The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Qt An E2EE post-quantum messenger core in Rust (10k connections on 124MB RAM [11d] [hn]
• Whatever became of holography? (2011) [11d] [hn]
• Show HN: Plimsoll, a self-hosted sandbox for code your AI agent writes [11d] [hn]
• Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis [11d] [hn]
• Illustration Beyond Proof [11d] [hn]
• Show HN: BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab [11d] [hn]
• ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol [11d] [hn]
• Rubber Duck: An AI interviewer for the knowledge in your head [11d] [hn]
• Google Data Centers around the world [11d] [hn]
• JulianFlux: Electrodynamic vector retrieval and causal routing for AI [11d] [hn]
• Fingerprints Are the New Cookies [11d] [hn]
• Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers [11d] [hn]
• Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence [11d] [hn]
• Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries [11d] [hn]
• A college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused [11d] [hn]
• Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them [11d] [hn]
• How I manage persistent Claude Code loops: Spool [11d] [hn]
• An AI agent's $20 Kalshi account, with an exact reward model [11d] [hn]
• A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her [12d] [hn]
• Tattoos you can turn on and off [12d] [hn]
• Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n [12d] [hn]
• The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl [12d] [hn]
• Andrej Karpathy breaks down the capability gap [12d] [hn]
• Fetching AMD SEV Reports (With Zig) [12d] [hn]
• Cognitive Decline or Sanity Incline? [12d] [hn]
• Cartographers of North Korea [12d] [hn]
• Artificial Insanity [12d] [hn]
• Be The Onion's Hero for Once [12d] [hn]
• Do You Have Pre-2012 Onion Issues? [12d] [hn]
• Tesla wants to increase emissions near a Bay Area elementary school [12d] [hn]
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS [12d] [hn]
• America's Longest Highway Tunnel (2025) [12d] [hn]
• Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger [12d] [hn]
• Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude [12d] [hn]
• Arena Allocators in C [12d] [hn]
• The Controversial Class That MIT Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach [12d] [hn]
• Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers [12d] [hn]
• NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect [12d] [hn]