The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Show HN: Nosia – Privacy-Focused AI to Run Models on Your Own Data and Device [540d] [hn]
• Show HN: Venmo Unofficial API [541d] [hn]
• Finland and Germany on the severed undersea cable in the Baltic Sea [541d] [hn]
• Traits are a local maximum [541d] [hn]
• DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Off Chrome to Break Search Monopoly [541d] [hn]
• Valve developers discuss why Half Life 2: Episode 3 was abandoned [541d] [hn]
• Scientific American's departing editor helped degrade science [541d] [hn]
• Undersea cable between Germany and Finland severed [541d] [hn]
• Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool [541d] [hn]
• You Don't Know Jack about Bandwidth [541d] [hn]
• Trieve (YC W24) Is Hiring a software engineer to build OpenAPI tooling [541d] [hn]
• Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink [541d] [hn]
• DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data [541d] [hn]
• Europeans spend 575M hours clicking on cookie banners a year [541d] [hn]
• Ben Affleck's a surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video [541d] [hn]
• End-to-End Tour of Text Layout/Rendering (2015) [541d] [hn]
• Finland and Lithuania Report Severed Undersea Data Cables [541d] [hn]
• AMD Now Has More Compute on the Top500 Than Nvidia [541d] [hn]
• The tragedy of trying to run an old node project [541d] [hn]
• Thoughts on Bluesky [541d] [hn]
• Things you didn't know about Google Scholar [541d] [hn]
• Unreal 5.5 is a big deal [video] [541d] [hn]
• Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank [541d] [hn]
• Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes [541d] [hn]
• MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server [541d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud fs [541d] [hn]
• A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers [541d] [hn]
• Qwen2.5 Turbo extends context length to 1M tokens [541d] [hn]
• Nordic neighbours release new advice on surviving war [541d] [hn]
• Coincidences that make our existence possible [541d] [hn]
• A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor [541d] [hn]
• Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence [541d] [hn]
• Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming [541d] [hn]
• The Skyline algorithm for packing 2D rectangles [541d] [hn]
• November 1861: Chalmers' under Channel railway [541d] [hn]
• The most helpful charity isn't what you think [541d] [hn]
• Mystery fault takes out undersea internet cable between Germany and Finland [541d] [hn]
• Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis [541d] [hn]
• Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -RF [541d] [hn]
• Nothing-up-my-sleeve number [541d] [hn]
• $500k Pay, Easy Hours: How Dermatology Became the 'It' Job in Medicine [541d] [hn]
• Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework [541d] [hn]