The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Google's best Gemini demo was faked [871d] [hn]
• Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study [871d] [hn]
• A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay [871d] [hn]
• Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise [871d] [hn]
• How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth [871d] [hn]
• Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability [871d] [hn]
• OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft [871d] [hn]
• Helen Toner shares her side [871d] [hn]
• Swedish court rules against Tesla in dispute with postal service over deliveries [871d] [hn]
• StableLM Zephyr 3B [871d] [hn]
• Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles [871d] [hn]
• Making Noisy SVGs [871d] [hn]
• Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice [871d] [hn]
• GateLoop: Data-Controlled Linear Recurrence for Sequence Modeling [871d] [hn]
• Three Decades of HTML [871d] [hn]
• Choose Your Own IP [871d] [hn]
• Standard Webhooks: open-source tools and guidelines for sending webhooks [871d] [hn]
• A Lost X-Files Song [871d] [hn]
• Data Engineering Design Patterns (DEDP) [871d] [hn]
• Efficient Transformer Knowledge Distillation: A Performance Review [871d] [hn]
• NASA's Psyche Delivers First Images and Other Data [871d] [hn]
• Nanoplastics Likely Worse Than Microplastics; We Know Almost Nothing About Them [871d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What other good forums are out there? [871d] [hn]
• Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2M in shares after value surges on news of job cuts [871d] [hn]
• Fake chips, I got stung [871d] [hn]
• Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in [871d] [hn]
• Tesla shares 48V architecture with other automakers to move the industry [871d] [hn]
• Meta's new AI image generator was trained on 1.1B Instagram and FB photos [871d] [hn]
• AMD leaps after launching AI chip that could challenge Nvidia dominance [871d] [hn]
• Purple Llama by Meta AI [871d] [hn]
• Efficient Parallelization of an Ubiquitous Sequential Computation [871d] [hn]
• How the first gen iPod was reverse engineered to run Rockbox [871d] [hn]
• Lithium Price Collapsed 77% in a Year, as Demand and Production Both Surged [871d] [hn]
• Show HN: Recompyle – A JavaScript Developer Friendly Console / Debugger [871d] [hn]
• Chipsynth C64 is an emulation of the SID so good, it can replace hardware [871d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024 [871d] [hn]
• The Right Chemistry: Reflections on the manufacture of mirrors [871d] [hn]
• The Shunting-Yard Algorithm (2011) [871d] [hn]
• Learn SVG with 25 examples – How to code images in HTML [871d] [hn]
• Piracy Is Back: Piracy Statistics for 2023 [871d] [hn]
• Journalists killed and injured in Lebanon: AFP investigation points to IL army [871d] [hn]
• Show HN: Cujobay – A Modern Alternative to Crunchbase [871d] [hn]
• Which Movies Are the Most Polarizing? A Statistical Analysis [871d] [hn]
• Ex-Tesla employee casts doubt on car safety [871d] [hn]
• Apple and Google confirm governments spy on users through push notifications [871d] [hn]
• Everyday performance rules for Ruby on Rails developers [871d] [hn]
• Voidr – Cutting-edge open source alternatives to mainstream cloud services [871d] [hn]
• Electric eel’s zap can transfer genes to nearby animals [871d] [hn]
• Show HN: VideoGist – Useful YouTube video summaries [871d] [hn]
• 100Gbps RF Sample Offload for RFSoC Using GNU Radio and PYNQ [871d] [hn]
• Terminal Graphics Protocol [871d] [hn]
• Radio Architecture Matters: A Review of RF Sampling vs. Zero-IF [871d] [hn]
• 23andme: 7M accounts hacked DNA data [871d] [hn]
• OpenPGP Forked into "LibrePGP" by GnuPG's Maintainer Werner Koch [872d] [hn]
• The Qatargate Files [872d] [hn]
• A Schism in the OpenPGP World [872d] [hn]
• He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price [872d] [hn]
• Is El Salvador's Bitcoin bet paying off? [872d] [hn]
• 55% of workers say their pay isn't keeping up with inflation [872d] [hn]
• Robinhood Launches Crypto Trading in the European Union [872d] [hn]
• Cabinets of Curiosities Laid the Foundation for Modern Museums [872d] [hn]
• Tesla Whistleblower – 'Autopilot' System Not Safe Enough for Public Roads [872d] [hn]
• Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research results [872d] [hn]
• New Legislation Proposes to Take Wall Street Out of the Housing Market [872d] [hn]
• Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering at Meta [872d] [hn]
• A slightly longer Lean 4 proof tour [872d] [hn]
• Bungie Devs Atmosphere 'Soul-Crushing' Amid Layoffs, Cuts, Fear of Sony Takeover [872d] [hn]
• Mistral LLM on Apple Silicon Using Apple's MLX Framework Runs Instantaneously [872d] [hn]
• The extremely large telescope will transform astronomy [872d] [hn]
• Brain-Inspired Efficient Pruning: Criticality in Spiking Neural Networks [872d] [hn]
• Windows 11 is last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros [872d] [hn]
• Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger [872d] [hn]
• 23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration [872d] [hn]
• Police Can Spy on Your iOS and Android Push Notifications [872d] [hn]
• Five-Disk Floppy Raid: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009) [872d] [hn]
• Show HN: Launch your product within hours [872d] [hn]