The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites Starting Oct. 30 [7d] [hn]
• Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video] [7d] [hn]
• BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox [7d] [hn]
• U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering [7d] [hn]
• Laptop Based on 6502 CPU [7d] [hn]
• Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI [7d] [hn]
• $50k First Letters Prize Awarded for PHerc 343 [7d] [hn]
• Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo [7d] [hn]
• What I Self-Host [7d] [hn]
• Why are we even doing all this? [7d] [hn]
• Lant – The Forgotten Resource [7d] [hn]
• 2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits [7d] [hn]
• New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing [7d] [hn]
• "I'm a Lawyer." Said the White House Press Secretary. Florida Would Like a Word [7d] [hn]
• Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr [7d] [hn]
• SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful [7d] [hn]
• We are entering a period of overlapping crises [7d] [hn]
• How Postgres DELETE can actually scale [7d] [hn]
• E Ink Launches Latest Version of Color EPaper Platform, E Ink Kaleido 4 [7d] [hn]
• Voyage of the Paper Canoe: 2500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, 1874-5 [7d] [hn]
• Why We're Banning AI [7d] [hn]
• Lombok Is Still Relevant in the Age of Java Records [7d] [hn]