The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• EcoHabit: An Open Source Project for Environmental Awareness (Earth Day Special) [1128d] [hn]
• SpaceX didn’t want to blow up its launchpad. It may have done just that [1128d] [hn]
• US 5-year credit default swaps rise to highest since 2011 [1128d] [hn]
• Show HN: TxtNet Browser – Browse the Web over SMS, No Wi-Fi/Mobile Data Needed [1129d] [hn]
• Show HN: Automatic Prompt Optimizer for LLMs [1129d] [hn]
• NewsNotFound: An open-source, unbiased news company [1129d] [hn]
• Windows on Btrfs [1129d] [hn]
• Generally Intelligent (YC S17) Is Hiring Infrastructure Engineer [1129d] [hn]
• The Magic Kingdom: Florida’s Corkscrew Swamp [1129d] [hn]
• PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it? [1129d] [hn]
• ‘I’ve Never Hired a Writer Better Than ChatGPT’: How AI Is Upending Freelancing [1129d] [hn]
• Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads [1129d] [hn]
• Ban on Tenure for New Faculty Hires Passes Texas Senate [1129d] [hn]
• What Happens When You Kill Your King [1129d] [hn]
• Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose [1129d] [hn]
• Will Boiling Water Ruin Green Tea? [1129d] [hn]
• The “invented persona” behind the GISAID viral sequence database [1129d] [hn]
• How to Become a “Designer Who Codes” [1129d] [hn]
• Looplets: A Language for Structured Coiteration [1129d] [hn]
• Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes [1129d] [hn]
• Show HN: Stadai – Your virtual study buddy powered by ChatGPT [1129d] [hn]
• Content and controversy in generative AI models [1129d] [hn]
• Fire Mark Zuckerberg [1129d] [hn]
• GitHub Copilot emits GPL code [1129d] [hn]
• 'Devastating' melt of Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets found [1129d] [hn]
• Datomic Implicit Partitions [1129d] [hn]
• The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements [1129d] [hn]
• xPrize Wildfire – $11M Prize Competition [1129d] [hn]
• Lago(YC): open-source Usage Based Billing – is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer [1129d] [hn]
• The coming war on end-to-end encryption [1129d] [hn]
• New technology could blow away GPT-4 and everything like it [1129d] [hn]
• Hetzner’s New AX102 Dedicated Server with AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D [1129d] [hn]
• Scaling Databases at Activision [pdf] [1129d] [hn]
• Lyft to Cut at Least 1,200 Jobs in New Round of Layoffs to Reduce Costs [1129d] [hn]
• IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal Linux almost-mainframes [1129d] [hn]
• The Earn IT Bill Is Back, Seeking to Scan Our Messages and Photos [1129d] [hn]
• Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges [1129d] [hn]
• Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst [1129d] [hn]
• Four-Byte Burger [video] [1129d] [hn]
• The weird world of Windows file paths [1129d] [hn]
• Show HN: Chrome extension to hide AI/GPT related submissions from HN [1129d] [hn]
• The Air Force has loosened its restrictions on body fat for new recruits [1129d] [hn]
• Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See [1129d] [hn]
• Mass Editing Memory in a Transformer [1129d] [hn]
• Dark Patterns: 10 Examples of Manipulative Consent Requests [1129d] [hn]
• W3C invites applications to be our next CEO [1129d] [hn]
• Google Colab has started banning Stable Diffusion WebUI users [1129d] [hn]
• Bard coding update with Colab exporting [1129d] [hn]
• Proliferation of AI weapons among non-state actors could be impossible to stop [1129d] [hn]
• AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students [1129d] [hn]
• US to start training Ukrainian troops on Abrams tanks within weeks [1129d] [hn]
• OpenBSD: Viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver, added to -current [1129d] [hn]
• Man battling Google wins $500K for search result links calling him a pedophile [1129d] [hn]
• Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023? [1129d] [hn]
• Atari 800XL Remake [1129d] [hn]
• Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking [1129d] [hn]