The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

Shopify: Staffers to prove jobs can't be done by AI before asking for headcount [16d] [hn]
What Was Quartz? [16d] [hn]
"Final Usonian Home" by Frank Lloyd Wright Completed in Ohio [16d] [hn]
Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB [16d] [hn]
A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO [16d] [hn]
Ancient Dagger Up to 2.5k Years Old W Stars/Moons/Geometric Patterns Unearthed [16d] [hn]
Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town [16d] [hn]
In React {Transitions} = F(state) [16d] [hn]
Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs [16d] [hn]
Scaffold Level Editor [16d] [hn]
Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI Revealed [16d] [hn]
Show HN: Minimal MCP server in Go showcasing project architecture [16d] [hn]
John Carmack on AI in game programming [16d] [hn]
Choviva: Chocolate replacement with less CO2 emissions [16d] [hn]
Show HN: Lux – a luxurious package manager for Lua [16d] [hn]
Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security [16d] [hn]
The Troll Hole Adventure [16d] [hn]
Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming [pdf] (2013) [16d] [hn]
Show HN: Kahuna, the IndexedDB-Manager Webextension [16d] [hn]
Circling the Good [16d] [hn]
20 years of Git [16d] [hn]
Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code [16d] [hn]
Variable duty cycle square waves with the Web Audio API [16d] [hn]
Global Health Threat: Antibiotic-Resistant "Superbug" Spreading in Malaysia [16d] [hn]
Why Catullus Continues to Seduce Us [16d] [hn]
Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends [16d] [hn]
LLMs Understand Nullability [16d] [hn]
Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023) [16d] [hn]
GitMCP: Transforms any GitHub project into an MCP endpoint [16d] [hn]
Privacy at the Border: A Technical Guide to Securing Your Data and Devices [16d] [hn]
Watch Antimatter Fall: Scientists Capture Gravity's Pull with a 3840MP Camera [16d] [hn]
Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks' [16d] [hn]
HHS Secretary Kennedy Promotes Measles Quackery on Social Media [16d] [hn]
Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March [16d] [hn]
Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US [16d] [hn]
Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories (2018) [16d] [hn]
The Dire Wolf Is Back [16d] [hn]
Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media [16d] [hn]
Classic HN: ITAPPMONROBOT [16d] [hn]
Your Startup Doesn't Need to Be a Unicorn [16d] [hn]
Writing C for Curl [16d] [hn]
CDC's top laboratory on STDs is shut by Trump administration [16d] [hn]
PHP isn't dead. Laravel is just bloated. Here's what I made instead [16d] [hn]
Open-Source Is Just That [16d] [hn]
Refutations to Roko's Basilisk [16d] [hn]
Serious issues in Llama 4 training. I Have Submitted My Resignation to GenAI" [16d] [hn]
Show HN: Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI [16d] [hn]
Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted [16d] [hn]
Dark Mirror Ideologies [16d] [hn]
Food fermentation in space: Opportunities and challenges [16d] [hn]
Circuit Breaker Triggered in Japan for Stock Futures Trading [16d] [hn]
Apple's mouse is so bad Tim Cook uses another brand at work [16d] [hn]
Let's Ban Billboards [17d] [hn]
After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work [17d] [hn]