The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” [pdf] [1119d] [hn]
• The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat [1119d] [hn]
• Uber and Amazon use AI to pay people different wages for the same work [1119d] [hn]
• Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes [1119d] [hn]
• Leak to us or we'll dox you [1119d] [hn]
• The Soul of an Old Machine [1119d] [hn]
• The FFmpeg/Libav situation (2012) [1119d] [hn]
• How Close Are We to the Holy Grail of Room-Temperature Superconductors? [1119d] [hn]
• SUVs more dangerous to cyclists than other cars, study suggests [1119d] [hn]
• Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN [1119d] [hn]
• 33TB of text data for a 1T-parameter model [1119d] [hn]
• Less Than 7 Percent of US Active Equity Funds Have Beat the Market Past Decade [1119d] [hn]
• HDD Sales Crater, Drop 35% Year-over-Year [1119d] [hn]
• Algebraic Graph Calculus [1119d] [hn]
• Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (2003) [1119d] [hn]
• Why classic gaming names like Atari are still going in on the blockchain [1119d] [hn]
• Investigating and preventing scientific misconduct with Benford’s law [1119d] [hn]
• DOJ charges 10 with fraud in global air freight kickback scheme [1119d] [hn]
• Web LLM – WebGPU Powered Inference of Large Language Models [1119d] [hn]
• Shareware Heroes [1119d] [hn]
• Lofi air traffic control – LAX [1119d] [hn]
• Why the Rust Trademark Policy was such a problem [1119d] [hn]
• Untitled macOS Folder Wallet [1119d] [hn]
• Chocolate: Open-Source Media Manager [1119d] [hn]
• Show HN: SaaS for making software documentation less annoying [1119d] [hn]
• MacStealer allow for WiFi client isolation bypasses (CVE-2022-47522) [1119d] [hn]
• Testing ability of GPT4 and open-source LLMs to detect C++ bugs [1119d] [hn]
• OpenAssistant Released The best open-source Chat AI [video] [1119d] [hn]
• Artist refuses prize after his AI image wins at top photo contest [1119d] [hn]
• OpenAssistant Conversations – Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment [pdf] [1119d] [hn]
• Long Covid Appears to Have Led to a Surge of Disabled in the Workplace (2022) [1119d] [hn]
• Generalizations of Fourier Analysis [1119d] [hn]
• Exercism – learn 67 programming languages for free [1119d] [hn]
• Hexagony: A two-dimensional, hexagonal programming language [1119d] [hn]
• KeePassXC Audit Report [1119d] [hn]
• Stanford Medicine study: tiny DNA circles are key drivers of cancer [1119d] [hn]
• The military loved Discord for Gen Z recruiting. Then the leaks began [1119d] [hn]
• Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google They Are Not Willing to Fix [1119d] [hn]
• BabyAGI: An Autonomous and Self-Improving Agent [1119d] [hn]
• New macOS malware steals info, including a user's entire Keychain database [1119d] [hn]
• US pay transparency laws result in worker discontent [1119d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Do Not Use Docusign [1119d] [hn]
• U.S. may change how it monitors the web after missing leaked documents for weeks [1120d] [hn]
• Stop Building Closed Ecosystems [1120d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why call it an AI company if all it does is call open AI API? [1120d] [hn]
• Show HN: IPython-GPT, a Jupyter/IPython Interface to Chat GPT [1120d] [hn]
• Why Does a Plastic-Wrapped Turkey Sandwich Cost $15 at the NYC Airport? [1120d] [hn]
• New Arkansas bill to keep minors off social media exempts most social platforms [1120d] [hn]
• Systems design 2: What we hope we know [1120d] [hn]
• A Mechanism for Long Covid [1120d] [hn]
• Teachers nationwide are flummoxed by students’ newfound chess obsession [1120d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What's your residential Internet speed and cost? [1120d] [hn]
• Meta faces ‘morale crisis’ as top execs work from other countries during layoffs [1120d] [hn]
• Hypervisor Development in Rust [1120d] [hn]
• Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle [1120d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why don't smartphones encourage programming like early 80s computers? [1120d] [hn]
• WebGPU Fundamentals [1120d] [hn]
• Fluorescence in Olive Oil [1120d] [hn]
• The United States Tested Biological Warfare on Its Own Citizens [1120d] [hn]
• How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]? (2017) [1120d] [hn]
• The inner beauty of a Tesla Stropkov DS 3600 telephone from the early 1980s [1120d] [hn]
• DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter [1120d] [hn]
• Apollo 13 in Real Time [1120d] [hn]
• MixRank (YC S11) Is Hiring Global Remote Software Engineers [1120d] [hn]
• Low Code Software Development Is a Lie [1120d] [hn]
• Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022) [1120d] [hn]
• Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful [1120d] [hn]
• Mayan ball game scoreboard thought to be over 1k years old found in Mexico [1120d] [hn]
• Tech Leaders Blamed San Francisco for Bob Lee’s Killing. Then Came the Arrest [1120d] [hn]
• Cash App founder stabbed after allegedly drinking with suspect's sister [1120d] [hn]
• The Decade of Deep Learning [1120d] [hn]
• Shadow Facebook pages spending crores on ads to target Oppn are connected to BJP [1120d] [hn]
• The Limits of Forgiveness [1120d] [hn]
• Surviving Burnout [1120d] [hn]
• Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon) [1120d] [hn]
• IPFS-tiny: attempting to take IPFS to Space [1120d] [hn]
• What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work? [1120d] [hn]
• Please fix your spinner [1120d] [hn]
• Show HN: What Should I Cook – Cooking Ideas [1120d] [hn]
• HyperShell: Spawn shells anywhere. Fully peer-to-peer [1120d] [hn]
• Solar Panels That Clean Themselves [1120d] [hn]
• Solar Roof for the VW ID Buzz EV [1120d] [hn]