The Brutalist Report

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• Books for Software Engineers in 2023 [1226d] [hn]
• My YouTube Earnings [1226d] [hn]
• Solving a Dungeons and Dragons riddle using Prolog [1226d] [hn]
• The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written [1226d] [hn]
• Tallow in Plastic Bank Notes [1226d] [hn]
• Rust for Professionals [1226d] [hn]
• HypChain, the first completely hypothetical blockchain [1226d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Pros and cons of thinking in public vs. in private? [1226d] [hn]
• Comparison of Exercise and Pharmacologic Treatment of Depression [1226d] [hn]
• Netscape 1.0 Browser Emulator [1226d] [hn]
• Pyright: Static Type Checker for Python [1226d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why did Backend development explode in complexity? [1226d] [hn]
• English as She Is Spoke [1226d] [hn]
• English as She Is Spoke (1884) [pdf] [1226d] [hn]
• Private and Public Mastodon [1226d] [hn]
• Higher-order organization of multivariate time series [1226d] [hn]
• Higher-order organization of multivariate time series [1226d] [hn]
• Debloating Windows 10 with one command and no internet scripts [1226d] [hn]
• Nintendo GBA and DS ROM hacking guide (2016) [1226d] [hn]
• Nintendo GBA and DS ROM hacking guide (2016) [1226d] [hn]
• Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots [1226d] [hn]
• Inside the 8086 Processor's Instruction Prefetch Circuitry [1226d] [hn]
• Show HN: Beesy: Record Google Meets for Free, No Signups, Download Locally [1226d] [hn]
• The infrastructure behind ATMs [1226d] [hn]
• The FDA will likely approve the diabetes drug tirzepatide for weight loss [1226d] [hn]
• What we talk about when we talk about performance (2021) [1226d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What are you working on this year? [1226d] [hn]
• Should we care about people who need never exist? [1226d] [hn]
• Databases in 2022: A Year in Review [1226d] [hn]
• A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1 [1226d] [hn]
• How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart [1226d] [hn]
• Show HN: A UNIX-ey Interface to GPT3 [1226d] [hn]
• Weathering Software Winter [1226d] [hn]
• The quest for a family-friendly password manager [1226d] [hn]
• Airbnb removed my negative review [1226d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023) [1226d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2023) [1226d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023) [1226d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pixletters – Word guessing puzzle game where used pixels give you clues [1226d] [hn]
• The Privatization of Policing [1226d] [hn]
• An Ontology of Hope [1226d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built Haystack – your own google for scattered workplace knowledge [1226d] [hn]
• There has never been a better time to be short [1226d] [hn]
• Mechanical circuits: electronics without electricity [video] [1226d] [hn]
• AIOC: Ham Radio All-in-One-Cable [1226d] [hn]
• WorldWideWeb, the First Web Browser [1226d] [hn]
• Filmora and Adobe decide to use “Kdenlive” as a keyword in their online ads [1226d] [hn]
• Optimal hydration may slow down the aging process in humans [1226d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How do you work on your mental health? [1226d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? [1226d] [hn]
• Show HN: Spall – WASM-based profiler for JavaScript and C in ~5k lines of Odin [1226d] [hn]
• Mazda has tested a synthetic fuel in an unmodified MX5 on a 1000-mile road trip [1226d] [hn]
• My Experience with Check Fraud – and What You Can Learn from It [1226d] [hn]
• Bitcoin core developer claims to have lost 200 BTC in hack [1226d] [hn]
• What are companies doing with D-Wave’s quantum hardware? [1226d] [hn]
• Unearthing long ignored African writing system, researcher finds African history [1226d] [hn]
• Code Smell of the Day: Type Keys (2021) [1226d] [hn]
• Start a Fucking Blog [1226d] [hn]
• How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? [1226d] [hn]
• Trash Train: I put my trash cans on rails so they move automatically [video] [1226d] [hn]
• NetBSD at Reproducible Builds Summit Venice 2022 [1226d] [hn]
• The Year of C++ Successor Languages [1226d] [hn]
• Welcoming 1927 to the Public Domain [1226d] [hn]
• Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style [1226d] [hn]
• Trying Out Flipper Zero [1226d] [hn]
• Lessons Learned from the Book “Effective Remote Work” (2022) [1226d] [hn]
• Grade inflation: What goes up must come down [1226d] [hn]
• Evidence suggests that returning to in person school increased suicide rates [1226d] [hn]
• Functional Programming – How and Why [1226d] [hn]
• Mortal Kombat 2 source code leak reveals unused animations and sprites [1226d] [hn]
• Mortal Kombat 2 source code leak reveals unused animations and sprites [1226d] [hn]
• Why Not Mars [1226d] [hn]
• C++ at the End of 2022 [1226d] [hn]
• For U.S. Companies, the Race for the New EV Battery Is On [1226d] [hn]
• Automatic snow tires throw chains at your wheels [video] [1226d] [hn]
• Blog series on building an air sensor with Arduino [1226d] [hn]
• Should this paper in Psychological Science be retracted? [1226d] [hn]
• Orrery (Earth, Moon, and Sun) [1226d] [hn]