The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Can a pill prevent deaths from venomous snakebites? [1012d] [hn]
• Coal and fossil fuel use in Germany at a record low for electricity in 2023 [1012d] [hn]
• Delete or hide life-wasting apps [1012d] [hn]
• Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023 [1012d] [hn]
• Jonathan Katz: Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024 [1012d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Has the tech recession affected you? [1012d] [hn]
• QEMU AioContext removal and how it was done [1012d] [hn]
• Why Are Tech Reporters Sleeping on the Biggest App Store Story? [1012d] [hn]
• Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo Browser [1012d] [hn]
• OpenIndiana Illumos Distro [1012d] [hn]
• ParadeDB – PostgreSQL for Search [1012d] [hn]
• Apple II Emulation Evaluation (2022) [1012d] [hn]
• Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too [1012d] [hn]
• CGA in 1024 colors - a new mode [1012d] [hn]
• LLM spews nonsense in CVE report for curl [1012d] [hn]
• Show HN: Better Seater: Wedding Seating Chart Optimizer [1012d] [hn]
• Realtime Annotations and Visualizations in Live Coding Performance [1012d] [hn]
• 1D Pac-Man [1012d] [hn]
• Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models [1012d] [hn]
• LinkedIn ad prices up as X plummets [1012d] [hn]
• "First do it, then do it right, then do it better." [1012d] [hn]
• First do it, then do it right, then do it better [1012d] [hn]
• Chrultrabook Docs [1012d] [hn]
• Spoonbill (2016–2013) [1012d] [hn]
• Plan9/ThinkPad T420s (2021) [1012d] [hn]
• Moving Git commits between repos [1012d] [hn]
• 90x Faster Than Pgvector – Lantern's HNSW Index Creation Time [1012d] [hn]
• Show HN: How do you OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python for free [1012d] [hn]
• I've Implemented a RSS Reader [1012d] [hn]
• In L.A., a new vision of incarceration proves rehabilitation works [1012d] [hn]
• Was JavaScript made in 10 days? [1012d] [hn]
• Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up [1012d] [hn]
• Do It Yourself Blind Repair [1012d] [hn]
• Double encryption: Analyzing the NSA/GCHQ arguments against hybrids [1012d] [hn]
• Git Branches Have No Rules [1012d] [hn]
• Online Job Posts Contain Little Wage Information [pdf] [1012d] [hn]
• BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023 [1012d] [hn]
• I Hate AI Licenses [1012d] [hn]
• Apple starts 2024 with Barclays downgrade [1012d] [hn]
• A Simulated Annealing FPGA Placer in Rust [1012d] [hn]
• Hospitals ask courts to force cloud storage firm to return stolen data [1012d] [hn]
• Homelab: Running Postgres on Kubernetes [1012d] [hn]
• A Canadian payroll dependency chart [1012d] [hn]
• What it will take to unleash the potential of geothermal power [1012d] [hn]
• Distributed Inference and Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models over the Internet [1012d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) [1012d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024) [1012d] [hn]
• Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply to AI Training [1012d] [hn]
• The Infinite/Eternal Jukebox has been revived [1012d] [hn]
• Best paper awards in computer science over the past 28 years (1996-2023) [1012d] [hn]
• Thomas Cochrane [1012d] [hn]
• What It's Like to Use Apple's Lockdown Mode [1012d] [hn]
• MixRank (YC S11) Is Hiring Global Remote Software Engineers [1012d] [hn]
• Antimacassar [1012d] [hn]
• A New Blog for 2024 [1012d] [hn]
• An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechoslovakia [1012d] [hn]
• Super-rich pick flats with private security as sales rise of £15M London homes [1012d] [hn]
• Built and Android app that uses LLMs to learn stuff [1012d] [hn]
• Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say [1012d] [hn]
• Introduction to Plan 9 [1012d] [hn]
• JAL A359 at Tokyo collided with Coast Guard DH8C on runway and burst into flames [1012d] [hn]
• Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-fla [1012d] [hn]
• Muppet babies will never be available on streaming due to studio copyright claim [1012d] [hn]
• Universities Are Prioritizing Their Health Systems over Teaching [1012d] [hn]
• LAN Mouse is a mouse and keyboard sharing software [1012d] [hn]
• A new approach to local multiplayer / splitscreen perspective with raytracing [1012d] [hn]
• Framework for identification of chaotic systems with symbolic regression [1012d] [hn]
• Microsoft Copilot iOS App [1012d] [hn]
• The Duplex watch escapement [1012d] [hn]
• Reductive Thinking and the Unfairness of Spotify Payments [1012d] [hn]
• After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] [1012d] [hn]
• South Sudan's first female gynaecologist, Dr Idyoro Ojukwu [1012d] [hn]
• Parallelising Heirarchical Small World Graphs [1012d] [hn]
• How do we stop Meta in 2024? We fix the information loop [1012d] [hn]
• Miracle escape as burning plane lands at Tokyo airport after collision [1012d] [hn]