The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model [7d] [hn]
• Seeing like a software company [7d] [hn]
• Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally [7d] [hn]
• IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021 [7d] [hn]
• Launch HN: LlamaFarm (YC W22) – Open-source framework for distributed AI [7d] [hn]
• Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: Mars – Personal AI robot for builders (< $2k) [7d] [hn]
• Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August [7d] [hn]
• Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says [7d] [hn]
• Vibe engineering [7d] [hn]
• No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut [7d] [hn]
• Gifted children are special needs children [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: Blueprintor for Hardware Engineering [7d] [hn]
• Tcl-Lang Showcase [7d] [hn]
• 3M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy [7d] [hn]
• America is now one big bet on AI [7d] [hn]
• Erlang ARM32 JIT is born [7d] [hn]
• Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino [7d] [hn]
• The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf] [7d] [hn]
• Provision (YC S22) Is Hiring [7d] [hn]
• disk-perf-git-and-pnpm aims to prove that something is wrong with APFS on macOS [7d] [hn]
• The Quiet Driving Force Behind Rising Curtailment Costs in Great Britain [8d] [hn]
• MacBook Lid Angle Sensor [8d] [hn]
• GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me [8d] [hn]
• Like Vercel, but open source and for all language [8d] [hn]
• Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis [8d] [hn]
• The Mondrian introduction to functional optics [8d] [hn]
• Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming [8d] [hn]
• Ford CEO Says There Aren't Enough Mechanics. Then a Mechanic Responds [8d] [hn]
• Show HN: Greenonion.ai – AI-Powered Design Assistant [8d] [hn]
• Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report [8d] [hn]
• TIL: The Data Furnace [8d] [hn]
• Learning a foreign language–before you're born [8d] [hn]
• The NIH ordered me to stop my 'dangerous' gain-of-function research [8d] [hn]
• California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes [8d] [hn]
• Pdoc – Generate API documentation for Python projects [8d] [hn]
• Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle [8d] [hn]
• Hardware Stockholm Syndrome [8d] [hn]
• Analytical Review of Depression and Suicidality from Finasteride [8d] [hn]