The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans [115d] [hn]
• Show HN: Clawtype v2.1 – a one-hand chorded USB keyboard and mouse [video] [115d] [hn]
• Show HN: SwiftHive – A Swift Package Registry for Faster Builds [115d] [hn]
• A Man Out to Prove How Dumb AI Still Is [115d] [hn]
• Wall Street Blew It [115d] [hn]
• Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market [115d] [hn]
• Images trapped in a feedback loop and analog fractals create each other [115d] [hn]
• The blissful Zen of a good side project [115d] [hn]
• Google announces Sec-Gemini v1 a new experimental cybersecurity model [115d] [hn]
• An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips [115d] [hn]
• The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition) [115d] [hn]
• Hyperinflation Heralded the Fall of German Democracy (2023) [115d] [hn]
• SpaceX's Fram2 returns from first-of-its-kind mission around Earth's poles [115d] [hn]
• Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game [115d] [hn]
• Germany's 'Deutschlandticket' helps environment – study [115d] [hn]
• The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition [115d] [hn]
• Yoko: A Biography [115d] [hn]
• Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms [115d] [hn]
• New Theoretical Research Trends in Cartography [115d] [hn]
• Pitfalls of Safe Rust [115d] [hn]
• The Mathematics of Crochet [115d] [hn]
• YIMBYism as Industrial Policy [115d] [hn]
• CINC Is Not Chef [115d] [hn]
• Thunder Compute (YC S24) is hiring a GPU systems engineer [115d] [hn]
• Stay on schedule with Raspberry Pi Pico W and an e-ink dashboard [115d] [hn]
• How the 2025 US Financial Crisis is Different than 2008 [115d] [hn]
• Dark mode with almost no CSS [115d] [hn]
• The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir [115d] [hn]
• Ask HN: As a Founder, is this business model compelling? [115d] [hn]
• I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today [115d] [hn]
• Kerosene did not save the Sperm Whale (2024) [115d] [hn]
• Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans [115d] [hn]
• Xlwings Lite – Python in Excel Using Pyodide [115d] [hn]
• AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught [115d] [hn]
• Show HN: uWrap.js – A faster and more accurate text wrapping util in < 2KB [115d] [hn]
• Purple exists only in our brains [115d] [hn]
• A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled [115d] [hn]
• Understanding Hydration Errors by Building a SSR React Project [115d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Does Collapsing an HN Thread in a Popular story spike your CPU use? [115d] [hn]
• Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants' Social Media [115d] [hn]
• NOAA Weather will delete websites using Amazon, Google cloud services Saturday [115d] [hn]
• Why does Britain feel so poor? [115d] [hn]
• Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA [115d] [hn]
• Mac Numbers now supports LAMBDA functions and MAP [116d] [hn]
• When I converted my home from gas to electric my utility bills nearly doubled [116d] [hn]
• Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates with 34% Tariffs [116d] [hn]
• America's astonishing act of self-harm [116d] [hn]
• Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement [116d] [hn]
• Bored of It [116d] [hn]
• I just want to serve 5 terabytes [video] [116d] [hn]
• Gumroad is now open source [116d] [hn]
• Hackers strike Australia's largest pension funds in coordinated attacks [116d] [hn]
• Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity [116d] [hn]
• Warren Buffett: growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us [pdf] [116d] [hn]
• Apple killed Asahi Linux with M4 update [116d] [hn]
• Lessons from open source in the Mexican government [116d] [hn]
• Head of NSA and Cybercommand Is Ousted [116d] [hn]
• DeepSeek: Inference-Time Scaling for Generalist Reward Modeling [116d] [hn]
• Anduril Industries banned from recruiting on NixOS forums [116d] [hn]
• Show HN: Transputer emulator in JavaScript (fast enough to be useful) [116d] [hn]
• Building Gearbox Dynamometer [116d] [hn]
• Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for? [116d] [hn]
• Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture [116d] [hn]
• What is Local first development [116d] [hn]