The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The Great Cholesterol Scam and the Dangers of Statins [23d] [hn]
• Nobody Is Listening on Port 8125 [23d] [hn]
• EDG C++ Compiler is open source [23d] [hn]
• 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience [23d] [hn]
• Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32 [23d] [hn]
• The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites [23d] [hn]
• pldb: programming languages papers [23d] [hn]
• Codex Pricing: Pro has unlimited 5.6 usage [23d] [hn]
• Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis [23d] [hn]
• Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy [23d] [hn]
• Gitea 28.0.0 Is Released [23d] [hn]
• Dear User, email is here to stay [23d] [hn]
• Functional Ultrasound Imaging from Scratch [23d] [hn]
• Gemini 4 Argon [23d] [hn]
• CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective [23d] [hn]
• Dear Software Makers [23d] [hn]
• Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields [23d] [hn]
• America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" [23d] [hn]
• EDG C++ front-end goes public [23d] [hn]
• Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos [23d] [hn]
• Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain's Inner Workings [23d] [hn]
• Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards [23d] [hn]
• 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs [23d] [hn]
• Museum of Time-Based Art [23d] [hn]
• Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin [23d] [hn]
• Recursive `Make` and `-J` [23d] [hn]
• Billions of Triangles Redux [23d] [hn]
• Chompi portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) [23d] [hn]
• Claude Says [23d] [hn]
• Let's Ditch Google (Verb) [23d] [hn]
• Commit Description as a Thinking Tool [23d] [hn]
• The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 [23d] [hn]
• Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") [23d] [hn]
• Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance [23d] [hn]
• Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)Graces of the Parenthesis [23d] [hn]
• Why copyright makes no sense [23d] [hn]
• Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management [23d] [hn]
• The AI Race Just Got Awkward [23d] [hn]
• cp: -r or -R? [23d] [hn]
• So You Think You Could Be an Electrician? [23d] [hn]
• Thought as a Technology (2016) [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM [23d] [hn]
• Coltrane's Tone Circle [23d] [hn]
• Change Coupling: Why One-Line Fixes Touch Ten Files [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose [23d] [hn]
• I can't tell who's teaching who anymore [23d] [hn]
• SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 [23d] [hn]
• A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal [23d] [hn]
• What TLA+ can and can't check [23d] [hn]
• Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf] [23d] [hn]
• SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering [23d] [hn]
• Scientists Have Found a Weird Physical Sign That Someone Is Interested in You [23d] [hn]
• Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available [23d] [hn]
• Your body of work thinks back at you [23d] [hn]
• Multi-connectivity for real-time streaming over Wi-Fi [23d] [hn]
• The last time my family was replaced by technology [23d] [hn]
• Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites [23d] [hn]
• Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry [23d] [hn]