The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Death by a Thousand Slops [1h] [hn]
• Impacts of Adding PV Solar System to Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles [1h] [hn]
• Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo [2h] [hn]
• East Asian air cleanup likely contributed to acceleration in global warming [2h] [hn]
• Bitcoin passes $120k milestone as US Congress readies for 'crypto week' [3h] [hn]
• Telefónica DE shifts VMware support to Spinnaker due to cost [3h] [hn]
• Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA [4h] [hn]
• Violent sex offender speaking at Debconf 25 [video] [5h] [hn]
• How I build software quickly [5h] [hn]
• O3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI [6h] [hn]
• Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly [7h] [hn]
• Myanmar's proliferating scam centers. These 'prisons' have three features [7h] [hn]
• Stellantis declares bankruptcy in China, with $1B in debts [9h] [hn]
• James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations [10h] [hn]
• The Scourge of Arial (2001) [11h] [hn]
• Astronomers Detect a Black Hole Merger That's So It Shouldn't Exist [11h] [hn]
• Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [12h] [hn]
• Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford [12h] [hn]
• Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly Part 0 – Setup and First Steps [13h] [hn]
• Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Not Been Vindicated by Science [14h] [hn]
• OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative [15h] [hn]
• APKLab: Android Reverse-Engineering Workbench for VS Code [15h] [hn]
• Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? [15h] [hn]
• Programming Language Theory has a public relations problem [15h] [hn]
• Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market [15h] [hn]
• Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI? [15h] [hn]
• Hypercapitalism and the AI Talent Wars [16h] [hn]
• Holographic ribbon aims to oust magnetic tape with 50-year life span and 200TB [16h] [hn]
• OpenICE: Open-Source US Immigration Detention Dashboard [16h] [hn]
• The Gottorf Globe and its reconstruction [16h] [hn]
• Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate workforce [17h] [hn]
• GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance [17h] [hn]
• 'Europe Must Ban American Big Tech and Create a European Silicon Valley' [17h] [hn]
• Hungary's oldest library fighting to save 100k books from a beetle infestation [17h] [hn]
• Strap In, Vision Pro Owners [18h] [hn]
• Most people who buy games on Steam never play them [18h] [hn]
• Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? [18h] [hn]
• 'I felt pure, unconditional love': the people who marry their AI chatbots [19h] [hn]
• An official Swedish AI service was misused to create a greeting for Adolf Hitler [19h] [hn]
• Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers [19h] [hn]
• Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux [19h] [hn]
• A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns [19h] [hn]
• Prompt Engineering: From Zero to Hero [19h] [hn]
• Zig's new I/O: function coloring is inevitable? [20h] [hn]
• Bay Area restaurants are vetting your social media before you even walk in [20h] [hn]
• What are we missing out on when we think Transformer is unreasonable in biology? [20h] [hn]
• How does a screen even work? [22h] [hn]
• Local Chatbot RAG with FreeBSD Knowledge [22h] [hn]
• Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style [23h] [hn]
• Richard Sutton: The Era of Experience, The Age of Design [23h] [hn]