The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• "Butt breathing" might soon be a real medical treatment [19d] [hn]
• The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls [19d] [hn]
• Designing software for things that rot [19d] [hn]
• "Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney [19d] [hn]
• Lottery-fication of Everything: 0 day options, perps, parlays are now mainstream [19d] [hn]
• rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC [19d] [hn]
• We rewrote OpenFGA in pure Postgres [19d] [hn]
• The Gypsy Life of Robert Louis Stevenson [19d] [hn]
• Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time [19d] [hn]
• Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives [19d] [hn]
• Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server [19d] [hn]
• Doomsday Scoreboard [19d] [hn]
• Amazon doesn't use Route 53 for amazon.com [19d] [hn]
• Researchers complete first human trial on viability of enteral ventilation [19d] [hn]
• Magit Is Amazing [19d] [hn]
• Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text? [20d] [hn]
• Time to build a GPU OS? Here is the first step [20d] [hn]
• ChatGPT Atlas [20d] [hn]
• OpenAI Set to Challenge Google with New ChatGPT Atlas Browser [20d] [hn]
• Flexport Is Hiring SDRs in Chicago [20d] [hn]
• Fallout from the AWS Outage: Smart Mattresses Go Rogue and Ruin Sleep Worldwide [20d] [hn]
• The Programmer Identity Crisis [20d] [hn]
• The Greatness of Text Adventures [20d] [hn]
• Build Your Own Database [20d] [hn]
• Binary Retrieval-Augmented Reward Mitigates Hallucinations [20d] [hn]
• Public Trust Demands Open-Source Voting Systems [20d] [hn]
• Is Sora the Beginning of the End for OpenAI? [20d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage [20d] [hn]
• Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware [20d] [hn]
• Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws [20d] [hn]
• Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly [20d] [hn]
• Katakate: Dozens of VMs per node for safe code exec: K8s+Kata+Firecracker [20d] [hn]
• AI Is Making Us Work More [20d] [hn]
• A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Virtual Machine [20d] [hn]
• RF Shielding History: When the FCC Cracked Down on Computers [20d] [hn]
• Sell tickets to concerts agentically – Hive (YC S14) is hiring [20d] [hn]
• LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot" [20d] [hn]
• WindBorne CEO says his company's balloon may be the cause of UA emergency [20d] [hn]
• UA 1093 [20d] [hn]
• Don't use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog [20d] [hn]
• The Karpathy Interview, 6 Months After AI 2027 [20d] [hn]
• Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI [20d] [hn]
• Our modular, high-performance Merkle Tree library for Rust [20d] [hn]
• NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission [20d] [hn]
• Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots [20d] [hn]
• Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs [20d] [hn]
• Just Use Curl [20d] [hn]
• SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition [20d] [hn]
• StarGrid: A Brand-New Palm OS Strategy Game in 2025 [20d] [hn]
• Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making [20d] [hn]
• Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling [20d] [hn]
• US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies aged 29 [20d] [hn]
• AI Weiwei: What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier [20d] [hn]
• Human Error Cripples the Internet (1997) [20d] [hn]
• Most Expensive Laptops [20d] [hn]
• Show HN: I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use [20d] [hn]
• Pasta/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor [20d] [hn]
• Language Support for Marginalia Search [20d] [hn]
• Practical Scheme [20d] [hn]
• 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds [20d] [hn]
• Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions [20d] [hn]
• Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video [20d] [hn]
• The Rubygems.org takeover [20d] [hn]