The Brutalist Report

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• Anatomy of a Book Cancellation [1202d] [hn]
• Dragon’s Lair Overhaul Black Edition (1/16th scale) [1202d] [hn]
• Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid [1202d] [hn]
• British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs (2020) [1202d] [hn]
• Scientists document two separate reservoirs of latent HIV in patients [1202d] [hn]
• My Salary History [1202d] [hn]
• Image Compression with Singular Value Decomposition [1202d] [hn]
• Kraken to end on-chain staking services for U.S. clients [1202d] [hn]
• Crypto exchange Kraken to shut staking service, pay $30M fine in SEC settlement [1202d] [hn]
• Cause of Fatal 2021 Tesla Wreck Was “Excessive Speed” and “Alcohol Intoxication” [1202d] [hn]
• Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks [1202d] [hn]
• Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models [1202d] [hn]
• Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries [video] [1202d] [hn]
• Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos [1202d] [hn]
• Localizing Unity games as an indie dev [1202d] [hn]
• AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals [1202d] [hn]
• Credit Suisse confirms 50% bonus cut, Zero for Exec, amid terrible results [1202d] [hn]
• We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website [1202d] [hn]
• Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii [1202d] [hn]
• Most FOSDEM 2023 videos have been uploaded [1202d] [hn]
• UK: Fast charging EVs more expensive than filling petrol [1202d] [hn]
• The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment [1202d] [hn]
• Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra [1202d] [hn]
• Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play [1202d] [hn]
• Progressively Enhanced Turbo Native Apps in the App Store [1202d] [hn]
• Sabre/dav: open-source CardDAV, CalDAV and WebDAV server [1202d] [hn]
• GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices [1202d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is “learn to code” now “learn to drive a big rig”? [1202d] [hn]
• The UK's Online Safety Bill: An Attack on Encryption [1202d] [hn]
• There Are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All (2014) [1202d] [hn]
• Perovskite-Based Thermochromic Windows Reduce Load and CO2 Emission in Buildings [1202d] [hn]
• GitHub to Layoff 10% [1202d] [hn]
• Insulin is way too expensive. California has a solution: Make its own [1202d] [hn]
• GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy [1202d] [hn]
• Comcast gave false map data to FCC–and didn’t admit it until Ars got involved [1202d] [hn]
• Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking [1202d] [hn]
• We lost $300k and learned everything about coffee delivery [1202d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired? [1202d] [hn]
• The Future of Thunderbird [1202d] [hn]
• ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web [1202d] [hn]
• My grandmother died at home, just as she wanted. It cost $145,000 [1202d] [hn]
• Dbt to acquire Transform to build out its semantic layer [1202d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative [1202d] [hn]
• Show HN: I Made a Todo List for Developer Power Users [video] [1202d] [hn]
• My network home setup – v4.0 [1202d] [hn]
• GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%” [1202d] [hn]
• What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record [1202d] [hn]
• Peter Hotez on the increase of anti-science aggression on social media [1202d] [hn]
• Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff [1202d] [hn]
• Lion burger? Meet the cell cultured startup working in exotic meats [1202d] [hn]
• The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who – The Motherlode of Props [1202d] [hn]
• How ‘Diversity’ Policing Fails Science [1202d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Are we sure LLMs are that useful in a web search application? [1202d] [hn]
• RustDesk – Free and open source alternative to TeamViewer - Cross-Platform [1202d] [hn]
• Generally Intelligent (YC S17) Is Hiring Engineering Managers [1202d] [hn]