The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet [430d] [hn]
DOJ asks for judgement requiring Google to divest Chrome [pdf] [430d] [hn]
Why do I find Rust inadequate for text compression codecs? [430d] [hn]
How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? [430d] [hn]
AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement [430d] [hn]
Measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico now 208 cases, 2 deaths [430d] [hn]
We found a DOGE guy at NASA because his Google Calendar was public [431d] [hn]
Musk/DOGE efforts to sell off civil rights historical site [431d] [hn]
Letta: Letta is a framework for creating LLM services with memory [431d] [hn]
Monotype and Phototypesetting (2000) [pdf] [431d] [hn]
From Prompt to Adventures:Creating Games with LLMs and Restate Durable Functions [431d] [hn]
Virtual Punch Card Creator [431d] [hn]
ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Rust Database Engineer [431d] [hn]
Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere [431d] [hn]
'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability [431d] [hn]
Deriving Muon [431d] [hn]
No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard [431d] [hn]
The Take It Down Act isn't a law, it's a weapon [431d] [hn]
Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle [431d] [hn]
Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder – and that of my colleague [431d] [hn]
Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk [431d] [hn]
Great software design looks underwhelming [431d] [hn]
Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener [431d] [hn]
Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video] [431d] [hn]
Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools [431d] [hn]
Two weak spots in Big Tech economics [431d] [hn]
Impact of 8 lifestyle factors on mortality and life expectancy among US veterans [431d] [hn]
Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI [431d] [hn]
Extracting time series features: a powerful method from a obscure paper [pdf] [431d] [hn]
WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely [431d] [hn]
How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars [431d] [hn]
First Porn, Now Skin Cream? 'Age Verification' Bills Are Out of Control [431d] [hn]
Cliff Asness: The New 'Crypto Fort Knox' Is as Dumb as It Sounds [431d] [hn]
AMD YOLO [431d] [hn]
Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon [431d] [hn]
What if America turned off Britain's weapons? [431d] [hn]
Show HN: A big tech dev experience for an open source CMS [431d] [hn]
Introducing command And commandfor In HTML [431d] [hn]
Optimistic Locking in B-Trees [431d] [hn]
Building your sense of what's important at a tech company [431d] [hn]
Reflection – AlphaGo / Gemini team building superintelligent coding agents [431d] [hn]
Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment [431d] [hn]
Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"? [431d] [hn]
Kraftful (YC S19) is hiring a founding eng to support our hockey-stick growth [431d] [hn]
Show HN: IEMidi – Cross-platform MIDI map editor for arbitrary controllers [431d] [hn]
Why reading Martha C Nussbaum's philosophy is pure pleasure [431d] [hn]
Kitchen foil and Algerian markets: When your phone is stolen in London [431d] [hn]
Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it [431d] [hn]
Female brewers are back – 500 years since their heyday [431d] [hn]
Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market [431d] [hn]
Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology [431d] [hn]
Woman's DNA discovered in 20k year old deer-tooth pendant [431d] [hn]
A collection of website seizure banners created by government agencies [431d] [hn]
When Europe needed it most, the Ariane 6 rocket delivered [431d] [hn]
The Official Aztec C Online Museum [431d] [hn]
Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring a Chief of Staff [431d] [hn]