The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models [30d] [hn]
• Falcon GX the most powerful brand engineering tool [30d] [hn]
• PivCo-Huffman "Merge" Operations [30d] [hn]
• Lithp.py (~2008) [30d] [hn]
• Good results fine tuning a local LLM like Qwen 3:0.6B to categorize questions [30d] [hn]
• Simple hard way to conjugate Japanese verbs [30d] [hn]
• The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s [30d] [hn]
• I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke – Launching CivBench [30d] [hn]
• Rent collections are down in New York – and no one's sure why [30d] [hn]
• Did my old job only exist because of fraud? [30d] [hn]
• The Anatomy of an AI-Native Org [30d] [hn]
• My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992 [30d] [hn]
• FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama [30d] [hn]
• Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI [30d] [hn]
• PowerFox Browser [30d] [hn]
• NSA chief says Mythos breached 'almost all' classified systems in hours [30d] [hn]
• Everything Is Logarithms [30d] [hn]
• Stop wasting tokens and re explaining your project between sessions [30d] [hn]
• There is minimal downside to switching to open models [30d] [hn]
• F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel [30d] [hn]
• Nintendo Wii U games running from a 1980's Bernoulli disk [video] [30d] [hn]
• Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects [31d] [hn]
• JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites [31d] [hn]
• Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft [31d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pure Effect – Reproduce production bugs on your laptop without a DB [31d] [hn]
• Health Insurance Claim Denial Rates Range from 13% to 35% by Insurer [31d] [hn]
• Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Applied ML Engineer [31d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers, uncles, anyone in that role! [31d] [hn]
• Burnout Is Real in the OSS World, Says John-David Dalton, Creator of Lodash [31d] [hn]
• The Disappearance of Japan's Animators [31d] [hn]
• The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software [31d] [hn]
• AI Has Broken Hiring [31d] [hn]
• Cointegration and Long-Horizon Forecasting (2025) [31d] [hn]
• Former Olympian denies vandalising Washington Reflecting Pool after arrest [31d] [hn]
• Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use [31d] [hn]
• Performance Improvements in Libffi [31d] [hn]
• Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf] [31d] [hn]
• Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You [31d] [hn]
• 8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea [31d] [hn]
• Experiments in Sports Seismology for the World Cup [31d] [hn]
• AI Under Trump's Control: Can France Still Avoid Digital Dependence? [31d] [hn]
• Artificial [31d] [hn]
• Robotics Teams Are Rebuilding the Data Stack from Scratch [31d] [hn]
• I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner [31d] [hn]
• Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch [31d] [hn]
• Printing Gaussian Splats [31d] [hn]
• Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8 [31d] [hn]
• David Ahl's Basic Computer Games Ported to C [31d] [hn]
• Scaling Akvorado BMP RIB with Sharding [31d] [hn]
• 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time [31d] [hn]
• Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs Drive America's Unicorn Boom [31d] [hn]
• Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS) [31d] [hn]
• TypeScript 7 RC: the compiler rewritten in Go, around 10x faster [31d] [hn]
• CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt [31d] [hn]
• NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours" [31d] [hn]
• CAD vs. CAD Tournament [31d] [hn]
• Google Hits 50% IPv6 [31d] [hn]
• A 3D voxel game engine written in APL [31d] [hn]
• CL-BBS: the schemeBBS-like textboard rewritten in Common Lisp [31d] [hn]
• Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike [31d] [hn]
• Improvements to Std:Format in C++26 [31d] [hn]
• Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file [31d] [hn]
• The 100k Whys of AI [31d] [hn]
• Public Service Announcement: Don't Say You Use AI for Writing [31d] [hn]
• Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems [31d] [hn]
• Your brain was never designed for this much bad news [31d] [hn]
• Armstrong Effect [31d] [hn]
• SOCKMAP - TCP splicing of the future [31d] [hn]
• Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study [31d] [hn]
• Developers don't understand CORS (2019) [31d] [hn]
• White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report [31d] [hn]
• Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators [31d] [hn]
• When I reject AI code even if it works [31d] [hn]
• 'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots [31d] [hn]
• Project Fetch: Phase Two [31d] [hn]
• Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK [31d] [hn]