The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it [716d] [hn]
• Media Bias Fact Check: Hacker News [716d] [hn]
• Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page [716d] [hn]
• DARPA’s silent MHD magnetic drives for replacing naval propellers [716d] [hn]
• JobRunr: A library for background processing in Java [716d] [hn]
• Neanderthal flute: The oldest musical instrument in the world [716d] [hn]
• Tesla Model Y is now the world's best-selling car, first EV to do so [716d] [hn]
• Ethereum Ceremony – Add your randomness to prepare the way for EIP-4844 [716d] [hn]
• There May Be a Second Kuiper Belt, and New Horizons Is Headed There [716d] [hn]
• Chatbot Arena Leaderboard Updates (Week 4) [716d] [hn]
• It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track [716d] [hn]
• Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German News Site [716d] [hn]
• Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet [716d] [hn]
• OpenAI CEO raises $115M for crypto company that scans people’s eyeballs [716d] [hn]
• Hacker New with Semafor UI [716d] [hn]
• Infecting SSH Public Keys with Backdoors [716d] [hn]
• AI chip boom sends Nvidia’s stock surging after whopper of a quarter [716d] [hn]
• Automating Everything in a USB Cable Tester PCB Design [716d] [hn]
• Canary domain – use-application-dns.net [716d] [hn]
• War Is a Racket (1935) [716d] [hn]
• Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google [716d] [hn]
• YouTube Is Killing Stories [716d] [hn]
• Twitter launches new Pro tier for $5000/month [716d] [hn]
• The US Might Be Only AA+ [716d] [hn]
• Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers [716d] [hn]
• New Playground: Memory Spy [716d] [hn]
• Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode [716d] [hn]
• Gorilla: LLM Connected with APIs [716d] [hn]
• Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podcast (with code) [716d] [hn]
• Winnie-the-Pooh book teaches Texas kids to ‘run, hide, fight’ in a shooting [716d] [hn]
• Kissinger's killing fields [716d] [hn]
• PostgresML raises $4.7M to launch serverless AI app databases based on Postgres [716d] [hn]
• ChatGPT plugins now support Postgres and Supabase [716d] [hn]
• AI Canon [716d] [hn]
• Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights [716d] [hn]
• New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI [716d] [hn]
• Cases where full scans are better than indexes [716d] [hn]
• Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 [716d] [hn]
• Show HN: HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN [716d] [hn]
• I Fired Myself [716d] [hn]
• The forces at play in de-dollarisation [716d] [hn]
• Alien was released 44 years ago today [716d] [hn]
• Germany Falls into Recession [716d] [hn]
• Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster [716d] [hn]
• Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go [716d] [hn]
• US lawmakers urge PayPal to end ban on Palestinians in Occupied Territories [716d] [hn]
• Show HN: Appliku – Deployment PaaS for Python/Django [716d] [hn]
• PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1 [716d] [hn]
• Show HN: Visual intuitive explanations of LLM concepts (LLM University) [716d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Examples of desktop software with 20+ years of longevity? [716d] [hn]
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mathematics [pdf] [716d] [hn]
• Archive of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church [716d] [hn]
• Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Leave the EU If There's Any Real AI Regulation [716d] [hn]
• Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed carbohydrates [716d] [hn]
• 4-Bit Quantization and QLoRA [716d] [hn]
• Deno 1.34: Deno compile supports NPM packages [716d] [hn]
• Vapor.js – The Smallest and Fastest JavaScript Library [716d] [hn]
• How to Finetune GPT Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset [716d] [hn]
• Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN? [716d] [hn]
• Show HN: Personal GPT-4 AI document assistant [716d] [hn]
• RFC: Enforcing Bounds Safety in C (-fbounds-safety) [716d] [hn]
• NASA plans to melt the Moon–and build on Mars [716d] [hn]
• VanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI framework [716d] [hn]
• Keyval (YC W23) Is Hiring Founding Back End Engineer [716d] [hn]
• Framework Laptop 16 [717d] [hn]
• IUP – Cross platform C GUI library [717d] [hn]
• Psychiatric Detentions Rise 220% in First Year of 988 Hotline [717d] [hn]
• Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals [717d] [hn]
• Chinese Businesses Fueling the Fentanyl Epidemic Receive Millions in Crypto [717d] [hn]
• Ze Frank True Facts: The Smartest Slime [717d] [hn]
• Astronomers explore a recently discovered luminous quasar [717d] [hn]
• The QR-code menu is being shown the door [717d] [hn]