The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• QBasic.net [1319d] [hn]
• Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died [1319d] [hn]
• Coral makes comeback on Great Barrier Reef [1319d] [hn]
• Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google [1319d] [hn]
• Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light [1319d] [hn]
• Software engineering books to read and reread [1319d] [hn]
• Cumulative loneliness and subsequent memory function&rate of decline 1996-2016 [1319d] [hn]
• Using grape harvest dates to estimate summer temperature over 650 years [1319d] [hn]
• Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack [1319d] [hn]
• How to Use an iPad as a Secure Calling and Messaging Device (Updated 2022) [1319d] [hn]
• Implementing a “mini-LaTeX” in ~2000 lines of code [1319d] [hn]
• Excel Never Dies [1319d] [hn]
• Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps [1319d] [hn]
• Strict-serializability, but at what cost, for what purpose? [1319d] [hn]
• Anime retailer Right Stuf has been acquired by Sony/Aniplex [1319d] [hn]
• Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? [1319d] [hn]
• Connect-Web: It's time for Protobuf/gRPC to be your first choice in the browser [1319d] [hn]
• TaxProper (YC S19) Is Hiring [1319d] [hn]
• Old jokes [1319d] [hn]
• The SQL query engine Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) recaps a decade of innovation [1319d] [hn]
• The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites [1319d] [hn]
• Solein – Protein out of thin air [1319d] [hn]
• Infrastructure as Code(IaC) with Examples [1319d] [hn]
• Visa suspends card payments for ad purchases on Pornhub and MindGeek [1319d] [hn]
• Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs [1319d] [hn]
• Redis Source Walkthrough: How the ECHO command is implemented [1319d] [hn]
• NAFNet: Nonlinear Activation Free Network for Image Restoration [1319d] [hn]
• Near Real-Time Ingestion for Trino [1319d] [hn]
• Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank [1319d] [hn]
• The MGR Window System [1319d] [hn]
• Gaudi: A Neural Architect for Immersive 3D Scene Generation [1319d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Amazon shopping is racing to the bottom of quality [1319d] [hn]
• OmniEdge – an Open source P2P layer 2 VPN infrastructure based on n2n protocol [1320d] [hn]
• C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete' [1320d] [hn]
• LocalStack and AWS Parity Explained [1320d] [hn]
• Art of README [1320d] [hn]
• Black holes finally proven mathematically stable [1320d] [hn]
• Psychological Benefits of Believing in Conspiracy Theories [1320d] [hn]
• Zentail (YC S12) Is Hiring a CTO [1320d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Any solo game developers here? [1320d] [hn]
• How Forza's Drivatar Works (2021) [1320d] [hn]
• How do you break into a career in machine learning? [1320d] [hn]
• Show HN: Killer Crossword - A crossword puzzle variation with no clues [1320d] [hn]
• Sex Redefined (2015) [1320d] [hn]
• Tower 9 for Mac is here [1320d] [hn]
• Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understanding their relationships? [1320d] [hn]
• Tapping into the million-year energy source below our feet [1320d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Any great books about technical writing? [1320d] [hn]
• Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software [1320d] [hn]
• Geometric Analysis Reveals How Birds Mastered Flight [1320d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How to Be Independent as a Developer? [1320d] [hn]
• One Man’s Lonely Fight To Ban Private Jets [1320d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Would you use an email service that can only be reset in person? [1320d] [hn]
• Google declined to review an extension because they can’t find a Kindle to test [1320d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What HN post made you money? [1320d] [hn]
• Apple is building a demand-side platform [1320d] [hn]
• It Is Time to Stop Teaching Frequentism to Non-Statisticians (2012) [1320d] [hn]
• A group of activists got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital (2019) [1320d] [hn]
• Hyundai rolls out 27 heavy-duty hydrogen trucks in Germany [1320d] [hn]
• Bank of England warns the UK will fall into recession this year [1320d] [hn]
• We Need to Study Nothing [1320d] [hn]
• Defying the Supreme Court [1320d] [hn]
• No place for privacy in India, government withdraws Personal Data Protection B [1320d] [hn]
• Researchers discover major roadblock in alleviating network congestion [1320d] [hn]
• Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photos alt text [1320d] [hn]
• Super Dimension Fortress [1320d] [hn]
• OpenStax: Free and Flexible Textbooks and Resources [1320d] [hn]
• Ask HN: ZFS native encryption vs LUKS [1320d] [hn]
• OmnesViae: Roman Routeplanner [1320d] [hn]
• I Am a Spammer. AMA (2009) [1320d] [hn]
• Silent SHA256 based proof-of-work(PoW) captcha solution [1320d] [hn]
• The Feynman Technique [1320d] [hn]
• How prestige outlets like The Guardian get away with copypasta [1320d] [hn]
• Generally Intelligent (YC S17) Is Hiring Machine Learning Engineers [1320d] [hn]
• Why scientists are turning to Rust [1320d] [hn]
• Spain bans setting the AC below 27 degrees Celsius [1320d] [hn]
• Infineon chip flaws to disrupt IONIQ 5 EV production [1320d] [hn]
• Who do we spend time with across our lifetime? [1320d] [hn]
• Botspam Apocalypse [1320d] [hn]
• Let's Encrypt has updated their Subscriber Agreement (v1.2 – v1.3) [1320d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What's up with these DoorDash dark patterns? [1320d] [hn]
• Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climatechange scenarios [1320d] [hn]
• My lab went from 4000 kg to 130 kg of waste a year [1320d] [hn]
• Copilot crash because the word “gender” [1320d] [hn]
• Netlify no longer supporting private repos on their starter plan [1320d] [hn]
• Manara (YC W21) is hiring for a senior back end engineer position [Remote] [1320d] [hn]
• Sending Spammers to Password Purgatory with MS Power Automate and CF Workers KV [1320d] [hn]