Brutalism means letting a functional concrete building look concrete and functional -- revealing its function and materials in the design.
A brutalist web site should LOOK like a web site, and build its appearance around its function, not some fancy science-fi fantasy.
Here's some text. Here's an image. Here's a heading. Here's a link. They all do different things, they are all in different places.
By that reckoning a few of the examples are brutalist. Hacker News, craigslist, Daniel Eatock. They are not minimalist, because they do not hide their functional complexity. They reveal the functional complexity in their design.
These are popular, powerful, ugly sites and I'd love to see more of them.
More generally, please don't call names in HN arguments. You've been doing this quite a bit, unfortunately. The site guidelines ask you not to, so please (re-)read them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
What we're going for instead is informative conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html. If you know more about the historical meaning of brutalism than the rest of us, the thing to do is teach us about it. Heaping condemnation on others' work teaches us nothing—besides which, your comment seems based on the false assumption that terms have no right to change meaning when they migrate from one context to another.
So please post civilly and substantively, or not at all. You needn't look any further for an example than drb311's splendid reply to you.
It's far from the worst.
Am I missing some obvious shortcut to it or is this guy actually good?
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The next guy will call it "bauhaus".