The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker [870d] [hn]
• EVE Online – Down the Rabbit Hole [video] [870d] [hn]
• QuIP#: 2-bit Quantization for LLMs [870d] [hn]
• Rhapsodies in Blue: Anna Atkins' Cyanotypes [870d] [hn]
• E.U. Agrees on Artificial Intelligence Rules with Landmark New Law [870d] [hn]
• Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android's new iMessage app [870d] [hn]
• The industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative [870d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What fuel for my data furnace? [870d] [hn]
• Show HN: We've built an Open Source plugin to make using AI easier for VFX [870d] [hn]
• Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access [870d] [hn]
• GPS-Gaussian: Generalizable Pixel-wise 3D Gaussian Splatting for Human Synthesis [870d] [hn]
• How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire? [870d] [hn]
• The Geopolitics of Godzilla [870d] [hn]
• Just Your Handyman [870d] [hn]
• Just Your Handyman [870d] [hn]
• Macro and Micro Necessity [870d] [hn]
• Maybe We Already Have Runaway Machines [870d] [hn]
• Plan for Windows 10 End of Support [870d] [hn]
• Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B [870d] [hn]
• American Chestnut Foundation Ceasing Distribution of Blight-Resistant Seeds [870d] [hn]
• Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman's ouster [870d] [hn]
• Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts [870d] [hn]
• DNA companies should receive the death penalty for getting hacked [870d] [hn]
• Apps That Use AI to Undress Women in Photos Soaring in Use [870d] [hn]
• Okta Breach Impacted All Customer Support Users–Not 1 Percent [870d] [hn]
• The pro-Israel information war [870d] [hn]
• New year, new company – encouraging last-minute applications to YC [870d] [hn]
• A bike lane moved, and this San Francisco neighborhood erupted [870d] [hn]
• Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer [870d] [hn]
• Simultaneous cat and external keyboard input causing kernel panic (2011) [870d] [hn]
• Neonatal circumcision associated with altered adult socio-affective processing [870d] [hn]
• Mistral releases 8x7 MoE model via torrent [870d] [hn]
• Ask HN: I don't want to use G Play or Apple APPS, what should my phone setup be? [870d] [hn]
• FDA Approves Sickle Cell Treatments, Including One That Uses CRISPR [870d] [hn]
• FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease [870d] [hn]
• The valve at the end of the world [870d] [hn]
• Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough in Understanding Whale Language [870d] [hn]
• IA Writer in Paper [870d] [hn]
• ReconFusion: 3D Reconstruction with Diffusion Priors [870d] [hn]
• Homes need to be built for better internet [870d] [hn]
• Judge Allows Major 'Right to Repair' Lawsuit Against John Deere to Move Forward [870d] [hn]
• Show HN: WarpBuild – x86-64 and arm GitHub Action runners for 30% faster builds [870d] [hn]
• Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet] [870d] [hn]
• You are never taught how to build quality software [870d] [hn]
• The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year [870d] [hn]
• Spoofing DNS records abusing Microsoft DHCP server running in 40% of datacenters [870d] [hn]
• The Onyx Programming Language [870d] [hn]
• The Domestication of SARS-CoV-2 into a Seasonal Infection by Viral Variants [870d] [hn]
• jc: Converts the output of popular command-line tools to JSON [870d] [hn]
• TXR Lisp [870d] [hn]
• Double Standards [870d] [hn]
• London trains see power cut as thousands stranded in dark for hours [870d] [hn]
• Hetzner is terminating contracts with all users who had a Russian postal address [870d] [hn]
• How to think about OpenAI's rumored (and overhyped) Q* project [870d] [hn]
• No distributed quantum advantage for approximate graph coloring [870d] [hn]
• Postgres Language Server: Implementing the Parser [870d] [hn]
• Problems on the Galaxy Store [870d] [hn]
• Amazon's humanoid robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate [870d] [hn]
• Arch Linux bugtracker migration to Gitlab completed [870d] [hn]
• Logical quantum processor based on reconfigurable atom arrays [870d] [hn]
• Rollstack (YC W23) is hiring a senior software engineer in Brazil [870d] [hn]
• National Crime Agency response to Meta's rollout of end-to-end-encryption [870d] [hn]
• Beyond "Abolish the FDA" [871d] [hn]
• Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking [871d] [hn]
• Tesla loses legal action in Sweden as dispute with Nordic unions escalates [871d] [hn]
• X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? [871d] [hn]
• 5Ghoul: 5G Modem Firmware CVEs [871d] [hn]
• Gaussian Head Avatar: Ultra High-Fidelity Head Avatar via Dynamic Gaussians [871d] [hn]
• Apple and Google Monitor Notifications. We Need Push Notification Alternatives [871d] [hn]
• The Internet Shutdown Game [871d] [hn]
• "Non-Player Character" [871d] [hn]
• Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards [871d] [hn]
• Goodbye, Clean Code [871d] [hn]
• World of Goo 2 [871d] [hn]
• Average distance to a supermarket in Amsterdam is 400 meter or 1300 feet [871d] [hn]
• Kagi Search – Paywalled articles indicator and improved weather widget [871d] [hn]
• Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022) [871d] [hn]
• Practical Ways to Increase Product Velocity [871d] [hn]
• We Investigated France's Mass Profiling Machine [871d] [hn]
• Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads [871d] [hn]
• White House threatens to veto anti-EV bill just passed by US House [871d] [hn]
• Iran: If You're Going to Bomb a Place, You Should Know Its People First [871d] [hn]
• It's the future – you can stop using JPEGs [871d] [hn]
• Show HN: Homebrew 16bit CPU from 74HC logic with C compiler and Unix-like OS [871d] [hn]
• How to think about the OpenAI Q* rumors [871d] [hn]
• Loco: The one-person Rust framework for side-projects and startups [871d] [hn]
• Tolstoy: How much Land does a man need [871d] [hn]
• The Omnichord will be re-produced to commemorate our 70th anniversary [871d] [hn]