The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Dinesh's Mid-Summer Death Valley Walk (1998) [35d] [hn]
• Low Sodium in Blood Triggers Anxiety in Mice by Disrupting Their Brain Chemistry [35d] [hn]
• How to use Prometheus to efficiently detect anomalies at scale [35d] [hn]
• Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data [35d] [hn]
• Apple: Prepare your network for quantum-secure encryption in TLS [35d] [hn]
• Foundry (YC F24) Hiring Early Engineer to Build Web Agent Infrastructure [35d] [hn]
• AI will shrink Amazon's workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says [35d] [hn]
• Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% rust [35d] [hn]
• Texas electricity maximum renewables record [35d] [hn]
• Real-time action chunking with large models [35d] [hn]
• What Google Translate Can Tell Us About Vibecoding [35d] [hn]
• Programming Language Design in the Era of LLMs: A Return to Mediocrity? [35d] [hn]
• Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices [36d] [hn]
• From SDR to 'Fake HDR': Mario Kart World on Switch 2 [36d] [hn]
• Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre [36d] [hn]
• OpenAI weighs "nuclear option" of antitrust complaint against Microsoft [36d] [hn]
• Astronomers Just Solved the Mystery of the Universe's Missing Matter [36d] [hn]
• Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers [36d] [hn]
• Public/protected/private is an unnecessary feature [36d] [hn]
• Building Effective AI Agents [36d] [hn]
• Threads is adding Fediverse content to social feeds [36d] [hn]
• Star Quakes and Monster Shock Waves [36d] [hn]
• Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers [36d] [hn]
• AMD's CDNA 4 Architecture Announcement – By Chester Lam [36d] [hn]
• ICE arrests NYC Comptroller because he asked to see a warrant [36d] [hn]
• Guidelines on how to be a scientific sleuth released [36d] [hn]
• Celebrated pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94 [36d] [hn]
• Miscalculation by Spanish power grid operator REE contributed to blackout [36d] [hn]
• Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors [36d] [hn]
• We're expanding our Gemini 2.5 family of models [36d] [hn]
• CPU-Based Layout Design for Picker-to-Parts Pallet Warehouses [36d] [hn]
• Windows 10 EOL [36d] [hn]
• Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimental Reusable Rocket [36d] [hn]
• Timescale Is Now TigerData [36d] [hn]
• Rules, Not Renewables, Might Explain the Iberian Blackout [36d] [hn]
• Now might be the best time to learn software development [36d] [hn]
• Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years [36d] [hn]
• O3 Turns Pro [36d] [hn]
• What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting into ARIA [36d] [hn]
• The Hamburger-Menu Icon Today: Is It Recognizable? [36d] [hn]
• Voyager: Real-Time Splatting City-Scale 3D Gaussians on Your Phone [36d] [hn]
• Should we design for iffy internet? [36d] [hn]
• Is documentation like pineapple on pizza? [36d] [hn]
• Linux kernel WireGuard can go 'fast' on decent hardware [36d] [hn]
• Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need? [36d] [hn]
• Google aims to reinvent email with Wave (2009) [36d] [hn]
• AI threatens to raid the water reserves of Europe's driest regions [36d] [hn]
• Insanity: Locked Out – The Andrew Bailey [36d] [hn]
• "Microsoft Locked My Account – I Lost 30 Years of Photos and Work" [36d] [hn]
• Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA's Gamble on America's Drugs [36d] [hn]
• KiCad and Wayland Support [36d] [hn]
• Why Claude Code feels like magic? [36d] [hn]
• The magic of through running [36d] [hn]
• Show HN: FaynoSync Self-Hosted API for Automatic App Updates [36d] [hn]
• NexusMods Changes Hands [36d] [hn]
• Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task [36d] [hn]
• BMW ConnectedDrive lets me control my returned rental car (Sixt) [36d] [hn]
• Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200M 'frontier AI' pilot project [36d] [hn]
• Fun with Telnet [36d] [hn]
• Show HN: I recreated 90s Mode X demoscene effects in JavaScript and Canvas [36d] [hn]
• William Langewiesche, the 'Steve McQueen of Journalism,' Dies at 70 [36d] [hn]
• Finland warms up the world's largest sand battery, the economics look appealing [36d] [hn]
• The Humble Programmer (1972) [36d] [hn]
• Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs [36d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How to Deal with a Bad Manager? [36d] [hn]
• Why generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me [36d] [hn]
• George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth [36d] [hn]
• The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over [36d] [hn]