The Brutalist Report

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• Linear is always a lagging indicator [6d] [hn]
• The politics of air conditioning in Switzerland [6d] [hn]
• Sets of Overlapping Circles [6d] [hn]
• Casio FX870P Emulator [6d] [hn]
• QR-Swastika-Avoider [6d] [hn]
• LeMario: Training a JEPA World Model on Super Mario Bros [6d] [hn]
• Who Is America's Homer? [7d] [hn]
• Book Prizes Don't Work How You Think [7d] [hn]
• Twain Town, USA [7d] [hn]
• Probably check on your smart appliances [7d] [hn]
• Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf] [7d] [hn]
• Microsoft Deletes User's 25-Year-Old Account with Thousands Spent on Games [7d] [hn]
• Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive [7d] [hn]
• Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws [7d] [hn]
• Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown [7d] [hn]
• After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch [7d] [hn]
• Same model, same Q4_K_M label: 5.02, 5.07 and 5.27 bits per weight [7d] [hn]
• Pg_re2: Postgres extension for fast, RE2-powered regular expressions in Postgres [7d] [hn]
• How I use HTMX with Go [7d] [hn]
• StubHub's 'marketplace for fans' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: A Free RSS reader with a configurable recommendation engine [7d] [hn]
• I also filed the corners off my MacBook [7d] [hn]
• Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb [7d] [hn]
• Blender 5.2 LTS [7d] [hn]
• Blender 5.2 LTS [7d] [hn]
• Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left [7d] [hn]
• MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games [7d] [hn]
• Bonsai 27B (1-bit LLM): The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone [7d] [hn]
• Another Entry in the "Stuff Im Glad Im Not Responsible for" Ledger [7d] [hn]
• Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring (Head of Security) [7d] [hn]
• The Tower Keeps Rising [7d] [hn]
• Tensor Notation in Mathup [7d] [hn]
• S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB – only one notch above junk level [7d] [hn]
• Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK [7d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Agnost AI (YC S26) – Extract user feedback from agent conversations [7d] [hn]
• Pseudpocalypse [7d] [hn]
• Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: Simulator for a custom 8-bit discreet logic computer [7d] [hn]
• Dupes (product clones) took over the world [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works [7d] [hn]
• I'm a USB-C Maximalist [7d] [hn]
• Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? [7d] [hn]
• Count the Bytes, Not the FLOPs [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a smart proxy so your coding agent can run loose [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: Low-latency local LLM runner via OpenJDK Panama FFM (Java 22) [7d] [hn]
• The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat [7d] [hn]
• IBM Stock has worst day [7d] [hn]
• Korg PS-3300 - one of the rarest synthesizers in music history is back [7d] [hn]
• The Zen of Parallel Programming [7d] [hn]
• New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium [7d] [hn]
• A Philosopher's One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird [7d] [hn]
• Tannakian Reconstruction [7d] [hn]
• Tambara Equipment [7d] [hn]
• OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members [7d] [hn]
• Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux [7d] [hn]
• The Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data into a Video Game [7d] [hn]
• Serena Williams Fit-Dex [7d] [hn]
• An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead) [7d] [hn]
• Proof of Care in the Age of A.I [7d] [hn]
• Tensor Is the Might [7d] [hn]
• Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security [7d] [hn]
• Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for –$1.3k) [7d] [hn]
• Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection [7d] [hn]
• Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics [7d] [hn]
• Coding agents think ahead of time [7d] [hn]
• Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme [7d] [hn]
• SQLite Is All You Need [7d] [hn]