The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

WebVM 2.0: A complete Linux Desktop Environment in the browser via WebAssembly [13d] [hn]
Lessons from My First Exit [13d] [hn]
Vanessa Freudenberg's SqueakJS Paper Wins ACM Sigplan Most Notable Paper Award [pdf] [13d] [hn]
I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100 [13d] [hn]
GOG's Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing on the Classics [13d] [hn]
Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art [video] [13d] [hn]
An Oral History of "We Built This City," the Worst Song of All Time (2016) [13d] [hn]
Go-Safeweb [13d] [hn]
JSON for Classic C++ [13d] [hn]
Windows Kills SMB Speeds When Using Tailscale [13d] [hn]
Looking for a Job Is Tough [13d] [hn]
PRC Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure [13d] [hn]
NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool [13d] [hn]
YouTube Premium Showing Ads [13d] [hn]
Contracts for C++ (DbC) [pdf] [13d] [hn]
EU irate about geo-locked Apple IDs [13d] [hn]
Farewell and thank you for the continued partnership, Francois Chollet [14d] [hn]
DeepComputing: Early Access Program for RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 [14d] [hn]
New York City Council Votes to End Broker Fees Squeezing Renters [14d] [hn]
FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan [14d] [hn]
Reflex (YC W23) Is Hiring Software Engineers (San Francisco) [14d] [hn]
Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home [14d] [hn]
Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X [14d] [hn]
Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress [14d] [hn]
FBI seizes Polymarket CEO's phone, electronics [14d] [hn]
Show HN: I Built Tinder, but for Entrepreneurs and Investors [14d] [hn]
Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on the infamous Pokémon episode [14d] [hn]
Play Dialog: A contextual turn-taking TTS model like NotebookLM Playground [14d] [hn]
Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction [14d] [hn]
Why Sabine Hossenfelder Is Just Wrong [14d] [hn]
A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT [14d] [hn]
Wonder Announces Acquisition of Grubhub [14d] [hn]
Teens learn a new conspiracy theory every week on social media [14d] [hn]
My company has banned the use of Jetbrains IDEs internally [14d] [hn]
A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard [14d] [hn]
The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development [14d] [hn]
Graph-based AI model maps the future of innovation [14d] [hn]
The Beginner's Guide to Visual Prompt Injections [14d] [hn]
Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE [14d] [hn]
Show HN: Burner – A low cost wallet to gift crypto [14d] [hn]
Patterns (YC S21) Is Hiring to Transform Business Finance and Credit [14d] [hn]
Show HN: Konga Beat – A custom track editor for Donkey Konga 2 and 3 [14d] [hn]
Covering the Supreme Court and the Judiciary in (Mostly) Plain English [14d] [hn]
Just Eat Is Selling Grubhub to Marc Lore's Wonder for $650M [14d] [hn]
.NET 9 Is Out [14d] [hn]
Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy [14d] [hn]
Fault Injection – Down the Rabbit Hole [14d] [hn]
MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical [14d] [hn]
The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916 [14d] [hn]
Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator [14d] [hn]
GOG Preservation Program [14d] [hn]
Show HN: 8arms – Marketing Campaign Generation [14d] [hn]
Elsevier may wish they had checked the revision a bit more carefully [14d] [hn]
OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI [14d] [hn]
Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB [14d] [hn]
Airlines Hate 'Skiplagging.' Meet the Man Who Helps Travelers Pull It Off [14d] [hn]
Grab built its own map in Southeast Asia, and is now going after Google [14d] [hn]
Hadrius (YC W23) is hiring engineers looking to grow into future founders [14d] [hn]
An unearthly spectacle – The untold story of the biggest nuclear bomb (2021) [14d] [hn]
OpenAI and others seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations [14d] [hn]
B2C billing is harder than B2B billing [14d] [hn]
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac [14d] [hn]