The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Why did Mozilla remove XUL add-ons? (2020) [1185d] [hn]
• GitHub and EFF back YouTube ripper in legal battle with the RIAA [1186d] [hn]
• Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust [1186d] [hn]
• A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs [1186d] [hn]
• ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI [1186d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? [1186d] [hn]
• TikTok lays off all employees in India [1186d] [hn]
• Galileo AI – Copilot for interface design [1186d] [hn]
• Live Briefing on Alaska Aerial Object Shoot-Down [1186d] [hn]
• US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast [1186d] [hn]
• U.S. shoots down 'high-altitude object' over Alaskan airspace, White House says [1186d] [hn]
• The Astonishing Transformation of Austin [1186d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”? [1186d] [hn]
• Money Laundering and AML Compliance [1186d] [hn]
• The Inference Cost of Search Disruption – Large Language Model Cost Analysis [1186d] [hn]
• On Academic Freedom [1186d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? [1186d] [hn]
• What crappy beer demand tells us about the economy [1186d] [hn]
• Understanding and Coding the Self-Attention Mechanism of Large Language Models [1186d] [hn]
• Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream [1186d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Are people considering moving off of Fly.io? [1186d] [hn]
• QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed [1186d] [hn]
• California will give $2000 if owners convert their ICE cars to EV [1186d] [hn]
• Everything I believed about nuclear waste was wrong [1186d] [hn]
• The Wi Flag -Turns out some players in Asheron's Call were born unlucky [1186d] [hn]
• Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution [1186d] [hn]
• Most Crypto Developers Aren't Working on Bitcoin or Ethereum [1186d] [hn]
• AI assistants: The convenient crutch for new developers or a recipe for disaster [1186d] [hn]
• Molnupiravir Mutations in the Wild [1186d] [hn]
• JavE – Java ASCII Versatile Editor [1186d] [hn]
• DuckDB – in-process SQL OLAP database management system [1186d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why aren't laptops evaluated with a plot of performance vs. fan noise? [1186d] [hn]
• Manticore 6.0.0 – a faster alternative to Elasticsearch in C++ [1186d] [hn]
• How a Zig IDE Could Work [1186d] [hn]
• External Garbage Collection in Ruby [1186d] [hn]
• Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI [1186d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dslcad a programming language and interpreter for building 3D models [1186d] [hn]
• Is Seattle a 15-minute city? It depends on where you want to walk [1186d] [hn]
• Apple Avoids Job Cuts Because It Didn’t Overhire Like Google and Amazon [1186d] [hn]
• Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code [1186d] [hn]
• My Fifth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder [1186d] [hn]
• Building an in-house on-call training program for your SRE team [1186d] [hn]
• “Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers [1186d] [hn]
• IDF teams rescue 10-year-old boy trapped under rubble for 100 hours in Turkey [1186d] [hn]
• Jira is awful, welcome to AJIR [1186d] [hn]
• Windows 11 is collecting more user data than you know [1186d] [hn]
• Roman Church Decorated with 4k Skeletons [1186d] [hn]
• How a Heat Pump Works [1186d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Whatever Happened To *Free*lancing? [1186d] [hn]
• FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure [1186d] [hn]
• The Balthazar laptop: An all-European RISC-V computer [1186d] [hn]
• Reactivity Without Virtual DOM [1186d] [hn]
• OpenBSD: Why and How [1186d] [hn]
• Individuals who share an ideology have more similar neural representations [1186d] [hn]
• Reverse engineering an e-paper pricetag [1186d] [hn]
• How the Chick-fil-A Cauliflower Sandwich was created [1186d] [hn]
• Dual Coincidence is likely the most complex electromechanical game [1186d] [hn]
• Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from C++ to Rust [1186d] [hn]
• Real-Time Brain-to-Image Reconstructions [1186d] [hn]
• Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA [1186d] [hn]
• Why is there so much useless and unreliable software? [1186d] [hn]
• Use TOML for `.env` Files? [1186d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How does one start a digital marketing agency with zero clients? [1186d] [hn]
• Show HN: Enc – A modern and friendly CLI alternative to GnuPG [1186d] [hn]
• David Guetta uses ChatGPT and uberduck.ai to deepfake Eminem rap for DJ set [1186d] [hn]
• The XML spec is 25 years old today [1186d] [hn]
• Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool [1186d] [hn]
• Meticulous (YC S21) Is Hiring #3 Engineer in London to Revolutionize Testing [1186d] [hn]
• Rust: A Unique Perspective [1186d] [hn]
• Ask HN: 1M layoffs soon, should gov intervene? [1186d] [hn]
• Why TLS is better without STARTTLS (2021) [1186d] [hn]
• Q1 of 2023: The most Tech Layoffs in history [1186d] [hn]
• Framework: 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck [1186d] [hn]
• The Rust Implementation of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust [1186d] [hn]
• How the Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law [1186d] [hn]
• Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people [1186d] [hn]
• A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers alternative to ID.me [1186d] [hn]
• Housing Starts to Look the Same [1186d] [hn]
• Why big tech companies need so many people [1186d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why isn’t Google cutting executive pay and bonuses? [1186d] [hn]
• The best way to launch your startup [video] [1186d] [hn]
• Conrad Waddington and his epigenetic landscape (2013) [1186d] [hn]
• A new way to build with Large Language Models [1186d] [hn]
• Trunk-Based Development: Game Changers [1186d] [hn]