The Brutalist Report

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• Millions of donkeys killed each year to make medicine [789d] [hn]
• Basic proxy implementation using io_uring by Jens Axboe [789d] [hn]
• Welding of Plutonium (1958) [pdf] [789d] [hn]
• Representation Engineering: Mistral-7B on Acid [789d] [hn]
• Altman's Ambition [789d] [hn]
• Silicon Valley learned to love America, drones, and glory [789d] [hn]
• TrueType Fonts for OpenTTD [789d] [hn]
• My Notes on Gitlab's Postgres Schema Design (2022) [789d] [hn]
• JSR first impressions: a JavaScript package manager by the Deno team [789d] [hn]
• Releasing my tools under the MIT License was probably a mistake (2023) [789d] [hn]
• Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy [789d] [hn]
• Hitchhiking cancer vaccine makes progress in the clinic [789d] [hn]
• OS-Copilot Friday [789d] [hn]
• Bevy 0.13: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust [789d] [hn]
• Run Llama 2 uncensored locally [789d] [hn]
• Unreal Engine 5 can now run in a web browser [789d] [hn]
• Inner Platform Effect [789d] [hn]
• AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants [789d] [hn]
• Headphone and Amp Impedance (2011) [789d] [hn]
• New Google Chrome feature blocks attacks against home networks [789d] [hn]
• I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind [789d] [hn]
• Amazon argues that national labor board is unconstitutional [789d] [hn]
• Replicate vs. Fly GPU cold-start latency [789d] [hn]
• Kremlin runs disinformation campaign to undermine Zelensky, documents show [789d] [hn]
• The epidemic of fraudulent DMCA takedowns [789d] [hn]
• Experimenting with GPTs custom actions, an example written in Rust [789d] [hn]
• Charge Robotics (YC S21) is hiring SWEs to work on robots that build solar farms [789d] [hn]
• In Defense of Eating Brains [789d] [hn]
• Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting [789d] [hn]
• I Ended Up with Just 0.15% of My Own Startup [789d] [hn]
• Show HN: macOS-cross-compiler – Compile binaries for macOS on Linux [789d] [hn]
• My MacBook Setup (the 2024 version) [789d] [hn]
• The Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US for $1B+ [789d] [hn]
• Ollama is now available on Windows in preview [789d] [hn]
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Bytes [789d] [hn]
• Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company [789d] [hn]
• The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen [789d] [hn]
• The US military is embedded in the gaming world. Its target: teen recruits [789d] [hn]
• Greenmask: PostgreSQL Dump and Obfuscation Tool [789d] [hn]
• The Ramen Lord [789d] [hn]
• Let me clear a huge misunderstanding here [789d] [hn]
• Visualize Latent Spaces [789d] [hn]
• Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 (2023) [789d] [hn]
• The Early History of Usenet [789d] [hn]
• We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed [789d] [hn]
• IPissed: Apple is after web capabilities to protect close-to-100B App Store Tax [789d] [hn]
• "Stolen" radio tower missing for at least a year [789d] [hn]
• Show HN: AI Generated (Not-Real) User Avatar Images for Development Needs [789d] [hn]
• Microsoft bets on Germany in 3.2B euro AI push [789d] [hn]
• Spnec fast-tracks ₱200B solar farm in Central Luzon [789d] [hn]
• Pgtemp: The easiest way to write tests with Postgres in Rust, without Docker [789d] [hn]
• Mark Zuckerberg explains why so many tech companies are doing layoffs [789d] [hn]
• Show HN: Simple tool to generate mock APIs for testing [789d] [hn]
• Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi [789d] [hn]
• New chip opens door to AI computing at light speed [789d] [hn]
• Educational code for the (byte-level) Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) algorithm [789d] [hn]
• Options for genuine ECC RAM on the desktop in (early) 2024 [789d] [hn]
• Mushroom Sprouting Out of a Living Fro [789d] [hn]
• From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate [789d] [hn]
• 76% of Traffic from X to Clients' Sites Was Fake During Super Bowl Weekend [790d] [hn]
• Raising Children on the Eve of AI [790d] [hn]
• Three Six Mafia: A silly look at the value of an inch downstairs [790d] [hn]
• Progman: X11 WM modeled after Program Manager from the Windows 3 era [790d] [hn]
• Agile Is a Tainted Term [790d] [hn]
• Mistral AI launches Mixtral-Next [790d] [hn]
• Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta [790d] [hn]
• Wirebonding Is Here to Stay [790d] [hn]
• Why diets backfire: A year after weight loss, the desire to eat grows stronger [790d] [hn]
• The adult consequences of being bullied in childhood [790d] [hn]
• Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D [790d] [hn]
• What Is Cheating Culture in Japan Like? [790d] [hn]
• How to work 100 hours per week [790d] [hn]