The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Starbucks is raising prices almost every month now [914d] [hn]
• ReALM: Reference Resolution as Language Modeling [914d] [hn]
• Raising the minimum wage? Study using US tax data finds more gain than pain [914d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How to choose the desktop platform and tech for desktop app development? [914d] [hn]
• Show HN: Generate admin apps without writing a single line of code [914d] [hn]
• Show HN: A Product Hunt Alternative for Indie Makers [914d] [hn]
• A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Mathematics [914d] [hn]
• How the XZ Backdoor Works [914d] [hn]
• Discovering Devin, Devika, and OpenDevin [914d] [hn]
• Science Fiction and the Death of the Sun [914d] [hn]
• Roe AI (YC W24) Is Hiring [914d] [hn]
• You Don't Feel Jet-Lagged When You Run a Fever (2016) [914d] [hn]
• OSQI [915d] [hn]
• A Brazilian special-forces unit fighting to save the Amazon [915d] [hn]
• Male archetypes in fairy tales [915d] [hn]
• Anonymous public voicemail inbox [915d] [hn]
• Stop Killing Games [915d] [hn]
• Hunterbrook Media Launch [915d] [hn]
• A rudimentary simulation of the three-body problem [915d] [hn]
• GPT Chats with T-Mobile Support to get discounts [915d] [hn]
• Botswana threatens to deport 20k elephants to Germany [915d] [hn]
• ComfyUI workflows from prototype to production [915d] [hn]
• Calling Haskell from Swift [915d] [hn]
• Study uses wearables to show that physical activity lengthens REM latency [915d] [hn]
• How to stream PostgreSQL CDC to Kafka and use Propel to get an instant API [915d] [hn]
• Stop using the Internet Archive as the sole host for preservation projects [915d] [hn]
• Artificio de Juanelo [915d] [hn]
• Konrad Zuse [915d] [hn]
• Konrad Zuse (1994) [915d] [hn]
• Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores [915d] [hn]
• Study: AI writing, illustration emits hundreds of times less carbon than humans [915d] [hn]
• The secret world of competitive bass fishing cheaters (2014) [915d] [hn]
• Wonderful $25/HR opportunity -or- Canada LMIA abuse and immigration fraud [915d] [hn]
• The customer has nuclear weapons [915d] [hn]
• "30.1K BTC of Silk Road funds controlled by US gov is on the move " [915d] [hn]
• Everything I Know About SSDs (2019) [915d] [hn]
• CityGaussian: Real-Time High-Quality Large-Scale Scene Rendering with Gaussians [915d] [hn]
• Population tipping point could arrive by 2030 [915d] [hn]
• 3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform graphics engine [915d] [hn]
• AltStore to offer iPhone apps backed by Patreon in the EU [915d] [hn]
• Princeton group open sources "SWE-agent", with 12.3% fix rate for GitHub issues [915d] [hn]
• Developing a Modern Full-Stack Application: Choosing the Right Tech Stack [915d] [hn]
• xz has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems [915d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Creo (YC W24) – Build Internal Tools with React/NextJS [915d] [hn]
• Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet [915d] [hn]
• Recreating a 90s Screen Saver (Flying Toasters) for the Vision Pro [915d] [hn]
• Snottite [915d] [hn]
• David A. Wheeler – Countering Trusting Trust via Diverse Double-Compiling (2009) [915d] [hn]
• Apple AI researcher boast on-device model that 'substantially outperforms' GPT-4 [915d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is a masters in ML worth it? [915d] [hn]
• Building a Compiler in 25 Days [video] [915d] [hn]
• Tesla releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results [915d] [hn]
• South Africa aims to be global supplier of HTR fuel [915d] [hn]
• Algojobs.io: simple tech-focused job board [915d] [hn]
• Python Workers [915d] [hn]
• DECT NR+: A technical dive into non-cellular 5G [915d] [hn]
• Trusting Trust: Ken Thompson on supply chain security (1984) [915d] [hn]
• Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders [915d] [hn]
• Python Cloudflare Workers [915d] [hn]
• Is MEV Possible on Bitcoin? [915d] [hn]
• Living human brain images of "unrivaled clarity" from new 11.7 teslas MRI [915d] [hn]
• Hunting up-to-date Wikidata datasets [915d] [hn]
• The end of Google Podcasts is in June if you're not in the US [915d] [hn]
• Emerge (YC W21) is hiring senior engineers to automate dead code deletion [915d] [hn]
• Redis' license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about [915d] [hn]
• GNU Make Standard Library v1.2.2 released [915d] [hn]
• The Disarray Inside Boeing's 737 Factory Before the Door Plug Blowout [915d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is AngelList Legit? [915d] [hn]
• Debian Git Monorepo [915d] [hn]
• Los Alamos Chess [915d] [hn]
• The xz attack shell script [915d] [hn]
• MIT Claims They've Figured Out How to Make Fusion Energy Practical [915d] [hn]
• Show HN: Docfd: TUI multiline fuzzy document finder [915d] [hn]
• XZ: Repo maintainer Lasse Collin responding on LKML [915d] [hn]
• KraftCloud [915d] [hn]
• Copilot pane as annoying as Clippy may pop up in Windows 11 [915d] [hn]
• Debugging (2003) [915d] [hn]
• What Would Society Look Like If Extreme Wealth Were Impossible? [915d] [hn]
• You won't find a technical co-founder [915d] [hn]
• Microchess for the Kim-1 (2006) [915d] [hn]
• Myscaledb: Open-source SQL vector database to build AI apps using SQL [915d] [hn]
• Timeline of the xz open source attack [915d] [hn]
• Bradford pear trees banned in few states – More are looking to eradicate them [915d] [hn]
• Receive push notifications from your rice cooker [915d] [hn]
• Low Cost Robot Arm [915d] [hn]
• Lumos: Learning Agents with Unified Data, Modular Design, and Open-Source LLMs [915d] [hn]
• Banning Open Weight Models Would Be a Disaster [915d] [hn]
• From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs [915d] [hn]
• Building GCC 1.27 (first GCC with x86 support) (2019) [915d] [hn]
• A16Z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing [915d] [hn]
• Vision Transformers Are Overrated [915d] [hn]
• A path out of bloat: A Linux built for VMs [915d] [hn]