The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The Curse of Systems Thinkers [1567d] [hn]
• Cryptocurrency as a Cybersecurity Alarm [1567d] [hn]
• Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Reference Counting (2017) [1567d] [hn]
• Arizona’s Dry Future Begins as Colorado River Shrinks [1567d] [hn]
• Kable (YC W22) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (Remote) [1567d] [hn]
• Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) [1567d] [hn]
• Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain Out of Printing [1567d] [hn]
• The Applesoft Compiler (TASC): We have the source code, in a sense [1567d] [hn]
• Apple M2 [1567d] [hn]
• The one time North Vietnam’s MiGs attacked U.S. navy warships [1567d] [hn]
• Gold Grows On Eucalyptus Trees (2013) [1567d] [hn]
• AI Does Not Exist [1567d] [hn]
• Building the Inverse Jim Cramer Index [1567d] [hn]
• Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years [1567d] [hn]
• Umberto Eco Makes a List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism [1567d] [hn]
• The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft [1567d] [hn]
• Google, Western Digital, Seagate quietly devolping an open source root of trust [1567d] [hn]
• VeriGPU: GPU in Verilog loosely based on RISC-V ISA [1567d] [hn]
• Rethinking submarine fibre cable projects in the South Pacific [1567d] [hn]
• Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change [1567d] [hn]
• Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old [1567d] [hn]
• The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation (2000) [1567d] [hn]
• Issue #47: Consensus Mechanisms in Traditional Finance and Decentralized Finance [1567d] [hn]
• Elon Musk texts Larry Page about investing in Tesla (2018) [1567d] [hn]
• EULAs Aren’t Inherently Evil – Proprietary done right can beat free and open [1567d] [hn]
• U.S. Interest Rates Have Soared Everywhere but Savings Accounts [1567d] [hn]
• Dan Price, Seattle CEO who lowered his pay to $70K, accused of sexual misconduct [1567d] [hn]
• My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home [1567d] [hn]
• VCR Virus Fake VHS Copy-Protection Warning Label (2016) [1567d] [hn]
• Making open source hardware design a reality [1567d] [hn]
• $34M permanently locked into AkuDreams contract forever due to bad code [1567d] [hn]
• DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum [1567d] [hn]
• I stopped working on black hole information loss. Here’s why [1567d] [hn]
• Ozarks Technical Community College robbed of nearly $900k [1567d] [hn]
• A day after he bought electric scooter, man killed in battery explosion [1567d] [hn]
• Braess Paradox [1567d] [hn]
• War Without Rules: Inside China’s Playbook for Global Domination [1567d] [hn]
• Data Reliability (1975) [1567d] [hn]
• Creating a GPU With C++ and an FPGA (2021) [1567d] [hn]
• The slowest and longest music piece ever, is being performed for 639 years [1567d] [hn]
• John Cage Organ Project in Halberstadt [1567d] [hn]