The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history [15d] [hn]
• TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3 [15d] [hn]
• Google Ordered to Pay $315M for Taking Data from Idle Android Phones [15d] [hn]
• Physicists Start to Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms [15d] [hn]
• Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down [15d] [hn]
• Vitamin C Boosts Epidermal Growth via DNA Demethylation [15d] [hn]
• Tesla's energy storage business gets sucked into the company's downward spiral [15d] [hn]
• The Bleach Community Is Ready for RFK Jr. To Make Their Dreams Come True [15d] [hn]
• Evolution of Minimum Viable Product [15d] [hn]
• A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel [15d] [hn]
• Law360 mandates reporters use AI "bias" detection on all stories [15d] [hn]
• Couchers is officially out of Beta [15d] [hn]
• AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings [15d] [hn]
• MindsDB (YC W20) Is Hiring for an AI Solutions Engineer [15d] [hn]
• Features of D That I Love [15d] [hn]
• ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings [15d] [hn]
• Sony's Mark Cerny Has Worked on "Big Chunks of RDNA 5" with AMD [15d] [hn]
• Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation [15d] [hn]
• Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect [15d] [hn]
• ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it [15d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built an AI comic generator with consistent characters [15d] [hn]
• Double Is Winding Down [15d] [hn]
• Firefox 120 to Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks [15d] [hn]
• Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients [15d] [hn]
• Ruby on Rails: The Open-Source Blueprint [15d] [hn]
• Hack IKKO "AI powered" earbuds to run DOOM, stole OpenAI API key, customer data [15d] [hn]
• Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks [15d] [hn]
• The first American 'scientific refugees' arrive in France [15d] [hn]
• Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase [15d] [hn]
• Tesla reports 14% decline in deliveries, marking second year-over-year drop [15d] [hn]
• What I learned gathering nootropic ratings [15d] [hn]
• Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers [15d] [hn]
• Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs [15d] [hn]
• Why I'm Dialing Back My LLM Usage [15d] [hn]
• Recurse Center (YC S10) Is Hiring a Career Facilitator [15d] [hn]
• Don't use "click here" as link text – W3C [15d] [hn]
• Math.Pow(-1, 2) == -1 in Windows 11 Insider build [15d] [hn]
• Hexagon fuzz: Full-system emulated fuzzing of Qualcomm basebands [15d] [hn]
• They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers [15d] [hn]
• How large are large language models? (2025) [15d] [hn]
• Jack Welch, the Man Who Broke Capitalism (2022) [15d] [hn]
• Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality [15d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why there is no demand for my SaaS when competition is killing it? [15d] [hn]
• More assorted notes on Liquid Glass [15d] [hn]
• Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs [15d] [hn]
• Mandelbrot in x86 Assembly by Claude [15d] [hn]
• The Hell of FFIX Tetra Master [15d] [hn]
• When we die do we still have any of the original cells from our birth? [15d] [hn]
• Hilbert's sixth problem: derivation of fluid equations via Boltzmann's theory [15d] [hn]