The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Taste Is the New Intelligence [311d] [hn]
• Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house [311d] [hn]
• Show HN: Local LLM Notepad – run a GPT-style model from a USB stick [311d] [hn]
• AI is Anti-Human (and assorted qualifications) [311d] [hn]
• GPEmu: A GPU Emulator for Rapid, Low-Cost Deep Learning Prototyping [pdf] [311d] [hn]
• Corruption Database – DJT [311d] [hn]
• Show HN: A continuation of IRS Direct File that can be self-hosted [311d] [hn]
• Bell Labs DSP Pioneer Jim Boddie Leaves Lasting Legacy [311d] [hn]
• Entropy of a Mixture [311d] [hn]
• The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering [311d] [hn]
• CertMate – SSL Certificate Management System [311d] [hn]
• My Database Is My Application: Rethinking Webhook Logic with DuckDB and SQL [311d] [hn]
• Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5 kilograms [311d] [hn]
• Public Signal Backups Testing [311d] [hn]
• 'Generali' sign atop insurer's skyscraper offices collapses in Milan [312d] [hn]
• The Original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) Compressor Source Code Has Been Released [312d] [hn]
• End of an Era [312d] [hn]
• Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion [312d] [hn]
• Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri in Major Reversal [312d] [hn]
• Show HN: We're two coffee nerds who built an AI app to track beans and recipes [312d] [hn]
• The JTAG in your Qualcomm/Snapdragon device's USB port [312d] [hn]
• Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved [312d] [hn]
• OpenTelemetry Is Great, but Who the Hell Is Going to Pay for It? [312d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI? [312d] [hn]
• They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder [312d] [hn]
• Why We Should Care About This War over the Future of Money [312d] [hn]
• Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices [312d] [hn]
• Operation Gold Rush, largest health care fraud bust in U.S. history [312d] [hn]
• Therapy dogs: stop crafting loopholes to fair, reasonable laws [312d] [hn]
• Why are lefties more creative? Turns out, they're not [312d] [hn]
• 14.ai (YC W24) hiring founding engineers in SF to build a Zendesk alternative [312d] [hn]
• I Write Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C [312d] [hn]
• A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life [312d] [hn]
• The role of the University is to resist AI [312d] [hn]
• Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027 [312d] [hn]
• The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia – ACM Sigops [312d] [hn]
• Make Fun of Them [312d] [hn]
• New MacBook with A18 Pro Chip Spotted in Apple Code [312d] [hn]
• Auth for B2B SaaS: it's not like auth for consumer software [312d] [hn]
• Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus [312d] [hn]
• There Are No New Ideas in AI Only New Datasets [312d] [hn]
• Ubuntu: Introducing Debcrafters [312d] [hn]
• How urea forms spontaneously [312d] [hn]
• Congress might block state AI laws for a decade [312d] [hn]
• Cloud-forming isoprene & terpenes from crops may drastically improve climate [312d] [hn]
• Helix: A Modern, High-Performance Language [312d] [hn]
• Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken [312d] [hn]
• Reverse Engineering Vercel's BotID [312d] [hn]