The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan [1110d] [hn]
• File Locks on Linux [1110d] [hn]
• Electrical Characteristics of Telephone Lines (2023) [1110d] [hn]
• The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* [1110d] [hn]
• The last days of a 350-year-old family farm [1110d] [hn]
• Segment anything and Stable Diffusion showcase app [1110d] [hn]
• Twenty Years of Blogging [1110d] [hn]
• Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report [1110d] [hn]
• Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines [1110d] [hn]
• Spotify-Qt [1110d] [hn]
• Aptible (YC S14) Is Hiring: Security Engineer and Head of Product [1110d] [hn]
• The World’s Oldest Ultramarathon Runner Is Racing Against Death [1110d] [hn]
• Seeing racial avoidance on New York City streets [1110d] [hn]
• Framework shipping new laptops, Power Savings for Video Output expansion cards [1110d] [hn]
• Linux kernel use-after-free in Netfilter, local privilege escalation [1110d] [hn]
• In Erlang/OTP 27, +0.0 will no longer be equal to -0.0 [1110d] [hn]
• The pain points of teaching computer science [1110d] [hn]
• Show HN: Card game where players write their own cards that get parsed into code [1110d] [hn]
• Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program [1110d] [hn]
• Chaos Communication Camp 2023 – Call for Participation [1110d] [hn]
• Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive? [1110d] [hn]
• Show HN: Engineering Book Club [1110d] [hn]
• Defending against Bluetooth tracker abuse: it’s complicated [1110d] [hn]
• Google receives patent for attention-based sequence transduction neural networks [1110d] [hn]
• Language models can explain neurons in language models [1110d] [hn]
• Companies hide negative news through unrelated press releases with SEC filings [1110d] [hn]
• Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. We mapped every vacancy [1110d] [hn]
• Ten Thousand Ways to Use Chopsticks [1110d] [hn]
• Curious case of Martian traffic in Linux [1110d] [hn]
• Polya Urn Simulation [1110d] [hn]
• Web Scraping on Autopilot with GPT-4 [1110d] [hn]
• What happens when half of the IPFS network is down? [1110d] [hn]
• Dose-response relationships of LSD-induced subjective experiences in humans [1110d] [hn]
• Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juices and soft drinks [1110d] [hn]
• This Exoplanet’s Weird Orbit Defies the Rules of Physics [1110d] [hn]
• Do the weirdest thing that feels right [1110d] [hn]
• The Modern World Is Aging Your Brain [1110d] [hn]
• Many people living in the 'Diabetes Belt' are plagued with medical debt [1110d] [hn]
• Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data [1110d] [hn]
• Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake [1110d] [hn]
• Ex-Apple VP Mike Abbott Joins General Motors as Exec Vice President, Software [1110d] [hn]
• US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings [1110d] [hn]
• T Cells Can Activate Themselves to Fight Tumors [1110d] [hn]
• Show HN: JavaFiddle – Compile, Run and Share Java code fully client side [1110d] [hn]
• Bluesky Frustrations [1110d] [hn]
• Federal Zoning Bill Would Preempt Local Parking Mandates [1110d] [hn]
• Second massive “blue hole” found, 270 metres deep [1110d] [hn]
• James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Fomalhaut's Disk in Unprecedented Detail [1110d] [hn]
• APA – Health advisory on social media use in adolescence [1110d] [hn]
• The seven specification ur-languages [1110d] [hn]
• Ask HN: I won't have Internet access for months, How could I use my time? [1110d] [hn]
• Scientists Use GPT AI to Passively Read People's Thoughts in Breakthrough [1110d] [hn]
• Good conversations have lots of doorknobs [1110d] [hn]
• Total Crap, the First Magazine Written by AI [1110d] [hn]
• Logic Pro for iPad [1110d] [hn]
• GitHub switches to Rust based Blackbird code search [1110d] [hn]
• Google promised to delete sensitive data. It logged my abortion clinic visit [1110d] [hn]
• Apple Brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad [1110d] [hn]
• Google Translate “Get well [Swedish firstname]” translates to “fuck you” [1110d] [hn]
• CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers [1110d] [hn]
• Tony Hsieh and the Emptiness of the Tech-Mogul Myth [1110d] [hn]