The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Fixing the mechanics of my bullet chess [2d] [hn]
• I used ChatGPT to learn programming from zero and built a video generation SaaS [2d] [hn]
• Clinical knowledge in LLMs does not translate to human interactions [2d] [hn]
• Infinite Grid of Resistors [2d] [hn]
• AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios' [2d] [hn]
• What is systems programming, really? (2018) [2d] [hn]
• Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and why they fall short [2d] [hn]
• RAG Is a Fancy, Lying Search Engine [2d] [hn]
• Infineon security microcontroller flaw enabled extraction of TPM secret keys [2d] [hn]
• Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism [2d] [hn]
• How the Final Cartridge III Freezer Works [2d] [hn]
• Self-driving company Waymo's market share in San Francisco exceeds Lyft's [2d] [hn]
• SSHTron: A multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH [2d] [hn]
• What Is Open Source? [2d] [hn]
• Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) [2d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How do you teach your kids about AI? [2d] [hn]
• I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch [2d] [hn]
• "Exploring the Amiga" blog series (2018) [2d] [hn]
• Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models [2d] [hn]
• Solidroad (YC W25) Is Hiring [2d] [hn]
• Built an AI that brutally roasts your website designs [2d] [hn]
• Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix [2d] [hn]
• How to Build Conscious Machines [2d] [hn]
• Man Killed by Police After Spiraling into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis [2d] [hn]
• Danish department determined to dump Microsoft [2d] [hn]
• To fuel AI, US Congress moves to fast-track nuclear plant approvals [2d] [hn]
• Saab achieves AI milestone with Gripen E [2d] [hn]
• How multiplication is defined in Peano arithmetic [2d] [hn]
• Strace Tips for Better Debugging [2d] [hn]
• Meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity [2d] [hn]
• Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances [2d] [hn]
• Google Cloud Incident Report – 2025-06-13 [2d] [hn]
• Builder.ai did not "fake AI with 700 engineers" [2d] [hn]
• How to Write the Worst Possible Python Code (Humor) [2d] [hn]
• AI agent startups at Y Combinator’s Spring ’25 Demo Day [2d] [hn]
• The Talented Ms. Highsmith [2d] [hn]
• Caltrain official lived in secret apartment built illegally inside train station [2d] [hn]
• Green Tea Garbage Collector [2d] [hn]
• For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones [2d] [hn]
• $100 Hamburger [2d] [hn]
• SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching [2d] [hn]
• Building a WordPress MCP Server for Claude: Automating Blog Posts with AI [2d] [hn]
• UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs [2d] [hn]
• Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305M [2d] [hn]
• Filedb: Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask [2d] [hn]
• The Tech Job Meltdown [2d] [hn]
• Rethinking Losses for Diffusion Bridge Samplers [3d] [hn]