The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify [819d] [hn]
• Google cancels contract with an AI data firm that's helped train Bard [819d] [hn]
• Netflix is turning into cable TV [819d] [hn]
• Appeals Court: FBI's Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amendment [819d] [hn]
• Anon Boeing engineer reveals why the 737 door blew off [819d] [hn]
• The case of the jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023) [819d] [hn]
• Hardware-Accelerated Similarity Metrics and Distance Functions (200x Faster) [819d] [hn]
• Mozilla closes 21 years old bug in Firefox [819d] [hn]
• Waterway Map [819d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell [819d] [hn]
• Show HN: Codemodder – A new codemod library for Java and Python [819d] [hn]
• Hair Sample That Put a Man in Prison Turned Out to Be Dog Hair [819d] [hn]
• I used Midjourney to design a brand identity [819d] [hn]
• How to install Firefox on a Chromebook the easy way [819d] [hn]
• Oxxcu, converting CO₂ into fuels, chemicals and plastics [819d] [hn]
• 'Pokémon with Guns' Game Goes Viral, Angering Nintendo Loyalists [819d] [hn]
• Future power systems with today's weather [819d] [hn]
• Mozilla's "Platform Tilt" shows how Firefox is harmed by Apple, Microsoft [819d] [hn]
• Why is machine learning 'hard'? (2016) [819d] [hn]
• Machine Learning Is Still Too Hard for Software Engineers [819d] [hn]
• The Beirut Port Explosion Forensic Investigation [819d] [hn]
• Spotting LLMs with Binoculars: Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text [819d] [hn]
• Boeing internal whistleblower RE: MAX DOOR [819d] [hn]
• Open Infrastructure Map [819d] [hn]
• Waking up my NAS remotely using Tailscale (2023) [819d] [hn]
• The Dark Forest hypothesis is absurd [820d] [hn]
• Twoslash: Markup for generating rich type information in documentation [820d] [hn]
• Apple Dials Back Car's Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028 [820d] [hn]
• Direct Pixel-Space Megapixel Image Generation with Diffusion Models [820d] [hn]
• Show HN: Blocks by Cosmic – Web components for headless CMS [820d] [hn]
• Show HN: Atlas – Make maps like never before [820d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What are the important problems in your field? [820d] [hn]
• Bitcoin price falls 15% following launch of ETFs [820d] [hn]
• The "Mom Test": asking good questions when everyone is lying to you [820d] [hn]
• Brex Layoffs [820d] [hn]
• Finding unreachable functions with deadcode – The Go Programming Language [820d] [hn]
• Chrome experimental AI features [820d] [hn]
• From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story [820d] [hn]
• Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds [820d] [hn]
• Is offline-first not enough? Do we need "serverfree"? [820d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Any legal way against forced software upgrades and feature removal [820d] [hn]
• Wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 flew off while it was preparing to take off at ATL [820d] [hn]
• United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing [820d] [hn]
• Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear [820d] [hn]
• The "notorious" NSA Furby documents [820d] [hn]
• Amazon Fined $35M in France over 'Overly Intrusive' Surveillance [820d] [hn]
• Americans don't believe middle class can afford homes [820d] [hn]
• Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring a Lead Front End Engineer [820d] [hn]
• The Horse, the Drone and the Epic Fight for Gambling Success [820d] [hn]
• “The mother of all breaches”: 26 billion records found online [820d] [hn]
• “The mother of all breaches”: 26 billion records found online [820d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Can You Host Me in California(International Student from Pakistan)? [820d] [hn]
• FCC to End Broadband Discounts for the Poor After Republicans Undermine Program [820d] [hn]
• Samsung heavily expands DIY repair program, adds Galaxy S23 and Fold 5 in US [820d] [hn]
• DB Cooper Case Could Close Soon Thanks to Particle Evidence [820d] [hn]
• An Oklahoma Anti-Porn Bill Could Ban Any Sort of Sexualized Photograph [820d] [hn]
• Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives [820d] [hn]
• macOS Sonoma Forced Installs [820d] [hn]
• Framework Laptop 16 review: two weeks with the ultimate modular laptop [820d] [hn]
• Meta-Learning Is All You Need [820d] [hn]
• Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support and Performance [820d] [hn]
• Sex Differences in Work Preferences, Life Values, and Personal Views [820d] [hn]
• Is the Emergence of Life an Expected Phase Transition in the Evolving Universe? [820d] [hn]
• Scientists discover near-Earth asteroid hours before it exploded over Berlin [820d] [hn]
• Hanging by a Strand: Worker dissent brews at an iconic New York bookstore (2020) [820d] [hn]
• Sex, aggression, and humour: responses to unicycling [820d] [hn]
• Proposed Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA's new tallest building [820d] [hn]
• Introduction to Loro's Rich Text CRDT [820d] [hn]
• Show HN: I made a Paldeck website, all Paldeck Pals in Palworld [820d] [hn]
• Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed in England [820d] [hn]
• Boeing Whistleblower: Max 9 Production Line Has "Enormous Volume of Defects" [820d] [hn]
• Free Godot Engine for Official Switch Developers [820d] [hn]
• Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019) [820d] [hn]
• Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round [820d] [hn]
• Unbloating the Buffers [820d] [hn]
• Sonic: Towards a Sea-of-Nodes Inlining Compiler for Smalltalk in Smalltalk [video] [820d] [hn]
• The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot [820d] [hn]
• Vibrating belt that treats low bone density gets FDA approval [820d] [hn]
• Oh My Zsh [820d] [hn]
• Show HN: Built a self hosted clean status page and batteries [820d] [hn]
• The Hawai'I Seaglider Initiative – A New Approach to Travel Between the Islands [820d] [hn]
• IPv6 Excuse Bingo [820d] [hn]
• URL Scanner [820d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6 [820d] [hn]
• German Court Fines Security Researcher for Reporting Company's Vulnerabilities [820d] [hn]
• The end of "Useless Ruby sugar": On intuitions and evolutions [820d] [hn]
• Cheating scandal rocks Harvard Ivy League teaching hospital from top researchers [820d] [hn]
• The reasons medieval people slept in cupboards [820d] [hn]
• Arno A. Penzias, 90, Dies; Nobel Physicist Confirmed Big Bang Theory [820d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Best country to run a boostrapped startup from? (After Section 174) [820d] [hn]
• Internet Protocol version 10 (IPv10) (2017) [820d] [hn]
• Scientists report fundamental asymmetry between heating and cooling [820d] [hn]
• Apple Maps wrongly lists restaurant permanently closed, costing owner thousands [820d] [hn]
• Show HN: Sendenv, a CLI tool to share environment variables [820d] [hn]
• SaberVM [820d] [hn]
• Keep Your Kid's Personal Info Off the Internet [820d] [hn]
• Self-contained Linux applications with lone Lisp [820d] [hn]
• Trello leaked 15M email addresses [820d] [hn]
• ML Engineering Online Book [820d] [hn]
• FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising [820d] [hn]