The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility [33d] [hn]
• Why I Created phpc.tv [33d] [hn]
• Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video] [33d] [hn]
• Let's Buy Spirit Air [33d] [hn]
• The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions [33d] [hn]
• Agentic Coding Is a Trap [33d] [hn]
• DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper [33d] [hn]
• Introduction to Atom [33d] [hn]
• Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013) [33d] [hn]
• Make Your Own Microforest [33d] [hn]
• Simulating Cells Fighting to the Death [33d] [hn]
• Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O" [33d] [hn]
• Statue of a man blinded by a flag put up by Banksy in central London [33d] [hn]
• Why TUIs Are Back [33d] [hn]
• The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left [33d] [hn]
• Talking to Transformers [33d] [hn]
• Separating what AI does well from what code does well [33d] [hn]
• Past Ferrari Models, 1947–2023 [33d] [hn]
• Show HN: Ableton Live MCP [33d] [hn]
• BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth [33d] [hn]
• LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction [33d] [hn]
• I Recreated the Apple Lisa Computer Inside an FPGA – The LisaFPGA Project [33d] [hn]
• Maybe AI Isn't a Bubble After All [33d] [hn]
• Collaborative Editing in CodeMirror [33d] [hn]
• The Oscars Just Banned AI from Winning Acting and Writing Awards [33d] [hn]
• How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website [33d] [hn]
• What Chromium versions are major browsers are on? [33d] [hn]
• Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars (2023) [33d] [hn]
• Southwest Headquarters Tour [33d] [hn]
• Largest electric autonomous container ship begins commercial service [33d] [hn]
• Metal Gear Solid 2's Source Code Has Been Leaked on 4Chan [33d] [hn]
• Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time [33d] [hn]
• Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors [33d] [hn]
• Uncle Bob: It's Over [33d] [hn]
• Ghost Operators: How Israeli telecoms were exploited to track citizens worldwide [33d] [hn]
• Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors [33d] [hn]
• For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day [33d] [hn]
• Testing macOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs [33d] [hn]
• Israel Said It's Applying the Gaza Model in Lebanon [33d] [hn]
• A Desktop Made for One [33d] [hn]
• Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases [33d] [hn]
• Business Owners Are Worst Clients [33d] [hn]
• Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad [33d] [hn]
• Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races [33d] [hn]
• Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons [33d] [hn]
• The Hiddn Financial Bubble in AI Infrastructure [pdf] [33d] [hn]
• Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs [33d] [hn]
• Breaking Up with WordPress After Two Decades [33d] [hn]
• Five Banana Lessons [33d] [hn]
• Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery [33d] [hn]
• Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015) [33d] [hn]
• Alert-Driven Monitoring [33d] [hn]
• The Petroleum System Is Entering Its Volatile Decline Phase [33d] [hn]
• I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now [33d] [hn]
• I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph [33d] [hn]
• Virtual violin produces realistic sounds [33d] [hn]
• The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory [33d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success [33d] [hn]