The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Asking Authors About Their Own Papers [37d] [hn]
• US interest rates raised for first time in three years [37d] [hn]
• My website charged AI agents a penny per page. I watched Claude pay it [37d] [hn]
• OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework [37d] [hn]
• Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU [37d] [hn]
• Why building a Rust LSP is hard [37d] [hn]
• Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hardcoded creds [37d] [hn]
• HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? [37d] [hn]
• Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step [37d] [hn]
• LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers with message passing [37d] [hn]
• Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs [37d] [hn]
• Backups Aren't Simple [37d] [hn]
• Xiami Mimo 2.6 Live Training Dashboard [37d] [hn]
• Why Does the Universe Expand? [37d] [hn]
• macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review [37d] [hn]
• The Railways Killed a Medieval Law [the Deodand] [37d] [hn]
• How good are frontier models at physics? [37d] [hn]
• Fed Raises Rates for First Time in Three Years [37d] [hn]
• Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight [37d] [hn]
• Barndoor acquires Diaphora, creators of open-source workflow runtime Frags [37d] [hn]
• Cyclomatic Complexity in C# [37d] [hn]
• A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs [37d] [hn]
• Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores [37d] [hn]
• Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields [37d] [hn]
• Show HN: Friday – Self-hosted persistent memory for AI coding agents (MCP) [37d] [hn]
• Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres [37d] [hn]
• Reverse-engineered Jev-like model [37d] [hn]
• Why a fast-growing German AI startup is moving its parent company from the US [37d] [hn]
• Tell HN: An inside view of Montana's new biotech law [37d] [hn]
• GitHub Is Having Trouble Counting Things [37d] [hn]
• ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market [37d] [hn]
• We need to stop using Stored Procedures [37d] [hn]
• You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles [37d] [hn]
• Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster [37d] [hn]
• Column built an issuer processor from scratch [37d] [hn]
• Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude [37d] [hn]
• Code Is Crap [37d] [hn]
• Small Programming Tricks [37d] [hn]
• Can We Stop with the Uptime Percentages? [37d] [hn]
• Veronese's Dogs [37d] [hn]
• Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now [37d] [hn]
• Show HN: Free WhatsApp MCP (+UI) – Give Your AI Agents Access to WhatsApp [37d] [hn]
• Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity [37d] [hn]
• The DeepMind Institute [37d] [hn]
• PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand" [37d] [hn]
• Anatomy of a Texture [37d] [hn]
• A warning about 'model welfare' [37d] [hn]
• Better Icon and Label Alignment [37d] [hn]
• We know what a world without work looks like [37d] [hn]
• Replacing Pull Requests with Delta [37d] [hn]
• OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads with Sponsored Agents [37d] [hn]
• DeepMind Paper: Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement Through Evolving Worlds [37d] [hn]
• The American Age Is Over [37d] [hn]
• Goroutine Leak Profiles [37d] [hn]
• When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader [37d] [hn]
• Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Works [37d] [hn]
• I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app [37d] [hn]
• Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go [38d] [hn]
• Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models [38d] [hn]
• ImpactGate: A merge gate that scores the structural decay AI adds [38d] [hn]
• Wax Motor [38d] [hn]
• DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model [38d] [hn]
• Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer [38d] [hn]
• Apple detectives solved mystery of ancient tree and rewrote the history of fruit [38d] [hn]
• Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years [38d] [hn]
• Tiny village votes for 'independence' from UK amid asylum seeker row [38d] [hn]
• The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week [38d] [hn]
• Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust [38d] [hn]
• Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ads [38d] [hn]
• Salesforce Global Outage [38d] [hn]
• Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy [38d] [hn]
• EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' [38d] [hn]
• Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs [38d] [hn]
• I Put Nam A2-Lite Inside an iRig HD X [38d] [hn]
• EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member' [38d] [hn]
• Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing [38d] [hn]
• MartyPC – A Cycle-Accurate IBM PC/XT Emulator [38d] [hn]
• A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX [38d] [hn]
• Datamimic – don't let your coding agent invent its own test world [38d] [hn]
• William Buckland's Theology of Geology [38d] [hn]
• Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New [38d] [hn]
• The Shadows Lurking in the Equations – Underwater Islands [38d] [hn]
• Cloudflare: Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training [38d] [hn]
• Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography [38d] [hn]
• A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks into a Telnet Server [38d] [hn]
• Khipu (Quipu) Field Guide [38d] [hn]
• Landing the Space Shuttle – A Flying Machine and the Thrill of a Lifetime [38d] [hn]