The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write [548d] [hn]
• Converted a MacBook into a PC [548d] [hn]
• Tinfoil.com – Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds [548d] [hn]
• Misguided Apple Intelligence ads [548d] [hn]
• How I ship projects at big tech companies [548d] [hn]
• YubiKey still selling old stock with vulnerable firmware [548d] [hn]
• I Don't Have Spotify [548d] [hn]
• Improving Steam Client Stability on Linux [548d] [hn]
• Visualizing World War II [548d] [hn]
• High Levels of Banned PFAS Detected in Hershey's Packaging [548d] [hn]
• Gym Class VR (YC W22) Is Hiring Mobile Gameplay Lead [548d] [hn]
• Homage to Alexander Grothendieck [548d] [hn]
• Foundry worker puts wet scrap metal into furnace [548d] [hn]
• The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed [548d] [hn]
• Security Is a Useless Controls Problem [548d] [hn]
• Testing the Z80 Chip with a 1970s Beauty [548d] [hn]
• PGQueuer v0.15.0 Released – Now with Recurring Job Scheduling [548d] [hn]
• 'Brain stars' store our memories like a microscopic filing cabinet [548d] [hn]
• LICENSE.TXT [video] [548d] [hn]
• Genetically engineered cellular nanoparticles for biomedical applications (2023) [548d] [hn]
• Every Arthouse Buff You Know Is Pirating Films [548d] [hn]
• YouTube Terminates Popular Retro Gaming Channel Without Warning [548d] [hn]
• Show HN: Flash Kitty – Archive of Adobe/Macromedia Flash Movies from Flash Kit [548d] [hn]
• Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform [548d] [hn]
• Optimizing a WebGPU Kernel to 1TFLOP of Performance [548d] [hn]
• The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google [548d] [hn]
• The Doodle Theorem, and Beyond [548d] [hn]
• The Surprising Effectiveness of Test-Time Training for Abstract Reasoning [pdf] [548d] [hn]
• The surprising effectiveness of test-time training for abstract reasoning [pdf] [548d] [hn]
• New elliptic curve breaks 18-year-old record [548d] [hn]
• TinyTroupe, a new LLM-powered multiagent persona simulation Python library [548d] [hn]
• Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir [video] [548d] [hn]
• Inside the $20M business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies [548d] [hn]
• Did Scientists Revive an Extinct Animal or Just Breed a Less Stripey Zebra? [548d] [hn]
• DuckDuckGo AI Chat [548d] [hn]
• Microscope Museum [548d] [hn]
• A hot day, a fan provides little benefit when the temperature exceeds 35°C [548d] [hn]
• Binary vector embeddings are so cool [548d] [hn]
• AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now open source [548d] [hn]
• AlphaFold 3 Code [548d] [hn]
• The Silurian Hypothesis [548d] [hn]
• ERP rollout at Europe's largest local council slammed [548d] [hn]
• How Chordcat Works, a Chord Naming Algorithm [548d] [hn]
• Haven (YC W23) Is Hiring [548d] [hn]