The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005? [991d] [hn]
• How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Industries Blog [991d] [hn]
• Object Oriented Programming in C (2006) [991d] [hn]
• Open Challenges in LLM Research [991d] [hn]
• Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard [991d] [hn]
• New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl [991d] [hn]
• 2,000-year-old synagogue found in southern Russia [991d] [hn]
• Anti-Piracy Group Takes Prominent AI Training Dataset ''Books3' Offline [991d] [hn]
• $70 device can spoof an Apple device and trick you into sharing your password [991d] [hn]
• Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes [991d] [hn]
• MLIR For Beginners: A series of articles on the MLIR framework [991d] [hn]
• Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to Launch AI-Science Moonshot [991d] [hn]
• Ubicloud – open, free and portable cloud [991d] [hn]
• ‘The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram’ by Dean Snow Review [991d] [hn]
• Germany unveils bill to legalize cannabis [991d] [hn]
• $Home, Not So Sweet $Home [991d] [hn]
• The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill [991d] [hn]
• Anonfiles Is Shutting Down [991d] [hn]
• Bringing Safety check to the Chrome://extensions page [991d] [hn]
• Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models [991d] [hn]
• macOS 13.5 source code released [991d] [hn]
• the US climate law is fueling a factory frenzy. Here’s the latest tally [991d] [hn]
• Minimum Viable Secure Product [991d] [hn]
• Tesla’s $10k-Cheaper Model S, X Are Software Locked for Less Range: Report [991d] [hn]
• Casio G-Shock time sync radio [991d] [hn]
• Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store [991d] [hn]
• Iowa using AI to automatically scan and ban books [991d] [hn]
• Marion County atty withdraws search warrant against Kansas paper, returns items [991d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is making a self taught transition to AI/ML related fields possible? [991d] [hn]
• Transpiler, a Meaningless Word [991d] [hn]
• New York City bans TikTok for government employees [991d] [hn]
• George Eliot on what an author leaves behind besides her books [991d] [hn]
• Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc [991d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs? [991d] [hn]
• Radio operator exposure to RF/microwave radiation and the risk of brain tumors [991d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money? [991d] [hn]
• A brilliant biography of an elusive genius: Spinoza [991d] [hn]
• Firezone (YC W22) is hiring a systems engineer [991d] [hn]
• Towards HTTPS by Default [991d] [hn]
• Canada had poached 10k tech workers from the U.S. – in just 48 hours [991d] [hn]
• Apple’s Employee No. 0 (2008) [991d] [hn]
• OpenAI Acquires Global Illumination [991d] [hn]
• The Mathematics of Training LLMs [991d] [hn]
• Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf] [991d] [hn]
• July 2023 was the hottest month on record [991d] [hn]
• LK-99 isn’t a superconductor – how science sleuths solved the mystery [991d] [hn]
• What Happens to All the Stuff We Return? [991d] [hn]
• System Initiative has open sourced its collab DevOps tool [991d] [hn]
• The tech job recession is over [991d] [hn]
• Ask HN: If we train an LLM with “data” instead of “language” tokens [991d] [hn]
• Show HN: LlamaGPT – Self-hosted, offline, private AI chatbot, powered by Llama 2 [991d] [hn]
• Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation [991d] [hn]
• Twitter's response to US Government search warrant (turned over deleted DMs) [pdf] [991d] [hn]
• Spring 6.1 now compatible with virtual threads and JDK 21 overall [991d] [hn]
• Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter [991d] [hn]
• Major U.S. energy org targeted in QR code phishing attack [991d] [hn]
• Forget ‘quiet quitting’ – ‘loud laborers’ are killing workplace morale [991d] [hn]
• AI cameras catch 297 drivers in three days [991d] [hn]
• Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993) [991d] [hn]
• We reduced the size of our JavaScript bundles by 33% [991d] [hn]
• The uses and abuses of Cloud Data Warehouses [991d] [hn]
• You need 27 tickets to guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery [991d] [hn]
• How do we save water: Stop growing alfalfa in Imperial County [991d] [hn]
• Nginx Development Guide [991d] [hn]
• Young people were burned out. Then they quit the rat race to travel [991d] [hn]
• Today I learned you can pause the Windows Task Manager moving apps around [991d] [hn]
• Scientists Reconstructed a Pink Floyd Song from Brain Activity [991d] [hn]
• The Human Ecology of Overshoot Why a Major ‘Population Correction’ Is Inevitable [991d] [hn]
• Owner of hydrogen-powered Hyundai quoted $175,000 to replace fuel cell [991d] [hn]
• Firm regrets taking Facebook moderation work [991d] [hn]
• ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Everywhere. What Are They Doing to Us? [991d] [hn]
• Amazon Pharmacy automates discounts to help insulin patients get pledged prices [991d] [hn]
• They Tried to Kill Me [991d] [hn]
• Nintendo Is Trying to Patent Some Broad Tears of the Kingdom Mechanics [991d] [hn]
• Energy Jobs Have Increased in Nearly Every County in America [991d] [hn]
• Majority of Smithsonian’s Human Brain Specimens Was ‘Gathered Without Consent’ [991d] [hn]
• Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator [991d] [hn]
• Show HN: Repo with a list of 80 decent companies hiring remotely in Europe [991d] [hn]
• On to Elixir [991d] [hn]
• Is this a good book for me, now? [991d] [hn]
• Why Tailwind CSS Won [991d] [hn]
• Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making [991d] [hn]
• It's time to call a halt to Pride [991d] [hn]
• Hacker News makes it to Dutch national media [991d] [hn]
• Russian empire aerospace refugees (2021) [991d] [hn]
• Today I learned that random people can send you money on PayPal and disputed it [991d] [hn]
• Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change [video] [991d] [hn]
• Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity [991d] [hn]
• The Collateral Damage of A.D.H.D. Drug Shortages [991d] [hn]
• What do I think about Community Notes?(Vitalik Buterin) [991d] [hn]
• Diligere, Equity-Invest Are New Firms of U.K. Con Man [992d] [hn]
• SpaceX takes another step toward launching Starship again [992d] [hn]
• NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN [992d] [hn]
• Debugging a Futex Crash [992d] [hn]
• Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021) [992d] [hn]
• Five Years of LLM Progress [992d] [hn]
• Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco [992d] [hn]
• AMD Inception Mitigations Cause 20% Performance Drop in Database Servers [992d] [hn]
• Engineer slapped with suspension after bridge collapsed hours after opening [992d] [hn]
• X has started reversing the throttling on some of the sites, including NYTimes' [992d] [hn]