The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months [20d] [hn]
• There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video] [20d] [hn]
• RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video] [20d] [hn]
• Beyond Tetris: The Other Games of Alexey Pajitnov [video] [20d] [hn]
• I built a programming language that LLMs can't use [20d] [hn]
• JDK 28 [20d] [hn]
• FingerWorks iGesture Pad (2005) [20d] [hn]
• What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out [20d] [hn]
• How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? [20d] [hn]
• Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not [20d] [hn]
• It's still OK to enjoy programming [20d] [hn]
• The fire retardant in the seafood chain [20d] [hn]
• Microsoft and CMU Team Up to Train Early Career Software Engineers [20d] [hn]
• Owner of Former UWS Barbecue Restaurant Indicted for Wage Theft: Manhattan DA [20d] [hn]
• Pattern Matching Beats Narrative Reasoning [20d] [hn]
• AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It? [20d] [hn]
• Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw) [20d] [hn]
• OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked [20d] [hn]
• Masked settlers attack European diplomats in occupied West Bank [20d] [hn]
• Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank beat French mayor [20d] [hn]
• Codex is EATING my Mac's disk space [20d] [hn]
• I Became a Citizen of Japan [20d] [hn]
• Elon Musk's foundation is opaque, miserly and self-serving [20d] [hn]
• Linux bugs fixed per release over time: >2× rise since 2026-04 [20d] [hn]
• tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript [20d] [hn]
• Tennyson's Faith: A Nobler Type [20d] [hn]
• Gold is now the top U.S. export [20d] [hn]
• Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Enterprise AES and Senior Engineers [20d] [hn]
• OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents [20d] [hn]
• GLP-1 may slow biological aging [20d] [hn]
• Amazon uses union-busting AI surveillance to monitor union risk in UK warehouses [20d] [hn]
• Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick [20d] [hn]
• Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG [20d] [hn]
• Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't [20d] [hn]
• Triplet of 'Ghostly' Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is – and Isn't [20d] [hn]
• Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware" [20d] [hn]
• A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z [20d] [hn]
• US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion [20d] [hn]
• Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects [20d] [hn]
• Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death [20d] [hn]
• Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time – pv magazine Global [20d] [hn]
• Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust [20d] [hn]
• Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser [20d] [hn]
• Developing for Debugging (2025) [20d] [hn]
• Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer [20d] [hn]
• Super Intelligence [20d] [hn]
• Show HN: Which Mac runs which LLM, and how fast [20d] [hn]
• Interactive Linear Programming in the Browser [20d] [hn]
• The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary, via the Eyes of the Reporter Who Exposed Her [20d] [hn]
• The future of programming – A.I. Wasserman and S. Gutz (1982) [20d] [hn]
• MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood [20d] [hn]
• "Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands [20d] [hn]
• Is MCP becoming the common foundation of smart, decentralised search? [20d] [hn]
• DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 [20d] [hn]
• Galois Finite Fields and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) [20d] [hn]
• Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868) [20d] [hn]
• DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 [20d] [hn]
• Most lookups are for things that don't exist [20d] [hn]
• Show HN: I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltop [20d] [hn]
• Why Math Dumped OpenAI [20d] [hn]
• Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank [20d] [hn]
• Archive of Our Own [20d] [hn]
• Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware [20d] [hn]
• "In every study that considered the question" [20d] [hn]
• DeepSeek v4.1 flash on OpenCode pretty good [20d] [hn]
• Source code of the Estonian online voting system [20d] [hn]
• A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024) [20d] [hn]
• Butlerian Jihad [21d] [hn]
• Propagation of Sound in Strongly Viscous Liquids (1966) [pdf] [21d] [hn]