The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Trusting clients is probably a security flaw [7d] [hn]
• Issues with Color Spaces and Perceptual Brightness [7d] [hn]
• Thoughts on a Month with Devin [7d] [hn]
• Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption [7d] [hn]
• Kokoro TTS – A lightweight (82M params) text-to-speech model [7d] [hn]
• General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years [7d] [hn]
• NY Assembly Bill: Criminal background checks for (nearly all) 3D printers [7d] [hn]
• Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock [7d] [hn]
• Alignment faking in large language models [7d] [hn]
• Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? [7d] [hn]
• Firebase bill is usually $50, but I was surprised to see a $70k bill in one day [7d] [hn]
• Byzantine-Sassanian War (602-628 CE): The Last Great War of Antiquity [7d] [hn]
• Some Things to Expect in 2025 [7d] [hn]
• Saint Peter Basilica digital experience [7d] [hn]
• Learn Yjs Interactively [7d] [hn]
• MuJoco Playground [7d] [hn]
• Solving 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: Real-time nonlinear optics simulation (JS/GLSL) [7d] [hn]
• Starship Flight 7 [7d] [hn]
• How hard would it be to display the contents of an image file on the screen? [7d] [hn]
• US Export Control Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion [7d] [hn]
• Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion [7d] [hn]
• How can a top scientist be so confidently wrong? R. A. Fisher and smoking (2022) [7d] [hn]
• Suchir Balaji Case Reopened: From ‘Suicide' to 'Active Investigation’ [8d] [hn]
• FEMA: Never donate clothing (it is never needed) [8d] [hn]
• Potoooooooo [8d] [hn]
• David Lynch, Visionary Director of 'Twin Peaks' and 'Blue Velvet,' Dies at 78 [8d] [hn]
• David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78 [8d] [hn]
• David Lynch has passed away [8d] [hn]
• Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: We don't care about professional coders anymore [8d] [hn]
• Same three bands appear in three different presentations with different labels [8d] [hn]
• I am offering mentoring: In which I help you [8d] [hn]
• GitHub Linux ARM64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories [8d] [hn]
• Show HN: DBOS TypeScript – Lightweight Durable Execution Built on Postgres [8d] [hn]
• Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer (Distributed Systems) [8d] [hn]
• California's future depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires [8d] [hn]
• Penn Station Can Handle the Load: New York Is Ready for Through-Running [8d] [hn]
• Walgreens replaced fridge doors with smart screens. It's now a $200M fiasco [8d] [hn]
• Let's Encrypt is offering 6-day and IP address certs [8d] [hn]
• Test-Driven Development with an LLM for Fun and Profit [8d] [hn]
• The Conundrum of Life's Origin [8d] [hn]
• Astronomers discover neutron star with an incredibly slow six-hour spin [8d] [hn]
• Red Hat Woos VMware Shops with OpenShift Virtualization Engine [8d] [hn]
• Stanford Researchers Produce Ammonia Fuel from Thin Air [8d] [hn]
• GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search [8d] [hn]
• No Calls [8d] [hn]
• Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers [8d] [hn]
• No Billionares at FOSDEM [8d] [hn]
• Nintendo Switch 2 [8d] [hn]
• Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched [8d] [hn]
• Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf] [8d] [hn]
• Show HN: I made an open source directory of where to showoff your projects [8d] [hn]
• Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] [8d] [hn]
• I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too [8d] [hn]
• Properties and Far-infrared Variability of a z = 7 Blazar [8d] [hn]
• Is there such a thing as a web-safe font? [8d] [hn]
• Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law [8d] [hn]
• Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location [8d] [hn]
• Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to 'Kiss' [8d] [hn]
• Researchers use AI to design proteins that block snake venom toxins [8d] [hn]
• Setting Up an RK3588 SBC QEMU Hypervisor with ZFS on Debian [8d] [hn]
• A standards-first web framework [8d] [hn]
• Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket [8d] [hn]