alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
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They'll never steal it gg
It's hideous.
Also known as an inertial mass dampener for your sit-stand desk.
I appreciate++ the design except for the too-perfect rebar and the exposed wire directly _in_ the concrete. Pros would use a conduit methinks.
Summarily ruined yet again by massive British sockets requiring removing 25% of the volume.
Brits build their homes around the sockets, not the other way around.
The most obvious issue here is that there needs to be a mat on the top to avoid scratching the bottom of the laptop.
ok, it's stable (at least from the photos), but I would prefer a more lightweight approach
That's one way to prevent people from taking your desk at work
I'm waiting for the man to make a laptop case out of concrete. That will be truly brutalist!
I love this! The pure weight of it is amazing, and distinctly makes a statement. Its a fun concept one could play with if they were making their own!
I think a "clean" and "contemporary" version of this would look amazing as well:
Along the lines of: https://www.modustrialmaker.com/blog/2018/8/14/making-an-imp...
Maybe with: (for weight) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam_concrete (there are plenty of DIY versions of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4_GxPHwqkA
work of art!
You just need to cover it with graffitis to fully depict the experience of the poor souls living in brutalist buildings.
Such a heavy stand might serve as a nice heat sink too, I would think. Doesn't have fins, but it could radiate evenly, and not even get that hot.
I imagine its good on heat disipation...
I love concrete as a medium but that's got to be heavy af and I would manage to smack my elbow on it all the time as well as smash my coffee mug on it.
Is it just me or can you all hear the sound of the metal/aluminum scratching against the concrete?
Loved the brutalist movie, this actually seems quite nice assthetically.
When I first look at this I think "hey it would be nicer if it wasn't falling apart", but you could argue that's kind of the point. Well done
looks like trash. congratulations man
I don't like it, from a pure brutalistic view point this obviously doesn't make any sense, it isn't practical and it doesn't make any effort to create a shape that is esthetically pleasing. The urban decay is even more outrageous, the whole appeal of urban decay is that it is "real", it's the thinking about all of people that went through the same structure throughout the years. Of cause it doesn't mean you can't make art about or featuring urban decay, but you have to be smart about it.
More Industrial interior design than brutalist architecture
Should have stolen a broken piece of concrete off a street and repurpose it to be a laptop stand. At least that would be authentic, and contributing to urban decay at his location.
Now I need to make a concrete laptop
I've always loved this style of architecture. People think commie blocks are ugly but I've always appreciated their simple utilitarianism
go visit any major “third world” country city … probably see those everywhere.
my annoying ass coworker has one of these, he keeps trying to migrate us to raw sql and C
This is quite tasteless… a betrayal of brutalist honesty. And the dildo thing is plainly disgusting. Let’s all be gentlemen and keep that sort of thing off the Net.
I'm about 75% confident this content is AI generated. Just intuition , no tools used. And I'm assuming our audience is autistic enough to put in the effort to build this. Composition, shadows & lighting seems synthetic.
Kudos to the creativity and no offense to the author. Partly running off a-priori risk model for internet content.
Curious to see if my prediction holds up.
Well, from the look of it, to touch the thing wrong must be its own punishment, which is brutalism indeed. It insists on itself far too loudly, though, in what I would call a pseudapocalypticist or "Falloutpunk" manner. Too bad. There's nothing much wrong with it for its own sake, other than the ergonomy, but it sticks out from its environment like a sore thumb, adding nothing of value save the demand its presence be flattered and celebrated for its own sake - you know what? I take it back; you've not only recapitulated the brutalist concept, but apotheosized it. Congratulations on a successful work! It must have been a blast to build, which is where the real joy always is to be found of course, and I look forward to seeing which school of design you satirize next.
(Did you really immure a power strip in cement? The MOVs in those are wearing items, you know, and can though rarely do fail short circuit...)
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I guess "I poured some concrete into a mold and put a power outlet in it" wouldn't be as eye catching of a title.
This is one of those things where someone does something incredibly simple, but dresses it up in pretty language and even some totally irrelevant chemistry equations (because they r so smrt) to make it look like more than it is. Which LLM did you paste the equation from?
And of course those who also have no idea how anything is made are unbelievably impressed. You can tell by the amount of exclamation points in all of the toxically positive reactions. Good work in that respect!
But hey, I guess it's not another vibe coded project with an LLM writeup. Progress.
It's too much concrete for me, but hey, not every day you see an original and unique piece like this!