The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law [790d] [hn]
• OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80B [790d] [hn]
• Understanding the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect [790d] [hn]
• Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline's chatbot [790d] [hn]
• GPlates: Open-source software for interactive visualisation of plate tectonics [790d] [hn]
• FDA Approves First Medication to Treat Severe Frostbite [790d] [hn]
• Pro CCP 'spamouflage' network pivoting to focus on US election [790d] [hn]
• Coding in Vision Pro [790d] [hn]
• LLM Agents Can Autonomously Hack Websites [790d] [hn]
• Why Tesla's Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting [790d] [hn]
• Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades [790d] [hn]
• How did humans survive alone for 1000 years on desert islands off Africa? [790d] [hn]
• The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl [790d] [hn]
• Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn" [790d] [hn]
• Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game [790d] [hn]
• Paying people to work on open source is good [790d] [hn]
• Hyrum's Law [790d] [hn]
• Even DeSantis Thinks Florida Book Removals Have Gone Too Far [790d] [hn]
• Amazon Joins SpaceX in Mission to Destroy NLRB [790d] [hn]
• If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly [790d] [hn]
• Learning about Debuggers [790d] [hn]
• The seventh most popular easily understood unsolved problem on MathOverflow [790d] [hn]
• Corruption Pervades Police Forces in Australia and the United Kingdom (2023) [790d] [hn]
• Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time [790d] [hn]
• Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement [790d] [hn]
• GPU synchronization in Godot 4.3 is getting a major upgrade [790d] [hn]
• Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot [790d] [hn]
• Popular Git Config Options [790d] [hn]
• Why do military personnel wear watches upside down? [790d] [hn]
• Dear writers: Delete your Findaway Voices account NOW [790d] [hn]
• AI assets are a legal risk and need to be banned from the marketplace [790d] [hn]
• FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4 [790d] [hn]
• Training LLMs to Generate Text with Citations via Fine-Grained Rewards [790d] [hn]
• UI = F(statesⁿ) [790d] [hn]
• Show HN: Host a planet-scale geocoder for $10/mo [790d] [hn]
• How to keep engineers out of meeting hell [790d] [hn]
• We stopped building cut and cover [790d] [hn]
• LWM – Open LLM with 1M Tokens Context Window [790d] [hn]
• I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad [790d] [hn]
• Amazon joins companies arguing US labor board is unconstitutional [790d] [hn]
• Did You Know: Burger King Had a Windows 7 Whopper with 7 Stacked Beef Patties [790d] [hn]
• My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder [790d] [hn]
• Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink [790d] [hn]
• $5 device accurately tests for breast cancer in under 5 seconds [790d] [hn]
• The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023) [790d] [hn]
• Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system [790d] [hn]
• You Sound Like a Bot [790d] [hn]
• Erlang/OTP 27.0 Release Candidate 1 [790d] [hn]
• How much electricity does AI consume? [790d] [hn]
• How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix [790d] [hn]
• Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner [790d] [hn]
• Data Structures as Topological Spaces (2002) [pdf] [790d] [hn]
• The U.S. Government Will Soon Spend More on Interest Payments Than Defense [790d] [hn]
• Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB Memory Appears on eBay for USD500 [790d] [hn]
• The fifth epoch of distributed computing [790d] [hn]
• No one cares about open-source, until [790d] [hn]
• News: Alexey Navalny Is Dead [790d] [hn]
• Alexei Navalny Died in Prison [790d] [hn]
• Guix on the Framework 13 AMD [790d] [hn]
• German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation [790d] [hn]
• Trading Trust [790d] [hn]
• SPACE Attack: Spoofing EID's Password Authenticated Connection Establishment [790d] [hn]
• Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page [791d] [hn]
• Forgejo forks its own path forward [791d] [hn]
• EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet circa 1994 [791d] [hn]
• Cybertruck Owners Say They're Already Rusting [791d] [hn]
• Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly [791d] [hn]
• YouTube Introduces Remixes [791d] [hn]
• Think Python, 3rd Edition [791d] [hn]
• Air Canada must pay damages – chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount [791d] [hn]
• Show HN: I made a Pinterest clone using SigLIP image embeddings [791d] [hn]
• Ask HN: 36 months of unemployment and depression. How to go back? [791d] [hn]
• Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 [791d] [hn]
• Foods You Didn't Know You Could Freeze [791d] [hn]
• V-JEPA: Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (V-JEPA) Model [791d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Software Engineer Certifications That Mean Something? [791d] [hn]
• Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification [791d] [hn]
• Video generation models as world simulators [791d] [hn]