The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Tesla's European sales tumble nearly 50% in October [2d] [hn]
• Babushka Lady [2d] [hn]
• Sutskever and LeCun: Scaling LLMs Won't Yield More Useful Results [2d] [hn]
• C100 Developer Terminal [2d] [hn]
• Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices [2d] [hn]
• Bring Back Doors – Bring Bathroom Doors Back to Hotels [2d] [hn]
• Why Strong Consistency? [2d] [hn]
• EU approves Chat Control policy [2d] [hn]
• The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop [2d] [hn]
• AirDrop support for Pixel 10 likely exists because of the EU ruling [2d] [hn]
• Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix [2d] [hn]
• Crews Claim Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA Concerns [2d] [hn]
• The most male and female reasons to end up hospital [2d] [hn]
• S&box is now an open source game engine [2d] [hn]
• Don't Download Apps [2d] [hn]
• Widespread service disruptions reported as major platforms go down worldwide [2d] [hn]
• Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window [2d] [hn]
• API that auto-routes to the cheapest AI provider (OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini) [2d] [hn]
• Fara-7B by Microsoft: An agentic small language model designed for computer use [2d] [hn]
• China Has Three Reusable Rockets Ready for Their Debut Flights [3d] [hn]
• Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding [3d] [hn]
• Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening [3d] [hn]
• Scaleway turns Mac minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers [3d] [hn]
• GrapheneOS is leaving France after receiving threats from law enforcement [3d] [hn]
• DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why [3d] [hn]
• A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team [3d] [hn]
• Cloudflare outage should not have happened [3d] [hn]
• Slop Detective – Fight the Slop Syndicate [3d] [hn]
• Slashdot Effect [3d] [hn]
• From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes migraine frequency [3d] [hn]
• KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support [3d] [hn]
• Feedback doesn't scale [3d] [hn]
• MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce [3d] [hn]
• OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030 so it can continue to lose money [3d] [hn]
• Compressed filesystems à la language models [3d] [hn]
• A National Mission to Accelerate Science Through Artificial Intelligence [3d] [hn]
• Justice dept. requires Realpage end sharing competitively sensitive information [3d] [hn]
• Show HN: Offline RAG System Using Docker and Llama 3 (No Cloud APIs) [3d] [hn]
• There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests [3d] [hn]
• Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-Day from Earth [3d] [hn]
• I DM'd a Korean Presidential Candidate – and Ended Up Building His Core Campaign [3d] [hn]
• Memories of .us [3d] [hn]
• Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being 'AI free' [3d] [hn]
• Kagi Hub Belgrade [3d] [hn]
• Qiskit open-source SDK for working with quantum computers [3d] [hn]
• Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring [3d] [hn]
• EU council reaches position on Chat Control [3d] [hn]
• Await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs. Tasks [3d] [hn]
• I don't care how well your "AI" works [3d] [hn]
• A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life [3d] [hn]
• Statistical Process Control in Python [3d] [hn]
• AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video] [3d] [hn]
• Image Diffusion Models Exhibit Emergent Temporal Propagation in Videos [3d] [hn]
• 'Once in 300 years' rain hits Thai city as floods ravage South East Asia [3d] [hn]
• Comparing xeus-Haskell and ihaskell kernels [3d] [hn]
• The myth of reflected power (2017) [3d] [hn]
• Space Truckin' – The Nostromo (2012) [3d] [hn]
• Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery [3d] [hn]
• BebboSSH: SSH2 implementation for Amiga systems (68000, GPLv3) [3d] [hn]
• Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques [3d] [hn]
• Employee quits job over an Nvidia RTX 5060 [3d] [hn]
• CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025 [3d] [hn]
• Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid [3d] [hn]
• What Now? Handling Errors in Large Systems [3d] [hn]
• The gruesome new data on tech jobs [3d] [hn]