The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months [5d] [hn]
• There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video] [5d] [hn]
• RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video] [5d] [hn]
• Beyond Tetris: The Other Games of Alexey Pajitnov [video] [5d] [hn]
• I built a programming language that LLMs can't use [5d] [hn]
• JDK 28 [5d] [hn]
• FingerWorks iGesture Pad (2005) [5d] [hn]
• What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out [5d] [hn]
• How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? [5d] [hn]
• Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not [5d] [hn]
• It's still OK to enjoy programming [5d] [hn]
• The fire retardant in the seafood chain [5d] [hn]
• Microsoft and CMU Team Up to Train Early Career Software Engineers [5d] [hn]
• Owner of Former UWS Barbecue Restaurant Indicted for Wage Theft: Manhattan DA [5d] [hn]
• Pattern Matching Beats Narrative Reasoning [5d] [hn]
• AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It? [5d] [hn]
• Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw) [5d] [hn]
• OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked [5d] [hn]
• Masked settlers attack European diplomats in occupied West Bank [5d] [hn]
• Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank beat French mayor [5d] [hn]
• Codex is EATING my Mac's disk space [5d] [hn]
• I Became a Citizen of Japan [5d] [hn]
• Elon Musk's foundation is opaque, miserly and self-serving [5d] [hn]
• Linux bugs fixed per release over time: >2× rise since 2026-04 [5d] [hn]
• tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript [5d] [hn]
• Tennyson's Faith: A Nobler Type [5d] [hn]
• Gold is now the top U.S. export [5d] [hn]
• Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Enterprise AES and Senior Engineers [5d] [hn]
• OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents [6d] [hn]
• GLP-1 may slow biological aging [6d] [hn]
• Amazon uses union-busting AI surveillance to monitor union risk in UK warehouses [6d] [hn]
• Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick [6d] [hn]
• Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG [6d] [hn]
• Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't [6d] [hn]
• Triplet of 'Ghostly' Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is – and Isn't [6d] [hn]
• Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware" [6d] [hn]
• A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z [6d] [hn]
• US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion [6d] [hn]
• Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects [6d] [hn]
• Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death [6d] [hn]
• Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time – pv magazine Global [6d] [hn]
• Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser [6d] [hn]
• Developing for Debugging (2025) [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer [6d] [hn]
• Super Intelligence [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: Which Mac runs which LLM, and how fast [6d] [hn]
• Interactive Linear Programming in the Browser [6d] [hn]