The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model [81d] [hn]
• Fortran for C Programmers [81d] [hn]
• Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard [81d] [hn]
• Can V Deliver on Its Promises? [81d] [hn]
• The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus [81d] [hn]
• FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux [81d] [hn]
• Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad [81d] [hn]
• Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers [81d] [hn]
• Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders [81d] [hn]
• Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics [81d] [hn]
• Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open [81d] [hn]
• We fall for fake health information – and how it spreads faster than facts [81d] [hn]
• Starship Troopers Revolutionize Warfighting [81d] [hn]
• Directory of MCP Servers [81d] [hn]
• OCaml Web Development: Essential Tools and Libraries in 2025 [81d] [hn]
• Xata: Postgres at scale, with copy-on-write branching and anonymization [81d] [hn]
• Racket – the Language-Oriented Programming Language – 8.17 is now available [81d] [hn]
• Mystical [81d] [hn]
• Lufthansa plane flown by autopilot after pilot faints in cockpit [82d] [hn]
• Largest database of nanosatellites, over 4400 nanosats and CubeSats [82d] [hn]
• Dead Stars Don't Radiate [82d] [hn]
• The longest train journey is epic – but nobody's ever taken it [82d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool [82d] [hn]
• Gnosis Evolve MCP for Claude Desktop [82d] [hn]
• A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza [82d] [hn]
• Mr. Secretary, Reclassify the Statin [82d] [hn]
• How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS [82d] [hn]
• If nothing is curated, how do we find things [82d] [hn]
• Energy Drinks Linked to Rise in Colorectal & Blood Cancer [82d] [hn]
• "We would be less confidential than Google" Proton threatens to quit Switzerland [82d] [hn]
• Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64 [82d] [hn]
• Steepest Descent Density Control for Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting [82d] [hn]
• O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call [82d] [hn]
• The Japanese method of creating forests comes to Mexico [82d] [hn]
• Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python [82d] [hn]
• No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon [82d] [hn]
• OBNC – Oberon-07 Compiler [82d] [hn]
• MinorMiner: We turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin [82d] [hn]
• MIT paper on AI for materials research found to be fraudulent [82d] [hn]
• Open Problems in Computational geometry [82d] [hn]
• Transformer neural net learns to run Conway's Game of Life just from examples [82d] [hn]
• Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's [82d] [hn]
• A Critical Look at "A Critical Look at MCP." [82d] [hn]
• You do not need NixOS on the desktop [82d] [hn]
• Identifying almost any x86 CPU (2004) [82d] [hn]
• Implementing a RISC-V Hypervisor [82d] [hn]
• Catalog of Novel Operating Systems [82d] [hn]
• Publisher: The Malloy Semantic Model Server [82d] [hn]
• JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management [82d] [hn]
• Show HN: Fahmatrix – A Lightweight, Pandas-Like DataFrame Library for Java [82d] [hn]
• A Linux kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: general impressions [82d] [hn]
• Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws [82d] [hn]
• Postman for MCP [82d] [hn]
• XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement [82d] [hn]
• Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes [82d] [hn]
• Show HN: Kokoro TTS – Free Text to Speech Converter with Multilingual AI Voices [82d] [hn]
• A Linux kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: case studies [82d] [hn]
• Show HN: Roast My Dish – AI roasts your food photos with brutal honesty [82d] [hn]
• Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs [82d] [hn]
• WebGL Gray-Scott Explorer (2012) [82d] [hn]
• Google worried it couldn't control how Israel uses Project Nimbus, files reveal [82d] [hn]