The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable [6d] [hn]
• Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology [6d] [hn]
• Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk [6d] [hn]
• ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools [6d] [hn]
• I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it [6d] [hn]
• Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware [6d] [hn]
• The Writers Came at Night [6d] [hn]
• First Design Engineer Hire – Build Games at Gym Class (YC W22) [6d] [hn]
• I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: JSciPy – SciPy-inspired signal processing library for Java and Android [6d] [hn]
• Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data) [6d] [hn]
• Propositions about the New Romanticism [6d] [hn]
• Why Does Destroying Resources via TF Suck? [6d] [hn]
• Looks like Claude is having a stroke [6d] [hn]
• Bye Bye Gmail [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists [6d] [hn]
• Show HN: Polymcp – Turn Any Python Function into an MCP Tool for AI Agents [6d] [hn]
• Agent orchestration for the timid [6d] [hn]
• JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool [6d] [hn]
• The Concatative Language XY [6d] [hn]
• BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp [6d] [hn]
• Understanding Rust Closures [6d] [hn]
• Get-Shit-Done [6d] [hn]
• Hung by a thread [6d] [hn]
• US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional [6d] [hn]
• Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison [6d] [hn]
• Gmail Spam Detection Down [6d] [hn]
• Why is the US sliding toward authoritarianism? [6d] [hn]
• December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more [7d] [hn]
• Metriport (YC S22) is hiring a security eng to harden healthcare data infra [7d] [hn]
• We are experiencing an issue with Gmail beginning on Saturday, 2026-01-24 13:02 [7d] [hn]
• Are we all plagiarists now? [7d] [hn]
• Minneapolis Authorities Respond to Shooting Involving ICE Agents [7d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam? [7d] [hn]
• Memory layout in Zig with formulas [7d] [hn]
• After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video] [7d] [hn]
• The Kept and the Killed (2022) [7d] [hn]
• The GNU C Library version 2.43 released [7d] [hn]
• Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms [7d] [hn]
• Ask HN: May an Agent accepts a license to produce a build? [7d] [hn]
• FOSS "Just Fork It" Delusion [7d] [hn]
• XHTML Club [7d] [hn]
• MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked [7d] [hn]
• You can't pay me to prompt [7d] [hn]