The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• 6502 – Guideline to Reverse Engineering (how to read die shots) [pdf] [710d] [hn]
• Block* and AgentFormer – Playing with blocks and Transformers (yay) [710d] [hn]
• The Essence of Compiling with Continuations (1993) [pdf] [710d] [hn]
• Haystack DB – 10x faster than FAISS with binary embeddings by default [710d] [hn]
• Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre [711d] [hn]
• Personal Computing Paves the Way for Personal Library Science [711d] [hn]
• DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game [711d] [hn]
• Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act [711d] [hn]
• Building MS-DOS 4.00 on FreeDOS [video] [711d] [hn]
• Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to eliminate E2E UI tests [711d] [hn]
• My Homemade Metal Lathe Project [711d] [hn]
• Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B [711d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility [711d] [hn]
• Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands [711d] [hn]
• 'Catastrophic grid failure' a possibility for Texas solar/wind/battery storage [711d] [hn]
• Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules [711d] [hn]
• Google surpasses $2T market cap [711d] [hn]
• The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with large cars [711d] [hn]
• OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computers [711d] [hn]
• A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp [711d] [hn]
• Williams-Sonoma fined $3.18M for falsely labeling products 'Made in USA' [711d] [hn]
• The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific paper [711d] [hn]
• Bloomberg: "Strong possibility" of M4 debuting on May 7 with new iPad Pro [711d] [hn]
• Trial of the effects of kefir on behaviour, sleep and the microbiome in ADHD [711d] [hn]
• Did we lose our way in making efficient software? – ~30 MB doc file vs. browser [711d] [hn]
• Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine [711d] [hn]
• Tales from an Attic [711d] [hn]
• The unstallable plane that stalled [711d] [hn]
• LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large Models [711d] [hn]
• Should the stock market never close? [711d] [hn]
• Show HN: Docker-phobia: Analyze Docker image size with a treemap [711d] [hn]
• George Stephenson [711d] [hn]
• Reentry – An Orbital Simulator [711d] [hn]
• Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree [711d] [hn]
• The Invention of the Integrated Circuit: Jean Hoerni's Patent Notebook [711d] [hn]
• Tell HN: I think there are major issues with Google –> Squarespace domains [711d] [hn]
• Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone [711d] [hn]
• Autoconf and configure features that people find valuable [711d] [hn]
• Jimmy Carter UFO Incident [711d] [hn]
• TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales [711d] [hn]
• Flow Field Pathfinding [711d] [hn]
• Microsoft must stop selling security as a premium offering [711d] [hn]
• Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS? [711d] [hn]
• I'm Not Having Kids (and That's Okay) [711d] [hn]
• Mise: a polyglot tool version manager [711d] [hn]
• Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right [711d] [hn]
• The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use [711d] [hn]
• The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics [711d] [hn]
• First ever autonomous car race in Abu Dhabi finishes despite issues [711d] [hn]
• Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments [711d] [hn]
• Plunging Home Prices, Fleeing Companies: Austin's Glow Is Fading [711d] [hn]
• Nation state backdoor found in Cisco firewalls (again..?) [video] [711d] [hn]
• 44% Unicorn Startups in the US were founded by foreign workers [711d] [hn]
• Can science find ways to ease loneliness? [711d] [hn]
• Google Quantum AI [711d] [hn]
• Could humans alter the moon's orbit significantly with current technology? [711d] [hn]
• How to Use the Grafana Operator: Managing a Grafana Cloud Stack in Kubernetes [711d] [hn]
• Why I Don't Invest in Real Estate [711d] [hn]
• The Voyage of Magellan – Chapter 5: Underway [711d] [hn]
• Why I Am Now Relaxed About Releasing Buggy Software [711d] [hn]
• How to improve the RISC-V specification [711d] [hn]
• RFC 7282 – On Consensus and Humming in the IETF (2014) [711d] [hn]