The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• What is better: a lookup table or an enum type? [21d] [hn]
• Coca Cola has an executive dedicated to McDonald's [21d] [hn]
• We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months [21d] [hn]
• SMS phishers pivot to points, taxes, fake retailers [21d] [hn]
• StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels [21d] [hn]
• State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter [21d] [hn]
• Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig [21d] [hn]
• Countdown until the AI bubble bursts [21d] [hn]
• Django 6 [21d] [hn]
• CUDA-L2: Surpassing cuBLAS Performance for Matrix Multiplication Through RL [21d] [hn]
• Plane crashed after 3D-printed part collapsed [21d] [hn]
• EU's Top Court Just Made It Impossible to Run a User-Generated Platform Legally [21d] [hn]
• Why does the Salish Sea glow in the dark? [21d] [hn]
• The RAM shortage comes for us all [21d] [hn]
• Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine? [21d] [hn]
• Hammersmith Bridge – Where did 25,000 vehicles go? [21d] [hn]
• I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years [21d] [hn]
• Crucial shutting down as Micron wants to sell RAM/SSDs to AI companies instead [21d] [hn]
• Why Are 38 Percent of Stanford Students Saying They're Disabled? [21d] [hn]
• PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners [21d] [hn]
• Converge (YC S23) is hiring a martech expert in NYC [21d] [hn]
• Multivox: Volumetric Display [21d] [hn]
• The End of the Train-Test Split [21d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing [21d] [hn]
• Autism should not be treated as a single condition [21d] [hn]
• Feynman vs. Computer [21d] [hn]
• Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame [21d] [hn]
• The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X [21d] [hn]
• Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas [21d] [hn]
• Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available [21d] [hn]
• The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old [21d] [hn]
• Microsoft faces complaint in EU over Israeli surveillance data [21d] [hn]
• Show HN: OnlyRecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later [21d] [hn]
• Show HN: I analyzed 8k near-death experiences with AI and made them listenable [21d] [hn]
• Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership [21d] [hn]
• The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back [21d] [hn]
• Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows [21d] [hn]
• RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung [21d] [hn]
• Functional Quadtrees [21d] [hn]
• Imo.im – Instant Messenger [21d] [hn]
• Japanese Four-Cylinder Engine Is So Reliable Still in Production After 25 Years [21d] [hn]
• I Ignore the Spotlight as a Staff Engineer [21d] [hn]
• 30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" [21d] [hn]
• NextJS Security Vulnerability [21d] [hn]
• Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements) [21d] [hn]
• Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK) [21d] [hn]
• Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On [21d] [hn]
• Tunnl.gg [21d] [hn]
• Unreal Tournament 2004 is back [21d] [hn]
• Programming Peaked [21d] [hn]
• Good news: JavaScript is 30yo today Sad news: its own name doesn't belong to it [21d] [hn]
• Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs [21d] [hn]
• The Mysterious Realm of JavaScriptCore (2021) [21d] [hn]
• How AI is transforming work at Anthropic [21d] [hn]
• Saturn (YC S24) Is Hiring Senior AI Engineer [21d] [hn]
• Show HN: Mirror_bridge – C++ Reflection powered Python binding generation [21d] [hn]
• Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s [21d] [hn]
• Mirror_bridge – C++ reflection for generating Python/JS/Lua bindings [21d] [hn]
• Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup) [21d] [hn]
• Russia Bans Roblox [21d] [hn]
• New homes in London were delayed by 'energy-hungry' data centres [21d] [hn]
• Euler Conjecture and CDC 6600 [21d] [hn]
• Cellebrite to Acquire Corellium [22d] [hn]
• Apex GPU: Run CUDA Apps on AMD GPUs Without Recompilation [22d] [hn]
• Why WinQuake exists and how it works [22d] [hn]
• Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta [22d] [hn]
• Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months [22d] [hn]