The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• How to build a diffusion language model [9d] [hn]
• Matrox: Graphics for Professionals [9d] [hn]
• Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires [9d] [hn]
• "I just chose words carefully." [9d] [hn]
• Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas [9d] [hn]
• Terrance Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video] [9d] [hn]
• Show HN: Academa – Long-form STEM lecture videos generated by LLMs [9d] [hn]
• Mark Zuckerberg's Social Reckoning [9d] [hn]
• Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's) [9d] [hn]
• Making the Internet Boring [10d] [hn]
• Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer [10d] [hn]
• I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits [10d] [hn]
• 1kB Website as Status Symbol [10d] [hn]
• The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change [10d] [hn]
• Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver [10d] [hn]
• Norway Shrugged [10d] [hn]
• Running SQLite Apps on Docker and Kubernetes with Litestream [10d] [hn]
• Flock's CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media's Reporting on Abortion Case [10d] [hn]
• Should We Have Kept the American Empire? [10d] [hn]
• 'They shot all their weapons; they trashed their ships; they ran out of money' [10d] [hn]
• Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones [10d] [hn]
• Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES [10d] [hn]
• Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds [10d] [hn]
• Haiku R1/beta6 has been released [10d] [hn]
• Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root [10d] [hn]
• Startup Anti-Patterns [10d] [hn]
• European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy [10d] [hn]
• Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists [10d] [hn]
• Emacs vs. Vim 2026: 24.3% vs. 8% Usage, 20x Memory Gap [10d] [hn]
• DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure [10d] [hn]
• Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat [10d] [hn]
• My BC-250 Journey (With 40 CUs Unlocked) [10d] [hn]
• METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack [10d] [hn]
• Crossing Boundaries with Integration Events [10d] [hn]
• Zoom activated my mic and played "recording in progress" at 4AM [10d] [hn]
• Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default [10d] [hn]
• No AI Fridays [10d] [hn]
• Leak of Internal Valve Data [10d] [hn]
• The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs [10d] [hn]
• monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter [10d] [hn]
• Automating Immersive Reading [10d] [hn]
• An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later [10d] [hn]
• Hacking IKEA Furniture [10d] [hn]
• The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical [10d] [hn]
• Physically Immutable Optical Archive Libraries [10d] [hn]
• One Nix flake to rule them all [10d] [hn]
• My fat loss experiments with ChatGPT and water fasting [10d] [hn]
• Fair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice [10d] [hn]
• Spark: Sparklines in your shell [10d] [hn]
• Nvidia's AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU [10d] [hn]
• Show HN: Bolnee-Chat – Self Hosted Chatbot Integration in Your Business Website [10d] [hn]
• Everyone Should Build Their Own Network Stack [10d] [hn]
• A Cyanometer and a Cloud Colourimeter [10d] [hn]
• Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private [10d] [hn]
• Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel [10d] [hn]
• Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018) [10d] [hn]
• Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry [10d] [hn]
• Java Is Memory Efficient [10d] [hn]
• Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device [10d] [hn]
• Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI [10d] [hn]
• Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps [10d] [hn]
• The Internet Archive's Vintage AI Collection [10d] [hn]
• California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law [10d] [hn]
• No Country for Mediocre Mathematicians [10d] [hn]
• Algorithmic Rent-Pricing Litigation Expands Under New State and Local Laws [10d] [hn]
• FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued [10d] [hn]
• Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom [10d] [hn]
• Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients [10d] [hn]
• Bug Blindness [10d] [hn]