross-Compilation with Wails [36d] [hn]
• I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux [36d] [hn]
• Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery [36d] [hn]
• The Job Board Is Lying to You [36d] [hn]
• How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp [36d] [hn]
• Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 [36d] [hn]
• Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog [36d] [hn]
• Zed DeltaDB [36d] [hn]
• What happens if you put work into the second dimension? [36d] [hn]
• Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage [36d] [hn]
• Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show [36d] [hn]
• Show HN: Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content [36d] [hn]
• Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models [36d] [hn]
• Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems [36d] [hn]
• Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence [36d] [hn]
• COLDCARD's Random Numbers Weren't [36d] [hn]
• Antigravity 2.0 [36d] [hn]
• Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls [36d] [hn]
• Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure [36d] [hn]
• AI is a bubble, just like dot-com [37d] [hn]
• I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words [37d] [hn]
• Your model already knows the answer: how benchmark answers leak into LLMs [37d] [hn]
• Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects [37d] [hn]
• Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod [37d] [hn]
• Why I'm leaving OpenAI to build telepathy [37d] [hn]
• Hollywood and Shanghai Cinema in the 1930s [pdf] [37d] [hn]
• Stop Sending Me Your Errors [37d] [hn]
• Something is changing in the unit economics of software [37d] [hn]
• Discovery Loop [37d] [hn]
• Show HN: I made alchemical-cosmological PCB badges [37d] [hn]
• Jeff Dean Leaving Google [37d] [hn]
• Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down [37d] [hn]
• The next chapter of our AI momentum [37d] [hn]
• Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet [37d] [hn]
• Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way [37d] [hn]
• NSF Inouye Solar Telescope Enables Major Discovery of a Hidden Solar Process [37d] [hn]
• Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up [37d] [hn]
• Monitors for Work [37d] [hn]
• The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life [37d] [hn]
• The Valley of Webhooks [37d] [hn]
• Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search [37d] [hn]
• Cloudflare OS [37d] [hn]
• Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices [37d] [hn]
• Where was Mythos when WordPress fell? [37d] [hn]
• Citigroup, Idaho, and Build-a-Bear Launched a Coordinated Attack on Me [37d] [hn]
• How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video] [37d] [hn]
• Qwen 3.0 Image Pro [37d] [hn]
• Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits [37d] [hn]
• Proxmox VE now available for ARM64 [37d] [hn]
• The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You [37d] [hn]
• Why a Raspberry Pi shouldn't be powered through its GPIO pins [37d] [hn]
• People who tell you 'AI is changing everything' are lying [37d] [hn]
• Crickets as Pets [37d] [hn]
• Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness [37d] [hn]
• Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words [37d] [hn]
• Got a hot date? A secondhand SK Hynix jacket is perfect as bonuses raise cachet [37d] [hn]
• Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field [37d] [hn]
• Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck [37d] [hn]
• TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas [37d] [hn]
• The Entropy of a Markov Chain [37d] [hn]
• Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work [37d] [hn]
• Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else [37d] [hn]
• OpenAI settles claims of discrimination against US workers for $3.2M [37d] [hn]
• Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have [37d] [hn]
• Building an Advanced Agentic Harness [37d] [hn]
• A Sick People [37d] [hn]
• The Architecture of Israel's Genocide in Gaza [37d] [hn]
• I built a jellyfish laboratory in my backyard [video] [37d] [hn]
• Painting with Gaussians [37d] [hn]
• Faster Than Ninja [37d] [hn]
• Universities would prefer no AI [37d] [hn]
• Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy [37d] [hn]
• KTX Images Converter for WebGL/GPU and Threejs [37d] [hn]
• Cloudflare OS – an open-source AI productivity environment [37d] [hn]
• 'I want to rejoin the EU Brexit has been a disaster' – Andy Burnham [37d] [hn]
• Piece of SpaceX rocket believed to have crashed into the moon [37d] [hn]
• Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport [37d] [hn]
• Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC [37d] [hn]
• Iowa asks OpenAI to keep their bots sandboxed [37d] [hn]
• TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In [37d] [hn]
• Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack [37d] [hn]
• The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air [37d] [hn]
• Findphone: Locate a nearby Bluetooth device by signal strength [37d] [hn]
• Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI [37d] [hn]
• Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia? [37d] [hn]
• Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers [37d] [hn]
• Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking [37d] [hn]
• Position: LLMs Can't Jump [37d] [hn]
• No Data Centers in My Backyard [37d] [hn]
• Making difficulty curves in games [37d] [hn]
• The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024 [37d] [hn]