The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products [4d] [hn]
Forget LASIK: Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or surgery [4d] [hn]
Custom Errors Are Non-Negotiable in My Rust Applications [4d] [hn]
Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing [4d] [hn]
Building a custom mount for a telescoping webcam [5d] [hn]
A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law [5d] [hn]
Shantell Sans [5d] [hn]
AWS Budgets Has an 8-Hour Delay. Your Bedrock Bill Doesn't [5d] [hn]
Republicans are trying to kill science in this country [5d] [hn]
The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification) [5d] [hn]
Show HN: Phive, a Gomoku-like game to play with friends or solo [5d] [hn]
10g Upgrade [5d] [hn]
Mumbai's famed dabbawalas fed millions for over 100 years [5d] [hn]
Rotary GPU: Exploring Local Execution for Large MoE Models Under Limited VRAM [5d] [hn]
Kore: Binary File Format Optimized for Modern Data Systems (Open Source) [5d] [hn]
Design Engineering Magazine [5d] [hn]
I am against GenAI and everything it stands for [5d] [hn]
wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack [5d] [hn]
Domain Expertise Has Always Been the Real Moat [5d] [hn]
Show HN: Breathe CLI – paced resonance breathing in the terminal [5d] [hn]
Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled [5d] [hn]
A disappearing Service Processor (2025) [5d] [hn]
An OS in pure Rust with its own TCP/IP and TLS 1.3 stack, fetching the live web [5d] [hn]
Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping [5d] [hn]
Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac [5d] [hn]
Oscar-winning Star Wars editor Marcia Lucas dies aged 80 [5d] [hn]
Show HN: AI Simulaionen Based on FEP [5d] [hn]
Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard [5d] [hn]
Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant [5d] [hn]
Ernst & Young published cybersecurity report full of hallucinations [5d] [hn]
Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina [5d] [hn]
We are constantly broadcasting emotional data [5d] [hn]
Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates [5d] [hn]
White House's Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens [5d] [hn]
Stealing from Biologists to Compile Haskell Faster [5d] [hn]
Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025) [5d] [hn]
Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog [5d] [hn]
OpenRouter raises $113M Series B [5d] [hn]
Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange [5d] [hn]
Fluid Simulation for Dummies [5d] [hn]
I missed Network integrated tools on Windows so I built a Linux equivalent [5d] [hn]
Accenture to acquire Ookla [5d] [hn]
Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2B [5d] [hn]
Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014) [5d] [hn]
To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks [5d] [hn]
Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026? [5d] [hn]
PCMFlowG722 wideband (HD voice) codec for ESP32 [5d] [hn]
A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits [5d] [hn]
KL Zero: KL divergence intuition game [5d] [hn]
MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant [5d] [hn]
Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV [5d] [hn]
AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers [5d] [hn]
Voxel Space [5d] [hn]
Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain [5d] [hn]
Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup [5d] [hn]
Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts [5d] [hn]
Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear [5d] [hn]
Handmade Hawaiian Islands Map [5d] [hn]
Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering [5d] [hn]
Adding Linux support back for the BASIC (free) version of Vivado [5d] [hn]
Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets [5d] [hn]
Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time [5d] [hn]
CQL: Categorical Databases [5d] [hn]
Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain [5d] [hn]
Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team [5d] [hn]
Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism [5d] [hn]
Pandoc Templates [5d] [hn]
BQN: What Is a Primitive? [5d] [hn]
The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History [5d] [hn]
Zig: Build System Reworked [5d] [hn]
'Mind-blowing': Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate [5d] [hn]
The SLAX Scripting Language: An Alternate Syntax for XSLT [5d] [hn]
Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation [5d] [hn]
Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9 [5d] [hn]
Company accidentally blows $500M on Claude AI in one month [5d] [hn]
OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 "Swamp Castle" released Last version to support Windows 7 [5d] [hn]
Records Show UC Sharing Data with US Customs and Border Protection [5d] [hn]
Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM [5d] [hn]
Naphtha Shortages Having a Growing Impact in Japan [5d] [hn]
"The Apple Boogie" 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape [video] [5d] [hn]
WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants [5d] [hn]
Movwin: My (Unpublished) TUI Framework [5d] [hn]
Britain has crushed immigration, and harmed itself [5d] [hn]