The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 · Hugging Face [29m] [hn]
• Designing for the Eye: Optical Corrections in Architecture and Typography [56m] [hn]
• Open-source framework for real-time AI voice [1h] [hn]
• KDE's official Android TV alternative is back from the dead [1h] [hn]
• Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines raises $2B in A16Z-led round [1h] [hn]
• To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head [1h] [hn]
• Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years [1h] [hn]
• CoinTracker (YC W18) is hiring to solve crypto taxes and accounting (remote) [1h] [hn]
• Why the Real Computer Revolution Never Happened – Alan Kay and Anjan Katta [video] [1h] [hn]
• Reflections on OpenAI [1h] [hn]
• What Caused the 'Baby Boom'? What Would It Take to Have Another? [2h] [hn]
• NIST Ion Clock Sets New Record for Most Accurate Clock in the World [2h] [hn]
• The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data with ICE [2h] [hn]
• Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL [2h] [hn]
• Adding lookbehinds to rust-lang/regex [3h] [hn]
• Ask HN: What's Your Useful Local LLM Stack? [3h] [hn]
• Blender 4.5 LTS Released [3h] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?" [3h] [hn]
• Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites for UK Users [4h] [hn]
• The Moving Assembly Line Turns 100 [5h] [hn]
• Speedrun [6h] [hn]
• A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Hackers [6h] [hn]
• Crimson (YC X25) is hiring founding engineers in London [6h] [hn]
• Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon [7h] [hn]
• Code highlighting with Cursor AI used for $500k theft [8h] [hn]
• Field Notes on Shipping with Claude Code [9h] [hn]
• A vulnerability that can be exploited to tamper with a train’s brakes [11h] [hn]
• I Built an Open Source Offline ChatGPT Alternative in 40MB [11h] [hn]
• We Tested 7 Languages Under Extreme Load and Only One Didn't Crash [11h] [hn]
• Belgian CVD is deeply broken [13h] [hn]
• When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery [14h] [hn]
• Martin (YC S23) Is Hiring Founding Engineers to Build a Better Siri [14h] [hn]
• LLM Inevitabilism [14h] [hn]
• Literalism plaguing today’s movies [14h] [hn]
• Show HN: CallFS – S3-style object store in one Go binary (MIT) [15h] [hn]
• C++ Coroutines Advanced: Converting std:future to asio:awaitable [16h] [hn]
• Doge Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for XAI [17h] [hn]
• AWS Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug [pdf] [17h] [hn]
• Protecting My Attention at the Dopamine Carnival [18h] [hn]
• The Collapse of the FDA [18h] [hn]
• DEWLine Museum – The Distant Early Warning Radar Line [20h] [hn]
• Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 Appears to Be Down [20h] [hn]
• Apple's MLX adding CUDA support [21h] [hn]
• PHP License Update [21h] [hn]
• Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project [21h] [hn]
• Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department [21h] [hn]
• Show HN: The HTML Maze - Escape an eerie labyrinth built with HTML pages [22h] [hn]
• Anthropic signs a $200mm deal with the Department of Defense [22h] [hn]
• Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text: "Hitler" [22h] [hn]
• LIGO Detects Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date [22h] [hn]
• NeuralOS: An Operating System Powered by Neural Networks [22h] [hn]
• Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance [23h] [hn]