The Brutalist Report

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Feral cats fail at urban rodent control (2018) [12d] [hn]
The Visual 6502 [12d] [hn]
Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10B [12d] [hn]
Negative Resistance [12d] [hn]
A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence [12d] [hn]
98.css [12d] [hn]
Building watchable digital twins of 64 World Cup games [12d] [hn]
Show HN: How far do I have to go to run into 100k people? [12d] [hn]
Pip install Postgres – no Docker/Brew/apt [12d] [hn]
Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked [12d] [hn]
Colorblind: Checking figure accessibility for colour blind people [12d] [hn]
Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B [12d] [hn]
Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. [12d] [hn]
Big Tech Isn't Hiding $1.65T of Debt [12d] [hn]
Mourning Dan Williams [12d] [hn]
Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video] [12d] [hn]
Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models [12d] [hn]
First Robotic Satellite Servicer Launched [12d] [hn]
Selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account [12d] [hn]
ICE Illegally Scooped Up Medicaid Data, Then Shared It with Palantir [12d] [hn]
From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026 [12d] [hn]
Building on ATProto [12d] [hn]
A solid-state "atomic channel" for separating rare earth elements [12d] [hn]
Geekbench 7 [12d] [hn]
Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models [12d] [hn]
Launching Health in ChatGPT [12d] [hn]
Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era [12d] [hn]
Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server [12d] [hn]
Show HN: Claude-thermos – keeps your Claude session warm for you [12d] [hn]
A Deep Logo Study [12d] [hn]
What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all [12d] [hn]
The Arguments Against Open Source AI Are Very Bad [12d] [hn]
Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Power your agents by your 24/7 screen recording [12d] [hn]
JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator) [12d] [hn]
Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts [12d] [hn]
Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents [12d] [hn]
UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August [12d] [hn]
I wouldn't say Pangram is broken, but I would say that it's brittle [12d] [hn]
Show HN: Write, simulate and synthesize VHDL/Verilog in the browser [12d] [hn]
Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) [12d] [hn]
Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI [12d] [hn]
Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas? [12d] [hn]
Show HN: Palmier Pro – open-source macOS video editor built for AI [12d] [hn]
Cross-entropy comparison of LLM responses reveals Kimi's similarity to Claude [12d] [hn]
NerdLens: Mirror your computer with cardboard VR [12d] [hn]
Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: E2EE and the "Going Dark" Debate [12d] [hn]
Learn WebGPU for C++ [12d] [hn]
Vulkan Tutorial [12d] [hn]
Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL [12d] [hn]
How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use? [12d] [hn]
Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig [12d] [hn]
I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music [12d] [hn]
Show HN: macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards [12d] [hn]
Show HN: Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone [12d] [hn]
Writing by hand is good for your brain [12d] [hn]
Fields Medals 2026 [12d] [hn]
Show HN: I made YAFL – a E2EE file handoff for AI agents [12d] [hn]
Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ [12d] [hn]
You can now run same OCI images as containers or Firecracker microVMs [12d] [hn]
Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency [12d] [hn]
I Regret Migrating to Codeberg [12d] [hn]
I Think You Might Be Fooling Yourself with AI [12d] [hn]
Emacs Is a Lispboard [12d] [hn]
Astronomers may have found the first exomoon [12d] [hn]
Log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua [12d] [hn]
Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium [12d] [hn]
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 [12d] [hn]
What happens when the information runs out [12d] [hn]
Fixing a bug with byte order marks [12d] [hn]
Silent Replacement of Trusted macOS App Executables [12d] [hn]
Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room [12d] [hn]
Securing Services with Rootless Containers [12d] [hn]
Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages [12d] [hn]
Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs [12d] [hn]
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt [12d] [hn]
Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol [12d] [hn]
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] [12d] [hn]
Self-host your mail server [12d] [hn]
Sum of Cubes via Difference Tables [12d] [hn]
Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data [12d] [hn]
I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated [12d] [hn]