The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio – Tufte's Razor [21d] [hn]
• The Heilbronn Problem [21d] [hn]
• Debian Inference Portal [21d] [hn]
• Interview with Chicken Scheme Maintainer Sjamaan/Peter Bex [21d] [hn]
• Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta [21d] [hn]
• The Harness Is the Company [21d] [hn]
• Zig v0.17.0 [21d] [hn]
• At the Conformation Show: Chasing the Ideal Dog [21d] [hn]
• Woking Electrical Control Room (2016) [21d] [hn]
• Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web [21d] [hn]
• Barcodes are about to go extinct [21d] [hn]
• How to save a life without knowing CPR [21d] [hn]
• Everyone's Packing Up [21d] [hn]
• Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator [21d] [hn]
• GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression [21d] [hn]
• Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS [21d] [hn]
• Make Tmux the OS [21d] [hn]
• Muse Gadgets [21d] [hn]
• The Only Intuitive Interface Is the Nipple [21d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server [21d] [hn]
• Apple Pass Designer [21d] [hn]
• The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit [21d] [hn]
• Around 2-6% of World Bank foreign aid got siphoned into crypto wallets [21d] [hn]
• What if we stopped using GPUs? [video] [21d] [hn]
• Leaderboards and speedrun.com's new terms of service [21d] [hn]
• From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 [21d] [hn]
• There's a New Sea Spider in Town [21d] [hn]
• Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate) [21d] [hn]
• Mystery Function [21d] [hn]
• ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts [21d] [hn]
• STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985) [21d] [hn]
• Dutch Computer Museums [21d] [hn]
• A parasitic Fibonacci computation inside /usr/bin/top [21d] [hn]
• gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer [21d] [hn]
• Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs [21d] [hn]
• Supabase Is Acquiring Turso [21d] [hn]
• A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking [21d] [hn]
• One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash [21d] [hn]
• Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter [21d] [hn]
• America's Largest Producer of Coal Is Operating Under an Expired Permit [21d] [hn]
• The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding [21d] [hn]
• Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator [21d] [hn]
• AI Makes Me Sad [21d] [hn]
• How accurately calibrated is Jev? [21d] [hn]
• Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How to Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence [21d] [hn]
• Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours [21d] [hn]
• Results from the Jane Street hardware puzzle [21d] [hn]
• Fixing GRPO's credit assignment problem without evaluating every step [21d] [hn]
• Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors [21d] [hn]
• The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4) [21d] [hn]
• We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI [21d] [hn]
• The dot and the Swarm: Benefitting from the bitter lesson [21d] [hn]
• With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI–until now [21d] [hn]
• SequenceHash: Multihashing for the rest of us [21d] [hn]
• Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers [21d] [hn]
• A Map of Every Lighthouse on the Planet [21d] [hn]
• Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason [21d] [hn]
• Claude-Shaped Science [21d] [hn]
• Benchmarking retrieval for agents on messy real-world company knowledge [21d] [hn]
• GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow [21d] [hn]
• The Legend of von Neumann [pdf] [21d] [hn]
• Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market [21d] [hn]
• L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages [21d] [hn]
• The first packet sent via RFC1149 avian carrier is up for auction at Christie's [21d] [hn]
• 100 years of student radio history in the DLARC college radio collections [21d] [hn]
• Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude [21d] [hn]
• On building a worm detector [21d] [hn]