The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The Chauffeur Problem [25d] [hn]
• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things [25d] [hn]
• Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present [25d] [hn]
• Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing [25d] [hn]
• Claude Seems Down [25d] [hn]
• Claude Auth Is Down [25d] [hn]
• Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders [25d] [hn]
• Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe [25d] [hn]
• Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request [25d] [hn]
• A faster way to calculate the day of the week [25d] [hn]
• Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee [25d] [hn]
• Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast [25d] [hn]
• How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser [25d] [hn]
• The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later [25d] [hn]
• Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ [25d] [hn]
• Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter [25d] [hn]
• Making stinkarm stink less, or more? [25d] [hn]
• ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days [25d] [hn]
• Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI [25d] [hn]
• The Trumps' Crypto Project Just Got One Step Closer to Becoming a Bank [25d] [hn]
• Double-double: 31 digits of precision without leaving the FPU [25d] [hn]
• Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose [25d] [hn]
• Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome [25d] [hn]
• Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX at end of second quarter [25d] [hn]
• MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent [25d] [hn]
• I've built a free, open-source local and remote memory system for agentw and CL [25d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers [25d] [hn]
• Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector [25d] [hn]
• Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy [25d] [hn]
• A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" [25d] [hn]
• John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography [25d] [hn]
• An American Mosaic (interactive map of ancestry census data) [25d] [hn]
• NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers [25d] [hn]
• Being Ambitious and Being a Dad [25d] [hn]
• If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible? [25d] [hn]
• The weekend is 100 years old [25d] [hn]
• St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core [25d] [hn]
• GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost [26d] [hn]
• The AI Credit Resale Economy [26d] [hn]
• Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter [26d] [hn]
• Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering [26d] [hn]
• Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users [26d] [hn]
• Our Reality Is Shifting and It's Just the Start [26d] [hn]
• A recipe for drone racing with reinforcement learning [26d] [hn]
• How a Sony Veteran Is Overhauling the Company He Grew Up In [26d] [hn]
• The Mystery of Dark Oxygen [26d] [hn]
• A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life [26d] [hn]
• I built my own root DNS so I could stop renting names [26d] [hn]
• Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker [26d] [hn]
• Is the industry ready for tokens-constrained work? [26d] [hn]
• US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged [26d] [hn]
• How Many Employees Does It Take to Reach $100M ARR Now? [26d] [hn]
• Claude: System Prompts [26d] [hn]
• Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" [26d] [hn]
• A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator [26d] [hn]
• Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Builder / Engineer [26d] [hn]