The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious [335d] [hn]
• Food additive titanium dioxide likely has more toxic effects than thought [335d] [hn]
• What "Working" Means in the Era of AI Apps [335d] [hn]
• I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits [335d] [hn]
• Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold with Glass [335d] [hn]
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation [335d] [hn]
• Japanese researchers develop transparent paper as alternative to plastics [335d] [hn]
• 600 Miles from the North Pole on a boat. My Starlink Mini is at 171 mbit/s [335d] [hn]
• Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data [335d] [hn]
• Onyx (YC W24) – AI Assistants for Work Hiring Founding AE [335d] [hn]
• Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp [335d] [hn]
• DNS traffic spiked as Musk–Trump clash boosted Truth Social (+268%) and X (+20%) [335d] [hn]
• Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data [335d] [hn]
• Online Sports Betting Is for Losers [335d] [hn]
• Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire [335d] [hn]
• United States Digital Service Origins [335d] [hn]
• A year of funded FreeBSD development [335d] [hn]
• Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator [335d] [hn]
• How many trees are there in the North American boreal forest? [335d] [hn]
• Switching to Mojo gave a 14% improvement over CUDA [335d] [hn]
• A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square [335d] [hn]
• Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks [335d] [hn]
• The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf] [335d] [hn]
• SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding [335d] [hn]
• Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring a Director of Customer Success [335d] [hn]
• A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts [335d] [hn]