The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run [1093d] [hn]
• The “Y” logo in the top-left corner has been upgraded to SVG [1093d] [hn]
• Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than Covid-19 last winter [1093d] [hn]
• What if we covered every warehouse in the mountain West with solar panels? [1093d] [hn]
• Heather Armstrong has died [1093d] [hn]
• Creatures That Don’t Conform [1093d] [hn]
• Google I/O: Big changes coming for SEOs with ubiquitous AI [1093d] [hn]
• QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Technical Content Lead [1093d] [hn]
• Apple planted fake Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro iPad rumours to bust leaker [1093d] [hn]
• Librem 5 USA Smartphone Provides Many Exclusive Security Features [1093d] [hn]
• YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers [1093d] [hn]
• Google Pixel Fold [1093d] [hn]
• Google Pixel Fold [1093d] [hn]
• Why I'm done with Mouser Electronics [1093d] [hn]
• PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf] [1093d] [hn]
• Psychoactive Substance Use by Professional Programmers [1093d] [hn]
• Svelte is migrating from TypeScript to JSDoc [1093d] [hn]
• Google Bard now open to use [1093d] [hn]
• Google's Latest Experiments in Labs [1093d] [hn]
• The Erasmus Network [1093d] [hn]
• Cedar Policy Language Is Now Open Source [1093d] [hn]
• Reverse engineering Dell iDRAC to get rid of GPU throttling [1093d] [hn]
• Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model [1093d] [hn]
• Aviator (YC S21) is hiring senior engineers to build the DX platform [1093d] [hn]
• Google is bringing AI to the browser with WebGPU in Chrome [1093d] [hn]
• Hugging Face Releases Agents [1093d] [hn]
• Microsoft Freezes Salaries for 2023 [1093d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Resources to Grow Breadth and Depth as a Software Engineer? [1093d] [hn]
• The Missing App Economy [1093d] [hn]
• How and why we acquired our .com domain [1093d] [hn]
• Spain asks US to clean up site of 1966 nuclear accident [1093d] [hn]
• Remembering the Golden Age of Airline Food [1093d] [hn]
• Since Go 1.22, loop {for I, p:= 0, new(int); p = &I; {p = &I}} might never exit [1093d] [hn]
• GitHub's New Code Search Is Bad for Finding Code [1093d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Clearspace (YC W23) – Cut back on screen time [1093d] [hn]
• Infosec company owned completely by 4chan user [1094d] [hn]
• Coloring in R's Blind Spot [1094d] [hn]
• Google breaking European privacy law by hoarding personal data of job candidates [1094d] [hn]
• Abusing Vector Search for Texts, Maps, and Chess ♟ [1094d] [hn]
• A Codebase That Makes Codebases [1094d] [hn]
• Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft [1094d] [hn]
• Extending web applications with WebAssembly and Python [1094d] [hn]
• Microsoft Bets That Fusion Power Is Closer Than Many Think [1094d] [hn]
• Shining the Light on Baby Crabs [1094d] [hn]
• Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes [1094d] [hn]
• Bad Manors: The McMansion as Harbinger [1094d] [hn]
• DEI Brings Kafka to My Law School [1094d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What is new in Algorithms / Data Structures these days? [1094d] [hn]
• GitHub is going down almost every day around the same time [1094d] [hn]
• The four times the United States government defaulted on its debt [1094d] [hn]
• Google I/O 2023 [1094d] [hn]
• Anatomy of a Drum Machine (2012) [1094d] [hn]
• We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt” [1094d] [hn]
• Why does no one have a favorite instrumentalist anymore? [1094d] [hn]
• “GDPR compliant” analytics is probably violating GDPR [1094d] [hn]
• A collection of lock-free data structures written in standard C++11 [1094d] [hn]
• Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone [1094d] [hn]
• ‘Nearshoring’ Push Is Fueling Tech Job Demand in Latin America [1094d] [hn]
• The World’s Greatest Freediver (2021) [1094d] [hn]
• The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals [1094d] [hn]
• Running a Movie Theater Is More Expensive Than You Can Possibly Imagine [1094d] [hn]
• My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted [1094d] [hn]
• IPyflow: Reactive Python Notebooks in Jupyter(Lab) [1094d] [hn]
• Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons [pdf] [1094d] [hn]
• 50 years in filesystems: 1984 BSD FFS [1094d] [hn]
• See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS [1094d] [hn]
• Punctuation Personified (1824) [1094d] [hn]
• Julia 1.9 Highlights [1094d] [hn]
• HN Badges [1094d] [hn]
• Random bit-flip invalidates certificate transparency log – again? [1094d] [hn]
• An experimental editor for WebGPU compute shaders [1094d] [hn]
• A TLS 1.3 Stack Written in Visual Basic 6 [1094d] [hn]
• Freakwan: A MicroPython driver for the SX1276 LoRa chip [1094d] [hn]
• Tempus Nectit Knitting Clock [1094d] [hn]
• Show HN: Build progressively enhanced reactive HTML apps using Go and Alpine.js [1094d] [hn]