The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious [50d] [hn]
• Food additive titanium dioxide likely has more toxic effects than thought [50d] [hn]
• What "Working" Means in the Era of AI Apps [50d] [hn]
• I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits [50d] [hn]
• Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold with Glass [50d] [hn]
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation [50d] [hn]
• Japanese researchers develop transparent paper as alternative to plastics [50d] [hn]
• 600 Miles from the North Pole on a boat. My Starlink Mini is at 171 mbit/s [50d] [hn]
• Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data [50d] [hn]
• Onyx (YC W24) – AI Assistants for Work Hiring Founding AE [50d] [hn]
• Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp [50d] [hn]
• DNS traffic spiked as Musk–Trump clash boosted Truth Social (+268%) and X (+20%) [50d] [hn]
• Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data [50d] [hn]
• Online Sports Betting Is for Losers [51d] [hn]
• Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire [51d] [hn]
• United States Digital Service Origins [51d] [hn]
• A year of funded FreeBSD development [51d] [hn]
• Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator [51d] [hn]
• How many trees are there in the North American boreal forest? [51d] [hn]
• Switching to Mojo gave a 14% improvement over CUDA [51d] [hn]
• A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square [51d] [hn]
• Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks [51d] [hn]
• The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf] [51d] [hn]
• SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding [51d] [hn]
• Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring a Director of Customer Success [51d] [hn]
• A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts [51d] [hn]
• Series C and Scale (Cursor) [51d] [hn]
• Exa (YC S21) Is Hiring a Founding Physical Design Engineer to Build Chips for AI [51d] [hn]
• Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers 'overwhelmed' [51d] [hn]
• See how a dollar would have grown over the past 94 years [pdf] [51d] [hn]
• GOP intensifies war against EVs and efficient cars [51d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Any good tools for viewing congressional bills? [51d] [hn]
• Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes [51d] [hn]
• 4-7-8 Breathing [51d] [hn]
• Meta: Shut Down Your Invasive AI Discover Feed. Now [51d] [hn]
• VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV [51d] [hn]
• Why Bell Labs Worked [51d] [hn]
• Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer – Blocks and Files [51d] [hn]
• Apple warns Australia against joining EU in mandating iPhone app sideloading [51d] [hn]
• OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs "indefinitely." Here's who's affected [51d] [hn]
• Too Many Open Files [51d] [hn]
• Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction [51d] [hn]
• Race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study [51d] [hn]
• An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting [51d] [hn]
• Exploring AI Integrations with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro [51d] [hn]
• Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU' [51d] [hn]
• A masochist's guide to web development [51d] [hn]
• Curate Your Shell History [51d] [hn]
• Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games [51d] [hn]
• Small Programs and Languages [51d] [hn]
• Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google [51d] [hn]
• Being fat is a trap [51d] [hn]
• ThornWalli/web-workbench: Old operating system as homepage [51d] [hn]
• Doge Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to "Munch" Veterans Affairs Contracts [51d] [hn]
• Processing Nebula Images with Open Source Tools vs$350 Software [51d] [hn]
• How to (actually) send DTMF on Android without being the default call app [51d] [hn]
• Swift and Cute 2D Game Framework: Setting Up a Project with CMake [51d] [hn]
• Fuzzer Blind Spots (Meet Jepsen) [51d] [hn]
• What you need to know about EMP weapons [51d] [hn]
• Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest [51d] [hn]
• Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11 [51d] [hn]
• The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre) [51d] [hn]
• AMD Radeon 8050S "Strix Halo" Linux Graphics Performance Review [51d] [hn]
• The Coleco Adam Computer [51d] [hn]
• Infomaniak backs mass surveillance, aims to end online anonymity in Switzerland [51d] [hn]
• Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law [51d] [hn]
• Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration [51d] [hn]
• Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup [51d] [hn]
• The bizarre story of a maths proof that is only true in Japan [51d] [hn]
• Aether: A CMS That Gets Out of Your Way [51d] [hn]
• Second ispace craft has probably crash-landed on Moon [51d] [hn]
• Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon [51d] [hn]
• Germany: Digital Minister wants open source etc. as guiding principle [51d] [hn]
• Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024) [51d] [hn]
• Homeless but self taught full stack developer [51d] [hn]
• Switch 2 rooted on day 1 [51d] [hn]
• Neuroscience How Much Energy Does It Take to Think? [51d] [hn]
• Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube [51d] [hn]
• I Am an Audience, First and Foremost [51d] [hn]
• Building an AI Server on a Budget [51d] [hn]
• Open Source Distilling [51d] [hn]
• Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite [51d] [hn]
• How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy [51d] [hn]
• Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf [51d] [hn]