The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 [32d] [hn]
• Title 7 Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal [32d] [hn]
• Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause [32d] [hn]
• Dithered QR Codes [32d] [hn]
• You can build an AI agent's memory layer with only Go's standard library [32d] [hn]
• My server is a phone now [32d] [hn]
• Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo [32d] [hn]
• Should you stop cracking your knuckles? [32d] [hn]
• Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled [32d] [hn]
• Show HN: Inertia – Not your Grandfathers animation editor [32d] [hn]
• Wikipedia's founder on his life's work: "A propaganda tool" [32d] [hn]
• Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack [32d] [hn]
• Pneumatic tube mail in New York City [32d] [hn]
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] [32d] [hn]
• Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse [32d] [hn]
• Picking berries is my meditation [32d] [hn]
• Probabilistic Estimation for Localizing a Radioactive Source in an Urban Setting [32d] [hn]
• Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating [32d] [hn]
• TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS [32d] [hn]
• Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme [32d] [hn]
• Finite State Machines in Forth (1994) [32d] [hn]
• Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country [32d] [hn]
• LinkedIn Feed Blocker [32d] [hn]
• Fastmail offers EU data region [32d] [hn]
• Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? [32d] [hn]
• Cruise ship helps stranded skiff, crew in Alaska as Zuckerberg yacht stands by [32d] [hn]
• OpenAI Trained Models While They Were Coordinating Exploits via Message Boards [32d] [hn]
• Message your other Claude Code sessions [32d] [hn]
• My MacBook aged three years in three months of vibe coding [32d] [hn]
• "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers [32d] [hn]
• Program images and portable Scheme back ends for Jolt [32d] [hn]
• Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All [32d] [hn]
• Don't use your phone while you poop [32d] [hn]
• Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload [32d] [hn]
• Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU [32d] [hn]
• Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator [32d] [hn]
• A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS [32d] [hn]
• Cave of the Crystals [32d] [hn]
• Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) [32d] [hn]
• SQRL wan't wrong, it was early [32d] [hn]
• A Tome of Forbidden Technologies [32d] [hn]
• The CPU is back: Rethinking the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference [32d] [hn]
• The USSR in 100 Photographs [32d] [hn]
• Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face [32d] [hn]
• Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did [32d] [hn]
• Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices [32d] [hn]
• New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. [32d] [hn]
• US Military's Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide [32d] [hn]
• Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires [32d] [hn]
• DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones [32d] [hn]
• Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers [32d] [hn]
• Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs [32d] [hn]
• Italian Bank Stores 400K Wheels of Cheese as Collateral for Farmer Loans [32d] [hn]
• Stack Overflow new questions are down 98.5% since ChatGPT (+ 5 other platforms) [32d] [hn]
• Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 [33d] [hn]
• Translating the Renaissance: 17,000+ historical source texts [33d] [hn]
• The Hat and the Spectre – Recent Groundbreaking Discoveries in Mathematics [33d] [hn]
• I'm Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store [33d] [hn]
• The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou [33d] [hn]
• NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year [33d] [hn]
• Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified [33d] [hn]
• The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded [33d] [hn]
• Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature [33d] [hn]
• Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals? [33d] [hn]