The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Show HN: Courtside – TUI for NBA Games [12d] [hn]
• Nordstjernen Web Browser 1.0.0 released [12d] [hn]
• The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite [12d] [hn]
• Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant [12d] [hn]
• Hermes Agent – Open-Source AI Agent with Persistent Memory [12d] [hn]
• Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers [12d] [hn]
• Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction [12d] [hn]
• Tribute to Jiro Yamada, Automotive Artist (1960-2025) [video] [12d] [hn]
• Hacker News, Sans AI [12d] [hn]
• Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers [12d] [hn]
• Partitions over Permutations [12d] [hn]
• GitHub Accidentally Deletes Slack and Teams Subscriptions [12d] [hn]
• Three of our worst VC stories [12d] [hn]
• Transformers Are Inherently Succinct [12d] [hn]
• Aging and Eye Problems [12d] [hn]
• Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world [12d] [hn]
• Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump [12d] [hn]
• Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation [12d] [hn]
• Sakana AI's Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab [12d] [hn]
• Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust [13d] [hn]
• Fake Money Built America [13d] [hn]
• Adyen Selected as Payment Services Provider for GOV.UK Pay [13d] [hn]
• SVG of a Hamster Playing Table-Tennis [13d] [hn]
• Gov.uk goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe [13d] [hn]
• Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended [13d] [hn]
• Am I Unc? [13d] [hn]
• Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices [13d] [hn]
• The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go [13d] [hn]
• Bullets don't shoot people. So why do cars 'kill' cyclists? [13d] [hn]
• Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency [13d] [hn]
• Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made [13d] [hn]
• U.S. Military Turned GPS into a Global "Numbers Station" [13d] [hn]
• pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution [13d] [hn]
• Stop Using Conventional Commits [13d] [hn]
• Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive' [13d] [hn]
• Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints [13d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026) [13d] [hn]
• Good Careers at Bad Companies [13d] [hn]
• New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste [13d] [hn]
• Astronauts on ISS told to shelter as repairs under way to fix air leaks [13d] [hn]
• Playing with Vision Embeddings [13d] [hn]
• New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers [13d] [hn]
• Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform [13d] [hn]
• India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world [13d] [hn]
• Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers [13d] [hn]
• I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab [13d] [hn]
• Doing Something That's Never Been Done Before [13d] [hn]
• A visual introduction to kernel functions [13d] [hn]
• How to make firecracker faster to start Chromium in < 20ms [13d] [hn]
• The Empty Field That Wasn't: GPS, OTAD and Two Decades of Encrypted Broadcasts [13d] [hn]
• The Empty Field That Wasn't: GPS Broadcasts a Numbers Station [13d] [hn]
• Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync? [13d] [hn]
• Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works [13d] [hn]
• Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other [13d] [hn]
• Investigation: Russian censorship systems (TMCT) expose Chinese DPI signatures [13d] [hn]
• Nango (YC W23, dev infra) is hiring staff back end engineers [13d] [hn]