The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• xz: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects [780d] [hn]
• Mathematician Who Made Sense of the Universe's Randomness Wins Math's Top Prize [781d] [hn]
• Disillusioned Businesses Discovering That AI Kind of Sucks [781d] [hn]
• Notes on El Salvador [781d] [hn]
• Delirium Tremens [781d] [hn]
• Redox: Significant performance and correctness improvements to the kernel [781d] [hn]
• The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome (1998) [781d] [hn]
• SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell on the future of space travel [video] [781d] [hn]
• The jobs being replaced by AI – an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs [781d] [hn]
• Why Are Older Americans Drinking So Much? [781d] [hn]
• My Ideal Libre Computer+Phone [781d] [hn]
• See, this is why I retired early from software engineering [781d] [hn]
• Why Ireland's housing bubble burst [781d] [hn]
• Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained [781d] [hn]
• Tiny orchid flowers pollinated by tiny flies [781d] [hn]
• NetBSD 10.0 Released [781d] [hn]
• 'Shear sound waves' provide the magic for linking ultrasound and magnetic waves [781d] [hn]
• Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1k drug can be made for $5 [781d] [hn]
• Fraudulent studies are undermining the reliability of systematic reviews [781d] [hn]
• Spacing the Cans [781d] [hn]
• The Mongolian Meta [781d] [hn]
• Models all the way down [781d] [hn]
• Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters [781d] [hn]
• Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover [781d] [hn]
• Git as a debugging tool [781d] [hn]
• Bacon – a background Rust code checker [781d] [hn]
• Popular songs are simpler and more repetitive than they used to be [781d] [hn]
• Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser [781d] [hn]
• Contributing to Postgres 101: A Beginner's Experience [781d] [hn]
• Kolmogorov Complexity and Compression Distance [781d] [hn]
• XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable." [781d] [hn]
• The federal government promised to plant two billion trees. How's that going? [781d] [hn]
• China uses foreign firms to turbocharge its industry [781d] [hn]
• An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array [781d] [hn]
• Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16 [781d] [hn]
• Unlocking the NES (For Former Dawn) [781d] [hn]
• Type Inference Was a Mistake [781d] [hn]
• AT&T Says Personal Information from 73M Customers Leaked on the Dark Web [781d] [hn]
• AT&T confirms data breach and resets customer passcodes [781d] [hn]
• AT&T confirms data for 73M customers leaked on hacker forum [781d] [hn]
• Hadrius (YC W23) – Founding Engineer for fastest growing compliance software [781d] [hn]
• Benchmarking LLMs against human expert-curated biomedical knowledge graphs [781d] [hn]
• Bird flu discovered in U.S. dairy cows is 'disturbing' [781d] [hn]
• Marissa Mayer's Startup [781d] [hn]
• Personal 'invisibility shield' goes on sale, starting under $70 [781d] [hn]
• Landlock: Unprivileged Access Control [781d] [hn]
• Mamba Explained [781d] [hn]
• About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024 [781d] [hn]
• Tesla engineers don't have engineering degrees or even common sense apparently [781d] [hn]
• 1 in every 13 bridges in America is in 'poor' condition [781d] [hn]
• DeWitt and Stonebraker's "MapReduce: A major step backwards" (2009) [781d] [hn]
• Fully countering trusting trust through diverse double-compiling (2005) [781d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Anybody Using Htmx on the Job? [781d] [hn]
• Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights [781d] [hn]
• Headless, dog-sized robot to patrol Alaska airport to prevent bird strikes [781d] [hn]
• How the Atlantic Went from Broke to Profitable in Three Years [781d] [hn]
• US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS [781d] [hn]
• IrfanView [781d] [hn]
• How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform [781d] [hn]
• Basic Things [781d] [hn]
• Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers [781d] [hn]
• The Ken Thompson Hack [781d] [hn]
• Invalid SMILES are beneficial rather than detrimental to chemical lang models [781d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How to secure website for public launch [781d] [hn]
• Brilliant Pebbles [781d] [hn]