The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs [25d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? [25d] [hn]
• Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously? [25d] [hn]
• ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model [25d] [hn]
• Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor [25d] [hn]
• Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny [25d] [hn]
• Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline [25d] [hn]
• Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) [25d] [hn]
• Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden [25d] [hn]
• Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs [25d] [hn]
• I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records [25d] [hn]
• Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet [25d] [hn]
• Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms [25d] [hn]
• Best of British Design [25d] [hn]
• World Labs Is Joining AMD [25d] [hn]
• Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It [25d] [hn]
• California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Drops [25d] [hn]
• Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery [25d] [hn]
• It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs [25d] [hn]
• California expanded the right to delete today [25d] [hn]
• Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020) [25d] [hn]
• First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials [25d] [hn]
• Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004) [25d] [hn]
• MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser [25d] [hn]
• Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics [25d] [hn]
• I Turned a DirecTV HR54-700 into a Standalone Jellyfin Box [25d] [hn]
• GrapheneOS – When an App Is Slow [25d] [hn]
• So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes [25d] [hn]
• Claude Sonnet 5.5 [25d] [hn]
• Claude Sonnet 5.5 [25d] [hn]
• I made a visual workspace for AI Automations [25d] [hn]
• Definitely not Windows (Win 11 parody) [25d] [hn]
• Who Wrote Elizabeth I's Most Scathing Letters? [25d] [hn]
• The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola [25d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP [25d] [hn]
• OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity [25d] [hn]
• How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work [25d] [hn]
• Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't [25d] [hn]
• Synthetic Sagas [25d] [hn]
• Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman [25d] [hn]
• Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display [25d] [hn]
• The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore [25d] [hn]
• 13 Months Sober (2025) [25d] [hn]
• Pirating the Pirates [25d] [hn]
• Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent [25d] [hn]
• Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent [25d] [hn]
• Wavelets in 3D Graphics [25d] [hn]
• Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream [25d] [hn]
• Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat [25d] [hn]
• Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah [25d] [hn]
• Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API [25d] [hn]
• Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts [25d] [hn]
• Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course [25d] [hn]
• What makes Lisp difficult to read? [25d] [hn]
• Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.' [25d] [hn]
• MongoDB CEO resigns "effective immediately" to join Meta, stock drops 20% [25d] [hn]
• What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-Identity Generators [25d] [hn]
• A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work [25d] [hn]
• I Switched to Brave Browser [25d] [hn]
• Israel Keeps Expanding into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show [25d] [hn]
• Walking Men [25d] [hn]
• Coding Is Not Solved – Alex Ewerlöf Notes [25d] [hn]
• Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? [25d] [hn]
• Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests [25d] [hn]
• What Sentry's 16GB selfhosted taught me [25d] [hn]
• Una watch review: A modular, repairable GPS watch is a good first step [25d] [hn]
• Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News [25d] [hn]