The Brutalist Report

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Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious [75d] [hn]
Food additive titanium dioxide likely has more toxic effects than thought [75d] [hn]
What "Working" Means in the Era of AI Apps [75d] [hn]
I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits [75d] [hn]
Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold with Glass [75d] [hn]
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation [75d] [hn]
Japanese researchers develop transparent paper as alternative to plastics [75d] [hn]
600 Miles from the North Pole on a boat. My Starlink Mini is at 171 mbit/s [75d] [hn]
Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data [75d] [hn]
Onyx (YC W24) – AI Assistants for Work Hiring Founding AE [75d] [hn]
Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp [75d] [hn]
DNS traffic spiked as Musk–Trump clash boosted Truth Social (+268%) and X (+20%) [75d] [hn]
Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data [75d] [hn]
Online Sports Betting Is for Losers [75d] [hn]
Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire [75d] [hn]
United States Digital Service Origins [75d] [hn]
A year of funded FreeBSD development [75d] [hn]
Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator [75d] [hn]
How many trees are there in the North American boreal forest? [75d] [hn]
Switching to Mojo gave a 14% improvement over CUDA [75d] [hn]
A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square [75d] [hn]
Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks [75d] [hn]
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf] [75d] [hn]
SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding [75d] [hn]
Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring a Director of Customer Success [75d] [hn]
A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts [75d] [hn]
Series C and Scale (Cursor) [75d] [hn]
Exa (YC S21) Is Hiring a Founding Physical Design Engineer to Build Chips for AI [75d] [hn]
Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers 'overwhelmed' [75d] [hn]
See how a dollar would have grown over the past 94 years [pdf] [75d] [hn]
GOP intensifies war against EVs and efficient cars [75d] [hn]
Ask HN: Any good tools for viewing congressional bills? [75d] [hn]
Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes [75d] [hn]
4-7-8 Breathing [75d] [hn]
Meta: Shut Down Your Invasive AI Discover Feed. Now [75d] [hn]
VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV [75d] [hn]
Why Bell Labs Worked [75d] [hn]
Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer – Blocks and Files [75d] [hn]
Apple warns Australia against joining EU in mandating iPhone app sideloading [75d] [hn]
OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs "indefinitely." Here's who's affected [75d] [hn]
Too Many Open Files [75d] [hn]
Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction [75d] [hn]
Race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study [75d] [hn]
An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting [75d] [hn]
Exploring AI Integrations with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro [75d] [hn]
Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU' [75d] [hn]
A masochist's guide to web development [75d] [hn]
Curate Your Shell History [75d] [hn]
Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games [75d] [hn]
Small Programs and Languages [75d] [hn]
Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google [75d] [hn]
Being fat is a trap [75d] [hn]
ThornWalli/web-workbench: Old operating system as homepage [76d] [hn]
Doge Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to "Munch" Veterans Affairs Contracts [76d] [hn]
Processing Nebula Images with Open Source Tools vs$350 Software [76d] [hn]
How to (actually) send DTMF on Android without being the default call app [76d] [hn]
Swift and Cute 2D Game Framework: Setting Up a Project with CMake [76d] [hn]
Fuzzer Blind Spots (Meet Jepsen) [76d] [hn]
What you need to know about EMP weapons [76d] [hn]
Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest [76d] [hn]
Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11 [76d] [hn]
The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre) [76d] [hn]
AMD Radeon 8050S "Strix Halo" Linux Graphics Performance Review [76d] [hn]
The Coleco Adam Computer [76d] [hn]
Infomaniak backs mass surveillance, aims to end online anonymity in Switzerland [76d] [hn]
Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law [76d] [hn]
Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration [76d] [hn]
Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup [76d] [hn]
The bizarre story of a maths proof that is only true in Japan [76d] [hn]
Aether: A CMS That Gets Out of Your Way [76d] [hn]
Second ispace craft has probably crash-landed on Moon [76d] [hn]
Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon [76d] [hn]
Germany: Digital Minister wants open source etc. as guiding principle [76d] [hn]
Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024) [76d] [hn]
Homeless but self taught full stack developer [76d] [hn]
Switch 2 rooted on day 1 [76d] [hn]
Neuroscience How Much Energy Does It Take to Think? [76d] [hn]
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube [76d] [hn]
I Am an Audience, First and Foremost [76d] [hn]
Building an AI Server on a Budget [76d] [hn]
Open Source Distilling [76d] [hn]
Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite [76d] [hn]
How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy [76d] [hn]
Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf [76d] [hn]