The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Can a pill prevent deaths from venomous snakebites? [844d] [hn]
• Coal and fossil fuel use in Germany at a record low for electricity in 2023 [844d] [hn]
• Delete or hide life-wasting apps [844d] [hn]
• Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023 [844d] [hn]
• Jonathan Katz: Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024 [844d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Has the tech recession affected you? [844d] [hn]
• QEMU AioContext removal and how it was done [844d] [hn]
• Why Are Tech Reporters Sleeping on the Biggest App Store Story? [844d] [hn]
• Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo Browser [844d] [hn]
• OpenIndiana Illumos Distro [844d] [hn]
• ParadeDB – PostgreSQL for Search [844d] [hn]
• Apple II Emulation Evaluation (2022) [844d] [hn]
• Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too [844d] [hn]
• CGA in 1024 colors - a new mode [844d] [hn]
• LLM spews nonsense in CVE report for curl [844d] [hn]
• Show HN: Better Seater: Wedding Seating Chart Optimizer [844d] [hn]
• Realtime Annotations and Visualizations in Live Coding Performance [844d] [hn]
• 1D Pac-Man [844d] [hn]
• Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models [844d] [hn]
• LinkedIn ad prices up as X plummets [844d] [hn]
• "First do it, then do it right, then do it better." [844d] [hn]
• First do it, then do it right, then do it better [844d] [hn]
• Chrultrabook Docs [844d] [hn]
• Spoonbill (2016–2013) [844d] [hn]
• Plan9/ThinkPad T420s (2021) [844d] [hn]
• Moving Git commits between repos [844d] [hn]
• 90x Faster Than Pgvector – Lantern's HNSW Index Creation Time [844d] [hn]
• Show HN: How do you OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python for free [844d] [hn]
• I've Implemented a RSS Reader [844d] [hn]
• In L.A., a new vision of incarceration proves rehabilitation works [844d] [hn]
• Was JavaScript made in 10 days? [844d] [hn]
• Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up [844d] [hn]
• Do It Yourself Blind Repair [844d] [hn]
• Double encryption: Analyzing the NSA/GCHQ arguments against hybrids [844d] [hn]
• Git Branches Have No Rules [844d] [hn]
• Online Job Posts Contain Little Wage Information [pdf] [844d] [hn]
• BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023 [844d] [hn]
• I Hate AI Licenses [844d] [hn]
• Apple starts 2024 with Barclays downgrade [844d] [hn]
• A Simulated Annealing FPGA Placer in Rust [844d] [hn]
• Hospitals ask courts to force cloud storage firm to return stolen data [844d] [hn]
• Homelab: Running Postgres on Kubernetes [844d] [hn]
• A Canadian payroll dependency chart [844d] [hn]
• What it will take to unleash the potential of geothermal power [844d] [hn]
• Distributed Inference and Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models over the Internet [844d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) [844d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024) [844d] [hn]
• Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply to AI Training [844d] [hn]
• The Infinite/Eternal Jukebox has been revived [844d] [hn]
• Best paper awards in computer science over the past 28 years (1996-2023) [844d] [hn]
• Thomas Cochrane [844d] [hn]
• What It's Like to Use Apple's Lockdown Mode [844d] [hn]
• MixRank (YC S11) Is Hiring Global Remote Software Engineers [844d] [hn]
• Antimacassar [844d] [hn]
• A New Blog for 2024 [844d] [hn]
• An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechoslovakia [844d] [hn]
• Super-rich pick flats with private security as sales rise of £15M London homes [844d] [hn]
• Built and Android app that uses LLMs to learn stuff [844d] [hn]
• Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say [844d] [hn]
• Introduction to Plan 9 [844d] [hn]
• JAL A359 at Tokyo collided with Coast Guard DH8C on runway and burst into flames [844d] [hn]
• Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-fla [844d] [hn]
• Muppet babies will never be available on streaming due to studio copyright claim [844d] [hn]
• Universities Are Prioritizing Their Health Systems over Teaching [844d] [hn]
• LAN Mouse is a mouse and keyboard sharing software [844d] [hn]
• A new approach to local multiplayer / splitscreen perspective with raytracing [844d] [hn]
• Framework for identification of chaotic systems with symbolic regression [844d] [hn]
• Microsoft Copilot iOS App [844d] [hn]
• The Duplex watch escapement [844d] [hn]
• Reductive Thinking and the Unfairness of Spotify Payments [844d] [hn]
• After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] [844d] [hn]
• South Sudan's first female gynaecologist, Dr Idyoro Ojukwu [844d] [hn]
• Parallelising Heirarchical Small World Graphs [844d] [hn]
• How do we stop Meta in 2024? We fix the information loop [844d] [hn]
• Miracle escape as burning plane lands at Tokyo airport after collision [844d] [hn]
• Earthquake in Japan yesterday may have shifted land 1.3 meters [844d] [hn]
• LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024 [844d] [hn]
• Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its "ghosts in the walls" [844d] [hn]
• Why does integer representation of a floating point approximate its logarithm? [844d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What are your founder's resolutions for 2024? [844d] [hn]
• Japan Airlines plane catches fire while landing at Tokyo airport runway [844d] [hn]
• JAL A359 at Tokyo collided with Coast Guard DH8C on runway and burst into flames [844d] [hn]
• The funny rules of SpamAssassin in 2023 [844d] [hn]
• Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car antenna [844d] [hn]
• What I've learned about flow fields so far [844d] [hn]
• Blueprint health protocol – Bryan Johnson (founder braintree/Venmo) [844d] [hn]
• Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32GB Workstation GPU Review [844d] [hn]
• Hugging Face's Transformer Library: A Game-Changer in NLP [844d] [hn]
• Vermont Attorney General's dog sniffs out electronic storage devices [844d] [hn]
• Microsoft keeps shooting itself in the foot with Edge [844d] [hn]
• Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing [844d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built an open source web calendar inspired by the Google calendar [844d] [hn]
• Push Notifications – What to Push, What Not to Push, and How Often [844d] [hn]
• The Hiew Hex Editor [844d] [hn]
• Creative Destruction in Small Business Bankruptcy [844d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase? [844d] [hn]
• New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC) [844d] [hn]
• Sodium's high-pressure transformation shows the interiors of stars, planets [844d] [hn]
• Constraining dynamics of rotating black holes via the gauge symmetry principle [844d] [hn]
• Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME [844d] [hn]