The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Knock: Convert ACSM files to PDF/EPUBs with one command on Linux [1311d] [hn]
• What’s Behind Chinook and Chum Salmon Declines in Alaska? [1311d] [hn]
• Six Recent Discoveries That Have Changed How We Think About Human Origins [1311d] [hn]
• Energy vs. Sovereign Bond Markets [1311d] [hn]
• PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools [1311d] [hn]
• Why 23.976 and not 24 FPS? [1311d] [hn]
• I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need for holistic systems [1311d] [hn]
• Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers [1311d] [hn]
• Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog [1311d] [hn]
• Show HN: Fractal Garden – An Exhibition of Mathematical Beauty [1311d] [hn]
• How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails [1311d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is a MSc in Computer Science worth the time and money? [1311d] [hn]
• Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit [1311d] [hn]
• The single market is looking wobbly, Germany is to blame [1311d] [hn]
• Crimean bridge: Who – or what – caused the explosion? [1311d] [hn]
• Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door [1311d] [hn]
• MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence [1311d] [hn]
• Decompiling x86 Deep Neural Network Executables [1311d] [hn]
• Data Structures Sketches [1311d] [hn]
• Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac [1311d] [hn]
• Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring a Front End Architect and Full Stack Engineers [1311d] [hn]
• California to discontinue plastic grocery bags [1311d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why are JavaScript dependencies so messy? [1311d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How do remote first businesses maintain cultural cohesion? [1311d] [hn]
• Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages [1311d] [hn]
• Stop Using To-Do List Apps Like Todoist [1311d] [hn]
• Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths [1311d] [hn]
• Young woman with PTSD who survived Brussels airport terror attack 'euthanised' [1311d] [hn]
• DIY out of band management: remote power button [1311d] [hn]
• Top science fiction short stories published in August [1311d] [hn]
• The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum [1311d] [hn]
• New research suggests eating early and within a 10-hour window is healthier [1311d] [hn]
• Transwarp v0.84 – 50x fastload system on plain vanilla stock 1541 (use with C64) [1311d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why do people come to HN for Stripe resolutions? [1311d] [hn]
• CS631 – Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment [1311d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How many programming languages are you proficient in? [1311d] [hn]
• Cleaning a Spoon Is Complex [1311d] [hn]
• Learn Exponentially [1311d] [hn]
• Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', 'women with children' [1311d] [hn]
• Lobsters [1312d] [hn]
• Know Your Carrying Capacity [1312d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Any legal place to buy offline TV movie downloads? [1312d] [hn]
• Protests in Iran: State-run live TV hacked by protesters [1312d] [hn]
• Starting a Business Around GPT-3 Is a Bad Idea (2020) [1312d] [hn]
• Poll: How Ambidextrous Are You? [1312d] [hn]
• Truecaller launches new AI-powered voice assistant [1312d] [hn]
• Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court [1312d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Bored working for the current company, advice? [1312d] [hn]
• Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad [1312d] [hn]
• Take a Break You Idiot [1312d] [hn]
• Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners [1312d] [hn]
• Declassified US nuclear targets – interactive map [1312d] [hn]
• TypeScript is now officially 10 years old [1312d] [hn]
• Reverse Engineering a Cat Feeder to Boost Productivity [1312d] [hn]
• Call for Participation to Chaos Computer Club’s 37C3 [1312d] [hn]
• How does a nail puncture a tire? (2003) [1312d] [hn]
• Why I think there's a one-in-six chance of an imminent global nuclear war [1312d] [hn]
• Going where BeOS NetPositive hasn't gone before: NetPositive+ [1312d] [hn]
• Stop Using Utcnow and Utcfromtimestamp [1312d] [hn]
• Zed Shaw Explains How Stripe Is PayPal Circa 2010 [1312d] [hn]
• Why Disconnecting from Your Phone Is So Good for You – and How to Do It [1312d] [hn]
• Day.js Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API [1312d] [hn]
• Young Canadians go to school longer for jobs that pay less [1312d] [hn]
• The gangs that kidnap Asians and force them to commit cyberfraud [1312d] [hn]
• Scotland 'snow-free' for fourth time in six years [1312d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is Substack the New Medium? [1312d] [hn]
• A Few of My Favorite Things About the OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools [1312d] [hn]