The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Reanimate: Build declarative animations with SVG and Haskell [1239d] [hn]
• Cormac McCarthy loves a good diner [1239d] [hn]
• Devbox 0.2.0: Automatic Nix Installer, Plugins, and Background Services [1239d] [hn]
• Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative [1239d] [hn]
• AI's Jurassic Park Moment, a real and imminent threat to the fabric of society [1239d] [hn]
• A city experiments with paying people not to be annoying [1239d] [hn]
• Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python [1239d] [hn]
• In Kyrgyzstan it’s common to kidnap your future wife [1239d] [hn]
• People took some potassium and lost some weight [1239d] [hn]
• An extensive letter from Edsger Dijkstra to my 19 year old self (1989) [1239d] [hn]
• Bach’s Accidental Masterpiece [1239d] [hn]
• Ruby delights built into the language [1239d] [hn]
• January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all [1239d] [hn]
• Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture [1239d] [hn]
• See how many classic books you can read in 2023 with just 20 minutes a day [1239d] [hn]
• Potassco: The Answer Set Solving Collection [1239d] [hn]
• Is forced treatment for the mentally ill ever humane? [1239d] [hn]
• 2023's public domain is a banger [1239d] [hn]
• MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger [1239d] [hn]
• Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B settling charges it wrongfully seized homes and cars [1239d] [hn]
• ‘Porch pirates’ stole an estimated 260M packages in 2021 [1239d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is there a site for quality short-term contract programming work? [1239d] [hn]
• Cops Cast Doubt on Musk’s Claim That ‘Crazy Stalker’ Followed His Son [1239d] [hn]
• There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge [1239d] [hn]
• A collection of Soviet control rooms [1239d] [hn]
• Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn [1239d] [hn]
• Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe thanks to conservation efforts [1239d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) [1239d] [hn]
• Beware of Bargin Bin Tools [1239d] [hn]
• A Killed by Google RIP-off focusing on things AI is threatening [1239d] [hn]
• Ribbon's (YC S17) new VPE is hiring engineers who want to simplify healthcare [1239d] [hn]
• WordPress to support SQLite back end [1239d] [hn]
• OneCoin co-founder pleads guilty to $4B fraud [1239d] [hn]
• Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers [1239d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Given AI advancements, is a Master’s degree in CS worthless? [1239d] [hn]
• The future our grandchildren deserve [1239d] [hn]
• Amsterdam's 'stay away' campaign targets troublesome visitors [1239d] [hn]
• 12 Days of PostgreSQL Tools and Projects [1239d] [hn]
• Deriving a Bit-Twiddling Hack: Signed Integer Overflow [1239d] [hn]
• NY Governor stalls right-to-repair bill; has until Dec 28 to avoid “pocket veto” [1239d] [hn]
• Show HN: Create a Paid Link to Anything [1239d] [hn]
• Facial Recognition Tech Gets Woman Booted from Rockettes Show Due to Employer [1239d] [hn]
• Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas [1239d] [hn]
• Overview Of Upcoming Rails 7.1 Features Part 1 [1239d] [hn]
• Judge strikes down California gun law modeled on Texas abortion measure [1239d] [hn]
• The Fermi Paradox Revisited: Technosignatures and the Contact Era [1239d] [hn]
• Color-Blindness Isn’t Racist [1239d] [hn]
• Blue subscribers should be the only ones that can vote in policy related polls [1239d] [hn]
• Against Homeownership [1239d] [hn]
• Switzerland Plans to Restrict the Use of Electric Cars During the Energy Crisis [1239d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Host a website from a living room in 2022? [1239d] [hn]
• Early retirement and ageing population are causing labour shortages,Lords report [1239d] [hn]
• Automobiles are the most egalitarian form of transportation since walking [1239d] [hn]
• The Topologist’s World Map [1239d] [hn]
• Extensional AI (YC W23) Is Hiring: Front End and ML [1239d] [hn]
• Retrieve a scheduled report of your Grafana dashboards via mail [1239d] [hn]
• The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm explained clearly [1239d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Need Career Recommendations [1239d] [hn]
• The APL Programming Language Source Code (2012) [1239d] [hn]
• Point-E: Point cloud diffusion for 3D model synthesis [1239d] [hn]
• Why we picked Java [1239d] [hn]
• 24/7 SICP 1986 lectures stream [1239d] [hn]
• UK bank fined £49M over IT system meltdown [1239d] [hn]
• Elon Musk’s $44B education on free speech [1239d] [hn]
• Veonid – Create a personal website for free [1239d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Preferred word to describe “Unnecessarily complainsome grumpy person”? [1239d] [hn]
• Password generator doesn't generate new password in the same session [1239d] [hn]
• Amiga Forever [1239d] [hn]
• Apple Is Struggling to Build Mac Pro Based on Its Own Silicon [1239d] [hn]
• Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner [1239d] [hn]
• The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017) [1239d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)? [1239d] [hn]
• On Nexuses: An underrecognised utility in computing [1239d] [hn]
• Pure Go Implementation of the Opus Codec [1239d] [hn]
• ChatGPT is capable of breaking out of its computer system [1239d] [hn]
• Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip [1239d] [hn]
• Boring Python: Code quality [1239d] [hn]
• Waydroid: A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on GNU/Linux [1239d] [hn]
• “Laws” of software estimation for complex work (2021) [1239d] [hn]
• Ask HN: One of our Azure accounts was hacked – how to negotiate the bill? [1239d] [hn]
• Songs Are Getting Shorter [1239d] [hn]
• Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable [1239d] [hn]
• Content Moderation Survivor Bias [1240d] [hn]
• Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims [1240d] [hn]
• The Windows Subsystem for Android now runs Android 13 in beta [1240d] [hn]
• Avatar: The Way of Water was rendered in Amazon Web Services [1240d] [hn]
• Stanford University: List of harmful words to eliminate from use [1240d] [hn]
• FILM: Frame Interpolation for Large Motion [1240d] [hn]
• Tell HN: I am 12 and my GitHub account is flagged for no reason [1240d] [hn]