The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Little-known leguminous plant can increase beef production by 60% (2022) [33d] [hn]
• GTP Blind Voting: GPT-5 vs. 4o [33d] [hn]
• GPT 5 vs. Opus 4.1 for Vibe-Coded Apps [33d] [hn]
• How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements [33d] [hn]
• Texas politicians warn Smithsonian it must not lobby to retain its space shuttle [33d] [hn]
• Our European search index goes live [33d] [hn]
• Must democracy "deliver the goods" to beat autocracy? [33d] [hn]
• Study finds flavor bans cut youth vaping but slow decline in cigarette smoking [33d] [hn]
• The Framework Desktop is a beast [33d] [hn]
• GPT-5 Under Fire: Red Teaming OpenAI's Model Reveals Surprising Weaknesses [33d] [hn]
• Disney 1985 film The Black Cauldron was an experiment that failed [33d] [hn]
• My ancestors fought in WWII. Hiroshima is plagued by shallow reading [33d] [hn]
• GPU-rich labs have won: What's left for the rest of us is distillation [33d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally? [33d] [hn]
• Build durable workflows with Postgres [33d] [hn]
• Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs [33d] [hn]
• Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell has passed away [33d] [hn]
• Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why [33d] [hn]
• ChatGPT users hate GPT-5's overworked secretary energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy [33d] [hn]
• json2dir: a JSON-to-directory converter, a fast alternative to home-manager [33d] [hn]
• M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025 [33d] [hn]
• I Want Everything Local – Building My Offline AI Workspace [33d] [hn]
• The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers [33d] [hn]
• AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified [33d] [hn]
• My commitment to you and our company [33d] [hn]
• Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's plane. But why? [33d] [hn]
• I clustered four Framework Mainboards to test LLMs [33d] [hn]
• Lurk – A Turing-complete programming language for ZK-SNARKs [33d] [hn]
• We built an open-source asynchronous coding agent [33d] [hn]
• HRT's Python Fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for Faster Imports [33d] [hn]
• AWS's sudden removal of a 10-year account and all of its data: lessons learned [33d] [hn]
• Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy [33d] [hn]
• GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding [33d] [hn]
• Programming with AI: You're Probably Doing It Wrong [33d] [hn]
• AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators [33d] [hn]
• AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing [33d] [hn]
• Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5 [33d] [hn]
• Open SWE by LangChain [33d] [hn]
• Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist [33d] [hn]
• Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights as We Know Them [33d] [hn]
• What Does Consulting Do? [33d] [hn]
• Getting Good Results from Claude Code [33d] [hn]
• The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Daily Puzzle Games [33d] [hn]
• HorizonDB, a geocoding engine in Rust that replaces Elasticsearch [33d] [hn]
• Show HN: Synchrotron, a real-time DSP engine in pure Python [33d] [hn]
• The BLS Can't Be Replaced by the Private Sector [33d] [hn]
• Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people [33d] [hn]
• Apple's Favoritism to Fastmail [33d] [hn]
• The Windows 10 emoji picker has been broken for a month [33d] [hn]
• Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation [33d] [hn]
• The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning [33d] [hn]
• Amtrak NextGen Acela Debuts on August 28 [33d] [hn]
• It's Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation [33d] [hn]
• I Don't Read Your Email Threads [33d] [hn]
• US to rewrite its past national climate reports [33d] [hn]
• How Attention Sinks Keep Language Models Stable [34d] [hn]
• A love letter to my future employer (2020) [34d] [hn]
• Benchmarking GPT-5 on 400 Real-World Code Reviews [34d] [hn]
• Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole [34d] [hn]
• Turn Any Website into an API [34d] [hn]
• GPT-5 leaked system prompt [34d] [hn]
• The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964) [34d] [hn]
• GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?" [34d] [hn]
• GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?" [34d] [hn]
• New executive order puts all grants under political control [34d] [hn]
• The Fundamentals Still Matter [34d] [hn]