The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Meaning Machine – Visualize how LLMs break down and simulate meaning [239d] [hn]
• Show HN: Durable Python Workflows [239d] [hn]
• Google won't ditch third-party cookies in Chrome after all [239d] [hn]
• How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail [239d] [hn]
• CSS Hell [239d] [hn]
• Onyx (YC W24) Is Hiring for ML Engineer [239d] [hn]
• Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run [239d] [hn]
• Windows File Manager (WinFile) repository archived on March 1, 2025 [239d] [hn]
• Classic Computer Replicas [239d] [hn]
• The Dauug House - Dauug|36 minicomputer documentation [239d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dosidicus – A digital pet with a simple neural network [239d] [hn]
• A study of lightning fatalities inside buildings while using smartphones [pdf] (2024) [240d] [hn]
• Can a single AI model advance any field of science? [240d] [hn]
• It Does Not Take 21 Days to Form a Habit [240d] [hn]
• Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS (homebrew replacement) [240d] [hn]
• Ping, You've Got Whale: AI detection system alerts ships of whales in their path [240d] [hn]
• The Truth about Atlantis (2019) [240d] [hn]
• The complex origin story of domestic cats [240d] [hn]
• I started a devblog about mixing SwiftUI and C++ to make a Twitch app [240d] [hn]
• Parcom: CL Parser Combinators [240d] [hn]
• π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization [240d] [hn]
• Recover (YC W21) Is Hiring [240d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a Ruby gem that handles memoization with a ttl [240d] [hn]
• Are polynomial features the root of all evil? (2024) [240d] [hn]
• I should have loved biology too [240d] [hn]
• Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems [240d] [hn]
• Show HN: Morphik – Open-source RAG that understands PDF images, runs locally [240d] [hn]
• An Utterly Incomplete Look at Research from 1825 [240d] [hn]
• ClickHouse gets lazier (and faster): Introducing lazy materialization [240d] [hn]
• Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting [240d] [hn]
• Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation [240d] [hn]
• David Tong Lectures on Theoretical Physics [240d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Infra.new (YC W23) – DevOps Copilot with Guardrails Built In [240d] [hn]
• Introduction to Graph Transformers [240d] [hn]
• Using physics simulations to find targeting strategies in tenpin bowling [240d] [hn]
• I Open-Sourced My AI Toy Company That Runs on ESP32 and OpenAI Realtime API [240d] [hn]
• Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of) [240d] [hn]
• Join the W3C Exploration Interest Group: where standards start [240d] [hn]
• Transforming Your PDFs for RAG with Open Source Using Docling, Milvus, and Feast [240d] [hn]
• The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product – A Review [240d] [hn]
• The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great [240d] [hn]
• Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Dept of Ed says [240d] [hn]
• Should We Respect LLMs? A Study on Influence of Prompt Politeness on Performance [240d] [hn]
• Major breakthroughs in UK munitions production – BAE Systems [240d] [hn]
• GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Sr engineers passionate about education [240d] [hn]
• Offical XRP NPM package has been compromised and key stealing malware introduced [240d] [hn]
• In restaurants, We need a new way to signal that we're ready to pay [240d] [hn]
• Quantum-assured magnetic navigation with higher positioning accuracy than GPS [240d] [hn]
• Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data [240d] [hn]
• Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym [240d] [hn]
• RISC-V RVA23 Profile: A major milestone [240d] [hn]
• Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years – a study [240d] [hn]
• SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces [240d] [hn]
• Does RL Incentivize Reasoning in LLMs Beyond the Base Model? [240d] [hn]
• LHC 2025 First Collisions [240d] [hn]
• FreeDOS 1.4 Is Here [240d] [hn]
• Detecting if an expression is constant in C [240d] [hn]
• The Crypto Con: How Trump Is Looting America from the Oval Office [240d] [hn]
• The many ways tarrifs will hit your electronics [240d] [hn]
• Data Compression Nerds Hate This One Trick [video] [240d] [hn]
• AI for Network Engineers: Understanding Flow, Flowlet, and Packet-Based LB [240d] [hn]
• Fujitsu and RIKEN develop world-leading 256-qubit sup quantum computer [240d] [hn]
• The Rise of Luxury Doomsday Prepping [240d] [hn]
• A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers [240d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Has anyone used Riak? Thoughts? [240d] [hn]
• Attacking My Landlord's Boiler [240d] [hn]
• Welcome to our website for the 1963 BBC MCR21 OB Van [240d] [hn]
• 'World War Zoos' Review: Of Bombs and Beasts [240d] [hn]
• Forecaster reacts: METR's bombshell paper about AI acceleration [240d] [hn]
• Flat origami is Turing complete (2023) [240d] [hn]
• How a Biofilm’s Strange Shape Emerges From Cellular Geometry [240d] [hn]
• Prolog Adventure Game [240d] [hn]