The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions [35d] [hn]
• How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip [35d] [hn]
• US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four [35d] [hn]
• The US 'Kill Chain' That Destroyed an Iranian School [35d] [hn]
• Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country [35d] [hn]
• War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready? [35d] [hn]
• Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md [35d] [hn]
• Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage [35d] [hn]
• When the FM Band Goes Transatlantic [35d] [hn]
• Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue [35d] [hn]
• Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP [35d] [hn]
• How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? [35d] [hn]
• The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security [35d] [hn]
• Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models [35d] [hn]
• Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust) [35d] [hn]
• Apple releases iPhone Duo simulator and Xcode 27.1 beta [35d] [hn]
• Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion [35d] [hn]
• Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals [35d] [hn]
• Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 [35d] [hn]
• US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report [35d] [hn]
• A Model for Winning Survivor [35d] [hn]
• There's no point at which turning your brain off will work [35d] [hn]
• Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug [35d] [hn]
• Systemd is a suite of basic building blocks [35d] [hn]
• Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa? [35d] [hn]
• Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago? [35d] [hn]
• US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments [35d] [hn]
• Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots' [35d] [hn]
• AI is an elite crime spree [35d] [hn]
• Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged: Study [35d] [hn]
• GrassLobster: AI Agentic Generation of Parametric Geometry Workflows [35d] [hn]
• A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game [35d] [hn]
• Build Faster Feedback Loops Using Qualitative User Research [35d] [hn]
• Show HN: Rickub – The Smartest Git in the Universe [35d] [hn]
• AI Protest in Montreal [35d] [hn]
• North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes – Science – AAAS [35d] [hn]
• Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich [35d] [hn]
• Friend at Jane Street said they will solve Riemann Hypothesis [35d] [hn]
• I Vibed a Proof of Conway's Conjecture [35d] [hn]
• BeanShell3 in Development [35d] [hn]
• Cloudflare Quick Tunnels [35d] [hn]
• Second Circuit Allows Government to Search Electronic Devices at the Border [35d] [hn]
• NATS Major Incident Preliminary Investigation Report [pdf] [35d] [hn]
• Show HN: Jev vs. GPT-5.6 and Claude Haiku at Pong [35d] [hn]
• HEIF Heist: image parser RCE exploit [35d] [hn]
• AI chatbots becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret? [35d] [hn]
• UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970 [35d] [hn]
• NATS publishes preliminary report on technical incident of 8 September [35d] [hn]
• Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution [35d] [hn]
• An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents [35d] [hn]
• If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious [35d] [hn]
• I don't like passkeys [35d] [hn]
• Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap [35d] [hn]
• Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him [36d] [hn]
• ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history [36d] [hn]
• Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' [36d] [hn]
• OpenJev [36d] [hn]
• New wild cat species discovered – with only one known living member [36d] [hn]
• Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud [36d] [hn]
• Jemalloc 5.4.0 [36d] [hn]
• The Scourge of x86 Emulation [36d] [hn]
• Waymo in Singapore [36d] [hn]
• I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world [36d] [hn]
• Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek [36d] [hn]
• Code Scans [36d] [hn]
• Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021) [36d] [hn]
• Hacking OpenAI [36d] [hn]
• The open source version of Claude Project that gives you the context ownershp [36d] [hn]
• Shapelearn Qwen 3.8 27B (13.1 GB VRAM) [36d] [hn]
• Minimal Phone 2 [36d] [hn]
• Ask A Monk – A digital wilderness for thoughts with no immediate answer [36d] [hn]
• Claude Code from Source [36d] [hn]
• Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006 [36d] [hn]
• Goose: 1.16x faster than C++ and 1.12x than safe Rust, while memory safe [36d] [hn]