The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Safely open apps on your Mac [946d] [hn]
• There's a mechanical watch feature called a “hack”. Why is it called that? [946d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Please don't print –help to stderr in your CLI tools [946d] [hn]
• AlphaDev discovers faster sorting algorithms [946d] [hn]
• Open Source doesn't win by being cheaper [946d] [hn]
• Prompt Engineering Is Snake Oil [946d] [hn]
• Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries [946d] [hn]
• Meta spends $181M to get out of lease at vacant London offices [946d] [hn]
• Show HN: Carton – Run any ML model from any programming language [946d] [hn]
• Lisp Badge LE [946d] [hn]
• SMS Security and Privacy Gaps [946d] [hn]
• Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Altman reportedly collaborating on mysterious AI device [946d] [hn]
• Qwen (通义千问) chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud [946d] [hn]
• War Thunder user leaks restricted military documents for AH-64D Apache Longbow [946d] [hn]
• Valve releases Counter-Strike 2 [946d] [hn]
• Function Composition in Programming Languages [video] [946d] [hn]
• Naturalists Unknown: Lives marked by discovery and erasure [946d] [hn]
• ChatGPT can now search the web in real time [946d] [hn]
• Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water [946d] [hn]
• The Llama Ecosystem: Past, Present, and Future [946d] [hn]
• Emu: Enhancing Image Generation Models Using Photogenic Needles in a Haystack [946d] [hn]
• Terminal Race Condition: The only thing that scares me anymore [946d] [hn]
• Bitwig and Presonus launch open DAWproject format [946d] [hn]
• Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords [946d] [hn]
• Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords [946d] [hn]
• Earthworms contribute to 6.5% of global grain production [946d] [hn]
• Antarctic sea ice hits lowest winter maximum on record: US data [946d] [hn]
• Is the Physics of Time Changing? [946d] [hn]
• The Conscience of a Hacker(1986) [946d] [hn]
• GPT-4 generates simple app from Whiteboard photo [946d] [hn]
• Antimatter falls down: Observation of the effect of gravity on antimatter [946d] [hn]
• Continuations – Under the Covers [video] [946d] [hn]
• Ray-Ban Meta next generation of smart glasses [946d] [hn]
• OpenBSD PF versus FreeBSD PF [946d] [hn]
• Meta Quest 3 [946d] [hn]
• The Tao of Programming [946d] [hn]
• Linux kernel maintainers, why are they so grumpy? (2013) [pdf] [946d] [hn]
• 26% of the top websites are now blocking GPTBot [947d] [hn]
• A gentle introduction to static analyzers for C [947d] [hn]
• Queues for Kafka [947d] [hn]
• Synthetic opioids deadlier than fentanyl are showing up in overdose cases [947d] [hn]
• Judge Says Google Can't Keep Hiding Its Dealings During DOJ Antitrust Trial [947d] [hn]
• The Ashley Book of Knots [947d] [hn]
• Live near your friends [947d] [hn]
• Nucor and Helion to Develop 500 MW Fusion Power Plant by 2030 [947d] [hn]
• Ask HN: I spent months building an app and now I don't know how to get users [947d] [hn]
• Rust vs Go: A Hands-On Comparison [947d] [hn]
• Show HN: Using LLMs and Embeddings to classify application errors [947d] [hn]
• Accidents Happen: Sketches of misfortune in an insurance trade card c. 1890s [947d] [hn]
• Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water [947d] [hn]
• A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837) [947d] [hn]
• Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size to date, Apache 2.0 [947d] [hn]
• Show HN: Nav – A terminal navigator for interactive `ls` workflows [947d] [hn]
• Unions Work [947d] [hn]
• Your nines are not my nines (2019) [947d] [hn]
• Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s War on San Francisco Politics Has Only Just Begun [947d] [hn]
• Mercedes-Benz Beat Tesla to Cheap, Hands-Free Driving [947d] [hn]
• JWST discovers massive and compact quiescent galaxy [947d] [hn]
• ClickHouse Keeper: A ZooKeeper alternative written in C++ [947d] [hn]
• Deno Queues [947d] [hn]
• We try out the first legal level 3 automated driving system in the US [947d] [hn]
• Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more [947d] [hn]
• Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing by Lewis Carroll [947d] [hn]
• The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed [947d] [hn]
• Workers AI: serverless GPU-powered inference on Cloudflare’s global network [947d] [hn]
• You can now use WebGPU in Cloudflare Workers [947d] [hn]
• Philips allegedly hid 3700 complaints about sleep apnea machines from U.S. [947d] [hn]
• Lego abandons effort to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles [947d] [hn]
• Ads in the OS [947d] [hn]
• Google judge rules trial documents can be posted by U.S. online [947d] [hn]
• First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision) [947d] [hn]
• Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out [947d] [hn]
• Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity [947d] [hn]
• Uiua: A minimal stack-based, array-based language [947d] [hn]
• Building a defence startup: 6 lessons I’ve learned [947d] [hn]
• Applied Category Theory Course [947d] [hn]
• An Introduction to LiteStack for Ruby on Rails [947d] [hn]
• San Francisco Shoplifting: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (2022) [947d] [hn]
• I got robbed of my first kernel contribution [947d] [hn]
• The Truth about College Costs [947d] [hn]
• Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity [947d] [hn]
• Show HN: A JavaScript function that looks and behaves like a pipe operator [947d] [hn]
• Writing a Debugger from Scratch: Breakpoints [947d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically? [947d] [hn]
• Arena Allocator Tips and Tricks [947d] [hn]
• What the Hollywood writers have agreed with the studios about AI [947d] [hn]
• GNU – Celebrating 40 Years [947d] [hn]
• Are Our Articles Disguised Ads? [947d] [hn]
• Show HN: XRain – Explore rainfall statistics around the world [947d] [hn]
• 25 Years of Google [947d] [hn]
• Google's 25th Birthday [947d] [hn]
• Why should I care about OpenTofu? [947d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Modern Is Not Better [947d] [hn]
• Biomolecular analysis of early Viking Age hair combs from Hedeby [947d] [hn]
• China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation [947d] [hn]
• Understanding Tescreal: Weird Ideologies Behind Silicon Valley’s Rightward Turn [947d] [hn]
• Deconstructing Go Type Parameters [947d] [hn]