The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• ARM's "Blackhawk" CPU Is a Plan to Have the Best Smartphone CPU Core [1004d] [hn]
• Sheryl Sandberg to Leave Meta Platforms Board After 12 Years [1004d] [hn]
• Apple's bad faith 27% tax on web purchases [1004d] [hn]
• Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement [1004d] [hn]
• Cities are asking the Supreme Court for more power to clear homeless encampments [1004d] [hn]
• The Hacker News Top books of 2023 [1004d] [hn]
• FAQ on Leaving Google [1004d] [hn]
• Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? [1004d] [hn]
• How Monopolists drive the power and wealth divide [1004d] [hn]
• Computer Engineering for Babies (2021) [1004d] [hn]
• Epic plans to contest Apple's 'bad-faith' compliance with ruling over App Store [1004d] [hn]
• Fathom AI Meeting Assistant (YC W21) is hiring full-stack engineers (remote) [1004d] [hn]
• OpenAI is working with the US military now [1004d] [hn]
• We have surpassed 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries that sustain human life (2023) [1004d] [hn]
• Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs [1004d] [hn]
• Doom Released Under GPLv2 [1004d] [hn]
• Cancer Alley [1004d] [hn]
• MRISC32 – An Open 32-Bit RISC/Vector ISA (Suitable for FPGA CPU) [1004d] [hn]
• TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor [1004d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How do I edit a post to add a url? [1004d] [hn]
• Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results are getting worse [1004d] [hn]
• Benchmarking Postgres Vector Search Approaches: Pgvector vs. Lantern [1004d] [hn]
• How to Design an ISA [1004d] [hn]
• Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search [1004d] [hn]
• What do premarital experiences have to do with marital quality? (2014) [1004d] [hn]
• Embroidery of light-emitting textiles with multicolor electroluminescent threads [1004d] [hn]
• Beep Core protocol central, RFC 3080/3081, BEEP profiles, BEEP implementation [1004d] [hn]
• The Director of "Toy Story" Also Drew the BSD Daemon Logo [1004d] [hn]
• If you can't reproduce the model then it's not open-source [1004d] [hn]
• Universities Bend over Backwards to Accommodate Food Delivery Robots [1004d] [hn]
• AI Sleeper Agents [1004d] [hn]
• Show HN: Shadeup – A language that makes WebGPU easier [1004d] [hn]
• E-Crime Rapper 'Punchmade Dev' Debuts Card Shop [1004d] [hn]
• Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations [1004d] [hn]
• Notion Calendar [1004d] [hn]
• Hacking into a Toyota insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator [1004d] [hn]
• A.I.'S Latest Challenge: The Math Olympics [1004d] [hn]
• Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot [1004d] [hn]
• Quebec man who blamed wildfires on government pleads guilty to setting 14 fires [1004d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What is the state of art approximate k-NN search algorithm today? [1004d] [hn]
• Cloudflare R2-Backed Nix Binary Cache on Fly.io [1004d] [hn]
• AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry [1004d] [hn]
• We Live in a Golden Age of Crybullyism [1004d] [hn]
• Recursive Islands and Lakes [1004d] [hn]
• Bucket Argument for Absolute Space [1004d] [hn]
• U.S. News Makes Money from Some of Its Biggest Critics: Colleges [1004d] [hn]
• Running Quake on an FPGA (Custom MRISC32 CPU) [video] [1004d] [hn]
• Meta's serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day (2023) [1005d] [hn]
• Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Association [1005d] [hn]
• Are “one-round-wonders” the next Silicon Valley aspiration? [1005d] [hn]
• Remote work % in industry not correlated with excess productivity growth [1005d] [hn]
• Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases [1005d] [hn]
• What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation [1005d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth still so unreliable? [1005d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What local machines are people using to train LLMs? [1005d] [hn]
• AI poisoning could turn open models into destructive "sleeper agents" [1005d] [hn]
• The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List [1005d] [hn]
• Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather [1005d] [hn]
• Show HN: htmldocs - Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS [1005d] [hn]
• Get Out of Jail Cards, 2 [1005d] [hn]
• Why Are American Cities Squalid? [1005d] [hn]
• Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Replicated by Two Independent Labs [1005d] [hn]
• WaveCoder: Widespread and Versatile Enhanced Instruction Tuning [1005d] [hn]
• Why I Like Obsidian [1005d] [hn]
• The rust project has a burnout problem [1005d] [hn]
• Is A.I. The Death of I.P.? [1005d] [hn]
• Willow Protocol [1005d] [hn]
• Htmx Is Composable? [1005d] [hn]
• Bare minimum atw-style K interpreter for learning purposes [1005d] [hn]
• Tell HN: How an elderly couple I know had their computer 'stop working' [1005d] [hn]
• Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals? [1005d] [hn]
• At 93, he's as fit as a 40-year-old. His body offers lessons on aging [1005d] [hn]
• Mesh shaders on RDNA graphics cards [1005d] [hn]
• My New Computer [1005d] [hn]
• Electric vehicles will need 'battery passports' to enter EU from 2027 [1005d] [hn]
• The Mating Psychology of Incels – The Journal of Sex Research [1005d] [hn]
• PixieFail: Nine Vulnerabilities UEFI Implementations [1005d] [hn]
• MixRank (YC S11) Is Hiring Global Remote Software Engineers [1005d] [hn]
• Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time [1005d] [hn]
• Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security [1005d] [hn]
• Is There Any Benefit to Multivitamins? [1005d] [hn]
• I regret selling my startup [1005d] [hn]
• Technitium: Secure, anonymous, P2P, open source, instant messenger [1005d] [hn]
• Fujitsu says it will pay compensation in UK Post Office scandal [1005d] [hn]
• Flowblade: Open-Source Video Editor [1005d] [hn]
• Analysing the Twitter User Exodus to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads [1005d] [hn]
• From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility [1005d] [hn]
• BBC BASIC raytracer in 432 characters [1005d] [hn]
• ALOHA robot learns from humans to cook, clean, do laundry [1005d] [hn]
• Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows [1005d] [hn]
• Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling [1005d] [hn]
• Show HN: Kolorize – Next-gen AI photo colorizer [1005d] [hn]
• JW Player suffers traffic loss after dynamic piracy blocking blunder [1005d] [hn]
• IO_uring creator delivers 6% file system speed increase – 'a five minute job' [1005d] [hn]
• Judge Blocks JetBlue from Acquiring Spirit Airlines [1005d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What would you do if you could start over? [1005d] [hn]
• South Korea launches digital nomad visa to boost remote work options in 2024 [1005d] [hn]
• Growing income inequality is driving public mistrust [1005d] [hn]