The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Carmack: Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers? [55d] [hn]
• Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination [55d] [hn]
• A Genealogy of Freudenthal's Lincos [55d] [hn]
• Top Web Design Styles of 1993 [55d] [hn]
• Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf] [55d] [hn]
• Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys [55d] [hn]
• The Overton Window of Food [55d] [hn]
• Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk [55d] [hn]
• How to get a free .arpa domain [55d] [hn]
• How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails [55d] [hn]
• Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO [55d] [hn]
• Autonomous (YC F25) Is Hiring Engineers [55d] [hn]
• Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor [55d] [hn]
• The river of Apple's interface guidelines [55d] [hn]
• A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards [55d] [hn]
• Things I Won't Work With: Straight Dimethyl Zinc [55d] [hn]
• A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] [55d] [hn]
• The Safest Job from AI May Be Writing [55d] [hn]
• The Wormhole Hall of Shame [55d] [hn]
• Student Teacher Arrested for Private Snapchat Message [55d] [hn]
• Kids These Days [55d] [hn]
• A practical guide to running 8x RTX PRO 6000's [55d] [hn]
• You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting [55d] [hn]
• 'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions [55d] [hn]
• British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry [55d] [hn]
• German Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding [55d] [hn]
• Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding [55d] [hn]
• I Turned My Security Cameras into an Automatic Bird Identification System [55d] [hn]
• Mental Health Workers Say Algorithmic Triage Is Hurting Patients [55d] [hn]
• You Probably Own This 7-Eleven (and That's Why It Looks So Sad) [55d] [hn]
• Wildfire Survivors Push Back Against Newsom-Led Utility Bailout [55d] [hn]
• The Computer Museum of America reclamation project [55d] [hn]
• Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme [55d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company [55d] [hn]
• Nobody Has Actually Built a Software Factory [55d] [hn]
• Oscar Winner Brings Monsters to Life with His Simulation Software [55d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines [55d] [hn]
• Agentic Trust Controls [55d] [hn]
• Show HN: 2x-4x cheaper GLM 5.3 for coding and research [55d] [hn]
• Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP [55d] [hn]
• Doubling of Kobo's U.S. sales in both 2025 and 2026, 70% US female customer base [55d] [hn]
• Rakuten Kobo returns to U.S. retail as sales double [55d] [hn]
• Playa Phone [55d] [hn]
• C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments [55d] [hn]
• Culture Clash [55d] [hn]
• My Experience Has Nuance, Yours Is a Data Point [55d] [hn]
• Marx, Keynes, and A.I [55d] [hn]
• Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America [55d] [hn]
• ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference [55d] [hn]
• Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons [55d] [hn]
• Why can't you combine .tar.gz files with cat? [55d] [hn]
• Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri [55d] [hn]
• We Are Rebuilding Monica [55d] [hn]
• Creating Backup Storage Sucks [55d] [hn]
• The Lost Art of Carrying Loads [55d] [hn]
• Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio [55d] [hn]
• Show HN: SlideOps, slides from a repo that flag when they drift from the code [55d] [hn]
• The British state has lost the argument [55d] [hn]
• AI-Written Code Is Still *Your* Code. Are You OK with That? [55d] [hn]
• Solving the Flat Cube [55d] [hn]
• Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex [55d] [hn]