The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks [15d] [hn]
• Show HN: InstantVideos.org – short documentaries in ~30 seconds [15d] [hn]
• NSA and IETF: Fairness [15d] [hn]
• Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM) [15d] [hn]
• Fable turned remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter [15d] [hn]
• Vessel [15d] [hn]
• Not everything should cost a token: the case for deterministic AI [15d] [hn]
• OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released [15d] [hn]
• Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms [15d] [hn]
• Poly/ML – A Standard ML Implementation [15d] [hn]
• How little exercise can you get away with? [15d] [hn]
• Full Writeup of the Windows GDID [15d] [hn]
• Titan's Resources and Their Utilization [15d] [hn]
• Alternate Clock Designs and Time Systems [15d] [hn]
• AI: The ROI Runway Could Be Long Outside the Tech Sector [15d] [hn]
• Taiganet.com, Home of the WS4000 Simulator [15d] [hn]
• Learning to code is still worthwhile [15d] [hn]
• Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort [15d] [hn]
• Ditching Zotero for a Text File [15d] [hn]
• GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse [15d] [hn]
• M/PC – A Concatenative OS [15d] [hn]
• Poison, redzones and shadows: inside KASAN [15d] [hn]
• Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach [15d] [hn]
• Girls Just Wanna Have Fast MPMC Queues with Bounded Waiting [15d] [hn]
• Price per 1M tokens is meaningless [15d] [hn]
• Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter [15d] [hn]
• Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs [15d] [hn]
• What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen? [15d] [hn]
• CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps [15d] [hn]
• Linux on the Atari Jaguar. No, really. [15d] [hn]
• Pros and Cons of Solo Development [15d] [hn]
• Companies hire more after AI adoption [15d] [hn]
• OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router [15d] [hn]
• The Victorian War on Rabies [15d] [hn]
• Schizo founder story (terrorist to tech exit) [15d] [hn]
• A global workspace in language models [15d] [hn]
• Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359] [15d] [hn]
• Fable Built a 3D Model of Aristotle's Cognitive Architecture [15d] [hn]
• Damaged Earth Catalog [15d] [hn]
• Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario [15d] [hn]
• The Supreme Court Just Lit a Fuse Under Flock's License Plate Camera Empire [15d] [hn]
• OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files [15d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second? [15d] [hn]
• Stealth robotics startup (YC S26) is hiring principal engineers (Palo Alto) [15d] [hn]
• Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle [15d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web [15d] [hn]
• Union Busters Coming After Me [15d] [hn]
• Kani: A Model Checker for Rust [15d] [hn]
• Life with Hazard Ratios [15d] [hn]
• The AI Superforecasters Are Here [15d] [hn]
• Should DayQuil Be Legal? [15d] [hn]
• Eternal Software Initiative Based on Subleq One-Instruction-Set Computer [15d] [hn]
• Car touchscreens are cheap, not good [15d] [hn]
• 1k Words: A Writing Contest [15d] [hn]
• Tom Colicchio's Final Service [15d] [hn]
• Electric anti-aircraft interceptor drone breaks world air speed record at 434mph [15d] [hn]
• CS2 Fog Of War: Server-sided anti-wallhack occlusion culling for CS2 servers [15d] [hn]
• Show HN: Nectar, a Rust-like React that compiles to WebAssembly [15d] [hn]
• Multilingual Experience Linked to Delayed Aging in Populations and Individuals [15d] [hn]
• Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC [15d] [hn]
• AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit [15d] [hn]
• Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future [15d] [hn]
• Preempt_none Is Dead; Your Postgres Probably Doesn't Care [15d] [hn]
• You probably don't need another database [15d] [hn]
• Show HN: Agent Draw: An agent draws while you talk, built on TLDraw [15d] [hn]
• Show HN: I Built LangGraph for Swift [15d] [hn]
• Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on "Stochastic Parrots" [15d] [hn]
• Harman and Dr. Sean Olive are reshaping headphone sound [15d] [hn]
• Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian [15d] [hn]
• DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat [15d] [hn]
• Resetting Xbox [15d] [hn]
• I Changed My Name [15d] [hn]
• I Built a Telegram Client for Pi [15d] [hn]
• UEFA slams FIFA's 'unprecedented, unjustifiable' Balogun decision [15d] [hn]
• Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman After Surveilling Her with a LPR [15d] [hn]
• Triple Dragon Fractal (2020) [15d] [hn]
• Aluminum Foil [15d] [hn]
• 'There Is No Going Back': The Inside Story of Europe's Rupture with America [15d] [hn]
• Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new [15d] [hn]
• Real time map of France's rail network [15d] [hn]
• Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries [15d] [hn]
• Show HN: Scan your AI agents for dangerous capabilities [15d] [hn]
• The Fear of Dying Before You Become Yourself [15d] [hn]
• How Kalshi Infects the News [15d] [hn]
• Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself [15d] [hn]
• Why low-latency Java still requires discipline? [15d] [hn]
• DKIM2 and DMARCbis Have Landed [15d] [hn]
• Workers Cache [15d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pet Reminder – A macOS reminder app with a desktop pet [15d] [hn]
• Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk on July 30 [15d] [hn]
• NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta [15d] [hn]
• Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability [15d] [hn]
• Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps [15d] [hn]
• The AI Marketing Backlash: Why 'AI-First' Brands Are Starting to Fall Flat [15d] [hn]
• Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church [15d] [hn]
• The AI Big Crunch Is Starting [15d] [hn]
• Kill the Plastic AI Portrait [15d] [hn]
• Why is there smoke from the boiler room? – Botanical Garden using Home Assistant [15d] [hn]
• Probably the best AI detector tool is ready [15d] [hn]