The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Understanding LucasArts' iMUSE System [87d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is Slack Down? [87d] [hn]
• Wtfis: Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots [87d] [hn]
• What if humanity forgot how to make CPUs? [87d] [hn]
• Why National Labs are investing (heavily) in AI [87d] [hn]
• Build Your Own Siri. Locally. On-Device. No Cloud [87d] [hn]
• Show HN: Lumoar – Free SOC 2 tool for SaaS startups [87d] [hn]
• A Proven Guide to Building Your Path to Success [87d] [hn]
• Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CVE-2025-31250) [87d] [hn]
• Toward a Sparse and Interpretable Audio Codec [87d] [hn]
• HealthBench [87d] [hn]
• Show HN: The missing inbox for GitHub pull requests [87d] [hn]
• Access to the United States' President for Sale via Meme Coin [87d] [hn]
• Legion Health (YC S21) Is Hiring Founding Engineers to Fix Mental Health with AI [87d] [hn]
• Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens [87d] [hn]
• I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher) [87d] [hn]
• The Internet 1997 – 2021 [87d] [hn]
• Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues [87d] [hn]
• RIP Usenix ATC [87d] [hn]
• How to title your blog post or whatever [87d] [hn]
• Launch HN: ParaQuery (YC X25) – GPU Accelerated Spark/SQL [87d] [hn]
• Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice [87d] [hn]
• Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app [87d] [hn]
• The Barbican [87d] [hn]
• Embeddings Are Underrated [87d] [hn]
• OpenEoX to Standardize End-of-Life (EOL) and End-of-Support (EOS) Information [87d] [hn]
• Demonstrably Secure Software Supply Chains with Nix [87d] [hn]
• The great displacement is already well underway? [87d] [hn]
• Reviving a Modular Cargo Bike Design from the 1930s [87d] [hn]
• Tailscale 4via6 – Connect Edge Deployments at Scale [87d] [hn]
• Just Fucking Use HTML [87d] [hn]
• Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read [87d] [hn]
• Paul McCartney, Elton John and other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping [87d] [hn]
• Gig Companies Violate Workers Rights [87d] [hn]
• The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule [87d] [hn]
• A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house [87d] [hn]
• Show HN: CLI that spots fake GitHub stars, risky dependencies and licence traps [87d] [hn]
• CrowdStrike CEO Cuts His Voting Power by 92% with Unexplained Gifts [87d] [hn]
• University of Texas-Led Team Solves a Big Problem for Fusion Energy [87d] [hn]
• Spade Hardware Description Language [87d] [hn]
• A community-led fork of Organic Maps [87d] [hn]
• Implicit UVs: Real-time semi-global parameterization of implicit surfaces [pdf] [87d] [hn]
• Why alien languages could be far stranger than we imagine Essays [87d] [hn]
• US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired [87d] [hn]
• Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought [87d] [hn]
• Armbian Updates: OMV support, boot improvents, Rockchip optimizations [88d] [hn]
• White House fires head of Copyright Office amid Library of Congress shakeup [88d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? [88d] [hn]
• I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC [88d] [hn]
• The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia [88d] [hn]
• Continuous Thought Machines [88d] [hn]
• Intellect-2 Release: The First 32B Model Trained Through Globally Distributed RL [88d] [hn]
• Custom SIM card in Tesla Model 3 2024, Tesla Model Y 2025 and Cybertruck [88d] [hn]
• Air Traffic Control [88d] [hn]
• Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected [88d] [hn]