The Brutalist Report

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GPT-4 Takes a New Midterm and Gets an A [1127d] [hn]
What crime stats don't reveal about crime in San Francisco [1127d] [hn]
Federal Housing Administration greenlights 40-year mortgages [1127d] [hn]
Show HN: Compress GPT-4 Prompts [1128d] [hn]
Abortion Pill Blocked Nationwide Under Order from US Judge [1128d] [hn]
ArXiv Paper for Cerebras-GPT: Open-Source Compute-Optimal Language Models [1128d] [hn]
DPReview Will Remain Available as an Archive After It Closes [1128d] [hn]
Show HN: A toy bootloader written in C++ [1128d] [hn]
The company behind Stable Diffusion appears to be at risk of going under [1128d] [hn]
Beyond the PayPal Mafia: A Case Study on the Uber Alumni Network [1128d] [hn]
‘AI Pause’ Open Letter Stokes Fear and Controversy [1128d] [hn]
Matt Taibbi: I’m obviously staying at Substack [1128d] [hn]
Show HN: A minimal job board for signal processing engineers [1128d] [hn]
John Carmack on the Similarity of Human Learning and LLMs Training [1128d] [hn]
How the Fuck Did We Get Here? [1128d] [hn]
Tree Raves: A Case Study in Social Protocols [1128d] [hn]
Skeptical optimists are the key to an abundant AI future [1128d] [hn]
NYPD officers brag about milking overtime in accidental recording [1128d] [hn]
Estes Rockets Model Scale 1:100 Replica of SpaceX Falcon 9 [1128d] [hn]
Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age from human hair test [1128d] [hn]
LOLDrivers – Living Off the Land Drivers [1128d] [hn]
“No Way to Prevent This”, Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens [1128d] [hn]
Survey Shows Overwhelming Interest in a Four-Day Workweek [1128d] [hn]
LifeCard Folding Single-Shot .22 Pistol [1128d] [hn]
Ask HN: Is it appropriate to ask a startup to let me see their cap table? [1128d] [hn]
Frequency comb breathalyzer detects Covid with excellent accuracy [1128d] [hn]
Higher-order functions in Go [1128d] [hn]
Carbon nanotube recognition by human Siglec-14 provokes inflammation [1128d] [hn]
Why did Phreesia share my medical data after I opted out? [1128d] [hn]
AGI Doom and the Drake Equation [1128d] [hn]
USA Cycling champion dies after being struck by car in San Francisco’s Presidio [1128d] [hn]
Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? [1128d] [hn]
Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests [1128d] [hn]
Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-Month AI Pause Is a Bad Idea [video] [1128d] [hn]
Generally Intelligent (YC S17) Is Hiring Machine Learning Engineers [1128d] [hn]
Show HN: ChatGDB – GPT-Powered GDB Assistant [1128d] [hn]
We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics [1128d] [hn]
Will another Forbes 30 under 30 member be arrested for fraud before 2025? [1128d] [hn]
The machines of polymath Tatjana van Vark [1128d] [hn]
Wing Commander IV [1128d] [hn]
What Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus [1128d] [hn]
Show HN: I built a website editor for TailwindCSS [1128d] [hn]
Show HN: Building musical synthesizers with SQL queries [1128d] [hn]
Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did It Better [1128d] [hn]
Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack [1128d] [hn]
NPR won’t tweet from NPR until Twitter removes false “state-affiliated” label [1128d] [hn]
For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Hard to Get [1128d] [hn]
Show HN: Chrome extension to improve productivity with ChatGPT [1128d] [hn]
Stabbing of Cash App Creator Raises Alarm, and Claims of a Lawless San Francisco [1128d] [hn]
SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch [1128d] [hn]
U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves – over internet cables [1128d] [hn]
Flipper Zero banned by Amazon for being a ‘card skimming device’ [1128d] [hn]
'World should be shocked' – expelled Tennessee lawmaker [1128d] [hn]
How to Stop Ruminating [1128d] [hn]
NSA created online cybersecurity course with 100s of classes [1128d] [hn]
Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again [1128d] [hn]
Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again [1128d] [hn]
The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road) [1128d] [hn]
Prediction: Semantic search (boring) ends up bigger than generative AI (cool) [1128d] [hn]
Big Ball of Mud (1999) [1128d] [hn]
Exploring nine simultaneously occurring transients on April 12th 1950 (2021) [1128d] [hn]
Woman Explains What It Was Like to Fall into the Most Dangerous Plant [1128d] [hn]
Cerebrium (YC W22) Is Hiring – ML Engineer [1128d] [hn]
Neovim 0.9 Released [1128d] [hn]
Even the Densest Metal Doesn't Exceed USPS Shipping Weight Limit [1128d] [hn]
Codeberg – Fast Open Source Alternative to GitHub [1128d] [hn]
Bosses Want Hard Workers–So They’re Hiring Older People [1128d] [hn]
Ask HN: What's your best resource for keeping up-to-date on AI developments? [1128d] [hn]
Board game where tigers hunt goats while goats block their movements [1128d] [hn]
Avoidance Speech [1128d] [hn]
Origin of the Term Database “Sharding” [1128d] [hn]
JavaScript-algorithms: Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript [1128d] [hn]
Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up [1128d] [hn]
Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails [1128d] [hn]
Under 30-year sentences: why so many of Forbes’ young heroes face jail [1128d] [hn]
Oscar Night in Hollywood (1948) [1128d] [hn]
Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first [1128d] [hn]
NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security [1128d] [hn]
Frank Rosenblatt [1128d] [hn]
Manufactured housing: the Ugly Duckling of affordable housing [1128d] [hn]
I was bullied by a customer-focused, highest-market-value company [1128d] [hn]
Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days [1128d] [hn]
Tesla Employees Have Been Sharing Videos Recorded Inside Customers Cars [1128d] [hn]
Administrative Scripting with Julia [1128d] [hn]
With AI, Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way [1128d] [hn]
Elusive ‘einstein’ solves a longstanding math problem [1128d] [hn]
50% IRR with spray-and-pray angel investing [1128d] [hn]
Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API [1128d] [hn]
60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically [1128d] [hn]
Sex traffickers used family safety app to control victims [1128d] [hn]
How does database sharding work? [1128d] [hn]
Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars [1128d] [hn]
Replacing bad systems with bad systems [1128d] [hn]