The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• My favorite coding question to give candidates [920d] [hn]
• 20% of Millennials and 68% of Gen Z-ers still live with other family members [920d] [hn]
• Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony [920d] [hn]
• Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal [920d] [hn]
• Calif. tech investor's wedding trashed base of world-renowned landmark [920d] [hn]
• Infinite Context LLMs: Going Beyond RAG with Extended Minds [920d] [hn]
• Czech news crew in SF covering APEC robbed at gunpoint while filming [920d] [hn]
• Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI [920d] [hn]
• What if climate change meant not doom – but abundance? [920d] [hn]
• Low current around roots boosts plant growth [920d] [hn]
• We've learned nothing from the SolarWinds hack [920d] [hn]
• Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims [920d] [hn]
• Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code [920d] [hn]
• Inequalities, convergence, and continuity as "special deals" [920d] [hn]
• It's true. Your devices are listening to you [920d] [hn]
• Shopify Storefronts Are Down [920d] [hn]
• Discouraging the use of web application firewalls [920d] [hn]
• Future is quantum: universities look to train engineers for an emerging industry [920d] [hn]
• Principles are products of practice, not the reverse [920d] [hn]
• Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn't Be Tied to Funding the Government [920d] [hn]
• PixArt-α:A New Open-Source Text-to-Image Model Challenging SDXL and Dalle·3 [920d] [hn]
• Panama Canal is so congested that one ship owner just paid $4M to skip the line [920d] [hn]
• Supreme Court of the United States Statement Regarding the Code of Conduct [pdf] [920d] [hn]
• Algorithms by Jeff Erickson [920d] [hn]
• The Supreme Court is adopting a code of ethics for the first time [920d] [hn]
• Ubuntu Pro Shenanigans [920d] [hn]
• AI Is a Terrifying Purveyor of Bullshit. Next Up: Fake Science [920d] [hn]
• Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari [920d] [hn]
• NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month [920d] [hn]
• You need a mental model of LLMs to build or use a LLM-based product [920d] [hn]
• Forests with multiple tree species are more effective as carbon sinks [920d] [hn]