The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting [17d] [hn]
• DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List [17d] [hn]
• Show HN: Ironwall, a safety-first native programming language and compiler [17d] [hn]
• Context Sculpting [17d] [hn]
• Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores [17d] [hn]
• No Babies? Blame Capitalism [17d] [hn]
• They are looting your life savings [17d] [hn]
• Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar [17d] [hn]
• Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory [17d] [hn]
• New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker [17d] [hn]
• Computex 2026: Are We Heading for the Agentic PC Era Yet? – EE Times [17d] [hn]
• Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git [17d] [hn]
• Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health [17d] [hn]
• Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts [17d] [hn]
• Rayforce [17d] [hn]
• Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot [17d] [hn]
• Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose [17d] [hn]
• The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++ [17d] [hn]
• Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say [17d] [hn]
• Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack [17d] [hn]
• More Molly Guards [17d] [hn]
• Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025) [17d] [hn]
• A Server Called Mercury [17d] [hn]
• Asus GB300 NVL72 Test Lab Tour [17d] [hn]
• Adopting the Parallel DWARF linker in dsymutil [17d] [hn]
• You Can Run [17d] [hn]
• Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements [17d] [hn]
• AI didn't break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume [17d] [hn]
• Python JIT project was asked to pause development [17d] [hn]
• Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF [17d] [hn]
• Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation [17d] [hn]
• Moving beyond fork() + exec() [17d] [hn]
• Inflation is being driven up by investment in artificial intelligence [17d] [hn]
• Giant Floating Victorian Drydock [17d] [hn]
• Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM [17d] [hn]
• Benchmarks in Leipzig [17d] [hn]
• Fooling Go's X.509 Certificate Verification [17d] [hn]
• US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules [17d] [hn]
• 120k Lines of Rust: Inside the Nosdesk Backend [17d] [hn]
• Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models [17d] [hn]
• Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs [17d] [hn]
• Life is too short for a slow terminal [17d] [hn]
• Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers [17d] [hn]
• The new bibliomaniacs [17d] [hn]
• Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics) [17d] [hn]
• There's still no point in gigabit broadband [17d] [hn]
• Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute [17d] [hn]
• Miz Framework Story [17d] [hn]
• Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) [17d] [hn]
• Introduction – Rust for Python Programmers [17d] [hn]
• Do Women's Mate Preferences Change Across the Ovulatory Cycle? A Meta-Analysis [pdf] [17d] [hn]
• Is anyone here interested in contributing to this OS? [17d] [hn]
• The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy [17d] [hn]
• GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS [17d] [hn]
• Zig Zen Update [17d] [hn]
• Azure Linux Desktop [17d] [hn]
• OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision [17d] [hn]
• S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic [17d] [hn]
• Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight [18d] [hn]
• OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode [18d] [hn]
• C++: The Programming Language back cover raises questions not answered by front [18d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? [18d] [hn]
• SAT-Physical Thermodynamic Framework: treating constraints as a thermal system [18d] [hn]
• Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised [18d] [hn]
• Alzheimer's patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in drug trial [18d] [hn]
• The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024) [18d] [hn]