The Brutalist Report

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• Llama 3 feels significantly less censored than its predecessor [720d] [hn]
• Human-level few-shot concept induction through minimax entropy learning [720d] [hn]
• 'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue [720d] [hn]
• Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature? [720d] [hn]
• Some Volumes Were Slow and We Figured Out Why [720d] [hn]
• Why there will never be another Bitcoin [720d] [hn]
• Dynamic Typography: Bringing Text to Life via Video Diffusion Prior [720d] [hn]
• Curse of Monkey Island ported to WebAssembly [720d] [hn]
• Erdos Problems Collection [720d] [hn]
• Valkey Is Rapidly Overtaking Redis [720d] [hn]
• Andrej Karpathy – Llm.c Update [720d] [hn]
• Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction [720d] [hn]
• Eight Transaction Papers by Jim Gray [720d] [hn]
• Household Size and the Housing Stock [720d] [hn]
• Bicycle Day (Psychedelic Holiday) [720d] [hn]
• Streak (YC W22) Is Hiring a Staff UI Engineer [720d] [hn]
• America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population [720d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24 [720d] [hn]
• Francisco Varela [720d] [hn]
• I hate Rust (programming language) [720d] [hn]
• Show HN: Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion [720d] [hn]
• Getting Started with Gemini 1.5 Pro and Google AI Studio [720d] [hn]
• Intel's 14A Magic Bullet: Directed Self-Assembly (DSA) [720d] [hn]
• Android features I'm envy of as an iPhone user [720d] [hn]
• Ask questions about Git repositories from a web UI [720d] [hn]
• Kia's $15,000 EV2 caught in the wild as affordable EV offensive kicks off [720d] [hn]
• Llama3 on Groq [720d] [hn]
• "I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial" [720d] [hn]
• GM's Futuristic '80s Digital Displays – This Man Fights to Keep Them Alive [720d] [hn]
• Why single vendor is the new proprietary [720d] [hn]
• How the Internet Became Shit [720d] [hn]
• Expect financial fallout when the fossil fuel bubble bursts [720d] [hn]
• First Impressions of Early-Access GPT-4 Fine-Tuning [720d] [hn]
• Multipath TCP for Linux [720d] [hn]
• Quill – Your powerful rich text editor [720d] [hn]
• Does light itself have an infinite lifetime? [720d] [hn]
• Paces (YC S22, Climate and AI) Is Hiring Engineers in NYC [720d] [hn]
• Mayakovsky in Cleveland (2023) [720d] [hn]
• Measuring the Mobile Body [720d] [hn]
• Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011) [720d] [hn]
• Epigenetic age oscillates during the day [720d] [hn]
• IBM and the Holocaust [720d] [hn]
• Microsoft's VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track [720d] [hn]
• Meta.ai Oh My [720d] [hn]
• The Curse of Monkey Island [720d] [hn]
• Porting 8-bit Sonic 2 to the TI-84 CE [720d] [hn]
• Llama 3 70B tied with GPT-4 for first place on LMSYS chatbot arena leaderboard [720d] [hn]
• JEP draft: Exception handling in switch [720d] [hn]
• Read Google's memo warning employees to 'think again' [720d] [hn]
• Robotic arms that assemble panels at solar farms [720d] [hn]
• Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) [720d] [hn]
• Intel unveils largest-ever AI 'neuromorphic computer' mimicking the human brain [720d] [hn]
• Why are there so many beetle species? [721d] [hn]
• Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal [721d] [hn]
• TSMC to charge premium for making chips outside of Taiwan, including its US fabs [721d] [hn]
• Binary Greedy Voxel Meshing Algorithm [721d] [hn]
• Presence and collection of DNA from air and air conditioner units [721d] [hn]
• Add Depth of Field to Screenshots [721d] [hn]
• 3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup [721d] [hn]
• When MIT and Quaker Oats conducted experiments on unsuspecting young boys [721d] [hn]
• DuckDuckGo AI Chat [721d] [hn]
• Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials [721d] [hn]
• Tesla ordered to recall almost 4k Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator [721d] [hn]
• Ask HN: High quality Python scripts or small libraries to learn from [721d] [hn]
• Google CEO: Stop bringing politics to work [721d] [hn]
• Chariot (YC S22) – Stripe/Visa for Nonprofits – Is Hiring a Senior Back End Eng [721d] [hn]
• Londoners see what a scientist looks like up close in 50 photographs [721d] [hn]
• Tesla Recalls All Cybertrucks for Faulty Accelerator Pedals [721d] [hn]
• Tips on how to structure your home directory (2023) [721d] [hn]
• The Basics of Legibility: A Short Guide for Non-Typographers [721d] [hn]
• Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems – Update on April 18 [721d] [hn]
• C-Macs – a pure C macOS application [721d] [hn]
• Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on orders from Beijing [721d] [hn]
• What Happens When Hyperscalers and Clouds Buy Most Servers and Storage? [721d] [hn]
• Developing Rapidly with Generative AI [721d] [hn]
• Microsoft: Don't Use Iperf3 on Windows [721d] [hn]
• Introduce BPF Trampoline (2019) [721d] [hn]
• RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) Sleuthing with the TinySA (2021) [721d] [hn]
• Tesla Cybertruck No Match for Car Wash [721d] [hn]
• Llama 3 8B is almost as good as Wizard 2 8x22B [721d] [hn]
• What a difference four years makes [721d] [hn]
• Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions [721d] [hn]
• Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results for Linux Gaming [721d] [hn]
• New Mexico: Psychologists to dress up as wizards when providing expert testimony [721d] [hn]
• Show HN: Shepherd 3.0 – Like wandering the aisles of your favorite bookstore [721d] [hn]
• Routine (YC W21) Is Hiring OCaml Software Engineers: On Site (Paris) or Remote [721d] [hn]
• Z80 Product Line Z84C00 End of Life / Last Time Buy [pdf] [721d] [hn]
• Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research (2016) [721d] [hn]
• Supabase Storage: now supports the S3 protocol [721d] [hn]
• Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds [721d] [hn]
• VoRS: Vo(IP) Simple Alternative to Mumble [721d] [hn]
• How Amazon built an unrivalled EV charging network in just two years [721d] [hn]
• Features macOS should copy from Linux [721d] [hn]
• Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis' [721d] [hn]
• Taylor Swift just broke Spotify [721d] [hn]
• Scale of the Universe [721d] [hn]
• Finetune Llama-3 2x faster in a Colab notebook [721d] [hn]
• Tesla discloses it spent $200k advertising on X [721d] [hn]
• I Used Netscape Composer in 2024 [721d] [hn]
• O1 Visa Hacks for Founders [721d] [hn]