The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• ZFS 2.3.0 released with ZFS raidz expansion [11d] [hn]
• The Sikh Practice of Langar, a Free Meal Where Everyone Is Equal [12d] [hn]
• Laser technique measures distances with nanometre precision [12d] [hn]
• 43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on [12d] [hn]
• Campsite is now open source [12d] [hn]
• Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an 'inheritocracy' [12d] [hn]
• Judge ends man's 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in Bitcoin [12d] [hn]
• 'Absolutely insane'. Dragonfly's extreme loop-the-loops unparalleled in nature [12d] [hn]
• Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone? [12d] [hn]
• GitHub Git Operations Are Down [12d] [hn]
• Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs [12d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Dense Tree Layout Algorithms [12d] [hn]
• Cheating Is All You Need [12d] [hn]
• voyage-code-3 [12d] [hn]
• Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents [12d] [hn]
• Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting Cursor.com [12d] [hn]
• Lorne Michaels Is the Real Star of "Saturday Night Live" [12d] [hn]
• Five years of React Native at Shopify [12d] [hn]
• Scientists Discover Underground Water Vault in Oregon 3x the Size of Lake Mead [12d] [hn]
• An Illustrator Dies, His Last Book Unfinished. In Steps His Son [12d] [hn]
• CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don't Like Making Music [12d] [hn]
• JPMorgan Workers Ponder Union in Wake of Return-to-Office Mandate [12d] [hn]
• Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after app update debacle [12d] [hn]
• New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill [12d] [hn]
• Nvidia might do for desktop AI what it did for desktop gaming [12d] [hn]
• Corn Syrup Took over America [12d] [hn]
• The people fighting to get through to anti-science Americans [12d] [hn]
• WordPress Is in Trouble [12d] [hn]
• Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers [12d] [hn]
• AI Engineer Reading List [12d] [hn]
• Let's Quit X [12d] [hn]
• Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard [12d] [hn]
• Syria flooded with Pepsi and Pringles as rulers open economy [12d] [hn]
• Humanize Healthcare Content as Wyndly (YC W21) 's first content hire [12d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it in 2025? [12d] [hn]
• ( UK ) Prime Minister sets out blueprint to turbocharge AI [12d] [hn]
• An "oh fuck" moment in time [12d] [hn]
• California Fire Facts [12d] [hn]
• The Curious Gems of the River Thames [12d] [hn]
• Subway Stories [12d] [hn]
• Training AI models might not need enormous data centres [12d] [hn]
• Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch [12d] [hn]
• Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes [12d] [hn]
• Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers [12d] [hn]
• Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play [12d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children? [12d] [hn]
• Fluid Simulation Pendant [12d] [hn]
• WH Executive Order Affecting Chips and AI Models [12d] [hn]
• The Origins of Wokeness [12d] [hn]
• Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014) [12d] [hn]
• Live London Underground / bus maps taken down by TfL trademark complaint [12d] [hn]
• Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at river for 14272 years: A study [12d] [hn]
• Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean? [12d] [hn]
• Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform [12d] [hn]
• The DevOps Engineer's Handbook [12d] [hn]
• The Timeless 9 Golden Rules of Debugging [12d] [hn]
• Raycast (YC W20) Is Hiring Full Stack Eng (EU, Remote, €105k-€160k) [12d] [hn]
• Code reviews: A success story [12d] [hn]
• Detrimental Decibels: A Study of Noise Levels in Vancouver's SkyTrain System [12d] [hn]
• Apple asks investors to block proposal to scrap diversity programmes [12d] [hn]
• Vanished from Google/Bing/LinkedIn: a rebuttal of an anti-net neutrality paper [12d] [hn]