The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012) [1311d] [hn]
• US Navy Radio Communications – 1950s and 1960s [1311d] [hn]
• Santa Susana Field Lab (California) suffered a partial nuclear meltdown (1959) [1311d] [hn]
• An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid [1311d] [hn]
• Local Simulation Feature to be Removed From All Autodesk Fusion 360 Versions [1311d] [hn]
• Gitlab CEO Shadow Program [1311d] [hn]
• Suckless.org – software that sucks less [1311d] [hn]
• Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included [1311d] [hn]
• Fusion Turns Up the Heat [1311d] [hn]
• Objective-S: A general purpose programming language [1311d] [hn]
• Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C [1311d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why? [1311d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How about a modern phone that actually lasts? [1311d] [hn]
• Crop Report: USA spring wheat production up over 50%, record high for soybeans [1311d] [hn]
• Harvard Professor on Quest for Possible Alien Tech Crashed in the Pacific Ocean [1311d] [hn]
• NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps (2012) [1311d] [hn]
• Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04 [1311d] [hn]
• Scientists Protest Censorship in Cosmology [1311d] [hn]
• Code Free or Die(): Why Hackers Are So Often Libertarians (2008) [1311d] [hn]
• New Intel chips won't play Blu-ray disks due to SGX deprecation [1311d] [hn]
• France risks winter blackouts as nuclear-power generation stalls [1311d] [hn]
• The Calvine UFO photograph – revealed [1311d] [hn]
• Show HN: List of Menu Items for all Food stores in USA (zipcode wise) [1311d] [hn]
• Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’ [1311d] [hn]
• VLC media player banned in India [1311d] [hn]
• Focus Time Saved Me from Burnout [1311d] [hn]
• Circling the wagons and the tendency towards tribalism in academia [1311d] [hn]
• The Supreme Korean court says that scraping publicly available data is legal [1311d] [hn]
• BART charges $6.20 to not ride BART [1311d] [hn]
• Cancer in the Cold [1311d] [hn]
• Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part III: On the Move [1311d] [hn]
• Excel is pretty dang cool [1311d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why are distributed systems so polarizing? [1311d] [hn]
• Supabase Series B [1311d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why am I always stuck working on legacy software [1311d] [hn]
• Constructive and obsessive criticism in science [1311d] [hn]
• Kubernetes Statefulsets Are Broken [1311d] [hn]
• Starlink Successfully Hacked Using $25 Modchip [1311d] [hn]
• BlackRock Bitcoin private trust – Institutional – BlackRock [1311d] [hn]
• The One-Eyed African Queen Who Defeated the Roman Empire [1311d] [hn]
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles [1311d] [hn]
• One more clue to the Moon’s origin [1311d] [hn]
• Asdf Performance [1311d] [hn]
• Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer [1311d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages [1311d] [hn]
• PyPI Package 'Secretslib' Drops Fileless Linux Malware to Mine Monero [1311d] [hn]
• A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment [1311d] [hn]
• The Economic Inefficiency of Gift Giving: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents [1311d] [hn]
• Is it classist to be against fast fashion? [1311d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US Latino Focus [1311d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who is using C++ as the main language for new project? [1311d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok [1311d] [hn]
• FOSS tool to enforce privacy and security best-practices on Windows and macOS [1311d] [hn]
• GHC 9.4.1 is now available [1311d] [hn]
• Byte Magazine Volume 12 Number 09: Prolog and 386 Hardware Software (1987) [1311d] [hn]
• Man overcharged 20 rupees for India train ticket wins 22-year legal battle [1311d] [hn]
• Arctic melting four times faster than rest of the planet, study says [1311d] [hn]
• Best Practices for Form Design (2008) [pdf] [1311d] [hn]
• Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash [1311d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How do you work with Dependabot? [1311d] [hn]
• There is a shortage of Dijon mustard in France [1311d] [hn]
• Google LLC to pay $60M for misleading representations in Australia [1311d] [hn]
• Models are sucking the fun out of fun [1311d] [hn]
• Calling Git a blockchain to rebrand bad tech [1311d] [hn]
• Don't Use DuckDuckGo [1311d] [hn]
• The first dynamic analysis framework for CPU microcode [1311d] [hn]
• SQLite: Wal2 Mode Notes [1311d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Hobbies/Skills which can be picked in 30s and compete at world level? [1311d] [hn]
• I Insist People Use the Forums and Issue Trackers [1311d] [hn]
• JiraCLI [1311d] [hn]
• TruffleC: A C implementation on top of JVM [1311d] [hn]
• Reverse-Engineering Insect Brains to Make Robots [1311d] [hn]
• Locking down your GitHub-hosted Domains [1311d] [hn]
• Overrun by influencers, historic sites are banning TikTok creators in Nepal [1311d] [hn]
• Glutamate buildup may be key factor in mental exhaustion [1311d] [hn]
• Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware [1311d] [hn]
• Unity signs “multi-million dollar” contract to help U.S. government with defense [1311d] [hn]
• Snakisms [1311d] [hn]
• Autonomous Reputation System [1311d] [hn]
• Show HN: Markdown as Web Page/Site [1312d] [hn]
• Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go [1312d] [hn]
• Goat Rental – Hire Goats [1312d] [hn]
• Nanostructured Fibers Can Impersonate Human Muscles [1312d] [hn]
• Periodex – Elegant Periodic Table (158 kb page) [1312d] [hn]
• My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google [1312d] [hn]
• System.css – A design system for building retro Apple interfaces [1312d] [hn]