The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Safely open apps on your Mac [967d] [hn]
• There's a mechanical watch feature called a “hack”. Why is it called that? [967d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Please don't print –help to stderr in your CLI tools [967d] [hn]
• AlphaDev discovers faster sorting algorithms [967d] [hn]
• Open Source doesn't win by being cheaper [967d] [hn]
• Prompt Engineering Is Snake Oil [967d] [hn]
• Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries [967d] [hn]
• Meta spends $181M to get out of lease at vacant London offices [967d] [hn]
• Show HN: Carton – Run any ML model from any programming language [967d] [hn]
• Lisp Badge LE [967d] [hn]
• SMS Security and Privacy Gaps [967d] [hn]
• Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Altman reportedly collaborating on mysterious AI device [967d] [hn]
• Qwen (通义千问) chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud [967d] [hn]
• War Thunder user leaks restricted military documents for AH-64D Apache Longbow [967d] [hn]
• Valve releases Counter-Strike 2 [967d] [hn]
• Function Composition in Programming Languages [video] [967d] [hn]
• Naturalists Unknown: Lives marked by discovery and erasure [967d] [hn]
• ChatGPT can now search the web in real time [967d] [hn]
• Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water [967d] [hn]
• The Llama Ecosystem: Past, Present, and Future [967d] [hn]
• Emu: Enhancing Image Generation Models Using Photogenic Needles in a Haystack [967d] [hn]
• Terminal Race Condition: The only thing that scares me anymore [967d] [hn]
• Bitwig and Presonus launch open DAWproject format [967d] [hn]
• Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords [967d] [hn]
• Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords [967d] [hn]
• Earthworms contribute to 6.5% of global grain production [967d] [hn]
• Antarctic sea ice hits lowest winter maximum on record: US data [967d] [hn]
• Is the Physics of Time Changing? [967d] [hn]
• The Conscience of a Hacker(1986) [967d] [hn]
• GPT-4 generates simple app from Whiteboard photo [967d] [hn]
• Antimatter falls down: Observation of the effect of gravity on antimatter [967d] [hn]
• Continuations – Under the Covers [video] [967d] [hn]
• Ray-Ban Meta next generation of smart glasses [967d] [hn]
• OpenBSD PF versus FreeBSD PF [967d] [hn]
• Meta Quest 3 [967d] [hn]
• The Tao of Programming [967d] [hn]
• Linux kernel maintainers, why are they so grumpy? (2013) [pdf] [967d] [hn]
• 26% of the top websites are now blocking GPTBot [967d] [hn]
• A gentle introduction to static analyzers for C [967d] [hn]
• Queues for Kafka [967d] [hn]
• Synthetic opioids deadlier than fentanyl are showing up in overdose cases [967d] [hn]
• Judge Says Google Can't Keep Hiding Its Dealings During DOJ Antitrust Trial [967d] [hn]
• The Ashley Book of Knots [967d] [hn]
• Live near your friends [967d] [hn]
• Nucor and Helion to Develop 500 MW Fusion Power Plant by 2030 [967d] [hn]
• Ask HN: I spent months building an app and now I don't know how to get users [967d] [hn]
• Rust vs Go: A Hands-On Comparison [967d] [hn]
• Show HN: Using LLMs and Embeddings to classify application errors [967d] [hn]
• Accidents Happen: Sketches of misfortune in an insurance trade card c. 1890s [967d] [hn]
• Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water [967d] [hn]
• A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837) [967d] [hn]
• Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size to date, Apache 2.0 [967d] [hn]
• Show HN: Nav – A terminal navigator for interactive `ls` workflows [967d] [hn]
• Unions Work [967d] [hn]
• Your nines are not my nines (2019) [967d] [hn]
• Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s War on San Francisco Politics Has Only Just Begun [967d] [hn]
• Mercedes-Benz Beat Tesla to Cheap, Hands-Free Driving [967d] [hn]
• JWST discovers massive and compact quiescent galaxy [967d] [hn]
• ClickHouse Keeper: A ZooKeeper alternative written in C++ [967d] [hn]
• Deno Queues [967d] [hn]
• We try out the first legal level 3 automated driving system in the US [967d] [hn]
• Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more [967d] [hn]
• Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing by Lewis Carroll [967d] [hn]
• The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed [967d] [hn]
• Workers AI: serverless GPU-powered inference on Cloudflare’s global network [967d] [hn]
• You can now use WebGPU in Cloudflare Workers [967d] [hn]
• Philips allegedly hid 3700 complaints about sleep apnea machines from U.S. [967d] [hn]
• Lego abandons effort to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles [967d] [hn]
• Ads in the OS [967d] [hn]
• Google judge rules trial documents can be posted by U.S. online [967d] [hn]
• First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision) [967d] [hn]