The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor [11d] [hn]
• The Cat's Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London [11d] [hn]
• Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils [11d] [hn]
• What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512 [11d] [hn]
• Who is Soham Parekh, the serial moonlighter Silicon Valley can't stop hiring? [11d] [hn]
• Homotopies in multiway (nondeterministic) rewriting systems as n-fold categories [11d] [hn]
• Show HN: Tinykv – minimal file-backed key-value store for Rust [11d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding? [11d] [hn]
• Nvidia Is Full of Shit [11d] [hn]
• Tesla's Cybertruck flop is historic. The brand collapse is even worse [11d] [hn]
• Prompting LLMs is not engineering [11d] [hn]
• Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking [11d] [hn]
• The Amiga 3000 Unix and Sun Microsystems: Deal or No Deal? [11d] [hn]
• Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage [11d] [hn]
• Continue (YC S23) is hiring software engineers in San Francisco [11d] [hn]
• America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life [11d] [hn]
• Open Source and FPGA Maker Board for Networking [11d] [hn]
• The story behind Caesar salad [11d] [hn]
• Show HN: AirBending – hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller [11d] [hn]
• Valve conquered PC gaming – what comes next? [11d] [hn]
• Eight dormant Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets reactivated after 14 yrs [11d] [hn]
• Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B [11d] [hn]
• Air Pollution May Contribute to Development of Lung Cancer in Never-Smokers [11d] [hn]
• ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by serving the wrong URLs for major companies [11d] [hn]
• LLMs caused drastic vocabulary shift in biomedical publications [11d] [hn]
• How to Incapacitate Google Tag Manager and Why You Should (2022) [11d] [hn]
• Gremllm [11d] [hn]
• Military leaders aghast as Zuck crashes classified Oval Office meeting [11d] [hn]
• EverQuest [11d] [hn]
• Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip [11d] [hn]
• Compression Dictionary Transport [11d] [hn]
• Is Anybody Using This Private Key [11d] [hn]
• We're Not Innovating, We're Just Forgetting Slower [11d] [hn]
• I want to leave tech: what do I do? [11d] [hn]
• Kepler.gl [11d] [hn]
• Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel [11d] [hn]
• Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin [11d] [hn]
• Why I Left My Tech Job to Work on Chronic Pain [11d] [hn]
• Show HN: I vibe coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process [12d] [hn]
• Is there a no-AI audience? [12d] [hn]
• Rust and WASM for Form Validation [12d] [hn]
• Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? [12d] [hn]
• Enhanced Radar (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer [12d] [hn]
• Show HN: BunkerWeb – the open-source and cloud-native WAF [12d] [hn]
• Show HN: Fast Thermodynamic Calculations in Python [12d] [hn]
• A Rust-TypeScript integration [12d] [hn]
• How to render a mesh gradient using RBF interpolation [12d] [hn]
• Can Large Language Models Play Text Games Well? [12d] [hn]
• Larry (Cat) [12d] [hn]
• Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml [12d] [hn]
• Man goes viral after working for four startups at the same time [12d] [hn]
• Show HN: Soham Agent – Write cold emails like Soham Parekh [12d] [hn]
• DRM Panic QR code generator [12d] [hn]
• As a Labrador swam by me out to sea his owner said I hope he doesn't meet a seal [12d] [hn]
• When Your Exit Strategy Dream Is My Customer Nightmare [12d] [hn]
• The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history [12d] [hn]
• What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature [12d] [hn]
• One Billion Cells – Another Multiplayer Demo with Clojure [12d] [hn]
• Google says "not a security vulnerability", quickly fixes without attribution [12d] [hn]
• WASM Agents: AI agents running in the browser [12d] [hn]
• Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean [12d] [hn]
• The Rise of Whatever [12d] [hn]
• White House claims expansive power to nullify TikTok ban and other laws [12d] [hn]
• Zig breaking change – initial Writergate [12d] [hn]
• LooksMapping [12d] [hn]
• Electronic Arts Leadership Are Out of Their Goddamned Minds [12d] [hn]
• My open source project was stolen and relicensed by a YC company [12d] [hn]
• Kubernetes is a symptom, not a solution [12d] [hn]