The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• LLM Policy for Rust Compiler [85d] [hn]
• Have a Coherent AI Policy [85d] [hn]
• ICLR 2026 – Institutional Affiliations Dataset and Analysis [85d] [hn]
• 'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system [85d] [hn]
• More than half of U.S. faces worst drought in decades [85d] [hn]
• Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts [85d] [hn]
• Roman Letters [85d] [hn]
• Colossus: The Forbin Project [85d] [hn]
• A Few Words on DS4 [85d] [hn]
• IPv8 [85d] [hn]
• Scientists ID 'corkscrew killer' behind gruesome seal deaths [85d] [hn]
• Show HN: GridTravel- A community based travel app for users to share routes [85d] [hn]
• OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control [85d] [hn]
• Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust [85d] [hn]
• Claude for Legal [85d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a Web-Scraper API that is 6-7x more efficient than current ones [85d] [hn]
• Minimal Structures [85d] [hn]
• Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet [85d] [hn]
• New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references [85d] [hn]
• Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt [85d] [hn]
• Codex is now available on mobile via ChatGPT app [85d] [hn]
• Best "Brain" for Agents Is Just Versioned Folders of Markdown Files [85d] [hn]
• Hindenburg's Smoking Room [85d] [hn]
• RISC-V Router [85d] [hn]
• Work with Codex from Anywhere [85d] [hn]
• Multi-Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests [85d] [hn]
• Illusions of Understanding in the Sciences [85d] [hn]
• Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M [85d] [hn]
• Green Card Holders Targeted for Deportation by New 'Removal Apparatus' [85d] [hn]
• WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward [85d] [hn]
• German intelligence offices snub Palantir software [85d] [hn]
• Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal? [85d] [hn]
• The AI Zombification of Universities [85d] [hn]
• The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018) [85d] [hn]
• Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Linux Kernel Startup [85d] [hn]
• First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 [85d] [hn]
• God Damn AI is making me dumb [85d] [hn]
• You Don't Align an AI, You Align with It [85d] [hn]
• OpenData Vector: MIT-Licensed Vector Search on Object Storage [85d] [hn]
• Grok Build [85d] [hn]
• DIY open-source ultrasound hardware on the rp2040/rp2350 [85d] [hn]
• Andreessen Horowitz Is Spending on Politics Like No Other [85d] [hn]
• Deal reached with hackers to delete data stolen from the Canvas platform [85d] [hn]
• Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged [85d] [hn]
• What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing? [85d] [hn]
• New Nginx Exploit [85d] [hn]
• Removing the Modem and GPS from My 2024 RAV4 Hybrid [85d] [hn]
• Terranox AI (YC W26) Is Hiring a Founding AI/ML Engineer and Summer AI/ML Intern [85d] [hn]
• Apple-OpenAI Relationship Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight [85d] [hn]
• Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory [85d] [hn]
• HDD Firmware Hacking [85d] [hn]
• Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo [85d] [hn]
• RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game? [85d] [hn]
• LinkedIn Fanfiction [85d] [hn]
• On The Conflation of Money and Things [85d] [hn]
• Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake [85d] [hn]
• New agents.txt file found on DreamHost [85d] [hn]
• Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation [85d] [hn]
• MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students [85d] [hn]
• Claude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD [85d] [hn]
• Al Jazeera documentary highlights USC's sale of dead bodies to US Navy, Israel [85d] [hn]
• Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals [85d] [hn]
• Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale [85d] [hn]
• Show HN: Race to the Bottom [85d] [hn]
• Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland [85d] [hn]
• USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought [85d] [hn]
• Beware of Drunk Deer, French Police Say, Announcing Season of Inebriation [85d] [hn]
• The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle [85d] [hn]
• Claude Account Suspended Seconds After Purchase? [85d] [hn]
• The Third Hard Problem [85d] [hn]
• Computer Hobby Movement in Canada [85d] [hn]
• Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure [85d] [hn]
• Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO [85d] [hn]
• What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? [85d] [hn]
• New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure [85d] [hn]
• The Dating App Swipe Is Dying. What Comes Next May Be Worse [85d] [hn]