The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Closures as Win32 Window Procedures [11d] [hn]
• Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class [11d] [hn]
• RemoveWindowsAI [11d] [hn]
• Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C [11d] [hn]
• First all-optical XPU processing system [11d] [hn]
• Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future [11d] [hn]
• Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo you probably don't know [11d] [hn]
• Recovering Anthony Bourdain's (really) lost Li.st's [11d] [hn]
• Workday project at Washington University hits $266M [11d] [hn]
• Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement for All Undergrads [11d] [hn]
• Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost [11d] [hn]
• Why Twilio Segment Moved from Microservices Back to a Monolith [11d] [hn]
• I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model [11d] [hn]
• The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure [11d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? [11d] [hn]
• What is a build system, anyway? [11d] [hn]
• We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments [11d] [hn]
• VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits [11d] [hn]
• llamafile: Distribute and Run LLMs with a Single File [11d] [hn]
• Dick Van Dyke turns 100 [11d] [hn]
• Former Apple, Google designer: "Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever?" [video] [11d] [hn]
• How to Watch the Radiant Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight [11d] [hn]
• Fast, Memory-Efficient Hash Table in Java: Borrowing the Best Ideas [11d] [hn]
• Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet [11d] [hn]
• I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype [11d] [hn]
• Show HN: Kinkora – A creative playground for experimenting with video models [11d] [hn]
• Multiple Indicted on Charges of Theft and Re-Sale of Restaurant Cooking Oil [11d] [hn]
• Hacking Google Chrome Source Code: Make Puppeteer work over Redis PubSub [11d] [hn]
• LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted [11d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? [11d] [hn]
• A Giant Ball Will Help This Man Survive a Year on an Iceberg [11d] [hn]
• Show HN: I audited 500 K8s pods. Java wastes ~48% RAM, Go ~18% [11d] [hn]
• Z8086: Rebuilding the 8086 from Original Microcode [11d] [hn]
• AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement [11d] [hn]
• We built another object storage [11d] [hn]
• Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad? [11d] [hn]
• YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same [11d] [hn]
• Bookmark for CAD/2d/3D Useful links [11d] [hn]
• Windows 3.1 in the Browser [11d] [hn]
• Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100 [11d] [hn]
• Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms into Sharing People's Data [12d] [hn]
• Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help [12d] [hn]
• Poor Johnny still won't encrypt [12d] [hn]
• Show HN: Claude Code Recipes for Knowledge Workers (Open Source) [12d] [hn]
• Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order [12d] [hn]
• The Coming Need for Formal Specification [12d] [hn]
• Oliver Sacks fabricated key details in his books [12d] [hn]
• A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021) [12d] [hn]
• 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli [12d] [hn]
• How the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex Inspired 'Severance' [12d] [hn]
• The Checkerboard [12d] [hn]