The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• AI can code, but it can't build software [13d] [hn]
• Iroh-Blobs [13d] [hn]
• Are these real CVEs? VulDB entries for dnsmasq rely on replacing config files [13d] [hn]
• Linux VM without VM software – User Mode Linux [13d] [hn]
• OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly [13d] [hn]
• Easy RISC-V: An interactive introduction to RISC-V assembly programming [13d] [hn]
• The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program [13d] [hn]
• Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization [13d] [hn]
• Creating an All-Weather Driver [13d] [hn]
• Carl Bohland's Auto Wash Bowl (2019) [13d] [hn]
• Carl Bohland's Auto Wash Bowl (2015) [13d] [hn]
• Why Nigeria Accepted GMOs [13d] [hn]
• Let the little guys in: A context sharing runtime for the personalised web [13d] [hn]
• It's not always DNS [13d] [hn]
• Cisco opensourced MCP-Scanner for finding vulnerabilties in MCP server [13d] [hn]
• The new calculus of AI-based coding [13d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dlog – Journaling and AI coach that learns what drives well-being (Mac) [13d] [hn]
• Artificial Writing and Automated Detection [pdf] [13d] [hn]
• Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013) [13d] [hn]
• Show HN: Git Auto Commit (GAC) – LLM-powered Git commit command line tool [13d] [hn]
• Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra [13d] [hn]
• Life next to 199 data centres [13d] [hn]
• JetKVM Is Now Available for Retail Purchase [13d] [hn]
• JetKVM – Control any computer remotely [13d] [hn]
• fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise [13d] [hn]
• JSON Query [13d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is AWS Down Again? [13d] [hn]
• Claude for Excel [13d] [hn]
• Show HN: Erdos – open-source, AI data science IDE [13d] [hn]
• Write Express JS code that runs on Rust [13d] [hn]
• It's insulting to read your AI-generated blog post [13d] [hn]
• PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program [13d] [hn]
• Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf] [13d] [hn]
• Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions [13d] [hn]
• More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring [13d] [hn]
• When 'perfect' code fails [13d] [hn]
• EntropyLong: Effective Long-Context Training via Predictive Uncertainty [13d] [hn]
• Florian Schneider Collection: Instruments and equipment up for auction [13d] [hn]
• 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea [13d] [hn]
• Pre-emptive Z80 multitasking explainer [13d] [hn]
• Artifact (YC W25) is hiring engineers in NYC to build modern ECAD [13d] [hn]
• Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret [13d] [hn]
• Canada Set to Side with China on EVs [13d] [hn]
• Isomorphic JS/TS Functions Orchestrator [13d] [hn]
• You Are How You Act [13d] [hn]
• Microsoft's folds losses from OpenAI into $4.7B expense line – "other" [13d] [hn]
• Microsoft needs to open up more about its OpenAI dealings [13d] [hn]
• SETL Programming Language [13d] [hn]
• Don't Forget These Tags to Make HTML Work Like You Expect [13d] [hn]
• Rust cross-platform GPUI components [13d] [hn]
• WorldGrow: Generating Infinite 3D World [13d] [hn]
• The last European train that travels by sea [13d] [hn]
• What Happened to Running What You Wanted on Your Own Machine? [13d] [hn]
• If Your Adversary Is the Mossad (2014) [pdf] [13d] [hn]
• Why JPEG XL Ignoring Bit Depth Is Genius (and Why AVIF Can't Pull It Off) [13d] [hn]
• My Email to Tim Cook [13d] [hn]
• Recall for Linux [13d] [hn]
• Show HN: Write Go code in JavaScript files [14d] [hn]
• Diphtheria, a once vanquished killer of children, is resurgent [14d] [hn]
• The striking Swedish workers taking on carmaker Tesla [14d] [hn]
• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics [14d] [hn]
• Severe performance penalty found in VSCode rendering loop [14d] [hn]
• However small, just start. From zero to hero [14d] [hn]
• We're in the Wrong Moment [14d] [hn]
• Argentina's midterm election hands landslide win to Milei's libertarian overhaul [14d] [hn]
• Milei Wins Mandate for Free-Market Revolution in Argentina's Election [14d] [hn]
• ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media [14d] [hn]
• How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in [14d] [hn]