The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Why our website looks like an operating system [2d] [hn]
• Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' SSA database 'immediately' [2d] [hn]
• Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook [2d] [hn]
• Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores" [2d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pbar.io – Distributed progress bars that work in terminals and browsers [2d] [hn]
• A joint statement from OpenAI and Microsoft [2d] [hn]
• How Palantir Is Mapping Everyone's Data for the Government [2d] [hn]
• How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data [2d] [hn]
• Unusual Capabilities of Nano Banana (Examples) [2d] [hn]
• C# Will Become F# – Gautier Talks About Microsoft Technology [2d] [hn]
• Randomly selecting points inside a triangle [2d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app [2d] [hn]
• Rails on SQLite: new ways to cause outages [2d] [hn]
• Claude's Memory Architecture Is the Polar Opposite of ChatGPT's [2d] [hn]
• We Melted iPhones for Science - Apple Just Spent $10B Proving We Were Right [2d] [hn]
• Making io_uring pervasive in QEMU [pdf] [2d] [hn]
• Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench [2d] [hn]
• Adam (YC W25) Is Hiring to Build the Future of CAD [2d] [hn]
• Oracle stock gains 36% to post best day since 1992, adding $244B in value [2d] [hn]
• Bulletproof host Stark Industries evades EU sanctions [2d] [hn]
• A Web Framework for Zig [2d] [hn]
• Native ACME Support Comes to Nginx [2d] [hn]
• 'Robber bees' invade apiarist's shop in attempted honey heist [2d] [hn]
• Every Keystroke You Make: A Tech-Law Measurement and Analysis of Event Listeners [2d] [hn]
• Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype [2d] [hn]
• Windows KASLR Bypass – CVE-2025-53136 [2d] [hn]
• Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years [2d] [hn]
• Spiral [2d] [hn]
• The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware [2d] [hn]
• Social Media Is Navigating Its Sectarian Phase [2d] [hn]
• NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent [2d] [hn]
• Conway's Game of Life, but Musical [2d] [hn]
• CRISPR Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes [2d] [hn]
• Teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban [2d] [hn]
• An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project [2d] [hn]
• GrapheneOS and Forensic Extraction of Data [2d] [hn]
• Behind the Scenes of Bun Install [2d] [hn]
• CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up [2d] [hn]
• The Rise of Async Programming [2d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a minimal Forth-like stack interpreter library in C [2d] [hn]
• Gregg Kellogg has passed away [2d] [hn]
• Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring Back End Engineer [2d] [hn]
• AI's $344B 'Language Model' Bet Looks Fragile [2d] [hn]
• Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors [2d] [hn]
• AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts [2d] [hn]
• Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers [2d] [hn]
• BCacheFS is being disabled in the openSUSE kernels 6.17+ [2d] [hn]
• Reshaped is now open source [2d] [hn]
• DeepCodeBench: Real-World Codebase Understanding by Q&A Benchmarking [2d] [hn]
• How Does the Cycle of Political Violence End? Here's What an Expert Says [2d] [hn]
• Creating larger projects with LLM (as a coder) [2d] [hn]
• Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum [2d] [hn]
• Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured [2d] [hn]
• PgEdge Goes Open Source [2d] [hn]
• GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sources [3d] [hn]
• The Four Fallacies of Modern AI [3d] [hn]
• Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments [3d] [hn]
• Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal [3d] [hn]
• Where did the Smurfs get their hats [3d] [hn]