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]
• My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality [18d] [hn]
• From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8 [18d] [hn]
• Powerful extensions do not need powerful code [18d] [hn]
• I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines and ported it to Windows [18d] [hn]
• Dutch regulator fines Uber $966M for automating driver suspensions [18d] [hn]
• We must not grant AI agents legal personhood [18d] [hn]
• The Remote Work Challenge: Lessons from 5 Cities [18d] [hn]
• Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely [18d] [hn]
• A website for debloated open source alternatives [18d] [hn]
• Phoenix tried a reflective coating on black asphalt; noon surface heat fell 12°F [18d] [hn]
• Vit D assoc w better cognition in those w sleep disturb./mild cognitive impair [18d] [hn]
• Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II [18d] [hn]
• GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost [18d] [hn]
• Being nude in public can make us feel better about our bodies [18d] [hn]
• Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling [18d] [hn]
• Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests [18d] [hn]
• So, You Found a Foden Steam Lorry in a Field. What Next? [18d] [hn]
• Universal Housing [18d] [hn]
• Blueprint for how to be self sufficient in a 1/4 acre backyard [18d] [hn]
• Hacker News in Uncompromised Detail [18d] [hn]
• Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi [18d] [hn]
• Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras [18d] [hn]
• Authoritarianism of Code [18d] [hn]
• What Is a Harness? [18d] [hn]
• I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day [18d] [hn]
• Death to px, long live ch [18d] [hn]
• My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes [18d] [hn]
• Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware [19d] [hn]