The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition [123d] [hn]
• Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason [123d] [hn]
• Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet [123d] [hn]
• A century of reforestation helped keep the eastern US cool [123d] [hn]
• Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules [123d] [hn]
• A URL to respond with when your boss says "But ChatGPT Said " [123d] [hn]
• How the U.S. National Science Foundation Enabled Software-Defined Networking [123d] [hn]
• Backpressure in Distributed Systems [123d] [hn]
• Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models [123d] [hn]
• How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm [123d] [hn]
• Independently verifying Go's reproducible builds [123d] [hn]
• Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade [123d] [hn]
• Show HN: SQLite Graph – Graph database with Cypher queries (alpha, but working) [123d] [hn]
• Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware [123d] [hn]
• Dithering – Part 1 [123d] [hn]
• The Internet Runs on Free and Open Source Software–and So Does the DNS [123d] [hn]
• Encoding x86 Instructions [123d] [hn]
• OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO [123d] [hn]
• Pentagon orders states' national guards to form 'quick reaction forces' [123d] [hn]
• Building a Robot Dog (with an airsoft gun) [123d] [hn]
• ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Faces on the Street to Verify Citizenship [123d] [hn]
• A Year of Fast Apply – Our Path to 10k Tokens per Second [123d] [hn]
• The Green Tea Garbage Collector [123d] [hn]
• Does brand advertising work? Upwave (YC S12) is hiring engineers to answer that [123d] [hn]
• AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B [123d] [hn]
• Floss Before Brushing [123d] [hn]
• Tailscale Peer Relays [123d] [hn]
• Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition [123d] [hn]
• Azure Outage [123d] [hn]
• Azure major outage: Portal, Front Door and global regions down [123d] [hn]
• Cursor Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL [123d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Azure outage [123d] [hn]
• AirTips – Alternative to Bento.me/Linktree [123d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Twilio support replies with hallucinated features [123d] [hn]
• Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from First Principles [123d] [hn]
• The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry [123d] [hn]
• Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test [123d] [hn]
• Oracle has adopted BOOLEAN in 23ai and PostgreSQL had it forever [123d] [hn]
• Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt [123d] [hn]
• The jQuery Age of AI Agents [123d] [hn]
• Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS [123d] [hn]
• Life After Work [123d] [hn]
• Mom says son asked Tesla's Grok AI bot about soccer; told him to send nudes [123d] [hn]
• I made a 10¢ MCU Talk [123d] [hn]
• Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres [123d] [hn]
• Samsung's $2000 smart fridges are getting ads [123d] [hn]
• Character.ai to bar children under 18 from using its chatbots [123d] [hn]
• New attacks are diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel [123d] [hn]
• Recreating a Homebrew Game System from 1987 [123d] [hn]
• Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders [123d] [hn]
• From VS Code to Helix [123d] [hn]
• Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant [123d] [hn]
• Create your first business email for free [123d] [hn]
• Zig's New Async I/O [video] [123d] [hn]
• Zig's New Async I/O [123d] [hn]
• Berkeley Out-of-Order RISC-V Processor (Boom) (2020) [123d] [hn]