The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Asking Authors About Their Own Papers [38d] [hn]
• US interest rates raised for first time in three years [38d] [hn]
• My website charged AI agents a penny per page. I watched Claude pay it [38d] [hn]
• OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework [38d] [hn]
• Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU [38d] [hn]
• Why building a Rust LSP is hard [38d] [hn]
• Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hardcoded creds [38d] [hn]
• HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? [38d] [hn]
• Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step [38d] [hn]
• LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers with message passing [38d] [hn]
• Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs [38d] [hn]
• Backups Aren't Simple [38d] [hn]
• Xiami Mimo 2.6 Live Training Dashboard [38d] [hn]
• Why Does the Universe Expand? [38d] [hn]
• macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review [38d] [hn]
• The Railways Killed a Medieval Law [the Deodand] [38d] [hn]
• How good are frontier models at physics? [38d] [hn]
• Fed Raises Rates for First Time in Three Years [38d] [hn]
• Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight [38d] [hn]
• Barndoor acquires Diaphora, creators of open-source workflow runtime Frags [38d] [hn]
• Cyclomatic Complexity in C# [38d] [hn]
• A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs [38d] [hn]
• Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores [38d] [hn]
• Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields [38d] [hn]
• Show HN: Friday – Self-hosted persistent memory for AI coding agents (MCP) [38d] [hn]
• Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres [38d] [hn]
• Reverse-engineered Jev-like model [38d] [hn]
• Why a fast-growing German AI startup is moving its parent company from the US [38d] [hn]
• Tell HN: An inside view of Montana's new biotech law [38d] [hn]
• GitHub Is Having Trouble Counting Things [39d] [hn]
• ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market [39d] [hn]
• We need to stop using Stored Procedures [39d] [hn]
• You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles [39d] [hn]
• Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster [39d] [hn]
• Column built an issuer processor from scratch [39d] [hn]
• Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude [39d] [hn]
• Code Is Crap [39d] [hn]
• Small Programming Tricks [39d] [hn]
• Can We Stop with the Uptime Percentages? [39d] [hn]
• Veronese's Dogs [39d] [hn]
• Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now [39d] [hn]
• Show HN: Free WhatsApp MCP (+UI) – Give Your AI Agents Access to WhatsApp [39d] [hn]
• Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity [39d] [hn]
• The DeepMind Institute [39d] [hn]
• PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand" [39d] [hn]
• Anatomy of a Texture [39d] [hn]
• A warning about 'model welfare' [39d] [hn]
• Better Icon and Label Alignment [39d] [hn]
• We know what a world without work looks like [39d] [hn]
• Replacing Pull Requests with Delta [39d] [hn]
• OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads with Sponsored Agents [39d] [hn]
• DeepMind Paper: Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement Through Evolving Worlds [39d] [hn]
• The American Age Is Over [39d] [hn]
• Goroutine Leak Profiles [39d] [hn]
• When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader [39d] [hn]
• Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Works [39d] [hn]
• I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app [39d] [hn]
• Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go [39d] [hn]
• Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models [39d] [hn]
• ImpactGate: A merge gate that scores the structural decay AI adds [39d] [hn]
• Wax Motor [39d] [hn]
• DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model [39d] [hn]
• Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer [39d] [hn]