The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership [45d] [hn]
• Printing Blogs [45d] [hn]
• Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say [45d] [hn]
• SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice [45d] [hn]
• NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address [45d] [hn]
• A website ranking judges by elo for the cases they dismiss in SF [45d] [hn]
• Write some software, give it away for free [45d] [hn]
• Why Most Product Tours Get Skipped [45d] [hn]
• Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm [45d] [hn]
• Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens [45d] [hn]
• .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? [45d] [hn]
• A Theory of Deep Learning [45d] [hn]
• The Traveling Salesdog Problem [45d] [hn]
• Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person [45d] [hn]
• The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape [45d] [hn]
• What five years of data tells us about lasting relationships [45d] [hn]
• What makes a good smartphone camera? [45d] [hn]
• The Brave Souls Who Bought a Used, 340k-Mile Rental Camper Van [45d] [hn]
• California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy [45d] [hn]
• Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks [45d] [hn]
• Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement [45d] [hn]
• Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue [45d] [hn]
• GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents [45d] [hn]
• Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Cryptography (QC) [45d] [hn]
• IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields [45d] [hn]
• Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC [45d] [hn]
• Easy Random Trees [45d] [hn]
• Why airlines are always going bankrupt [45d] [hn]
• GPT‑5.5 Instant [45d] [hn]
• Computer Use Is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs [45d] [hn]
• Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters [45d] [hn]
• UK: Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds strongly [45d] [hn]
• I'm Scared About Biological Computing [45d] [hn]
• Finding the differences in a series of power supplies [45d] [hn]
• Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8 [45d] [hn]
• EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [45d] [hn]
• Three Inverse Laws of AI [45d] [hn]
• New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS [45d] [hn]
• Agents for Financial Services and Insurance [45d] [hn]
• Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources [45d] [hn]
• It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs [45d] [hn]
• The best is over: The fun has been optimized out of the Internet [45d] [hn]
• Yet Another GitHub Incident [45d] [hn]
• AI didn't delete your database, you did [45d] [hn]
• Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev [45d] [hn]
• Google, Microsoft and xAI Agree to Share Early AI Models with U.S. [45d] [hn]
• Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion [45d] [hn]
• AI Product Graveyard [45d] [hn]
• Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader [45d] [hn]
• iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet [45d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak [45d] [hn]
• Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% [45d] [hn]
• Rolling the Root Key [45d] [hn]
• A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings [45d] [hn]
• Nobody Reviews Compiler Output [45d] [hn]
• Show HN: Got tired of paying $100/mo for SEO tools, so I built an alternative [45d] [hn]
• When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing [45d] [hn]
• LinkedIn locks your GDPR rights behind a paywall [45d] [hn]
• The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells [45d] [hn]
• Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent [45d] [hn]
• The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls [45d] [hn]
• Async Rust never left the MVP state [45d] [hn]
• Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? [45d] [hn]
• How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? [46d] [hn]
• Wolfgang Koeppen's Structural Musicality [46d] [hn]
• OpenAI can't build working RSS feeds [46d] [hn]
• Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches [46d] [hn]
• About 10% of AMC movie showings sell zero tickets. This site finds them [46d] [hn]
• 2-D Mathematical Curves [46d] [hn]
• Train Your Own LLM from Scratch [46d] [hn]
• Hand Drawn QR Codes [46d] [hn]
• CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers [46d] [hn]
• Biscuit [46d] [hn]
• An LLM agent that runs on any Linux box [46d] [hn]
• Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026? [46d] [hn]
• Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting [46d] [hn]
• What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) [46d] [hn]
• The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars [46d] [hn]
• Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust [46d] [hn]
• Following the Text Gradient at Scale [46d] [hn]
• Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%) [46d] [hn]