The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• History of the PDF [pdf] [875d] [hn]
• This is Fine [875d] [hn]
• Stuxnet Source Code [875d] [hn]
• The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore [875d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job? [875d] [hn]
• US Visual Approaches: Lessons from the LH458 Incident [875d] [hn]
• MakeMake: Generate make files from C source code [875d] [hn]
• Make JSON Greppable [875d] [hn]
• Sam Altman, Sugarcoating the Apocalypse [875d] [hn]
• The Placeholder Girlfriend [875d] [hn]
• Learning Jai via Advent of Code [875d] [hn]
• Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmark [875d] [hn]
• uBlock Origin rules for HN: removing MSM news sources reduces systemic stress [875d] [hn]
• Let's learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one [875d] [hn]
• Why does sleep becomes more elusive as we age? Shifts in "sleep architecture" [875d] [hn]
• Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish [875d] [hn]
• The Startling Candor of Helen Garner [875d] [hn]
• American Librarians Helped Defeat the Nazis [875d] [hn]
• Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity [875d] [hn]
• GiveDirectly – Send money directly to people who need it most [875d] [hn]
• DIY Home EV Charger [875d] [hn]
• GDlog: A GPU-Accelerated Deductive Engine [875d] [hn]
• What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University [875d] [hn]
• Show HN: Audio plugin for circuit-bent MP3 compression sounds [875d] [hn]
• Medicare Advantage Popular with Seniors – But Not Hospitals and Doctors [876d] [hn]
• Wise (formerly Transfer Wise) are asking me to send them photo of my ID [876d] [hn]
• Steel – An embeddable and extensible scheme dialect built in Rust [876d] [hn]
• Run 70B LLM Inference on a Single 4GB GPU with This New Technique [876d] [hn]
• Tesla: Security Vulnerabilities [876d] [hn]
• Use It or Lose It: Exercising one's right to waste water (2015) [876d] [hn]
• Pushover Turns 10 (2022) [876d] [hn]
• All the hominins made tools [876d] [hn]
• Lowstorage: JSON-based database for Cloudflare Workers and R2 buckets [876d] [hn]
• Wayland Isn't Going to Save the Linux Desktop [876d] [hn]
• US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea [876d] [hn]
• Lobsters [876d] [hn]
• S2n-TLS – A C99 implementation of the TLS/SSL protocol [876d] [hn]
• Summary: On Mental Toughness by Harvard Business Review [876d] [hn]
• The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore [876d] [hn]
• The first results from the biggest basic income experiment [876d] [hn]
• I was scared To say this to NASA (But I said it anyway) – Smarter Every Day [876d] [hn]
• A Vacuum Tube Single Board 1-Bit Computer [video] [876d] [hn]
• LLM Visualization [876d] [hn]
• Build your own WebAssembly Compiler [876d] [hn]
• Intel Neural-Chat-7B Model Achieves Top Ranking on LLM Leaderboard [876d] [hn]
• Show HN: Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers [876d] [hn]
• The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works [876d] [hn]
• A guide to home row mods [876d] [hn]
• Why Life Does Not Really Exist (2013) [876d] [hn]
• Show HN: Onsites.fyi - Curated Big Tech Interview Experiences [876d] [hn]
• Is technology harming our brains? [876d] [hn]
• Show HN: Rqbit – bittorent CLI and desktop app written in Rust [876d] [hn]
• Wheel-Hand-Leg-Arms Open Doors Playfully [876d] [hn]
• The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101M award [876d] [hn]
• OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman [876d] [hn]
• Why are there no PowerLine Smart Plugs? [876d] [hn]
• Microsoft is planning an 'Advanced Windows Settings' panel for power users [876d] [hn]
• Inside Job: How a Hacker Helped Cocaine Traffickers Infiltrate Europe's Ports [876d] [hn]
• Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit [876d] [hn]
• 1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study [876d] [hn]
• Show HN: Simulate 3D Plants in the Browser [876d] [hn]
• GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text [876d] [hn]
• The last Python Architecture you will ever need? [876d] [hn]
• Images of Change [876d] [hn]
• WikiReader [876d] [hn]
• Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company [876d] [hn]
• A Personal History of APL (1982) [876d] [hn]
• The analog computer for the Nike missile system (2001) [876d] [hn]
• NASA Open Source Software [876d] [hn]
• A new approach to domain ranking [876d] [hn]
• Banker pays $2M for coal mine, discovers $37B rare Earth elements [876d] [hn]
• Ghostlike dusty galaxy reappears in James Webb Space Telescope image [876d] [hn]
• Adding Build Provenance to Homebrew [876d] [hn]
• Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run [876d] [hn]
• UniFi Express [876d] [hn]
• Child abduction case: How Tom and Jerry cartoons helped police identify suspects [876d] [hn]
• Show HN: Fluvio – Distributed stream processing system written in Rust and WASM [876d] [hn]
• You are not a real engineer [876d] [hn]