The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Why Prefer Textfiles? (2010) [31d] [hn]
• WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform [31d] [hn]
• Can Bundler Be as Fast as Uv? [31d] [hn]
• A silly diffuse shading model [31d] [hn]
• Straussian Memes: A Lens on Techniques for Mass Persuasion [31d] [hn]
• Cycling Game (Mini Neural Net Demo) [31d] [hn]
• Show HN: Tasker – An open-source desktop agent for browser and OS automation [31d] [hn]
• A website to destroy all websites [31d] [hn]
• Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it [31d] [hn]
• Starlink satellites being lowered from 550 km to 480 km [31d] [hn]
• Prompting People [31d] [hn]
• Arpanet standardized TCP/IP on this day in 1983 [31d] [hn]
• Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points [31d] [hn]
• Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged [31d] [hn]
• Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows [31d] [hn]
• Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008) [31d] [hn]
• Gemini 3.0 Deciphered the Mystery of a Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf's [31d] [hn]
• Memory Subsystem Optimizations [31d] [hn]
• Cameras and Lenses [31d] [hn]
• Autism Hasn't Increased [31d] [hn]
• European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale [31d] [hn]
• DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship [31d] [hn]
• Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes [31d] [hn]
• The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs [31d] [hn]
• Partisan X posts boost political polarisation among users, research finds [31d] [hn]
• BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal [31d] [hn]
• Implementing HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World) Vector Search in PHP [31d] [hn]
• Common Lisp SDK for the Datastar Hypermedia Framework [31d] [hn]
• 50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player [31d] [hn]
• Heap Overflow in FFmpeg EXIF [31d] [hn]
• ACM Is Now Open Access [31d] [hn]
• OpenWorkers: Self-Hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust [31d] [hn]
• Build a Deep Learning Library [31d] [hn]
• Python Numbers Every Programmer Should Know [31d] [hn]
• 2025 Letter [31d] [hn]
• Joseph Campbell Meets George Lucas – Part I (2015) [31d] [hn]
• iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan [31d] [hn]
• Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them [32d] [hn]