The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Congress is racing to regulate AI. Silicon Valley is eager to teach them how [1069d] [hn]
• Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress [1069d] [hn]
• The Risks of Staying Put [1069d] [hn]
• It's Companies' Fault we don't want to Return to the Office [1069d] [hn]
• Modern CSS for Dynamic Component-Based Architecture [1069d] [hn]
• Self-checkout machines now ask for tips in latest squeeze on customers [1069d] [hn]
• The Rot Economy [1069d] [hn]
• Accountable Capitalism: Remaking Corporate Law Through Stakeholder Governance [1069d] [hn]
• The Staggering Frontiers of CSS [1069d] [hn]
• Rust vs Zig Benchmarks [1069d] [hn]
• The Secret Sauce behind 100K context window in LLMs: all tricks in one place [1069d] [hn]
• Google Limiting IO_uring Use Due to Security Vulnerabilities [1069d] [hn]
• Good Vibrations [1069d] [hn]
• Data-Driven Science and Engineering 2nd Edition [pdf] [1069d] [hn]
• Why Your Roses Smell Nice [1069d] [hn]
• GPT-4 apparently can't recite the litany against fear from Dune [1069d] [hn]
• Data Falsificada (Part 1): “Clusterfake” – Data Colada [1069d] [hn]
• Daniel Ellsberg: The Pentagon Papers [1069d] [hn]
• A barista fought to unionize her Starbucks. Now she’s out of a job [1069d] [hn]
• Open source Diablo 1 engine – DevilutionX 1.5.0 released [1069d] [hn]
• Westfield’s San Francisco Centre Mall Lost 46% of Its Stores Since 2020 [1069d] [hn]
• Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2018) [1069d] [hn]
• 2D Solar Cells Poised to Set Power-per-Weight Record [1069d] [hn]
• GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness [1069d] [hn]
• San Francisco's Pain Worsens as Workers, Visitors, and Shoppers Leave [1069d] [hn]
• GB Studio: Drag and drop retro game creator for GameBoy [1069d] [hn]
• An Anomalous Wire at the Site of the First Interstellar Meteor [1069d] [hn]
• Meticulous (YC S21) Is Hiring Founding Engineer to Build AI for UI Testing [1069d] [hn]
• Florida has banned direct-to-consumer auto sales, but Tesla and co get a pass [1069d] [hn]
• Are Chiplets Enough to Save Moore’s Law? [1069d] [hn]
• How to Raise a Roman Army: The Dilectus [1069d] [hn]
• Google gets go-ahead to build 153-acre Bay Area neighborhood by headquarters [1069d] [hn]
• Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support [1069d] [hn]
• Starlink v2 reached the brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers [1069d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Comcast/Xfinity is having a widespread DNS outage [1069d] [hn]
• Don’t Talk to Police [1069d] [hn]
• Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on Earth for $3 [1069d] [hn]
• Japanese biomass venture using microorganisms to tackle waste disposal [1070d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now? [1070d] [hn]
• GPT4 Can’t Ace MIT [1070d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language? [1070d] [hn]
• James Gosling talks about virtual machines, security, and Java (2004) [1070d] [hn]
• Open Source-Based Over-the-Air 5G New Radio Sidelink Testbed [1070d] [hn]
• Four alarming charts that show just how extreme the climate is [1070d] [hn]
• KC archbishop clarifies wine validity norms [1070d] [hn]
• Show HN: State Trooper – Tiny, no frills state machine for Go [1070d] [hn]
• They just pirated my open source 8088 BIOS [1070d] [hn]
• Are ChatGPT and Other Similar Systems the Modern Lernaean Hydras of AI? [1070d] [hn]
• Gitless a simple VCS built on top of Git [1070d] [hn]
• Flying the F-35 stealth fighter can leave pilots looking aged [1070d] [hn]
• What Character Was Removed from the Alphabet? [1070d] [hn]
• Running Linux on the Asus ROG Ally Gaming Handheld [1070d] [hn]
• Show HN: Explore large language models on any computer with 512MB of RAM [1070d] [hn]
• 15” MacBook Air Teardown [1070d] [hn]
• Book of Proof by Richard Hammack [1070d] [hn]
• Update: U+237C ⍼ &Angzarr; [1070d] [hn]
• HouseWatch: Open-source tool for monitoring and managing ClickHouse clusters [1070d] [hn]
• MindsDB (YC W20) Is Hiring a Content Marketing Specialist [1070d] [hn]