The Brutalist Report

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• Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [2d] [hn]
• Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford [2d] [hn]
• Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly Part 0 – Setup and First Steps [2d] [hn]
• Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Not Been Vindicated by Science [2d] [hn]
• OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative [2d] [hn]
• APKLab: Android Reverse-Engineering Workbench for VS Code [2d] [hn]
• Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? [2d] [hn]
• Programming Language Theory has a public relations problem [2d] [hn]
• Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market [2d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI? [2d] [hn]
• Hypercapitalism and the AI Talent Wars [2d] [hn]
• Holographic ribbon aims to oust magnetic tape with 50-year life span and 200TB [2d] [hn]
• OpenICE: Open-Source US Immigration Detention Dashboard [2d] [hn]
• The Gottorf Globe and its reconstruction [2d] [hn]
• Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate workforce [2d] [hn]
• Happy 20th Birthday, Django [2d] [hn]
• Clashes between web and X11 colors in the CSS color scheme [2d] [hn]
• GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance [2d] [hn]
• 'Europe Must Ban American Big Tech and Create a European Silicon Valley' [2d] [hn]
• Hungary's oldest library fighting to save 100k books from a beetle infestation [2d] [hn]
• Strap In, Vision Pro Owners [2d] [hn]
• Most people who buy games on Steam never play them [2d] [hn]
• Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? [2d] [hn]
• 'I felt pure, unconditional love': the people who marry their AI chatbots [2d] [hn]
• An official Swedish AI service was misused to create a greeting for Adolf Hitler [2d] [hn]
• Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers [2d] [hn]
• Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux [2d] [hn]
• A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns [2d] [hn]
• Prompt Engineering: From Zero to Hero [2d] [hn]
• Zig's new I/O: function coloring is inevitable? [2d] [hn]
• Bay Area restaurants are vetting your social media before you even walk in [2d] [hn]
• What are we missing out on when we think Transformer is unreasonable in biology? [2d] [hn]
• VMware Workstation: Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture [pdf] (2012) [2d] [hn]
• How does a screen even work? [2d] [hn]
• Local Chatbot RAG with FreeBSD Knowledge [2d] [hn]
• Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style [2d] [hn]
• Richard Sutton: The Era of Experience, The Age of Design [2d] [hn]
• You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem [2d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language [2d] [hn]
• Micro Adventure – Space Attack (online emulator) [2d] [hn]
• AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster study finds [2d] [hn]
• Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any [2d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions [2d] [hn]
• Mysterious pre-Islamic script from Oman finally deciphered [2d] [hn]
• Gaming Cancer: How Citizen Science Games Could Help Cure Disease [2d] [hn]
• Understanding Tool Calling in LLMs – Step-by-Step with REST and Spring AI [2d] [hn]
• AGI Is Mathematically Impossible (3): Kolmogorov Complexity [2d] [hn]
• Let Me Pay for Firefox [2d] [hn]
• ISRO successfully conducts hot tests of Gaganyaan propulsion system [2d] [hn]
• Why Lua Beats MicroPython for Serious Embedded Devs [2d] [hn]
• Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 [2d] [hn]
• Gmail AI hallucinates, distorts email contents [2d] [hn]
• Hill Space: Neural nets that do perfect arithmetic (to 10⁻¹⁶ precision) [2d] [hn]
• Nuclear Explosion for Carbon Sequestration [2d] [hn]
• New Windows 11 build adds self-healing "quick machine recovery" feature [2d] [hn]
• Edward Burtynsky's monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet [2d] [hn]
• A.I. Is Making Sure You Pay for That Ding on Your Rental Car [3d] [hn]
• Hacking Coroutines into C [3d] [hn]
• Banned Filipino fishermen documentary can be seen in NZ [3d] [hn]
• Startup just hit a big milestone for green steel production [3d] [hn]
• MoonPay executives may have sent $250k to Nigerian scammer [3d] [hn]