The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Study finds 46 percent of U.S. counties have pharmacy deserts [144d] [hn]
• Pentagon deploys Navy destroyer for unusual U.S. border mission [144d] [hn]
• Small Archives [144d] [hn]
• Microsoft paywalling features in Notepad and Paint [144d] [hn]
• Who Is Free Software For? [144d] [hn]
• Kastle (YC S24) Is Hiring Engineer #3 [144d] [hn]
• Tesla drives into Wile E. Coyote fake road wall in camera vs. Lidar test [144d] [hn]
• Urbandead MMORPG (zombies and humans, made by 1 person) dead to moderarion laws [144d] [hn]
• Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia [144d] [hn]
• Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation is [144d] [hn]
• Everything Picolisp can do, and more [144d] [hn]
• Zlib-rs is faster than C [144d] [hn]
• Tänzer: The lovable web server framework for Tcl [144d] [hn]
• 'Bloody Saturday' at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks [144d] [hn]
• How our noisy world is seriously damaging our health [144d] [hn]
• AI Is Making Developers Dumb [144d] [hn]
• Tcl Tutorial [144d] [hn]
• Microsoft's 1986 IPO [144d] [hn]
• "QWERTY wasn't designed to solve type bar jamming" [pdf] [144d] [hn]
• Our Interfaces Have Lost Their Senses [144d] [hn]
• Teach, Don't Tell (2013) [145d] [hn]
• Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite [145d] [hn]
• Abuse of power at Germany's elite research institution [video] [145d] [hn]
• "Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI [145d] [hn]
• Show HN: Cppmatch – Rust-Like Pattern Matching and Error Handling for C++ [145d] [hn]
• When the Dotcom Bubble Burst [145d] [hn]
• Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to eliminate E2E UI tests [145d] [hn]
• Media Blackout: America's Poorest Counties Devastated by Catastrophic Flooding [145d] [hn]
• Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder [145d] [hn]
• Show HN: I Built a Customer Feedback Tool [145d] [hn]
• DiceDB [145d] [hn]
• For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower [145d] [hn]
• Show HN: Quickly connect to WiFi by scanning text, no typing needed [145d] [hn]
• Male octopus injects female with venom during sex to avoid being eaten [145d] [hn]
• Origami measuring spoon incites fury after 9 years of Kickstarter delay hell [145d] [hn]
• Bio Cringe – The Obnoxious Social Media Bio Generator [145d] [hn]
• Show HN: 10 teams are racing to build a pivotal tracker replacement [145d] [hn]
• Comet open source remote KVM from GL-iNet [145d] [hn]
• Medicaid cuts could devastate elderly in Florida nursing homes [145d] [hn]
• Sketch-of-Thought: Efficient LLM Reasoning [145d] [hn]
• Scorpi – A Modern Hypervisor (For macOS) [145d] [hn]
• Breaking Up with On-Call [145d] [hn]
• Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub [145d] [hn]
• Rust on the RP2350 [145d] [hn]
• The Five-Week Solo Startup [145d] [hn]
• Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good [145d] [hn]
• Big LLMs weights are a piece of history [145d] [hn]
• Raytracing on Intel's Arc B580 – By Chester Lam [145d] [hn]
• Lago (Open-Source Usage Based Billing)Is Hiring Sr Ruby Engineers (Latam) [145d] [hn]
• The good times in tech are over [145d] [hn]
• zlib-ng: zlib replacement with optimizations for "next generation" systems [145d] [hn]
• Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture [145d] [hn]
• French gov's open source alternative to Notion or Outline [145d] [hn]
• Styling an HTML dialog modal to take the full height of the viewport [145d] [hn]
• A powerful free and open source WAF – UUSEC WAF [145d] [hn]
• PrintedLabs – 3D printable optical experiment equipment [145d] [hn]
• The British Nationality Act as a Prolog Program (1986) [pdf] [145d] [hn]
• GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price [145d] [hn]
• Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript [145d] [hn]
• Implications of Global Privacy Control [145d] [hn]
• Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained [145d] [hn]
• Show HN: My high school team's space probe [145d] [hn]
• Take a New Look at CSS Shapes (2018) [145d] [hn]
• So you wanna go on prem (2016) [145d] [hn]
• Compression of Spectral Images Using Spectral JPEG XL [145d] [hn]
• Sunsethue – Forecast Sunset Beauty [145d] [hn]
• Implementing "Tennis for Two" using op amps (2024) [145d] [hn]
• Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by [145d] [hn]
• Peru's Great Urban Experiment (2023) [145d] [hn]
• Decoding JSON sum types in Go without panicking [145d] [hn]
• More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX) [145d] [hn]
• Imagine an Agent that can hot-reload tools. Open-source [145d] [hn]
• Cloudflare asks browser devs to sign insane NDAs before fixing browser blocking [145d] [hn]
• Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found [145d] [hn]