The Brutalist Report

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• Inflation in Austria [1028d] [hn]
• Rule for Beneficial Ownership Reporting (2022) [1028d] [hn]
• Record low Antarctic sea ice coverage indicates a new sea ice state [1028d] [hn]
• Scientists Uncover COVID’s Weakness [1028d] [hn]
• Where did the Carter White House's solar panels go? (2010) [1028d] [hn]
• “Most notorious” illegal shadow library (LibGen) sued by textbook publishers [1028d] [hn]
• MIT Makes Low-Power Underwater Communication Practical [1028d] [hn]
• MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD: A randomized, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial [1028d] [hn]
• We use TypeScript not based on preference, but because we want to make money [1028d] [hn]
• Unicorn Startup Airtable Lays Off 27% of Firm, Shifts Focus to Big Clients [1028d] [hn]
• “Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases [1028d] [hn]
• Birds with more complex vocal skills are better problem-solvers [1028d] [hn]
• Everyday uses for PVC water pipe [1028d] [hn]
• The first week of US v. Google – Defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing [1028d] [hn]
• Zero Effort Private Key Compromise: Abusing SSH-Agent for Lateral Movement [1028d] [hn]
• Salt Taste Is Surprisingly Mysterious [1028d] [hn]
• Show HN: IncarnaMind-Chat with your multiple docs using LLMs [1028d] [hn]
• Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called [1028d] [hn]
• Books for Game Developers [1028d] [hn]
• Building an Economy Simulator from Scratch [1028d] [hn]
• No Sacred Masterpieces, that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it [1028d] [hn]
• Pixel Sea: Search 88x31 badges and 32x32 icons [1028d] [hn]
• No Dog Left Behind [1028d] [hn]
• Google nears release of Gemini AI [1028d] [hn]
• Ex-Finance developers mock McKinsey's dev productivity metrics [1028d] [hn]
• Is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? [1028d] [hn]
• ChessMonitor – Analytics for Lichess and Chess.com [1028d] [hn]
• The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e [1028d] [hn]
• Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner [1028d] [hn]
• Kopia: Open-Source, Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software [1028d] [hn]
• Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of ‘apolitical’ money (2013) [1028d] [hn]
• Warner Bros. CFO Thinks You Deadbeats Have Been on a Free Ride for Way Too Long [1028d] [hn]
• Loops (YC W22) Is Hiring a Remote Front-End Engineer [1028d] [hn]
• Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website [1028d] [hn]
• Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one [1028d] [hn]
• The Most Underrated Application of LLMs [1028d] [hn]
• How to Store a Chess Game in 26 Bytes Using Bit-Level Magic [1028d] [hn]
• Should I Rust or should I Go [1028d] [hn]
• Optimizing LLMs from a Dataset Perspective [1028d] [hn]
• Artificial intelligence can revolutionise science [1028d] [hn]
• Repeat after me: building any new homes reduces housing costs for all [1028d] [hn]
• United flight descends 28,000 feet in 8 minutes for ‘pressurization issue’ [1028d] [hn]
• Show HN: Shrinkflation Tracker [1028d] [hn]
• Introduction to Hilbert Space (2022) [pdf] [1028d] [hn]
• California lawmakers pass bill to make it easier to delete online personal data [1028d] [hn]
• Google to pay $93M in settlement over deceptive location tracking [1028d] [hn]
• We forced our company to allow work from home again [1028d] [hn]
• Harnad: The Symbol Grounding Problem (1990) [pdf] [1028d] [hn]
• Defence force chief warns AI will drive era of 'truth decay' [1028d] [hn]
• iPhone 15 USB-C port is 100% standard; MFi certification rumors wrong [1028d] [hn]
• That travel deal you found online may be a one-way ticket to misery [1028d] [hn]
• Bike tire made from NASA’s shape-shifting metal are now available to buy [1028d] [hn]
• Can Affluence and Affordable Housing Coexist in Colorado’s Rockies? [1028d] [hn]
• Salesforce is hiring over 3k people, despite axing 10% of staff [1028d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Google randomly deleting Chromebook configs [1028d] [hn]
• Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands [1028d] [hn]
• Johnson and Johnson is getting rid of its script logo after more than 130 years [1028d] [hn]
• We Think That Product Hunt Is Still a Thing – Here's Why [1028d] [hn]
• Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim [1028d] [hn]
• GlassFish Embedded – a simple way to run Jakarta EE apps [1028d] [hn]
• The Patterns of Venus’s Movement Across the Sky [1028d] [hn]
• Truthiness in C [1028d] [hn]
• Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages [1028d] [hn]
• Yes, Android 14 still allows modification of system certificates [1028d] [hn]
• NASA says more science and less stigma are needed to understand UFOs [1028d] [hn]
• The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body [1028d] [hn]
• TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts [1028d] [hn]