The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting [11d] [hn]
• DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List [11d] [hn]
• Show HN: Ironwall, a safety-first native programming language and compiler [11d] [hn]
• Context Sculpting [11d] [hn]
• Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores [11d] [hn]
• No Babies? Blame Capitalism [11d] [hn]
• They are looting your life savings [11d] [hn]
• Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar [11d] [hn]
• Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory [11d] [hn]
• New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker [11d] [hn]
• Computex 2026: Are We Heading for the Agentic PC Era Yet? – EE Times [11d] [hn]
• Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git [11d] [hn]
• Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health [11d] [hn]
• Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts [11d] [hn]
• Rayforce [11d] [hn]
• Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot [11d] [hn]
• Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose [11d] [hn]
• The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++ [11d] [hn]
• Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say [11d] [hn]
• Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack [11d] [hn]
• More Molly Guards [11d] [hn]
• Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) [11d] [hn]
• A Server Called Mercury [11d] [hn]
• Asus GB300 NVL72 Test Lab Tour [11d] [hn]
• Adopting the Parallel DWARF linker in dsymutil [11d] [hn]
• You Can Run [11d] [hn]
• Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements [11d] [hn]
• AI didn't break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume [11d] [hn]
• Python JIT project was asked to pause development [11d] [hn]
• Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF [11d] [hn]
• Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation [11d] [hn]
• Moving beyond fork() + exec() [11d] [hn]
• Inflation is being driven up by investment in artificial intelligence [11d] [hn]
• Giant Floating Victorian Drydock [11d] [hn]
• Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM [11d] [hn]
• Benchmarks in Leipzig [11d] [hn]
• Fooling Go's X.509 Certificate Verification [11d] [hn]
• US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules [11d] [hn]
• 120k Lines of Rust: Inside the Nosdesk Backend [11d] [hn]
• Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models [11d] [hn]
• Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs [11d] [hn]
• Life is too short for a slow terminal [12d] [hn]
• Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers [12d] [hn]
• The new bibliomaniacs [12d] [hn]
• Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics) [12d] [hn]
• There's still no point in gigabit broadband [12d] [hn]
• Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute [12d] [hn]
• Miz Framework Story [12d] [hn]
• Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) [12d] [hn]
• Introduction – Rust for Python Programmers [12d] [hn]
• Do Women's Mate Preferences Change Across the Ovulatory Cycle? A Meta-Analysis [pdf] [12d] [hn]
• Is anyone here interested in contributing to this OS? [12d] [hn]
• The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy [12d] [hn]
• GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS [12d] [hn]
• Zig Zen Update [12d] [hn]
• Azure Linux Desktop [12d] [hn]
• OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision [12d] [hn]
• S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic [12d] [hn]
• Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight [12d] [hn]
• OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode [12d] [hn]
• C++: The Programming Language back cover raises questions not answered by front [12d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? [12d] [hn]
• SAT-Physical Thermodynamic Framework: treating constraints as a thermal system [12d] [hn]
• Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised [12d] [hn]
• Alzheimer's patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in drug trial [12d] [hn]
• The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024) [12d] [hn]