The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious [336d] [hn]
• Food additive titanium dioxide likely has more toxic effects than thought [336d] [hn]
• What "Working" Means in the Era of AI Apps [336d] [hn]
• I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits [336d] [hn]
• Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold with Glass [336d] [hn]
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation [336d] [hn]
• Japanese researchers develop transparent paper as alternative to plastics [336d] [hn]
• 600 Miles from the North Pole on a boat. My Starlink Mini is at 171 mbit/s [336d] [hn]
• Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data [336d] [hn]
• Onyx (YC W24) – AI Assistants for Work Hiring Founding AE [336d] [hn]
• Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp [336d] [hn]
• DNS traffic spiked as Musk–Trump clash boosted Truth Social (+268%) and X (+20%) [336d] [hn]
• Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data [336d] [hn]
• Online Sports Betting Is for Losers [336d] [hn]
• Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire [336d] [hn]
• United States Digital Service Origins [336d] [hn]
• A year of funded FreeBSD development [336d] [hn]
• Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator [336d] [hn]
• How many trees are there in the North American boreal forest? [336d] [hn]
• Switching to Mojo gave a 14% improvement over CUDA [336d] [hn]
• A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square [337d] [hn]
• Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks [337d] [hn]
• The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf] [337d] [hn]
• SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding [337d] [hn]
• Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring a Director of Customer Success [337d] [hn]
• A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts [337d] [hn]
• Series C and Scale (Cursor) [337d] [hn]
• Exa (YC S21) Is Hiring a Founding Physical Design Engineer to Build Chips for AI [337d] [hn]
• Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers 'overwhelmed' [337d] [hn]
• See how a dollar would have grown over the past 94 years [pdf] [337d] [hn]
• GOP intensifies war against EVs and efficient cars [337d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Any good tools for viewing congressional bills? [337d] [hn]
• Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes [337d] [hn]
• 4-7-8 Breathing [337d] [hn]
• Meta: Shut Down Your Invasive AI Discover Feed. Now [337d] [hn]
• VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV [337d] [hn]
• Why Bell Labs Worked [337d] [hn]
• Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer – Blocks and Files [337d] [hn]
• Apple warns Australia against joining EU in mandating iPhone app sideloading [337d] [hn]
• OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs "indefinitely." Here's who's affected [337d] [hn]
• Too Many Open Files [337d] [hn]
• Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction [337d] [hn]
• Race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study [337d] [hn]
• An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting [337d] [hn]
• Exploring AI Integrations with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro [337d] [hn]
• Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU' [337d] [hn]
• A masochist's guide to web development [337d] [hn]
• Curate Your Shell History [337d] [hn]
• Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games [337d] [hn]
• Small Programs and Languages [337d] [hn]
• Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google [337d] [hn]
• Being fat is a trap [337d] [hn]
• ThornWalli/web-workbench: Old operating system as homepage [337d] [hn]