The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI [37d] [hn]
• IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay [37d] [hn]
• Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication [37d] [hn]
• FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it [37d] [hn]
• libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months [37d] [hn]
• Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust [37d] [hn]
• Western Sahara [37d] [hn]
• We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars [37d] [hn]
• Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage [37d] [hn]
• DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) [37d] [hn]
• AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as digital scams surge: INTERPOL [37d] [hn]
• Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses [37d] [hn]
• Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf] [37d] [hn]
• Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet [37d] [hn]
• Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models [37d] [hn]
• Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros [37d] [hn]
• Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc [37d] [hn]
• I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel [37d] [hn]
• Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) [37d] [hn]
• Waymo CEO explains why Tesla's camera-only self-driving falls short [37d] [hn]
• Employees Like Their A.I. Boss. Its Shop Is Kind of a Disaster [37d] [hn]
• Nearest Pint [37d] [hn]
• Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone [37d] [hn]
• Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts [37d] [hn]
• The Law of Jante (2015) [37d] [hn]
• Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died [37d] [hn]
• LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models [37d] [hn]
• Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research [37d] [hn]
• Waymo – Dallas Open to All [37d] [hn]
• Security Is Hard, Y'all [37d] [hn]
• The Golden Age of British Ice Cream [37d] [hn]
• The Sound of Inevitability [37d] [hn]
• Blackmail Fail (2013) [37d] [hn]
• Why some people mow a lawn better than others [37d] [hn]
• Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt [37d] [hn]
• The Judgment Reservoir [37d] [hn]
• Haters [37d] [hn]