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 [23d] [hn]
• Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1 [23d] [hn]
• POSIX Is Not a Shell [23d] [hn]
• Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch [23d] [hn]
• TOP500 at ISC'26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma [23d] [hn]
• Ante: A new way to blend borrow checking and reference counting [23d] [hn]
• Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short [23d] [hn]
• WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing [23d] [hn]
• The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It [23d] [hn]
• Do LLMs pass the mirror test? [23d] [hn]
• Computer-Aided Language Development in Nonspeaking Children (1968) [pdf] [23d] [hn]
• British Origami: the 1955 exhibition by Akira Yoshizawa [23d] [hn]
• GitHub – librepods-org/librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem [23d] [hn]
• Historical memory prices 1960-2026 [23d] [hn]
• The Cost Yagni Was Never About – By Kent Beck [23d] [hn]
• Flavor Graveyard [23d] [hn]
• Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding [23d] [hn]
• Semgrep: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our Cyber Benchmarks [23d] [hn]
• Who Are the Fire-Tamers? [23d] [hn]
• Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: DRM-Free Books [23d] [hn]
• Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown [23d] [hn]
• I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI [23d] [hn]
• Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing [23d] [hn]
• Reflections on Software Engineering in the Age of AI [23d] [hn]
• Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor [23d] [hn]
• Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF) [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: Unobin compiles Infrastructure as Code to one binary [23d] [hn]
• Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1M p-bits [23d] [hn]
• Does Your Paper Really Suck? [23d] [hn]
• Show HN: Zanagrams [23d] [hn]
• California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database [23d] [hn]
• The vibration of the pager has a sound all its own [23d] [hn]
• Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers [23d] [hn]
• 5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920 [23d] [hn]
• EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors [23d] [hn]
• Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast [23d] [hn]
• Hengefinder [23d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list? [23d] [hn]
• Deriving SVD without even aiming at it [23d] [hn]
• EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools [23d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about? [23d] [hn]
• Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs [23d] [hn]
• Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models [23d] [hn]
• Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor? [23d] [hn]
• The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers [23d] [hn]
• How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout [23d] [hn]
• The curious case of the disappearing Polish S [23d] [hn]
• The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition [23d] [hn]
• A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex [23d] [hn]
• Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI [23d] [hn]
• Kids Act Would Require Age Checks to Get Online [23d] [hn]
• More evidence of life on Mars but still no life [23d] [hn]
• One million passports leaked online [24d] [hn]
• One million passports leaked online [24d] [hn]
• DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded [24d] [hn]
• Auditable Commercial License v1.0 [24d] [hn]
• Hungary holds first post-Orban Budapest Pride march [24d] [hn]
• Can China build its own ASML? [24d] [hn]
• Armadillo – A DNS Server in Gleam for Homelab Use [24d] [hn]
• Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs [24d] [hn]
• Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM [24d] [hn]
• Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience [24d] [hn]
• Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly [24d] [hn]
• Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep [24d] [hn]
• Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You [24d] [hn]
• I built a 100% local network privacy appliance to stop smart home spying [24d] [hn]
• Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams [24d] [hn]
• Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician [24d] [hn]
• Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C [24d] [hn]
• AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide [24d] [hn]
• Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font [24d] [hn]
• America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers [24d] [hn]