The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Constructing a Quine from Kleene's Second Recursion Theorem [6d] [hn]
• Work Requirements for Trick-or-Treaters [6d] [hn]
• When Electric Cars Were for Women [6d] [hn]
• Altoids Project [6d] [hn]
• Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard [6d] [hn]
• An Italian Farmer Found Some Unknown Seeds in His Attic and Planted Them [6d] [hn]
• AI text watermarking and quality loss [6d] [hn]
• ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging [6d] [hn]
• Spooky C++ [6d] [hn]
• Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games [6d] [hn]
• Distributed Proofreaders [6d] [hn]
• With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines [6d] [hn]
• Common Desktop Environment available now as open-source [6d] [hn]
• A Chemical Hunger (2021) [6d] [hn]
• Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages [6d] [hn]
• Surviving "The Graduate" [6d] [hn]
• HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN [6d] [hn]
• Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly) [6d] [hn]
• TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 [6d] [hn]
• Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half [6d] [hn]
• The Duty of a Scholar [6d] [hn]
• GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode [6d] [hn]
• Shaun Thomas: Burnt Toast [6d] [hn]
• It's the Memory Latency, Stupid [6d] [hn]
• I post trained a model on Demoscenes [6d] [hn]
• The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [6d] [hn]