The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886) [8d] [hn]
• Humanoid robot: The evolution of Kawasaki’s challenge [8d] [hn]
• The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now [8d] [hn]
• Trampolining Nix with GenericClosure [8d] [hn]
• Stop Using Grey Text (2025) [8d] [hn]
• Labor Market Impacts of AI [8d] [hn]
• A Modular Robot Dashboard [8d] [hn]
• A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests [8d] [hn]
• Show HN: Check out my new project – SitDeck [8d] [hn]
• Ethiopia gets $350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project [8d] [hn]
• Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester [8d] [hn]
• Structured AI (YC F25) Is Hiring [8d] [hn]
• Show HN: Docker pulls more than it needs to - and how we can fix it [8d] [hn]
• Show HN: Kybernis – Prevent AI agents from executing the same action twice [8d] [hn]
• Triumph of the toons: how animation came to rule the box office [8d] [hn]
• As AI Turns Prevalent, UI Becomes Irrelevant [8d] [hn]
• Are You Noticing This? [8d] [hn]
• GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction [8d] [hn]
• Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk [8d] [hn]
• Let's Get Physical [8d] [hn]
• SQG (SQL to Code Generator) Now with Java Streams and List Type Support [8d] [hn]
• Kristi Noem Out as DHS Secretary [8d] [hn]
• OpenTitan Shipping in Production [8d] [hn]
• Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces [8d] [hn]
• Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk [8d] [hn]
• US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says [8d] [hn]
• GPT 5.4 Thinking and Pro [8d] [hn]
• GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro [8d] [hn]
• GPT-5.4 [8d] [hn]
• GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card [8d] [hn]
• The Brand Age [8d] [hn]
• My application programmer instincts failed when debugging assembler [8d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling [8d] [hn]
• I love email (2023) [8d] [hn]
• Case Study: lynnandtonic.com 2025 refresh [8d] [hn]
• The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location [8d] [hn]
• Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app [8d] [hn]
• A Number with a Shadow [8d] [hn]
• Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text [8d] [hn]
• GitHub Actions is shitting the bed again [8d] [hn]
• Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data [8d] [hn]
• A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines [8d] [hn]
• Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives [8d] [hn]
• Apple: Enough Is Enough [8d] [hn]
• AI and the Ship of Theseus [8d] [hn]
• Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework [8d] [hn]
• BBC says 'irreversible' trends mean it will not survive without major overhaul [8d] [hn]
• Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products [8d] [hn]
• The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code [8d] [hn]
• Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of phishing sites we found in February [8d] [hn]
• Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood [8d] [hn]
• Ten Years of Deploying to Production [8d] [hn]
• Fast-Servers [8d] [hn]
• Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130B in Tariffs [8d] [hn]
• Good software knows when to stop [8d] [hn]
• We Turned Our Wireshark Wizard into a Markdown File [8d] [hn]
• Unix Isn't for Agents [8d] [hn]
• Every Single Board Computer I Tested in 2025 [8d] [hn]
• Migrating from Heroku to Magic Containers [8d] [hn]
• Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé [8d] [hn]
• Emacs internals: Deconstructing Lisp_Object in C (Part 2) [8d] [hn]
• Grammarly Is Offering 'Expert' AI Reviews from Top Authors – Dead or Alive [8d] [hn]
• Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign [8d] [hn]
• No right to relicense this project [8d] [hn]
• Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough [8d] [hn]
• Poor Man's Polaroid [8d] [hn]
• Poor Man's Polaroid [8d] [hn]
• Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift [8d] [hn]
• Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model [8d] [hn]
• Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control [8d] [hn]
• The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me [8d] [hn]
• OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story [8d] [hn]
• Relax NG is a schema language for XML [8d] [hn]
• Zed new terms required to be 18 years old [8d] [hn]
• Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite [8d] [hn]
• You Just Reveived [9d] [hn]
• The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying [9d] [hn]
• Show HN: Poppy – a simple app to stay intentional with relationships [9d] [hn]
• Regulator contacts Meta over workers watching intimate AI glasses videos [9d] [hn]
• Maybe There's a Pattern Here? [9d] [hn]
• What Python's asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state [9d] [hn]
• I left work early to get a hug from my wife [9d] [hn]
• Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic [9d] [hn]
• US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters [9d] [hn]
• Chaos and Dystopian news for the dead internet survivors [9d] [hn]
• A Grand Vision for Rust [9d] [hn]
• What's Driving Rising Business Costs? [9d] [hn]
• Googleworkspace/CLI [9d] [hn]
• Package Managers Need to Cool Down [9d] [hn]