The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Apple's Simple Strategy to Beat Burnout: Freedom [842d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Best intro to programming book for 2nd graders? [842d] [hn]
• Measure wind speed and direction with ultrasonic anemometer and Arduino [842d] [hn]
• Multiple Notepad++ Flaws Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code [842d] [hn]
• Oscilloscope watch ships after 10 years on kickstarter [842d] [hn]
• Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit [842d] [hn]
• Rust crate rg typosquatting/redirect to ripgrep [842d] [hn]
• The Lies in Your Grocery Store, and the Laywer Who Can't Stomach Them [842d] [hn]
• Designing a cursor for augmented reality [842d] [hn]
• The Apple $2T Economy [842d] [hn]
• WASM: Big deal or little deal? [842d] [hn]
• Geoff Chappell has passed away [842d] [hn]
• Wine 8.15 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS [842d] [hn]
• LLM now provides tools for working with embeddings [842d] [hn]
• Why discord is switching from go to rust (2020) [842d] [hn]
• When tech says ‘no’ [842d] [hn]
• Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste [842d] [hn]
• Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python [842d] [hn]
• .KKRIEGER – Fully Functional Sci-Fi FPS into Just 96kb [842d] [hn]
• Spectrolite – Mac app to make colorful risograph prints and zines more easily [842d] [hn]
• Latch bio: “We work six days a week” [842d] [hn]
• Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow [842d] [hn]
• Chinchilla’s Death [842d] [hn]
• Tidal Energy Is Not Renewable [842d] [hn]
• Geo Guesser identifies the location and seat number from an aerial shot [842d] [hn]
• Secret Government Telephone Numbers [842d] [hn]
• Extreme El Niño weather switched off South American's carbon sink [842d] [hn]
• Mechanisms of scent-tracking in humans [842d] [hn]
• Red lights over the Pacific – August 2014 (2014) [843d] [hn]
• Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents [843d] [hn]
• The Airbnb Bubble Popping Will Pop the Housing Bubble [843d] [hn]
• Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures [843d] [hn]
• Can We Talk to Whales? [843d] [hn]
• An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve [843d] [hn]
• Refact LLM: New 1.6B code model reaches 32% HumanEval and is SOTA for the size [843d] [hn]
• What Is Residual Vector Quantization? [843d] [hn]
• Jitsi Meet Abandons Anonimity Promise [843d] [hn]
• DSLs Are a Waste of Time [843d] [hn]
• Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64 [843d] [hn]
• Ask HN: In person industry tours and site visits [843d] [hn]
• VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code [843d] [hn]
• Show HN: finetune LLMs via the Finetuning Hub [843d] [hn]
• You Don't Need to “Learn” Svelte: Embracing the Simplicity of JavaScript [843d] [hn]
• Antioxidants such as Vitamin C found to spur cancer growth and metastasis [843d] [hn]
• Antioxidants found to spur cancer growth and metastasis in mice [843d] [hn]
• The mobile game funding a revolution in Myanmar [843d] [hn]
• I Worked in Federal Prison Sweatshops for 23 Cents an Hour [843d] [hn]
• Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in 1694 [843d] [hn]
• Computing Power Used to Be Measured in 'Kilo-Girls' [843d] [hn]
• Titanium spikes kill superbugs drug-free by ripping them apart [843d] [hn]
• Is macOS’s new XProtect behavioural security preparing to go live? [843d] [hn]
• TinyLlama project aims to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3T tokens [843d] [hn]
• How Accurate Were EPAs Predictions of climate change from 40 years ago? [843d] [hn]
• I built a Plane Spotter in 120 secs with ChatGPT [843d] [hn]
• Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge [843d] [hn]
• The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It [843d] [hn]
• The Battle over Books3 Could Change AI Forever [843d] [hn]
• TV Museum Will Die in 48 Hours Unless Sony Retracts YouTube Copyright Strikes [843d] [hn]
• Chrome extensions can steal plaintext passwords from websites [843d] [hn]
• The curl-wget Venn diagram [843d] [hn]
• Hardware Random Bit Generator [843d] [hn]
• Cuber: Deploy your apps on Kubernetes easily [843d] [hn]
• David Tolnay on the "RustConf Keynote Fiasco" [843d] [hn]
• War games: Battlefield strategy and the game of chess [843d] [hn]
• Plastic Money [843d] [hn]
• Microsoft had three staff at Australian data centre campus when Azure went out [843d] [hn]
• Google was founded 25 years ago Today [843d] [hn]
• Huawei Teardown Shows Chip Breakthrough in Blow to US Sanctions [843d] [hn]
• Key UX Design Principles – How to Make Products User Friendly [843d] [hn]
• Haskell mini-patterns handbook (2020) [843d] [hn]
• Pretendo: A free and open source server replacement for the 3DS and Wii U [843d] [hn]
• Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process by factor of 100B [843d] [hn]
• Show HN: MonoDevelop [843d] [hn]
• SiFive’s P870 Takes RISC-V Further [843d] [hn]
• Are Cooking Videos Making Us Better Cooks? [843d] [hn]
• How we know languages like proto-Indo-European existed [video] [843d] [hn]
• A Proposal for an asynchronous Rust GUI framework [843d] [hn]
• Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard [843d] [hn]
• Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990 [843d] [hn]
• The History of Windows 95 [843d] [hn]
• A plot to steal the secret Coke can-liner formula [843d] [hn]
• Pad kaphrao contest seeks true taste of Thailand’s national dish [843d] [hn]
• “X” Didn’t Pay Severance. Now It’s Facing 2,200 Cases – and Big Fees [843d] [hn]
• Dennis Ritchie Home Page [843d] [hn]
• Everything I know about floppy disks [843d] [hn]
• WiiLink – Japanese Wii channels revived [843d] [hn]
• “The biggest Ponzi of all time”: why Ben McKenzie became a crypto critic [843d] [hn]
• The one-handed backhand is on the way to extinction [843d] [hn]