The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Meaning Machine – Visualize how LLMs break down and simulate meaning [127d] [hn]
• Show HN: Durable Python Workflows [127d] [hn]
• Google won't ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all [127d] [hn]
• How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail [127d] [hn]
• CSS Hell [127d] [hn]
• Onyx (YC W24) Is Hiring for ML Engineer [127d] [hn]
• Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run [127d] [hn]
• Windows File Manager (WinFile) repository archived on March 1, 2025 [127d] [hn]
• Classic Computer Replicas [127d] [hn]
• The Dauug House - Dauug|36 minicomputer documentation [127d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dosidicus – A digital pet with a simple neural network [127d] [hn]
• A study of lightning fatalities inside buildings while using smartphones [pdf] (2024) [127d] [hn]
• Can a single AI model advance any field of science? [127d] [hn]
• It Does Not Take 21 Days to Form a Habit [127d] [hn]
• Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (homebrew replacement) [127d] [hn]
• Ping, You've Got Whale: AI detection system alerts ships of whales in their path [127d] [hn]
• The Truth about Atlantis (2019) [127d] [hn]
• The complex origin story of domestic cats [127d] [hn]
• I started a devblog about mixing SwiftUI and C++ to make a Twitch app [127d] [hn]
• Parcom: CL Parser Combinators [127d] [hn]
• π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization [127d] [hn]
• Recover (YC W21) Is Hiring [127d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a Ruby gem that handles memoization with a ttl [127d] [hn]
• Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024) [127d] [hn]
• I should have loved biology too [127d] [hn]
• Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems [127d] [hn]
• Show HN: Morphik – Open-source RAG that understands PDF images, runs locally [127d] [hn]
• An Utterly Incomplete Look at Research from 1825 [127d] [hn]
• ClickHouse gets lazier (and faster): Introducing lazy materialization [127d] [hn]
• Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting [127d] [hn]
• Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation [127d] [hn]
• David Tong Lectures on Theoretical Physics [127d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Infra.new (YC W23) – DevOps Copilot with Guardrails Built In [127d] [hn]
• Introduction to Graph Transformers [127d] [hn]
• Using physics simulations to find targeting strategies in tenpin bowling [128d] [hn]
• I Open-Sourced My AI Toy Company That Runs on ESP32 and OpenAI Realtime API [128d] [hn]
• Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of) [128d] [hn]
• Join the W3C Exploration Interest Group: where standards start [128d] [hn]
• Transforming Your PDFs for RAG with Open Source Using Docling, Milvus, and Feast [128d] [hn]
• The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product – A Review [128d] [hn]
• The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great [128d] [hn]
• Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Dept of Ed says [128d] [hn]
• Should We Respect LLMs? A Study on Influence of Prompt Politeness on Performance [128d] [hn]
• Major breakthroughs in UK munitions production – BAE Systems [128d] [hn]
• GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Sr engineers passionate about education [128d] [hn]
• Offical XRP NPM package has been compromised and key stealing malware introduced [128d] [hn]
• In restaurants, We need a new way to signal that we're ready to pay [128d] [hn]
• Quantum-assured magnetic navigation with higher positioning accuracy than GPS [128d] [hn]
• Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data [128d] [hn]
• Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym [128d] [hn]
• RISC-V RVA23 Profile: A major milestone [128d] [hn]
• Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years – a study [128d] [hn]
• SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces [128d] [hn]
• Does RL Incentivize Reasoning in LLMs Beyond the Base Model? [128d] [hn]
• LHC 2025 First Collisions [128d] [hn]
• FreeDOS 1.4 Is Here [128d] [hn]
• Detecting if an expression is constant in C [128d] [hn]
• The Crypto Con: How Trump Is Looting America from the Oval Office [128d] [hn]
• The many ways tarrifs will hit your electronics [128d] [hn]
• Data Compression Nerds Hate This One Trick [video] [128d] [hn]
• AI for Network Engineers: Understanding Flow, Flowlet, and Packet-Based LB [128d] [hn]
• Fujitsu and RIKEN develop world-leading 256-qubit sup quantum computer [128d] [hn]
• The Rise of Luxury Doomsday Prepping [128d] [hn]
• A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers [128d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Has anyone used Riak? Thoughts? [128d] [hn]
• Attacking My Landlord's Boiler [128d] [hn]
• Welcome to our website for the 1963 BBC MCR21 OB Van [128d] [hn]
• 'World War Zoos' Review: Of Bombs and Beasts [128d] [hn]
• Forecaster reacts: METR's bombshell paper about AI acceleration [128d] [hn]
• Flat origami is Turing complete (2023) [128d] [hn]
• How a Biofilm’s Strange Shape Emerges From Cellular Geometry [128d] [hn]
• Prolog Adventure Game [128d] [hn]