The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Repairable Flatpack Toaster [165d] [hn]
• Proof that LLM just mimic logical without understanding underlying logic [165d] [hn]
• Nomadic infrastructure design for AI workloads [165d] [hn]
• Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers [video] [165d] [hn]
• Tianjin Robot Incident Raises Alarm over Public Safety and Robotics [165d] [hn]
• PFAS in fertilisers blamed for killing livestock in Texas and wreaking havoc [165d] [hn]
• Send Data with Sound [165d] [hn]
• Treasury Announces Suspension of Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act [165d] [hn]
• One Logo, Three Companies [165d] [hn]
• How the U.K. broke its own economy [165d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Cuckoo (YC W25) – Real-time AI translator for global teams [165d] [hn]
• Urban Dead is shutting down [165d] [hn]
• James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died [165d] [hn]
• Evals are not all you need [165d] [hn]
• AgenticMemory: Zettelkasten inspired agentic memory system [165d] [hn]
• Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit [165d] [hn]
• Bocoup Is Now Worker-Owned [165d] [hn]
• Chrome Returns 206 when the Server Returns 403 [165d] [hn]
• Cautious Optimizers: Improving Training with One Line of Code [165d] [hn]
• Effect of chewing hard material on enhancing cognitive function [165d] [hn]
• Show HN: Firebender, a simple coding agent for Android Engineers [165d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice? [165d] [hn]
• Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal [165d] [hn]
• SQLite-on-the-Server Is Misunderstood: Better at Hyper-Scale Than Micro-Scale [165d] [hn]
• Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers [165d] [hn]
• The Oldest "Map of America" Is Mysteriously Accurate [165d] [hn]
• The power of interning: making a time series database 2000x smaller in Rust [165d] [hn]
• Show HN: Agents.json – OpenAPI Specification for LLMs [165d] [hn]
• The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967 [165d] [hn]
• TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. [165d] [hn]
• Go-attention: A full attention mechanism and transformer in pure Go [165d] [hn]
• First flat telescope lens that captures color, detecting light from stars [166d] [hn]
• Show HN: Open-Source Windows AI assistant that uses Word, Excel through COM [166d] [hn]
• An Attempt to Catch Up with JIT Compilers [166d] [hn]
• Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Meets Subpar Software [166d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025) [166d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025) [166d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025) [166d] [hn]
• Drone Delivery for Defense [166d] [hn]
• Show HN: Knowledge graph of restaurants and chefs using LLMs [166d] [hn]
• Youth and what happens when it's gone [166d] [hn]
• SOTA Code Retrieval with Efficient Code Embedding Models [166d] [hn]
• The quest to find and save the Vasa [166d] [hn]
• The weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect [166d] [hn]
• Fintoc (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineer. Live Rent-Free in CL or MX [166d] [hn]
• The Internals of PostgreSQL [166d] [hn]
• Amazon's Drones Are Grounded. The Birds and Dogs of This Texas Town Are Grateful [166d] [hn]
• Difficult Employees (and How to Handle Them) [166d] [hn]
• About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" [166d] [hn]
• Robust Wavefront OBJ model parsing in C [166d] [hn]
• Phlex for Rails Emails: Action Mailer Without ERB [166d] [hn]
• The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks [166d] [hn]
• MIT 6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models [166d] [hn]
• Alibaba Launches C930 RISC-V Chip Amid Shift from Western Tech [166d] [hn]
• FlakeUI [166d] [hn]
• Everything Is Chrome [166d] [hn]
• BM25 in PostgreSQL – 3x Faster Than Elasticsearch [166d] [hn]
• How I Ace Midterms at a Top CS School by Studying 1-3 Hours (and Skipping Class) [166d] [hn]
• Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll [166d] [hn]
• Losing a 5-year-long Illinois FOIA lawsuit for database schemas [166d] [hn]
• Blender made movie Flow takes Oscar [166d] [hn]
• The "strategic reserve" exposes crypto as the scam it always was [166d] [hn]
• 18F [166d] [hn]