The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Insiders reveal major problems at lab-grown meat startup [829d] [hn]
• Demo of megatextures running on n64 hardware [829d] [hn]
• Hot Chips 2023: AMD’s Phoenix SoC [829d] [hn]
• Satya Nadella: “I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AAPL” (2022) [829d] [hn]
• America's advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it [829d] [hn]
• Adobe will charge “credits” for generative AI [829d] [hn]
• Lantern (YC W24) – Hiring Engineers to Build PostgreSQL Vector Database for AI [829d] [hn]
• Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How Good Is Asahi Now? [829d] [hn]
• Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR [829d] [hn]
• Guidance: A guidance language for controlling large language models [829d] [hn]
• Java 21 makes me like Java again [829d] [hn]
• Why do software nowadays take so much more memory and processing power [829d] [hn]
• Why everything you buy is worse now [video] [829d] [hn]
• Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability Training [829d] [hn]
• Why can't America teach writing? [829d] [hn]
• Dlarc Amateur Radio Library Tops 90k Items [829d] [hn]
• Stop saying “fail” [829d] [hn]
• Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023 [829d] [hn]
• Cache Line Alignment in C++ – How It Makes Your Program Faster [829d] [hn]
• Don't be afraid to be wrong [829d] [hn]
• Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask? [829d] [hn]
• Masked 'Boot Girls' Are Freeing Booted Cars All over Atlanta [830d] [hn]
• French supermarket Carrefour puts up 'shrinkflation' warning signs [830d] [hn]
• Epistemological problem of emergence in complex systems (2018) [pdf] [830d] [hn]
• Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible? [830d] [hn]
• Vegas casinos are still reeling from a massive cyberattack [830d] [hn]
• Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cost, more power [830d] [hn]
• The Next Gen Database Servers Powering Let's Encrypt(2021) [830d] [hn]
• Generative Image Dynamics [830d] [hn]
• Unity's Self-Combustion Engine [830d] [hn]
• Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013) [830d] [hn]
• How to Escape the Startup Trough of Sorrow [830d] [hn]
• Mark Cuban loses $870K in hot wallet hack [830d] [hn]
• French supermarket using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pressure PepsiCo and others [830d] [hn]
• Life-changing cystic fibrosis treatment wins US$3M Breakthrough Prize [830d] [hn]
• Wireless electrical–molecular quantum signalling for cancer cell apoptosis [830d] [hn]
• A Different Type of SQL Recursion with PostgreSQL [830d] [hn]
• Bear rescued from theme park 'didn't understand trees,' relocated to sanctuary [830d] [hn]
• Threat from Climate Change to Some of India’s Sacred Sites Is Reshaping Beliefs [830d] [hn]
• How Google Authenticator made one company’s network breach much, much worse [830d] [hn]
• Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads monetization [830d] [hn]
• Comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition (2021) [830d] [hn]
• Dire Warnings About Libya Dams Went Unheeded [830d] [hn]
• Textual Adds a Command Palette [830d] [hn]
• Homemade RC excavator from PVC [video] [830d] [hn]
• static-server: an HTTP server in Go for static content [830d] [hn]
• Activists Have One Simple Goal: Abolish the Cruise Industry [830d] [hn]
• Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments [830d] [hn]
• The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction [830d] [hn]
• NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens [830d] [hn]
• Observations on Credit and Lending Practices in Ur III Mesopotamia (2004) [pdf] [830d] [hn]
• Bitwarden login down due to Azure outage [830d] [hn]
• Fixing the housing crisis is not rocket science. “Minneapolis has been build [830d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How do you make time for side projects and Leetcode grinding [830d] [hn]
• Boring Crypto, from Daniel J. Bernstein (2012) [pdf] [830d] [hn]
• Habits of top engineers [830d] [hn]
• BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data Lakes [pdf] [830d] [hn]
• Show HN: exaequOS - a new OS running in a web browser [830d] [hn]
• Percy Ludgate [830d] [hn]
• The “Do Something About It” Club [830d] [hn]
• People Are Streaming Pirated Movies on TikTok, One Short Clip at a Time [830d] [hn]
• Show HN: Android Hacker News Widget and App [830d] [hn]
• The Economic Cost of Populism [830d] [hn]
• A Pre-Release Version of IBM PC-DOS from June 1981, Also Called DOS 0.90 (2021) [830d] [hn]
• Why Ugly Architecture Is Bad for Your Health [830d] [hn]
• Converge (YC S23) is hiring a founding product engineer [830d] [hn]
• Pongs [830d] [hn]
• GPT-4 is not getting worse (tests and a long rant) [830d] [hn]
• How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers [830d] [hn]
• Relational is more than SQL [830d] [hn]
• Jefferson and America's Lost Idea: Natural Aristocracy [830d] [hn]
• The Meaning of Liberalism (1938) [830d] [hn]
• Radiohead Public Library [830d] [hn]
• Salesforce CEO goes back to being remote [830d] [hn]
• A Virus for the BBC Micro [830d] [hn]
• Solving the Expression Problem in Go [830d] [hn]
• Mesa-optimization algorithms in Transformers[pdf] [830d] [hn]
• Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain [830d] [hn]
• The Suspicion Machine [830d] [hn]
• Yazi: Fast terminal file manager based on async I/O [830d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What Happened to TJ Holowaychuk? [830d] [hn]
• Could Dementia in the National Security Workforce Create a Security Threat? [830d] [hn]
• enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001) [830d] [hn]
• You're online all day. Why not use the browser to remind you of things? [830d] [hn]
• Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers [830d] [hn]
• Fifteen Times Faster Than Llama 2: Introducing DeciLM LLM with Variable GQA [830d] [hn]
• Texas pays Bitcoin miner to not mine [830d] [hn]
• Deno by Example [830d] [hn]