The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Pathfinding to a moving target in evolving terrain [202d] [hn]
• Very Wrong Math [202d] [hn]
• Portals and Quake [202d] [hn]
• Coyote Time: What Games Can Teach Us About Forgiveness in Learning [202d] [hn]
• Building Bauble [202d] [hn]
• Cannonball: An Enhanced OutRun Engine [202d] [hn]
• OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack' [202d] [hn]
• Phi-4 Bug Fixes [202d] [hn]
• Show HN: 3D Terrain simulation for hiking, skiing etc. [202d] [hn]
• The War Against Headlight Brightness [202d] [hn]
• WSJ: Americans Are Tipping Less Than They Have in Years [203d] [hn]
• Year old startup overloaded GitHub – Incident report [203d] [hn]
• Cuttle – a MTG like game using a standard 52 card deck [203d] [hn]
• Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1 [203d] [hn]
• H-1B Visa Lottery Is Shutting Out Top Talent. Replace It [203d] [hn]
• Creates hyper-realistic voice clones from just 3 seconds of audio [203d] [hn]
• Show HN: KeyTik: The All-in-One Input Automation Tool [203d] [hn]
• Review: Reentry, by Eric Berger [203d] [hn]
• Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs [203d] [hn]
• What Dr. Ruth Left Behind [203d] [hn]
• Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries [203d] [hn]
• Getting silly with C, part (void*)2 [203d] [hn]
• Ships must practice celestial navigation [203d] [hn]
• Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021) [203d] [hn]
• Web apps built with Ruby on Rails [203d] [hn]
• Experiments with Byte Matrix Multiplication [203d] [hn]
• Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice? [203d] [hn]
• I Sang Along with Peter Yarrow in 1972 [203d] [hn]
• I Program with LLMs [203d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer? [203d] [hn]
• I've Acquired a New Superpower [203d] [hn]
• Show HN: Boulette - Protect you from yourself (even as root). [203d] [hn]
• The Tedious Heroism of David Ruggles [203d] [hn]
• Making Beautiful API Keys [203d] [hn]
• Scientists drill 2 miles down pull 1.2M-year-old ice core from Antarctic [203d] [hn]
• Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google's Policy Change [203d] [hn]
• There are no pure cultures – we have always been global [203d] [hn]
• Innovative ways to float skyscraper-sized wind turbines [203d] [hn]
• I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated? [203d] [hn]
• Learning How to Think with Meta Chain-of-Thought [203d] [hn]
• Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics [203d] [hn]
• Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring a Rust Engineer in Europe [203d] [hn]
• Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol [203d] [hn]
• Male and female brains are wired differently [203d] [hn]
• lc: List files in categories (and columns) – from Coherent Unix clone [203d] [hn]
• Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction [203d] [hn]
• Wi-Fi Router at CES 2025 Has a Connectivity Radius of 9.9 Miles [203d] [hn]
• Glimmer: DSL Framework for Ruby GUI and More [203d] [hn]
• Time Dilation Formula / Calculator [203d] [hn]
• Tactility: OS for the ESP32 Microcontroller Family [203d] [hn]
• How outdated information hides in LLM token generation probabilities [203d] [hn]
• BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes [203d] [hn]
• Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice [203d] [hn]
• Samsung Display to Begin Mass Production of Rollable OLED for Laptops [203d] [hn]
• Ruby/tk: Tk interface module using tcltklib [203d] [hn]
• Telli (YC F24) is hiring product engineers in Berlin, Germany (in-person) [203d] [hn]
• Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale [203d] [hn]
• Meta's New Content Policy Will Harm Vulnerable Users [203d] [hn]
• A visual demo of Ruby's lazy enumerator [203d] [hn]
• Visualizing All ISBNs [203d] [hn]
• Gleam v1.7.0 Released [203d] [hn]
• 2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit [203d] [hn]
• Los Angeles fires expose inflated US home prices [203d] [hn]
• A Three Month Review of Kagi Search and the Orion Web Browser (2024) [203d] [hn]
• 41% of Employers Worldwide Say They'll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI [203d] [hn]
• TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work [203d] [hn]
• The Typography Maestro Getting Calls from Hollywood [203d] [hn]
• Wikipedia searches reveal differing styles of curiosity [203d] [hn]
• Toyota rethinks its bet on hydrogen [203d] [hn]
• Fascism shattered Europe century ago – historians hear echoes today in U.S. (24) [203d] [hn]
• Television: Blazing fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI [203d] [hn]
• An Introduction to Neural Ordinary Differential Equations [pdf] [203d] [hn]
• Rodney Brooks: Predictions Scorecard, 2025 [203d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Work on robotics or agents? [203d] [hn]
• Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location [203d] [hn]