The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• 6502 – Guideline to Reverse Engineering (how to read die shots) [pdf] [788d] [hn]
• Block* and AgentFormer – Playing with blocks and Transformers (yay) [788d] [hn]
• The Essence of Compiling with Continuations (1993) [pdf] [788d] [hn]
• Haystack DB – 10x faster than FAISS with binary embeddings by default [788d] [hn]
• Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre [788d] [hn]
• Personal Computing Paves the Way for Personal Library Science [788d] [hn]
• DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game [788d] [hn]
• Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act [788d] [hn]
• Building MS-DOS 4.00 on FreeDOS [video] [788d] [hn]
• Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to eliminate E2E UI tests [788d] [hn]
• My Homemade Metal Lathe Project [788d] [hn]
• Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B [788d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility [788d] [hn]
• Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands [788d] [hn]
• 'Catastrophic grid failure' a possibility for Texas solar/wind/battery storage [788d] [hn]
• Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules [788d] [hn]
• Google surpasses $2T market cap [788d] [hn]
• The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with large cars [788d] [hn]
• OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computers [788d] [hn]
• A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp [788d] [hn]
• Williams-Sonoma fined $3.18M for falsely labeling products 'Made in USA' [789d] [hn]
• The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific paper [789d] [hn]
• Bloomberg: "Strong possibility" of M4 debuting on May 7 with new iPad Pro [789d] [hn]
• Trial of the effects of kefir on behaviour, sleep and the microbiome in ADHD [789d] [hn]
• Did we lose our way in making efficient software? – ~30 MB doc file vs. browser [789d] [hn]
• Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine [789d] [hn]
• Tales from an Attic [789d] [hn]
• The unstallable plane that stalled [789d] [hn]
• LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large Models [789d] [hn]
• Should the stock market never close? [789d] [hn]
• Show HN: Docker-phobia: Analyze Docker image size with a treemap [789d] [hn]
• George Stephenson [789d] [hn]
• Reentry – An Orbital Simulator [789d] [hn]
• Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree [789d] [hn]