The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data [19d] [hn]
• Solving `UK Passport Application` with Haskell [19d] [hn]
• Reproducible Builds [19d] [hn]
• The Death of the Middle-Class Musician [19d] [hn]
• Exploring Trichromacy through Maxwell's Color Experiment (2023) [19d] [hn]
• Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore [19d] [hn]
• Microsoft tried dogfooding Copilot with .NET, but got only hallucinations [19d] [hn]
• Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff [19d] [hn]
• Show HN: Vet – A tool for safely running remote shell scripts [19d] [hn]
• The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World [19d] [hn]
• AI fakes duel over impeach ment of Vice-President in Phillipines [19d] [hn]
• 2025 ARRL Field Day [19d] [hn]
• JavaScript Trademark Update [19d] [hn]
• Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale [19d] [hn]
• Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants [19d] [hn]
• Meta Spends $14B to Hire a Single Guy [19d] [hn]
• NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy [19d] [hn]
• US Justice Department settles antitrust case for HPE's $14B takeover of Juniper [19d] [hn]
• BYU study: Why some people choose not to use artificial intelligence [19d] [hn]
• Memory Safe Languages: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Modern Software Development [pdf] [19d] [hn]
• Boeing uses potatoes to test wi-fi [19d] [hn]
• No One Is in Charge at the US Copyright Office [19d] [hn]
• Lima Site 85: How a CIA Helicopter Defended a Secret U.S. Radar Facility [19d] [hn]
• Republican governors oppose 10-year moratorium on state AI laws in GOP tax bill [19d] [hn]
• An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall [19d] [hn]
• BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large [19d] [hn]
• Is being bilingual good for your brain? [19d] [hn]
• Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic [19d] [hn]
• Arrests of scientists over smuggled samples add to US border anxiety [19d] [hn]
• Ask HN: From the MIT study, is it smarter to resign than to use forced AI? [19d] [hn]
• People Are Being Involuntarily Committed After Spiraling into ChatGPT Psychosis [19d] [hn]
• Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk [19d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What are you actually using LLMs for in production? [19d] [hn]
• Addictions Are Being Engineered [19d] [hn]
• The Coming Storm: How Mediterranean Water Collapse Could Reshape Britain [19d] [hn]
• MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System [20d] [hn]
• Sirius: A GPU-native SQL engine [20d] [hn]
• Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven't yet [20d] [hn]
• Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity [20d] [hn]
• Texas brothers buy abandoned Boeing 727 for $10k [20d] [hn]
• ZeQLplus: Terminal SQLite Database Browser [20d] [hn]
• Swarms of robots could go up your nose, melt the mucus and clean your sinuses [20d] [hn]
• Finding Peter Putnam: The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind [20d] [hn]
• Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death [20d] [hn]
• History of Cycling Maps [20d] [hn]
• Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know [20d] [hn]
• Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator [20d] [hn]
• We need to talk about Saudi Arabia [20d] [hn]
• DR Congo and Rawanda signs a peace deal [20d] [hn]
• IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites [20d] [hn]
• Hurricane Forecasters Lose Crucial Satellite Data, with Serious Implications [20d] [hn]
• Dubai Reality Check: An Indian VC's Year of Truth [20d] [hn]
• I Deleted My Second Brain [20d] [hn]
• An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It [20d] [hn]
• Why Does Kars4Kids Sends Most of Its Money to One Town in New Jersey? (2023) [20d] [hn]
• Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable [20d] [hn]
• Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos [20d] [hn]