The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• How to build a diffusion language model [11d] [hn]
• Matrox: Graphics for Professionals [11d] [hn]
• Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires [11d] [hn]
• "I just chose words carefully." [11d] [hn]
• Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas [11d] [hn]
• Terrance Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video] [11d] [hn]
• Show HN: Academa – Long-form STEM lecture videos generated by LLMs [11d] [hn]
• Mark Zuckerberg's Social Reckoning [11d] [hn]
• Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's) [11d] [hn]
• Making the Internet Boring [11d] [hn]
• Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer [11d] [hn]
• I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits [11d] [hn]
• 1kB Website as Status Symbol [11d] [hn]
• The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change [11d] [hn]
• Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver [11d] [hn]
• Norway Shrugged [11d] [hn]
• Running SQLite Apps on Docker and Kubernetes with Litestream [11d] [hn]
• Flock's CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media's Reporting on Abortion Case [11d] [hn]
• Should We Have Kept the American Empire? [11d] [hn]
• 'They shot all their weapons; they trashed their ships; they ran out of money' [11d] [hn]
• Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones [11d] [hn]
• Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES [11d] [hn]
• Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds [11d] [hn]
• Haiku R1/beta6 has been released [11d] [hn]
• Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root [11d] [hn]
• Startup Anti-Patterns [11d] [hn]
• European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy [11d] [hn]
• Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists [11d] [hn]
• Emacs vs. Vim 2026: 24.3% vs. 8% Usage, 20x Memory Gap [11d] [hn]
• DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure [11d] [hn]
• Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat [11d] [hn]
• My BC-250 Journey (With 40 CUs Unlocked) [11d] [hn]
• METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack [11d] [hn]
• Crossing Boundaries with Integration Events [11d] [hn]
• Zoom activated my mic and played "recording in progress" at 4AM [11d] [hn]
• Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default [11d] [hn]
• No AI Fridays [11d] [hn]
• Leak of Internal Valve Data [11d] [hn]
• The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs [11d] [hn]
• monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter [11d] [hn]