The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Better Images of AI [24d] [hn]
• We need tech news sources which exclude AI [24d] [hn]
• Cigarettes [24d] [hn]
• Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models [24d] [hn]
• A QNX-inspired operating system with selectable kernels [24d] [hn]
• Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine [24d] [hn]
• How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown [24d] [hn]
• 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech [24d] [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]