The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

Taste Is the New Intelligence [310d] [hn]
Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house [310d] [hn]
Show HN: Local LLM Notepad – run a GPT-style model from a USB stick [310d] [hn]
AI is Anti-Human (and assorted qualifications) [310d] [hn]
GPEmu: A GPU Emulator for Rapid, Low-Cost Deep Learning Prototyping [pdf] [310d] [hn]
Corruption Database – DJT [310d] [hn]
Show HN: A continuation of IRS Direct File that can be self-hosted [310d] [hn]
Bell Labs DSP Pioneer Jim Boddie Leaves Lasting Legacy [310d] [hn]
Entropy of a Mixture [310d] [hn]
The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering [310d] [hn]
CertMate – SSL Certificate Management System [310d] [hn]
My Database Is My Application: Rethinking Webhook Logic with DuckDB and SQL [310d] [hn]
Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5 kilograms [310d] [hn]
Public Signal Backups Testing [310d] [hn]
'Generali' sign atop insurer's skyscraper offices collapses in Milan [310d] [hn]
The Original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) Compressor Source Code Has Been Released [310d] [hn]
End of an Era [310d] [hn]
Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion [310d] [hn]
Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri in Major Reversal [310d] [hn]
Show HN: We're two coffee nerds who built an AI app to track beans and recipes [311d] [hn]
The JTAG in your Qualcomm/Snapdragon device's USB port [311d] [hn]
Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved [311d] [hn]
OpenTelemetry Is Great, but Who the Hell Is Going to Pay for It? [311d] [hn]
Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI? [311d] [hn]
They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder [311d] [hn]
Why We Should Care About This War over the Future of Money [311d] [hn]