The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Why no one talks about React2Shell? [14d] [hn]
• Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri [14d] [hn]
• When Would You Ever Want Bubblesort? [14d] [hn]
• Useful patterns for building HTML tools [14d] [hn]
• EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws [14d] [hn]
• Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration [14d] [hn]
• I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop [14d] [hn]
• Terraform CDK has been phased out [14d] [hn]
• Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue [14d] [hn]
• Super Mario 64 for the PS1 [14d] [hn]
• Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise [14d] [hn]
• Intermittent hypoxia increases blood flow and benefits executive function [14d] [hn]
• Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones [14d] [hn]
• Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA [14d] [hn]
• Is it a bubble? [14d] [hn]
• Show HN: MCPShark – Traffic Inspector for Model Context Protocol [14d] [hn]
• Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight [14d] [hn]
• Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux [14d] [hn]
• 9 Mothers (YC X26) Is Hiring [14d] [hn]
• DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says [14d] [hn]
• England Historic Aerial Photo Explorer [14d] [hn]
• Launch HN: InspectMind (YC W24) – AI agent for reviewing construction drawings [14d] [hn]
• Launch HN: InspectMind (YC W24) – AI agent for reviewing construction drawings [14d] [hn]
• Size of Life [14d] [hn]
• Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems [14d] [hn]
• RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes [14d] [hn]
• In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution [14d] [hn]
• Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon [14d] [hn]
• Writing an Outlook Add-in in Rust [14d] [hn]
• How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy [14d] [hn]
• The New Kindle Scribes Are Great, but Not Great Enough [14d] [hn]
• Show HN: Wirebrowser – A JavaScript debugger with breakpoint-driven heap search [14d] [hn]
• Data Infrastructure for All: Free Kafka and $5 PostgreSQL [14d] [hn]
• Taxing Growth [15d] [hn]
• I Tried the New Android XR Smart Glasses from Google and XReal [15d] [hn]
• New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care [15d] [hn]
• Apple Faces Scrutiny as Sanctioned Entities Slip Through App Store Controls [15d] [hn]
• McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash [15d] [hn]
• US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry [15d] [hn]
• First PC Emulator Launched for Galaxy XR [15d] [hn]
• Factor 0.101 now available [15d] [hn]
• Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained [15d] [hn]
• Big Tech are the new Soviets [15d] [hn]
• Stop Breaking TLS [15d] [hn]
• Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler" [15d] [hn]
• Are the Three Musketeers allergic to muskets?(2014) [15d] [hn]
• Dependable C [15d] [hn]
• 'Source available' is not open source (and that's okay) [15d] [hn]
• The end of the kernel Rust experiment [15d] [hn]
• NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by 22% in six months [15d] [hn]
• Atomic time source failure at NIST Gaithersburg campus [15d] [hn]
• Making macOS Bearable [15d] [hn]
• Show all your application error using Cloudflare Error Page [15d] [hn]
• The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat [15d] [hn]
• 224× Compression of Llama-70B with Higher Accuracy (Paper and Code) [15d] [hn]
• Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department's Official Typeface [15d] [hn]
• Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri [15d] [hn]