The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Australians to face age checks from search engines [15d] [hn]
• We've Issued Our First IP Address Certificate [16d] [hn]
• Using Sun Ray thin clients in 2025 [16d] [hn]
• America's Hot Garbage Problem [16d] [hn]
• I'm a physicist by trade, not by training, and that matters [16d] [hn]
• Building a Personal AI Factory [16d] [hn]
• Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature & outdoor heat exposure in Vegas [16d] [hn]
• Batteries and Buildings [16d] [hn]
• The Roman Roads Research Association [16d] [hn]
• Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews [16d] [hn]
• The Hidden Engineering of Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers [16d] [hn]
• Figma Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering [16d] [hn]
• The wanton destruction of a creative-tech era [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: Fixstars AIBooster – Accelerate AI Training and Cut GPU Costs [16d] [hn]
• 1KB JavaScript Demoscene Challenge Just Launched [16d] [hn]
• Sam Altman Slams Meta's AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries' [16d] [hn]
• The Hoyle State (2021) [16d] [hn]
• What should a native DOM templating API look like? [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: Arch-Router – 1.5B model for LLM routing by preferences, not benchmarks [16d] [hn]
• Sliding Window Technique Visualizer [16d] [hn]
• Amazon Is on the Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans in Its Warehouses [16d] [hn]
• Cua (YC X25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer [16d] [hn]
• MicroPython on M68k Mac [16d] [hn]
• Code⇄GUI bidirectional editing via LSP [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: Core – open source memory graph for LLMs – shareable, user owned [16d] [hn]
• The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million [16d] [hn]
• Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf] [16d] [hn]
• Drug cartel hacked FBI official's phone to track and kill informants [16d] [hn]
• HN Slop: AI Startup Ideas from Hacker News [16d] [hn]
• PlanetScale for Postgres [16d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025) [16d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025) [16d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025) [16d] [hn]
• Conversations with a Hit Man [16d] [hn]
• Feasibility study of a mission to Sedna - Nuclear propulsion and solar sailing [16d] [hn]
• Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video] [16d] [hn]
• Grammarly acquires Superhuman [16d] [hn]
• Experience converting a mathematical software package to C++20 modules [PDF] [16d] [hn]
• Aesop in Words of One Syllable [16d] [hn]
• Spider-Robot for Surgical Interventions (2024) [16d] [hn]
• Waste into Construction Materials: Geopolymers from Recycled Sources [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built the tool I wished existed for moving Stripe between countries [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: Jobs by Referral: Find jobs in your LinkedIn network [16d] [hn]
• RP2350pc Open Source Hardware all in one computer [16d] [hn]
• Finding and understanding bugs in C compilers [pdf] [16d] [hn]
• ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art [16d] [hn]
• Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off [16d] [hn]
• The average chess players of Bletchley Park and AI research in Britain [16d] [hn]
• Cloudflare introduces pay-per-crawl for AI bots [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: ToplingDB - A Persistent Key-Value Store for External Storage [16d] [hn]
• Escher's art and computer science [16d] [hn]
• Pbf2sqlite: Reading OpenStreetMap into a SQLite Database [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: I Built a Paul Graham AI Advisor for Founders and Hackers [16d] [hn]
• Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity [16d] [hn]
• Evidence of a 12,800-year-old shallow airburst depression in Louisiana [16d] [hn]
• Noloco (YC S21) Is Hiring a Founders Associate in Barcelona [16d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI? [16d] [hn]
• OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine [16d] [hn]
• Aging-Related Inflammation Is Not Universal Across Human Populations [16d] [hn]
• DeepSeek App Faces Ban in Germany for Illegal Transfer of User Data [16d] [hn]
• Small Language Models Are the Future of Agentic AI [16d] [hn]
• Nimtable: Open-source web UI to browse and manage Apache Iceberg tables [16d] [hn]
• Virtue Garnishes: The 3-Second Mental Hack That Short-Circuits Bad Habits [16d] [hn]
• Rust CLIs with Clap [16d] [hn]
• Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming [16d] [hn]
• The Email Startup Graveyard: Why 80%+ of Email Companies Fail [16d] [hn]
• Claude Code now supports Hooks [16d] [hn]