The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity [22d] [hn]
• Compiler-Assisted Floating-Point Error Analysis and Profiling with FPChecker [22d] [hn]
• What Breaks a Cell's Ribs Can Make It Stronger [22d] [hn]
• South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots [22d] [hn]
• Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water [22d] [hn]
• How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps [22d] [hn]
• Is It Out Yet? [23d] [hn]
• You really shouldn't copy-paste errors into Claude Code [23d] [hn]
• Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel [23d] [hn]
• Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand [23d] [hn]
• Perform DFU Restores on Apple Silicon Macs with Macvdmtool (2021) [23d] [hn]
• Segmenting Robot Video into Actionable Subtasks [23d] [hn]
• Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Support Self-Hosting [23d] [hn]
• Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction [23d] [hn]
• JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management [23d] [hn]
• CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3 [23d] [hn]
• .garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood [23d] [hn]
• The 80% Problem: The Last 20% Is Where the Engineer Used to Live [23d] [hn]
• The Apple Disk II Controller Card [23d] [hn]
• Avo 4 released – 15 months and 2000 commits later [23d] [hn]
• Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API [23d] [hn]
• Structural Correctness [23d] [hn]
• The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer) [23d] [hn]
• Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding [23d] [hn]
• Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development [23d] [hn]
• Homemade Transistor from Cadmium Sulfide Photocell (2009) [23d] [hn]
• Obfuscation: Building the final boss of cryptography (Part I) [23d] [hn]
• A deep dive into SmallVector:push_back [23d] [hn]
• The Radiation Exposure Lie [23d] [hn]
• In San Francisco, Even $180k Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough [23d] [hn]
• Mullvad VPN co-founder donated ~500,000USD to Swedish far-right political party [23d] [hn]
• European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage [23d] [hn]
• Because It Speaks in Words [23d] [hn]
• HamsterOS: A graphical desktop OS that fits on a 1.44MB floppy [23d] [hn]
• US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections [23d] [hn]
• A native graphical shell for SSH [23d] [hn]
• Cowboys, Frontiersmen, Settlers, Townspeople, Cityfolk [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: PMB – local memory for coding agents that shows if it is used [23d] [hn]
• Microsoft Needs Windows Lite [23d] [hn]
• WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter [23d] [hn]
• Linux for the Sega MegaDrive [23d] [hn]
• WebGL Without a GPU [23d] [hn]
• Working With AI: A concrete example [23d] [hn]
• Data breach exposes up to 14.2M email logins at six ISPs [23d] [hn]
• Using Aspect-Oriented Programming to Record DRL Agents' Data [23d] [hn]
• A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML [23d] [hn]
• Why did one day of AI cost more than a month of servers? [23d] [hn]
• I Don't Maintain My Homelab [23d] [hn]
• Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf] [23d] [hn]
• You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification [23d] [hn]
• RocketLab Acquires Iridium [23d] [hn]
• DocumentDB – a MongoDB compatible open-source database [23d] [hn]
• The war against 'woke' could end US science as we know it [23d] [hn]
• CachyOS June 2026 Release [23d] [hn]
• Creating a Personalised Bin Calendar [23d] [hn]
• Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Mera Glasses [23d] [hn]
• Building Principia for Windows XP [23d] [hn]
• Counterexamples in type systems (2021) [23d] [hn]
• Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund [23d] [hn]
• What happens when you run a CUDA kernel? [23d] [hn]
• Tidal AI Policy [23d] [hn]
• NixOS 26.05 [23d] [hn]
• Reading the internals of Postgres: Database cluster, databases, and tables [23d] [hn]
• Aerial Photographs (2017) [23d] [hn]