The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• My favorite coding question to give candidates [919d] [hn]
• 20% of Millennials and 68% of Gen Z-ers still live with other family members [919d] [hn]
• Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony [919d] [hn]
• Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal [919d] [hn]
• Calif. tech investor's wedding trashed base of world-renowned landmark [919d] [hn]
• Infinite Context LLMs: Going Beyond RAG with Extended Minds [919d] [hn]
• Czech news crew in SF covering APEC robbed at gunpoint while filming [919d] [hn]
• Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI [919d] [hn]
• What if climate change meant not doom – but abundance? [919d] [hn]
• Low current around roots boosts plant growth [919d] [hn]
• We've learned nothing from the SolarWinds hack [919d] [hn]
• Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims [919d] [hn]
• Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code [919d] [hn]
• Inequalities, convergence, and continuity as "special deals" [919d] [hn]
• It's true. Your devices are listening to you [919d] [hn]
• Shopify Storefronts Are Down [919d] [hn]
• Discouraging the use of web application firewalls [919d] [hn]
• Future is quantum: universities look to train engineers for an emerging industry [919d] [hn]
• Principles are products of practice, not the reverse [919d] [hn]
• Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn't Be Tied to Funding the Government [919d] [hn]
• PixArt-α:A New Open-Source Text-to-Image Model Challenging SDXL and Dalle·3 [920d] [hn]
• Panama Canal is so congested that one ship owner just paid $4M to skip the line [920d] [hn]
• Supreme Court of the United States Statement Regarding the Code of Conduct [pdf] [920d] [hn]
• Algorithms by Jeff Erickson [920d] [hn]
• The Supreme Court is adopting a code of ethics for the first time [920d] [hn]
• Ubuntu Pro Shenanigans [920d] [hn]
• AI Is a Terrifying Purveyor of Bullshit. Next Up: Fake Science [920d] [hn]
• Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari [920d] [hn]
• NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month [920d] [hn]
• You need a mental model of LLMs to build or use a LLM-based product [920d] [hn]
• Forests with multiple tree species are more effective as carbon sinks [920d] [hn]
• Show HN: Bitemporal, Binary JSON Database System and Event Store [920d] [hn]
• Show HN: SirixDB – Bitemporal binary JSON database system and event store [920d] [hn]
• Researchers identify 'switch' to activate cancer cell death [920d] [hn]
• Tell HN: LinkedIn has one of the worst dark patterns I have seen on the web [920d] [hn]
• How to Fathom Climate Change's Unfathomable Numbers [920d] [hn]
• AlmaLinux 9.3 Stable [920d] [hn]
• Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB [920d] [hn]
• Cosmological galaxy formation simulation software [920d] [hn]
• A Revolution in Computer Graphics Is Bringing 3D Reality Capture to the Masses [920d] [hn]
• Ray Dalio ran Bridgewater like the global strongmen he admired [920d] [hn]
• Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration [920d] [hn]
• Slow-Scan Television [920d] [hn]
• Smarter Summaries with Finetuning GPT-3.5 and Chain of Density [920d] [hn]
• BlackRock and housing: Setting the record straight [920d] [hn]
• HTML Web Components [920d] [hn]
• Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU [920d] [hn]
• The NYPD Is Using Drones 3X More Than It Used To [920d] [hn]
• Show HN: Twogether AI – Multi-Person Photo Generation API [920d] [hn]
• Black goo is the new oscilloscope: Love Hultén's ferrofluid synths [920d] [hn]
• Technofeudalism [920d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Does "trust" eliminate the need for code reviews? [920d] [hn]
• Unity announces layoffs despite increased revenue and reduced losses [920d] [hn]
• $1 Unistroke Recognizer [920d] [hn]
• To free the Baltic grid, old technology is new again [920d] [hn]
• Tragedy of return to hostile offices [920d] [hn]
• Cathode-Retro: A collection of shaders to emulate the display of an NTSC signal [920d] [hn]
• Micron Introduces 128 GB DDR5-8000 RDIMMs with Monolithic 32 GB Die [920d] [hn]
• Compressing Codebase Collocates [920d] [hn]
• Munich court tells Netflix to stop using H.265 video coding to stream UHD [920d] [hn]
• Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256 [920d] [hn]
• URL Explained – The Fundamentals [920d] [hn]
• Self-service: Booths supermarket puts staff back behind its tills [920d] [hn]
• Pistachio Billionaires Accused of Artwashing California's Water Crisis [920d] [hn]