The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• LLM Policy for Rust Compiler [21d] [hn]
• Have a Coherent AI Policy [21d] [hn]
• ICLR 2026 – Institutional Affiliations Dataset and Analysis [21d] [hn]
• 'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system [21d] [hn]
• More than half of U.S. faces worst drought in decades [21d] [hn]
• Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts [21d] [hn]
• Roman Letters [21d] [hn]
• Colossus: The Forbin Project [21d] [hn]
• A Few Words on DS4 [21d] [hn]
• IPv8 [21d] [hn]
• Scientists ID 'corkscrew killer' behind gruesome seal deaths [21d] [hn]
• Show HN: GridTravel- A community based travel app for users to share routes [21d] [hn]
• OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control [21d] [hn]
• Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust [21d] [hn]
• Claude for Legal [21d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a Web-Scraper API that is 6-7x more efficient than current ones [21d] [hn]
• Minimal Structures [21d] [hn]
• Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet [21d] [hn]
• New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references [21d] [hn]
• Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt [21d] [hn]
• Codex is now available on mobile via ChatGPT app [21d] [hn]
• Best "Brain" for Agents Is Just Versioned Folders of Markdown Files [21d] [hn]
• Hindenburg's Smoking Room [21d] [hn]
• RISC-V Router [21d] [hn]
• Work with Codex from Anywhere [21d] [hn]
• Multi-Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests [21d] [hn]
• Illusions of Understanding in the Sciences [21d] [hn]
• Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M [21d] [hn]
• Green Card Holders Targeted for Deportation by New 'Removal Apparatus' [21d] [hn]
• WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward [21d] [hn]
• German intelligence offices snub Palantir software [21d] [hn]
• Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal? [21d] [hn]
• The AI Zombification of Universities [21d] [hn]
• The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018) [21d] [hn]
• Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Linux Kernel Startup [21d] [hn]
• First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 [21d] [hn]
• God Damn AI is making me dumb [21d] [hn]
• You Don't Align an AI, You Align with It [21d] [hn]
• OpenData Vector: MIT-Licensed Vector Search on Object Storage [21d] [hn]
• Grok Build [21d] [hn]
• DIY open-source ultrasound hardware on the rp2040/rp2350 [21d] [hn]
• Andreessen Horowitz Is Spending on Politics Like No Other [21d] [hn]
• Deal reached with hackers to delete data stolen from the Canvas platform [21d] [hn]
• Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged [21d] [hn]
• What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing? [21d] [hn]
• New Nginx Exploit [21d] [hn]
• Removing the Modem and GPS from My 2024 RAV4 Hybrid [21d] [hn]
• Terranox AI (YC W26) Is Hiring a Founding AI/ML Engineer and Summer AI/ML Intern [21d] [hn]
• Apple-OpenAI Relationship Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight [21d] [hn]
• Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory [21d] [hn]
• HDD Firmware Hacking [21d] [hn]
• Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo [22d] [hn]
• RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game? [22d] [hn]
• LinkedIn Fanfiction [22d] [hn]
• On The Conflation of Money and Things [22d] [hn]
• Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake [22d] [hn]
• New agents.txt file found on DreamHost [22d] [hn]
• Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation [22d] [hn]
• MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students [22d] [hn]
• Claude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD [22d] [hn]
• Al Jazeera documentary highlights USC's sale of dead bodies to US Navy, Israel [22d] [hn]
• Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals [22d] [hn]
• Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale [22d] [hn]
• Show HN: Race to the Bottom [22d] [hn]
• Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland [22d] [hn]
• USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought [22d] [hn]
• Beware of Drunk Deer, French Police Say, Announcing Season of Inebriation [22d] [hn]
• The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle [22d] [hn]
• Claude Account Suspended Seconds After Purchase? [22d] [hn]
• The Third Hard Problem [22d] [hn]
• Computer Hobby Movement in Canada [22d] [hn]
• Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure [22d] [hn]
• Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO [22d] [hn]
• What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? [22d] [hn]
• New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure [22d] [hn]
• The Dating App Swipe Is Dying. What Comes Next May Be Worse [22d] [hn]