The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• What is better: a lookup table or an enum type? [84d] [hn]
• Coca Cola has an executive dedicated to McDonald's [84d] [hn]
• We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months [84d] [hn]
• SMS phishers pivot to points, taxes, fake retailers [84d] [hn]
• StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels [84d] [hn]
• State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter [84d] [hn]
• Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig [84d] [hn]
• Countdown until the AI bubble bursts [84d] [hn]
• Django 6 [84d] [hn]
• CUDA-L2: Surpassing cuBLAS Performance for Matrix Multiplication Through RL [84d] [hn]
• Plane crashed after 3D-printed part collapsed [84d] [hn]
• EU's Top Court Just Made It Impossible to Run a User-Generated Platform Legally [84d] [hn]
• Why does the Salish Sea glow in the dark? [84d] [hn]
• The RAM shortage comes for us all [84d] [hn]
• Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine? [84d] [hn]
• Hammersmith Bridge – Where did 25,000 vehicles go? [84d] [hn]
• I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years [84d] [hn]
• Crucial shutting down as Micron wants to sell RAM/SSDs to AI companies instead [84d] [hn]
• Why Are 38 Percent of Stanford Students Saying They're Disabled? [84d] [hn]
• PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners [84d] [hn]
• Converge (YC S23) is hiring a martech expert in NYC [84d] [hn]
• Multivox: Volumetric Display [84d] [hn]
• The End of the Train-Test Split [84d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing [84d] [hn]
• Autism should not be treated as a single condition [84d] [hn]
• Feynman vs. Computer [84d] [hn]
• Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame [84d] [hn]
• The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X [84d] [hn]
• Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas [84d] [hn]
• Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available [84d] [hn]
• The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old [84d] [hn]
• Microsoft faces complaint in EU over Israeli surveillance data [84d] [hn]
• Show HN: OnlyRecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later [84d] [hn]
• Show HN: I analyzed 8k near-death experiences with AI and made them listenable [84d] [hn]
• Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership [84d] [hn]
• The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back [84d] [hn]
• Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows [84d] [hn]
• RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung [84d] [hn]
• Functional Quadtrees [84d] [hn]
• Imo.im – Instant Messenger [84d] [hn]
• Japanese Four-Cylinder Engine Is So Reliable Still in Production After 25 Years [84d] [hn]