The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Postgres Incremental Backup [834d] [hn]
• Tree.fm: Tune in to Forests Around the World [834d] [hn]
• A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software [834d] [hn]
• Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024 [834d] [hn]
• Tennessee after-school Satan club holds first meeting despite protests [834d] [hn]
• What Are File Descriptors in Linux [834d] [hn]
• Y Combinator – Biggest waste of time for startup founders [834d] [hn]
• Tell HN: WARN Act may provide prior notice of layoffs [834d] [hn]
• Sourcehut and Codeberg are both currently experiencing a DDoS attack [834d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How can I make local dev with containers hurt less? [834d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Are tech layoffs happening abroad? [834d] [hn]
• Google lays off Bay Area workers, closes Mtn View child care center [834d] [hn]
• Executives at eBay sent live spiders and cockroaches to critical bloggers [834d] [hn]
• The Concorde was different from other aircraft in many ways [834d] [hn]
• Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees [834d] [hn]
• Let's Block It [834d] [hn]
• All the Types of Science Fiction [834d] [hn]
• eBay agrees to $3M fine over couple's harassment case, civil suit continues [834d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs? [834d] [hn]
• 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10% [834d] [hn]
• Designing bridge trusses with Pytorch autograd [834d] [hn]
• How Virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs [834d] [hn]
• Spot the bug in this Python code (2023) [834d] [hn]
• Tell HN: The Turing.com hiring platform is complete nonsense [834d] [hn]
• Bemi: Data Change Observability for Ops [834d] [hn]
• Implementing the missing sign instruction in AVX-512 [834d] [hn]
• Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant [834d] [hn]
• Amazon cuts 5% of Audible division's workforce [834d] [hn]
• Ask HN: IRS section 174 – cause of layoffs? [834d] [hn]
• A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models [834d] [hn]
• Wi-Fi 7 took off while everyone was looking at AI [834d] [hn]
• Generating SVG for the Prime Knots [834d] [hn]
• Effortless AI: No-Code Automation Using N8n Cloud and OpenAI Vision API [834d] [hn]
• Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance [834d] [hn]
• Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees [834d] [hn]
• Hertz is selling 20k electric vehicles to buy gasoline cars instead [834d] [hn]
• Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985) [834d] [hn]
• Stop Building Stingy Apps [834d] [hn]
• Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing? [834d] [hn]
• Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video] [834d] [hn]
• World Trying to Quit Fossil Fuels Gets Flood of Gas Instead [834d] [hn]
• US oil lobby launches ad campaign to promote oil as 'vital' to global security [834d] [hn]
• Hertz is selling 20k EVs and replacing them with gas cars [834d] [hn]
• Solar Will Supply Almost All Growth in U.S. Electricity Generation Through 2025 [834d] [hn]
• An influx of Chinese cars is terrifying the West [834d] [hn]
• A Technical Dive into PostgreSQL's replication mechanisms [834d] [hn]
• Car rental firm Hertz to sell 20k EVs for gas powered vehicles [834d] [hn]
• Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company [834d] [hn]
• Iran seizes oil tanker in Gulf of Oman [834d] [hn]
• A geofence warrant typo cast a location dragnet spanning two miles over SF [834d] [hn]
• Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled [834d] [hn]
• ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving [834d] [hn]
• Show HN: Business ideas twice a week – newsletter [834d] [hn]
• Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud [834d] [hn]
• Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service [834d] [hn]
• Meetup has been acquired by Bending Spoons [834d] [hn]
• Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars [834d] [hn]
• The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit [834d] [hn]
• Analysis of 200M newspaper pages: Sentiment has collapsed over the past 50 years [834d] [hn]
• 9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 [834d] [hn]
• Why Would I Buy This Useless, Evil Thing? [834d] [hn]
• Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework? [834d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How do you document your hardware projects? [834d] [hn]
• Neonmodem: TUI for Lobsters, HN, etc. [834d] [hn]
• Twitch layoffs: Amazon-owned livestreaming platform cutting workforce by 35% [834d] [hn]
• OpenSSH: Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH [834d] [hn]
• A TV Show Forced Britain's Devastating Post Office Scandal into the Light [834d] [hn]
• Amazon Cuts Jobs in Prime Video and MGM Studios [834d] [hn]
• Blending Is All You Need: Cheaper, Better Alternative to Trillion-Parameters LLM [835d] [hn]
• Natural Deduction in Logic (2015) [835d] [hn]
• Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware [835d] [hn]
• Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems [835d] [hn]
• Show HN: GodotOS: A Fake Operating System Interface Made in the Godot Engine [835d] [hn]
• Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon [835d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Bash.org Is No More [835d] [hn]
• Demonstrating Cybertruck's dangerous lack of pinch sensors [835d] [hn]
• Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdraw consent [835d] [hn]
• Valve now allows the "vast majority" of AI-powered games on Steam [835d] [hn]
• 'Iranian cyber army' blamed as Wikipedia deletes atrocities [835d] [hn]
• Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically [835d] [hn]
• Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years (2010) [835d] [hn]
• HTML Spirograph (2021) [835d] [hn]
• Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions [835d] [hn]
• The Life and Death of the American Mall [835d] [hn]
• The golden age of Kotlin and its uncertain future [835d] [hn]
• MFA today is both 'simple' and non-trivial work [835d] [hn]
• epoll: The API that powers the modern internet (2022) [835d] [hn]
• Meta layoffs: all TPMs in Instagram laidoff today [835d] [hn]
• Google Lays Off Hundreds in Hardware, Voice Assistant Teams [835d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs [835d] [hn]
• New data shows walking down 36% in USA since 2019 [835d] [hn]
• More Teens Who Use Marijuana Are Suffering from Psychosis [835d] [hn]
• Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant – Semafor [835d] [hn]
• ChatGPT Team [835d] [hn]
• Don't upload your PWA to the app stores [835d] [hn]
• How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions? [835d] [hn]
• Super Mario 64 on the Web [835d] [hn]
• Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse [835d] [hn]