The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring Progress in Medical Language Understanding [pdf] [18d] [hn]
The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off [18d] [hn]
Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky [18d] [hn]
CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations [18d] [hn]
Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine [18d] [hn]
Libre-Chip Awarded NLnet Grant to Prototype a CPU Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre [18d] [hn]
Show HN: Splice – CAD for Cable Harnesses and Electrical Assemblies [18d] [hn]
Text.ai (YC X25) Is Hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineer [18d] [hn]
Reproducing prospect theory with 'differentiable decision theories' [18d] [hn]
Uv format: Code Formatting Comes to uv (experimentally) [18d] [hn]
In Defense of Car-Centered Society [18d] [hn]
Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations [18d] [hn]
Grug Design [18d] [hn]
Show HN: Changefly ID + Anonymized Identity and Age Verification [18d] [hn]
A Decoder Ring for AI Job Titles [18d] [hn]
In the long run, LLMs make us dumber [18d] [hn]
DeepSeek-v3.1 Release [18d] [hn]
Reserve First [18d] [hn]
AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions [18d] [hn]
Building AI Products in the Probabilistic Era [18d] [hn]
The Unbearable Slowness of AI Coding [18d] [hn]
Ask HN: Is Kubernetes still a big no-no for early stages in 2025? [18d] [hn]
Physics Grifters: Eric Weinstein, Sabine Hossenfelder a Crisis of Credibility [18d] [hn]
The Simple Vision Breakthrough That Might End Lasik [18d] [hn]
Cua (YC X25) Is Hiring Founding Design Engineers in SF [18d] [hn]
Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes [18d] [hn]
AI SRE Needs More Than AI: It Needs Operational Context [18d] [hn]
The Core of Rust [18d] [hn]
I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead [18d] [hn]
Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says [18d] [hn]
Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat [18d] [hn]
A summary of recent AI research (2016) [18d] [hn]
Forced every engineer to take sales calls.They rewrote our platform in 2 weeks [18d] [hn]
Unmasking the Privacy Risks of Apple Intelligence [18d] [hn]
95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend [18d] [hn]
Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products [18d] [hn]
Apple Watch wearable foundation model [18d] [hn]
Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license [18d] [hn]
In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses [18d] [hn]
A Conceptual Model for Storage Unification [18d] [hn]
Show HN: ChartDB Cloud – Visualize and Share Database Diagrams [18d] [hn]
How Well Does the Money Laundering Control System Work? [18d] [hn]
The Cornervery: A 90-Degree Stapler [18d] [hn]
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' [18d] [hn]
How does the US use water? [18d] [hn]
Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems [18d] [hn]
Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser [18d] [hn]
1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video] [18d] [hn]
AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders [18d] [hn]
Stepanov's biggest blunder? The curious case of adjacent difference [18d] [hn]
Margin Debt Surges 9.5% in June to Record High [18d] [hn]
Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears [18d] [hn]
AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally [18d] [hn]
Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit [18d] [hn]
The Open-Office Trap [18d] [hn]
Why is D3 so Verbose? [18d] [hn]
To Infinity but Not Beyond [18d] [hn]
My other email client is a daemon [18d] [hn]
Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum [18d] [hn]
Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as 'chaotic' tariff deadline looms [18d] [hn]
Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC) [18d] [hn]
'Reading crisis' prompts Denmark to end 25% tax on books [18d] [hn]
Python f-string cheat sheet [18d] [hn]
Contrasting Data and Objects (2018) [18d] [hn]
The Pleasure of Patterns in Art [18d] [hn]
Family Farm Wins Historic Case After Feds Violate Constitution and Ruin Business [18d] [hn]
ICE Budget Now Bigger Than Most of the Militaries [18d] [hn]
I've never had a real adversary [18d] [hn]
How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method [18d] [hn]
Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS (2013) [19d] [hn]
Advice for Tech Non-Profits [19d] [hn]
Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis [19d] [hn]