The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law [824d] [hn]
• OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80B [824d] [hn]
• Understanding the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect [824d] [hn]
• Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline's chatbot [824d] [hn]
• GPlates: Open-source software for interactive visualisation of plate tectonics [824d] [hn]
• FDA Approves First Medication to Treat Severe Frostbite [824d] [hn]
• Pro CCP 'spamouflage' network pivoting to focus on US election [824d] [hn]
• Coding in Vision Pro [824d] [hn]
• LLM Agents Can Autonomously Hack Websites [824d] [hn]
• Why Tesla's Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting [824d] [hn]
• Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades [824d] [hn]
• How did humans survive alone for 1000 years on desert islands off Africa? [824d] [hn]
• The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl [824d] [hn]
• Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn" [824d] [hn]
• Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game [824d] [hn]
• Paying people to work on open source is good [824d] [hn]
• Hyrum's Law [824d] [hn]
• Even DeSantis Thinks Florida Book Removals Have Gone Too Far [824d] [hn]
• Amazon Joins SpaceX in Mission to Destroy NLRB [824d] [hn]
• If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly [824d] [hn]
• Learning about Debuggers [824d] [hn]
• The seventh most popular easily understood unsolved problem on MathOverflow [824d] [hn]
• Corruption Pervades Police Forces in Australia and the United Kingdom (2023) [824d] [hn]
• Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time [824d] [hn]
• Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement [824d] [hn]
• GPU synchronization in Godot 4.3 is getting a major upgrade [824d] [hn]
• Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot [824d] [hn]
• Popular Git Config Options [824d] [hn]
• Why do military personnel wear watches upside down? [824d] [hn]
• Dear writers: Delete your Findaway Voices account NOW [824d] [hn]
• AI assets are a legal risk and need to be banned from the marketplace [824d] [hn]
• FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4 [824d] [hn]
• Training LLMs to Generate Text with Citations via Fine-Grained Rewards [824d] [hn]
• UI = F(statesⁿ) [824d] [hn]
• Show HN: Host a planet-scale geocoder for $10/mo [824d] [hn]
• How to keep engineers out of meeting hell [824d] [hn]
• We stopped building cut and cover [824d] [hn]
• LWM – Open LLM with 1M Tokens Context Window [824d] [hn]
• I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad [824d] [hn]
• Amazon joins companies arguing US labor board is unconstitutional [824d] [hn]
• Did You Know: Burger King Had a Windows 7 Whopper with 7 Stacked Beef Patties [824d] [hn]
• My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder [824d] [hn]
• Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink [824d] [hn]
• $5 device accurately tests for breast cancer in under 5 seconds [824d] [hn]
• The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023) [824d] [hn]
• Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system [824d] [hn]
• You Sound Like a Bot [824d] [hn]
• Erlang/OTP 27.0 Release Candidate 1 [824d] [hn]
• How much electricity does AI consume? [824d] [hn]
• How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix [824d] [hn]
• Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner [824d] [hn]
• Data Structures as Topological Spaces (2002) [pdf] [824d] [hn]
• The U.S. Government Will Soon Spend More on Interest Payments Than Defense [824d] [hn]
• Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB Memory Appears on eBay for USD500 [824d] [hn]
• The fifth epoch of distributed computing [824d] [hn]
• No one cares about open-source, until [824d] [hn]