The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Anthropic to counteract usage of Claude Code for "vibe hacking" [22d] [hn]
• Don't Build Multi-Agents [22d] [hn]
• Raspberry Pi 5 support (OpenBSD) [22d] [hn]
• Gaza: AI Human Laboratory [22d] [hn]
• The Physics of Sales [22d] [hn]
• Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating but not for everyone [video] [22d] [hn]
• Desert Graves [22d] [hn]
• Towards Memory Specialization: A Case for Long-Term and Short-Term RAM [22d] [hn]
• SparseLoCo: Communication-Efficient LLM Training [22d] [hn]
• Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war. This internal document reveals why [22d] [hn]
• Thoughts on (Amazonian) Leadership [22d] [hn]
• The future of 32-bit support in the kernel [22d] [hn]
• Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect [22d] [hn]
• MAGA declares war on the property tax [22d] [hn]
• Territorial Markings as a Predictor of Driver Aggression and Road Rage (2008) [22d] [hn]
• The Steve Ballmer Interview [22d] [hn]
• Show HN: woomarks, transfer your Pocket links to this app or self-host it [22d] [hn]
• One of Britain's largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed [22d] [hn]
• 93% of GPT-4 performance at 1/4 cost: LLM routing with weak bandit feedback [22d] [hn]
• The car is not the future: On the myth of motorized freedom [22d] [hn]
• Lessons from building an AI data analyst [22d] [hn]
• Minesweeper thermodynamics [22d] [hn]
• A Unique, High-Tech (Family) Computer [22d] [hn]
• The time picker on the iPhone's alarm app isn't circular, it's just a long list [22d] [hn]
• Cloudflare Search Engine Market Share 2025Q2 [22d] [hn]
• Isolated(any) [22d] [hn]
• Anti-establishment versus authoritarian populists and support for the strongman [22d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025) [22d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025) [22d] [hn]
• Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights [22d] [hn]
• Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (1999) [22d] [hn]
• Hackers demand Google fire 2 staff and halt probes, or they will leak databases [22d] [hn]
• "Turns out Google made up an elaborate story about me" [22d] [hn]
• Git for Music – Using Version Control for Music Production (2023) [22d] [hn]
• AI enters the grant game, picking winners [22d] [hn]
• Vibe coded a website to share vibe coding tips [22d] [hn]
• Show HN: Simple modenized .NET NuGet server reached RC [22d] [hn]
• Zfsbackrest: Pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems [22d] [hn]
• Bear is now source-available [22d] [hn]
• Tetris is NP-hard even with O(1) rows or columns [pdf] [22d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Do custom ROMs exist for electric cars, for example Teslas? [22d] [hn]
• Show HN: AfriTales – Discover the Magic of African Storytelling [22d] [hn]
• Intel Patents 'Software Defined Supercore' [22d] [hn]
• Show HN: Blueprint: Fast, Nunjucks-like templating engine for Java 8 and beyond [22d] [hn]
• The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war [22d] [hn]
• CocoaPods Is Deprecated [22d] [hn]
• De-Googling TOTP Authenticator Codes [22d] [hn]
• National Grid: UK's largest battery storage facility at Tilbury substation [22d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Use "-f**k" to kill Google AI Overview [22d] [hn]
• Preserving Order in Concurrent Go Apps: Three Approaches Compared [22d] [hn]
• What Is Complexity in Chess? [23d] [hn]
• Substack just killed the creator economy [23d] [hn]
• First Murder-Suicide Case Associated with AI Psychosis [23d] [hn]