The Brutalist Report

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Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Reduce Productivity [3d] [hn]
Turkey bans Grok over Erdoğan insults [3d] [hn]
An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education [3d] [hn]
Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels [3d] [hn]
The FBI Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials' Loyalty [4d] [hn]
Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation [4d] [hn]
Holographic memory storage and information processing in Quantum Brain Dynamics [4d] [hn]
U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications [4d] [hn]
Grok 4 [4d] [hn]
Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online [4d] [hn]
Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones [4d] [hn]
Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones [4d] [hn]
eBPF: Connecting with Container Runtimes [4d] [hn]
Belkin ending support for older Wemo products [4d] [hn]
Millions of Cars Exposed to Remote Hacking via PerfektBlue Attack [4d] [hn]
Exploiting a 20 years old NTFS Vulnerability [4d] [hn]
EU rules ask tech giants to publicly track how, when AI models go off the rails [4d] [hn]
George Orwell Diaries 1938-1942 [4d] [hn]
Bitchat - P2P Chat on Bluetooth (no Internet, phone number, etc.) [4d] [hn]
US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data centre demand booms [4d] [hn]
Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods [4d] [hn]
Launch HN: Leaping (YC W25) – Self-Improving Voice AI [4d] [hn]
Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet [4d] [hn]
Show HN: asyncmcp – Run MCP over async transport via AWS SNS+SQS [4d] [hn]
Measuring the Impact of AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity [4d] [hn]
Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn [4d] [hn]
Graphical Linear Algebra [4d] [hn]
Bret Victor on why current trend of AIs is at odds with his work [4d] [hn]
Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide [4d] [hn]
Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in UK exhibition (2021) [4d] [hn]
Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough [4d] [hn]
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video] [4d] [hn]
Could a Paper Plane Thrown from the ISS Survive the Flight? [4d] [hn]
Python 3.14 will officially support free-threading [4d] [hn]
Millions of tonnes of nanoplastics are polluting the ocean [4d] [hn]
ChatGPT Guessing Game Leads to Users Extracting Free Windows OS Keys and More [4d] [hn]
AI is turning Apple into a "loser" [4d] [hn]
Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs [4d] [hn]
FOKS: The Federated Open Key Service [4d] [hn]
Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes? [4d] [hn]
Browser extensions turn nearly 1M browsers into website-scraping bots [4d] [hn]
At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto [4d] [hn]
Magic .env files built for sharing: Human-first, AI-friendly [4d] [hn]
Computer Scientists Figure Out How to Prove Lies [4d] [hn]
Optimizing a Math Expression Parser in Rust [4d] [hn]
Show HN: Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms [4d] [hn]
Kite – News App by Kagi [4d] [hn]
Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of human disease history [4d] [hn]
"Ripples They Cause in the World" [4d] [hn]
I made a parody of enterprise AI chatbots [4d] [hn]
Do AI Tutors Empower or Enslave Learners? [4d] [hn]
German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws [4d] [hn]
Grok 4 Launch [video] [4d] [hn]
A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity [4d] [hn]
El Salvador Tells UN That US Has "Exclusive" Jurisdiction over Detainees [4d] [hn]
A lightweight Cloudflare Dynamic DNS shell script [4d] [hn]
Your Prize for Saving Time at Work with AI: More Work [4d] [hn]
The case for building operator interfaces before AI agents [4d] [hn]
Show HN: I built a playground to showcase what Flux Kontext is good at [4d] [hn]
AI Can't Take over Soon Enough for Me [4d] [hn]