The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Better Images of AI [23d] [hn]
• We need tech news sources which exclude AI [23d] [hn]
• Cigarettes [23d] [hn]
• Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models [23d] [hn]
• A QNX-inspired operating system with selectable kernels [23d] [hn]
• Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine [23d] [hn]
• How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown [23d] [hn]
• 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech [23d] [hn]
• How information theory saved my word game [24d] [hn]
• Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1 [24d] [hn]
• POSIX Is Not a Shell [24d] [hn]
• Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants [24d] [hn]
• Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs [24d] [hn]
• Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch [24d] [hn]
• TOP500 at ISC'26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma [24d] [hn]
• Ante: A new way to blend borrow checking and reference counting [24d] [hn]
• Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short [24d] [hn]
• WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing [24d] [hn]
• The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It [24d] [hn]
• Do LLMs pass the mirror test? [24d] [hn]
• Computer-Aided Language Development in Nonspeaking Children (1968) [pdf] [24d] [hn]
• British Origami: the 1955 exhibition by Akira Yoshizawa [24d] [hn]
• GitHub – librepods-org/librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem [24d] [hn]
• Historical memory prices 1960-2026 [24d] [hn]
• The Cost Yagni Was Never About – By Kent Beck [24d] [hn]
• Flavor Graveyard [24d] [hn]
• Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding [24d] [hn]
• Semgrep: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our Cyber Benchmarks [24d] [hn]
• Who Are the Fire-Tamers? [24d] [hn]
• Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD [24d] [hn]
• Show HN: DRM-Free Books [24d] [hn]
• Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown [24d] [hn]
• I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI [24d] [hn]
• Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing [24d] [hn]
• Reflections on Software Engineering in the Age of AI [24d] [hn]
• Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor [24d] [hn]
• Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF) [24d] [hn]
• Show HN: Unobin compiles Infrastructure as Code to one binary [24d] [hn]
• Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1M p-bits [24d] [hn]
• Does Your Paper Really Suck? [24d] [hn]
• Show HN: Zanagrams [24d] [hn]
• California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database [24d] [hn]
• The vibration of the pager has a sound all its own [24d] [hn]
• Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers [24d] [hn]
• 5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920 [24d] [hn]
• EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors [24d] [hn]
• Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast [24d] [hn]
• Hengefinder [24d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list? [24d] [hn]
• Deriving SVD without even aiming at it [24d] [hn]
• EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools [24d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about? [24d] [hn]
• Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs [24d] [hn]
• Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models [24d] [hn]
• Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor? [24d] [hn]
• The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers [24d] [hn]
• How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout [24d] [hn]
• The curious case of the disappearing Polish S [24d] [hn]
• The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition [24d] [hn]
• A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex [24d] [hn]
• Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI [24d] [hn]