The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• What birdsong and back ends can teach us about magic [17d] [hn]
• The Genius Device That Rocked F1 [17d] [hn]
• OpenAI Ignored IMO Request, Announced Math Results Before Closing Ceremony [17d] [hn]
• IPv6 Based Canvas [17d] [hn]
• After effectively banning porn, Idaho state government shows visitors porn [17d] [hn]
• Australia Wants to See Your Papers Before You Press Play [17d] [hn]
• Peep Show – The Most Realistic Portrayal of Evil Ever Made (2020) [17d] [hn]
• FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code [17d] [hn]
• Tough news for our UK users [17d] [hn]
• EU commissioner shocked by dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu [17d] [hn]
• Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling [17d] [hn]
• Is DeepSeek a New Voice Among LLMs in Public Opinion Simulation? [17d] [hn]
• Subreply – an open source text-only social network [17d] [hn]
• Allentown man said to have died in ICE custody is alive in Guatemala [17d] [hn]
• Leaders are using appeals to nostalgia, nationalism to attack higher education [17d] [hn]
• Payment processors' bar on Japanese adult content endangers democracy (2024) [17d] [hn]
• Mysterious Antimatter Physics Discovered at the Large Hadron Collider [17d] [hn]
• Stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque (OpenBSD) [17d] [hn]
• The great AI delusion is falling apart [17d] [hn]
• Amazon's Emissions Climbed 6% in 2024 on Data Center Buildout [17d] [hn]
• QuakeNotch, Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch [17d] [hn]
• Rising Graduate Joblessness Is Mainly Affecting Men [17d] [hn]
• Hacking a Toniebox [17d] [hn]
• Master Foo and the Script Kiddie [17d] [hn]
• Insights on Teufel's First Open-Source Speaker [17d] [hn]
• They're putting blue food coloring in everything [17d] [hn]
• "The Bitter Lesson" is wrong. Well sort of [17d] [hn]
• Speeding Up My ZSH Shell [17d] [hn]
• The landlord gutting America’s hospitals [17d] [hn]
• When is it the best time to post on Show HN? [17d] [hn]
• Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies [17d] [hn]
• AICodingHorrors – The price of AI-assisted coding [17d] [hn]
• US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery [17d] [hn]
• The old Caveman Chemistry website (1996-2000) [17d] [hn]
• Xmlui [17d] [hn]
• Can Software Be Durable? [17d] [hn]
• How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale [17d] [hn]
• Scientists reveal a widespread but unidentified psychological phenomenon [17d] [hn]
• Digital vassals? French Government 'exposes citizens' data to US' [17d] [hn]
• Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update) [17d] [hn]
• A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab [17d] [hn]
• AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? [17d] [hn]
• Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) [17d] [hn]
• “I noticed a clear violation of our contributing guidelines” [17d] [hn]
• Robot metabolism: Toward machines that can grow by consuming other machines [17d] [hn]
• Terence Tao: A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability [17d] [hn]
• The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality [17d] [hn]
• Replit goes rogue and deletes our entire database [17d] [hn]
• The Big LLM Architecture Comparison [17d] [hn]
• Roman Roads Research Association (UK) [17d] [hn]
• Async I/O on Linux in databases [17d] [hn]
• Will the Fear of Being Confused for AI Mean That We Will Now Write Differently? [17d] [hn]
• Show HN: MCP server for Blender that builds 3D scenes via natural language [17d] [hn]
• Airbnb allowed rampant price gouging following L.A. fires, city attorney alleges [18d] [hn]
• Borg - Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption [18d] [hn]
• Erythritol linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk [18d] [hn]
• Bill Banning One-Person Trains Would Lock NY Transit in the Past [18d] [hn]
• The AGI Final Frontier: The CLJ-AGI Benchmark [18d] [hn]
• Data and Democracy: Charting Assault on American Democracy and a Path Forward [18d] [hn]
• Intel to boost gross margins – new products must deliver 50% gross profit [18d] [hn]