The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Engineering tough blood clots for rapid haemostasis and enhanced regeneration [1d] [hn]
• I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different [1d] [hn]
• 8647 Is a Prime Number [1d] [hn]
• View transactions sent to a Monero address [1d] [hn]
• > Be Alexandra Elbakyan [1d] [hn]
• Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world [1d] [hn]
• Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer [1d] [hn]
• Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write [1d] [hn]
• I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief." [1d] [hn]
• I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot [1d] [hn]
• Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results [1d] [hn]
• Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year [2d] [hn]
• California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate [2d] [hn]
• OpenTrafficMap [2d] [hn]
• Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years [2d] [hn]
• "People who don't use AI will be left behind" [2d] [hn]
• The end of "Just ask Sarah" [2d] [hn]
• HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund [2d] [hn]
• Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431 [2d] [hn]
• Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials [2d] [hn]
• Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today [2d] [hn]
• The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness [2d] [hn]
• Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey [2d] [hn]
• Why Software Needs a Third Loop [audio] [2d] [hn]
• Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer [2d] [hn]
• Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different [2d] [hn]
• Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores [2d] [hn]
• Because It Doesn't Have To [2d] [hn]
• At Protocol: Building the Social Internet [2d] [hn]
• FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies [2d] [hn]
• Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns [2d] [hn]
• Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails [2d] [hn]
• Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs [2d] [hn]
• Shrdlu [2d] [hn]
• Online age verification is the hill to die on [2d] [hn]
• Online age verification is the hill to die on [2d] [hn]
• Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown [2d] [hn]
• Cursor Camp [2d] [hn]
• U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official [2d] [hn]
• I built ten custom subagents to tame a 500K-line Clojure codebase [2d] [hn]
• Data center boom strains Texas homebuilders' need for electricians [2d] [hn]
• Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them [2d] [hn]
• Mistral Medium 3.5 [2d] [hn]
• What can we gain by losing infinity? [2d] [hn]
• Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained [2d] [hn]
• Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories [2d] [hn]
• An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce [2d] [hn]
• Zed is 1.0 [2d] [hn]
• How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video] [2d] [hn]
• Tangled – We need a federation of forges [2d] [hn]
• Fidelity Won't Let Fund Holders Donate to Southern Poverty Law Center [2d] [hn]
• Facebook Has a Health Scam Problem [2d] [hn]
• We Run iSCSI over the Internet [2d] [hn]
• Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac [2d] [hn]
• 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home [2d] [hn]
• Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team [2d] [hn]
• Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait [2d] [hn]
• Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing [2d] [hn]
• He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice [2d] [hn]
• Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker [2d] [hn]
• Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew [2d] [hn]
• Read any beehiiv site paywall/distraction free [2d] [hn]
• Stardex Is Hiring a Founding Customer Success Lead [2d] [hn]
• Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes [2d] [hn]
• HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work' [2d] [hn]
• New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome [2d] [hn]
• GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts [2d] [hn]
• Two-thirds of babies watch screens – some for eight hours a day [2d] [hn]
• The most important events in human history will all happen in the next 20 years [2d] [hn]
• Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things [2d] [hn]
• Soft launch of open-source code platform for government [2d] [hn]
• Why Law Is Law-Shaped [2d] [hn]
• Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell [2d] [hn]
• An update from the new Tindie team [2d] [hn]
• Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag [2d] [hn]
• Low-Compilation-Cost Register Allocation in LLVM-Based Binary Translation [2d] [hn]
• Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity [2d] [hn]
• HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle [2d] [hn]
• Bugs Rust Won't Catch [2d] [hn]
• When the Internet Was a Place [2d] [hn]
• Fuck Off AI Music [2d] [hn]
• We decreased our LLM costs with Opus [2d] [hn]
• Maladaptive Frugality [2d] [hn]