The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000) [832d] [hn]
• Why I Built Zuzalu [832d] [hn]
• Decker – A HyperCard Replacement [832d] [hn]
• A math professor who objects to diversity statements [832d] [hn]
• Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home [832d] [hn]
• Celestia: Real-time 3D visualization of space [832d] [hn]
• Water microdroplets have potential to produce hydrogen peroxide [832d] [hn]
• Cosmic: The Road to Alpha [832d] [hn]
• LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day [832d] [hn]
• Spine AI (YC S23) Is Hiring [832d] [hn]
• Tachiyomi – It's Joever [832d] [hn]
• Things I Learnt in 2023 [832d] [hn]
• The Exciting History of Carbon Paper! (1995) [832d] [hn]
• Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet [832d] [hn]
• What is the difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'TTY' and a 'console'? [832d] [hn]
• Weather intelligence and cutting-edge tech is boosting grid capacity by 30% [832d] [hn]
• AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language [832d] [hn]
• "Magic Balls" installed by drones may revolutionize US power grid [832d] [hn]
• Exposed RSS [832d] [hn]
• ArchiveBox – open-source self-hosted web archiving [832d] [hn]
• Teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about Gaza deaths [832d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing? [832d] [hn]
• The Slow Frontier of Genetic Choice [832d] [hn]
• Peer review is an honor-based system [832d] [hn]
• European Remote Worker Index [832d] [hn]
• Ping: the atomized social media network [832d] [hn]
• Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile Service [832d] [hn]
• Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat [832d] [hn]
• It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing [832d] [hn]
• Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative [832d] [hn]
• Incels need more mental health help, have "fundamental thinking errors" [832d] [hn]
• Python3 is removing crypt.crypt and not replacing it with anything [832d] [hn]
• Thinking in an Array Language [832d] [hn]
• George Orwell: Politics and the English Language [832d] [hn]
• Norway to allow mining waste to be dumped in fjords [832d] [hn]
• Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time [832d] [hn]
• Listening with LLM [832d] [hn]
• Ask HN: 40yo adult learning to drive what is different vs. learning young? [832d] [hn]
• A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years [832d] [hn]
• A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's [832d] [hn]
• Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit [832d] [hn]
• Test Can Tell How Likely a Young Driver Is to Crash [832d] [hn]
• Don't Fire People for Making Pornography in Their Free Time [832d] [hn]
• A rise in oral nicotine pouch use raises health concerns for high schoolers [832d] [hn]
• Pinker was right, I was wrong [832d] [hn]
• Japan ANA Boeing 737-800 flight turns back due to cockpit window crack [832d] [hn]
• Austin takes a bet on tiny homes to ease homelessness [832d] [hn]
• He spent his life building a $1M stereo [832d] [hn]
• The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain [832d] [hn]
• Margaret the First and the Blazing World [832d] [hn]
• Exploiting QUIC's Path Validation [832d] [hn]
• Jodorowsky's Dune – Official Trailer HD (2014) [832d] [hn]
• Compressing Text into Images [832d] [hn]
• Painting from Primitives (2017) [832d] [hn]
• Ternary circuits: why R=3 is not the Optimal Radix for Computation [832d] [hn]
• Edward Hopper: An American Love Story [832d] [hn]
• Last surviving scientist on Japan's atomic bomb program tells his story [832d] [hn]
• Trayd (YC S23) Is Hiring [832d] [hn]
• Epic Games' "The RAD Debugger" [832d] [hn]
• Periodic Table Gallery [833d] [hn]
• Temperature-Sensing Stirbar with RFID [833d] [hn]
• FAA grounds B737 Max 9 for the time being [833d] [hn]
• GoatCounter creator is hoping to raise at least €1k for basic living expense [833d] [hn]
• YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution [833d] [hn]
• Cloudflare Termination Video: A Master Class in How Not to Terminate Someone [833d] [hn]
• Why Are More Boys Than Girls Retarded in School? (1928) [833d] [hn]
• My Knowledge Lakehouse [833d] [hn]
• Sama says "build for GPT-5 and AGI Now; GPT-5 in 2024, AGI in 2025" [833d] [hn]
• Apple hiring compiler developers for improving Swift / C++ interoperability [833d] [hn]
• Live record of being fired from Cloudflare during a redundancy plan [video] [833d] [hn]
• M1 Macs may lag behind [833d] [hn]
• Show HN: The most beautiful ABAP report [833d] [hn]
• The more features you add [833d] [hn]
• Show HN: I made a site to simplify recommending talented people to others [833d] [hn]
• A first dip into OS kernel development with xv6 and the 6.1810 labs [833d] [hn]
• Inside the Steam Deck's APU [833d] [hn]
• Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Engineers Who Can Design (EMEA Remote) [833d] [hn]
• How to Be More Agentic [833d] [hn]
• Shadcn: Beautifully designed components that you can copy-paste into your apps [833d] [hn]
• Triplit: Open-source DB that syncs data between server and browser in real-time [833d] [hn]
• What Was ISDN? [833d] [hn]
• A decade-old Steam bug [833d] [hn]
• Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles [833d] [hn]
• Rkyv: A zero-copy deserialization framework for rust [833d] [hn]
• Trying to use Firebase is the most horrible experience in my life [833d] [hn]
• People have been buried behind a Mississippi jail since 2016, attorney says [833d] [hn]
• Tesla Cybertruck Is *Not* Faster Than Porsche (While Towing) [video] [833d] [hn]
• K-Means Clustering [833d] [hn]
• Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled [833d] [hn]
• AWS Libcrypto for Rust [833d] [hn]