The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Scientists aghast at AI rat with genitals in peer-reviewed article [866d] [hn]
• It Was 33 Years Ago Today: Happy Birthday Lemmings [866d] [hn]
• Greece legalizes same-sex marriage in a first for an Orthodox Christian nation [866d] [hn]
• Show HN: Galactic Compass, an app that points to the galactic center [866d] [hn]
• Remote user impersonation and takeover via cache poisoning in Mastodon [866d] [hn]
• What you need to know about the future of Mozilla Hubs [866d] [hn]
• Solar and Batteries Make Up 81% of New US Electric-Generating Capacity in 2024 [866d] [hn]
• Breaking BFT: Quantifying the cost to attack Bitcoin and Ethereum [866d] [hn]
• Passing stars changed the orbits of planets in the solar system [866d] [hn]
• Coinbase swings to profit on interest income strength [866d] [hn]
• Georgia Attorney-General claims that not having a phone makes you a criminal [866d] [hn]
• Build your own 3D printed Hexapod [866d] [hn]
• Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose [866d] [hn]
• Solar and batteries to make up 81% of new 2024 U.S. electric-generating capacity [866d] [hn]
• Building an LLM from Scratch: Automatic Differentiation [866d] [hn]
• Drug offers 'wonderful' breakthrough in treatment of asbestos-linked cancer [866d] [hn]
• uv: Python Packaging in Rust [866d] [hn]
• Two Ethereum DeFi traders just made $120M using a strategy called 'looping' [866d] [hn]
• Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund [866d] [hn]
• Hello world: meet قلب (Qalb) a programming language based on Arabic script [866d] [hn]
• Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals [866d] [hn]
• PWAs wont replace native iOS apps [866d] [hn]
• Renesas Buys Altium [866d] [hn]
• Problem solving across 100,633 lines of code – Gemini 1.5 Pro Demo [video] [866d] [hn]
• Safe and reliable production changes; and how Rivian recently got this wrong [866d] [hn]
• Show HN: SlideCross – a combination of a crossword and Rubik's Cube [866d] [hn]
• EU DMA requirements have killed iPhone progressive web apps [866d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Are there any good reasons to use C++ over Rust for new projects today? [866d] [hn]
• The Fine Art of Baloney Detection [pdf] [866d] [hn]
• Apple confirms iOS 17.4 removes Home Screen web apps in the EU [866d] [hn]
• The reasons people are sending back their Apple Vision Pro headsets [866d] [hn]
• Code Chores: The boring part of maintaining [866d] [hn]
• Sora: Creating video from text [866d] [hn]
• Senate Poised to Pass Kids Online Safety Act KOSA [866d] [hn]
• Personality Trait Recognition Using ECG Spectrograms and Deep Learning [866d] [hn]
• University of Michigan selling student speech and papers as LLM training data [866d] [hn]
• Unreal Engine 5 ported to WebGPU [866d] [hn]
• Fitness Trackers Find New Symptom of Depression: Body Temperature [866d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into a GPT assistant [866d] [hn]
• Feds Want to Ban the Cutest Hacking Device. Experts Say It's a Scapegoat [866d] [hn]
• Three Virtues of a Great Programmer [866d] [hn]
• EU to make AI generated child abuse material criminal [866d] [hn]
• Air Force OKs Autonomous Cargo Flights Across California After Successful Test [866d] [hn]
• Every Default macOS Wallpaper [866d] [hn]
• The existence of a new kind of magnet has been confirmed [866d] [hn]
• The race is on to stop Ozempic muscle loss [866d] [hn]
• Apple Vision Nope: Why I returned mine [866d] [hn]
• Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple [866d] [hn]
• Chlormequat in food and urine from adults in the United States from 2017 to 2023 [866d] [hn]
• Gemini 1.5 Pro [866d] [hn]
• Google slips as OpenAI said to be working on search product: report [866d] [hn]
• Freenginx.org – open-source Nginx fork [866d] [hn]
• Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 [866d] [hn]
• Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps [866d] [hn]
• Show HN: Just Ship, a free and open source SvelteKit SaaS boilerplate [866d] [hn]
• How I Got Scammed Out of $50k [866d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dstack – an open-source engine for running GPU workloads [866d] [hn]
• Boeing Disaster Proves Americans Businesses Greedy Mentality Is Broken [866d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today, alternatives? [866d] [hn]
• GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform [866d] [hn]
• How deceptive design is used to compromise your privacy and how to fight back [866d] [hn]
• Why software 'security debt' is becoming a serious problem for developers [866d] [hn]
• Managing mutable data in Elixir with Rust [866d] [hn]
• "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid that computation is too carbon intensive." [866d] [hn]
• Quantitative Test of Guns Germs and Steel Cultural Transmission Hypothesis [866d] [hn]
• Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see [866d] [hn]
• Why the Serverless Revolution Has Stalled [866d] [hn]
• UK Fell into Recession in 2023 [866d] [hn]
• Fella Health (YC W20) Is Hiring [866d] [hn]