The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Google DeepMind's AI successor predicts how 71M mutations cause disease [975d] [hn]
• Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method [975d] [hn]
• The AI Explosion Might Never Happen [975d] [hn]
• Webring Technology [975d] [hn]
• Humans Have Exceeded Six of the Nine Boundaries Keeping Earth Habitable [975d] [hn]
• Show HN: Spirals – Generate beautiful AI spiral art with one click [975d] [hn]
• The Genius Bar in a country where iPhones can’t legally be sold [975d] [hn]
• Smashing the state machine: the true potential of web race conditions [975d] [hn]
• Secretions (1992) [975d] [hn]
• UniFree: Migrate Unity projects to other engines [975d] [hn]
• Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) [975d] [hn]
• Nushell 0.85 [975d] [hn]
• The Princeton researchers calling out ‘AI snake oil’ [975d] [hn]
• Special-Use Domain Names [975d] [hn]
• The Paradox of Control [975d] [hn]
• Programming Is Hard [975d] [hn]
• ReinetteII+.py, an Apple II plus emulator in Python [975d] [hn]
• Circles Do Not Exist [975d] [hn]
• Apache Pinot 1.0 [975d] [hn]
• Show HN: I'm building a tool to practice numbers in Arabic [975d] [hn]
• Simple Open-Source Java Virtual Machine in C [975d] [hn]
• Fixing for Loops in Go 1.22 [975d] [hn]
• Pink diamonds erupted to Earth’s surface after early supercontinent’s breakup [975d] [hn]
• Contrastive Decoding Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models [975d] [hn]
• A Hands-On Introduction to Machine Learning for non-Computer Science Majors [975d] [hn]
• Google ad exec: “it is a worse user experience to not have ads on the page” [975d] [hn]
• Faster Sorting Beyond DeepMind’s AlphaDev [975d] [hn]
• Notes on Existential Risk from Artificial Superintelligence [975d] [hn]
• RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1) [975d] [hn]
• World’s most powerful X-ray laser will ‘film’ chemical reactions [975d] [hn]
• MariaDB to be acquired by Runa Cap? [975d] [hn]
• Agentscript: Agent Based Modeling in the Browser [975d] [hn]
• We Can't Compete with AI Girlfriends [975d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dialoqbase – open-source chatbot creation platform (LangChain wrapper) [975d] [hn]
• NFS > FUSE: Why We Built Our Own NFS Server in Rust [975d] [hn]
• iFixit – We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score [975d] [hn]
• How do shared library collisions break? (2022) [975d] [hn]
• One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows [975d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative [975d] [hn]
• Google quietly raised ad prices to boost search revenue [975d] [hn]
• MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says [975d] [hn]
• How many medical studies are faked or flawed? [975d] [hn]
• UK Parliament passes Online Safety Bill [975d] [hn]
• Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres [975d] [hn]
• Why does water change the speed of electricity? [video] [975d] [hn]
• Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol [975d] [hn]
• Show HN: Symphony – Use GPT-4 to call functions in sequence [975d] [hn]
• Influence of dietary lipid upon ultraviolet light-carcinogenesis [975d] [hn]
• Graph Neural Networks Use Graphs When They Shouldn't [975d] [hn]
• Yash Shorthand System [975d] [hn]
• Always Bump Downwards (2019) [975d] [hn]
• Show HN: Graphite – Stacked Diffs on GitHub [975d] [hn]
• Plug and socket types around the world [975d] [hn]
• Counting Ghosts: A case for abandoning web analytics [975d] [hn]
• The Physical Process That Powers a New Type of Generative AI [975d] [hn]
• GraalVM for JDK 21 is here [975d] [hn]
• Is the End of Aids in Sight? [975d] [hn]
• Getting into Pinball [975d] [hn]
• There's an Alternative to the Infinite Scroll [975d] [hn]
• Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor [975d] [hn]
• BMW's Ultimate Driving Machine, for Driving Through Gunfire and Grenades [975d] [hn]
• Musk Wanted to Spy on Drivers to Defend Tesla from Lawsuits [975d] [hn]
• Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage [975d] [hn]
• JDK 21 Release Notes [975d] [hn]
• Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts about the assassination of a Sikh leader [975d] [hn]
• Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets [975d] [hn]
• OpenJDK JDK 21 General-Availability Release [975d] [hn]
• Historical maps probably helped cause World War I [975d] [hn]
• Java 21 Released [975d] [hn]
• Larry Lessig's theory: our society is governed by four forces [975d] [hn]
• Improving your online privacy: An update [975d] [hn]
• Russell Brand blocked from making money on YouTube [975d] [hn]
• YouTube Blocks Russell Brand from Making Money Through Its Platform [975d] [hn]
• 64-Bit Bank Balances ‘Ought to Be Enough for Anybody’? [975d] [hn]
• The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary [975d] [hn]