The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me [18d] [hn]
• Everything I own, owned [18d] [hn]
• Parallel development without the headaches using Git worktree [18d] [hn]
• The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago [18d] [hn]
• A complex structure on S^6 [pdf] [18d] [hn]
• Implementation of GPT-2 in pure CMake [18d] [hn]
• Cicada.os – Graphene.os for Your Laptop [18d] [hn]
• Residential proxies scraping your site? Drain their bandwidth [18d] [hn]
• Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions [18d] [hn]
• I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch [18d] [hn]
• Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms [18d] [hn]
• Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG [18d] [hn]
• Training AI to Paint with Code [18d] [hn]
• 'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics' [18d] [hn]
• Reaganomics Didn't Trickle Down – It Just Broke Unions [18d] [hn]
• Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider [18d] [hn]
• How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer [18d] [hn]
• Fable and the End of the Free Lunch [18d] [hn]
• Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? [18d] [hn]
• Say It Four Times (In Your System Prompt) [18d] [hn]
• The Vibe Tax [18d] [hn]
• Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026) – Spheron Blog [18d] [hn]
• Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive [18d] [hn]
• My Obituary for Dr Tim King, Tripos, AmigaOS, Helios and UK Online Pioneer [18d] [hn]
• Yuval Noah Harari on the economic and political perils of AI [18d] [hn]
• AI and Infrastructure Engineering [18d] [hn]
• Explain it to me like I'm ten [18d] [hn]
• Predicting AI model release dates with stats [18d] [hn]
• I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI [18d] [hn]