The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The Pedagogy Behind the Studio [6d] [hn]
• The Productivity Mirage [6d] [hn]
• We shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever: On weird fiction [6d] [hn]
• Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (1972 book by the co-creator of BASIC) [6d] [hn]
• LLM Honeypot [6d] [hn]
• GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world [6d] [hn]
• Òrbites – el puzzle de les constel·lacions [6d] [hn]
• AI's top startups are barely publishing their research [6d] [hn]
• The Cold Email [6d] [hn]
• RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video] [6d] [hn]
• SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring FDEs [6d] [hn]
• The coolest use for the Vision Pro [6d] [hn]
• Theo Conjecture solves 35-year-old math problem, finds a term no one predicted [6d] [hn]
• A Trampoline [6d] [hn]
• Claude Is Down [6d] [hn]
• Balcony Solar: $1.74/watt direct plug-in solar [6d] [hn]
• The Theater of Sport: Bill Buford Revisits Among the Thugs [6d] [hn]
• How much can you delegate to agents? [6d] [hn]
• Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals [6d] [hn]
• Austerity Breeds Financial Protectionism [6d] [hn]
• The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings [6d] [hn]
• The Growing Threat of Docusign Phishing Attacks [6d] [hn]
• A field day for Gleam's language server – Gleam v1.18.0 release [6d] [hn]
• Ads-STE100: Simplified Technical English [6d] [hn]
• Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing My Security Deposit) [6d] [hn]
• Why has the display control panel pointer truncation bug gone unfixed for long? [6d] [hn]
• Cyberpunk Video Games [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: Supapool – a Supabase per coding agent in ~400 ms [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10 [6d] [hn]
• Infrastructure Patterns for Agentic Applications [6d] [hn]
• Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results [6d] [hn]
• Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite [6d] [hn]
• I Want to Leave the Internet [6d] [hn]
• Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator [video] [6d] [hn]
• Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area [6d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money [6d] [hn]
• Ask HN: My domain registrar (Hover) rug-pulled me for $3000 [6d] [hn]
• Superlogical – Mitchell Hashimoto [6d] [hn]
• Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical [6d] [hn]
• Baseload Is a Myth (2024) [6d] [hn]
• Apple should be ashamed of its hostile App Store rating system [6d] [hn]
• The Scientific Literature Is Poisonous to LLMs [6d] [hn]
• Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac [6d] [hn]
• Hugging Face: Anatomy of a frontier-lab agent intrusion [6d] [hn]
• Anatomy of a frontier-lab agent intrusion [6d] [hn]
• GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best? [6d] [hn]
• Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon [6d] [hn]
• A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands [6d] [hn]
• Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution [6d] [hn]
• Graph Engineering Needs a Compiler [6d] [hn]
• Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust [6d] [hn]
• CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches [6d] [hn]
• A Playable History of Sudoku [6d] [hn]
• Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: A verification browser for AI agents – 13ms windows, one-call checks [6d] [hn]
• AI in Linux [6d] [hn]
• It doesn't matter whether "Matz is nice" [6d] [hn]
• Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows [6d] [hn]
• Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression' [6d] [hn]
• Nobody checked which state IBM's flagship quantum chemistry results compute [6d] [hn]
• TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work [6d] [hn]
• Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents [6d] [hn]
• After the AI Crash [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles [6d] [hn]
• San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing [6d] [hn]
• G'mic 4.0: Squaring the Pixel, Easier [6d] [hn]
• Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself [6d] [hn]
• Playing with Georgia [6d] [hn]
• A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT) [6d] [hn]
• Darktable [6d] [hn]
• Software for One [6d] [hn]
• Pulse Path – a browser puzzle where placement is the only decision [6d] [hn]
• Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions [6d] [hn]
• Deleting Codeberg [6d] [hn]