The Brutalist Report

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• The US reauthorizing and expanding its surveillance laws [763d] [hn]
• Use Your Potions and Scrolls [763d] [hn]
• 'Googlers Against Genocide': Tech Workers Protest Contracts with Israel [763d] [hn]
• Tell HN: We should snapshot a mostly AI output free version of the web [763d] [hn]
• Boeing's problems has cost United $200M in Q1 2024 [763d] [hn]
• Cute trick for fetch-and-add-based queues [763d] [hn]
• 3D-printed "metamaterial" is stronger than anything in nature [763d] [hn]
• The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug-in source code [763d] [hn]
• Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix [763d] [hn]
• Overture Maps Foundation Releases Beta of Its First Open Map Dataset [763d] [hn]
• Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made [763d] [hn]
• Spellbrush (YC W18) hiring an anime-loving distributed systems engineer; Tokyo/SF [763d] [hn]
• 'Pacifist' Japan is tooling up for war [763d] [hn]
• ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC's Internet rules, critics say [763d] [hn]
• US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like' [763d] [hn]
• What makes concurrency so hard? [763d] [hn]
• A quick post on Chen's algorithm [763d] [hn]
• The justice system's role in non disclosure of Horizon material [763d] [hn]
• How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2017) [763d] [hn]
• Firefox Proton UI userChrome.css fixes. (2021) [763d] [hn]
• Upgrading 3M Variables to Envelope Encryption [763d] [hn]
• The Americas Act and Its Chances of Becoming Law [763d] [hn]
• Judge refuses to Ctrl-Z divorce order made by a misclick [763d] [hn]
• Show HN: A shell CLI tool to predict your next command enhanced by LLM and RAG [763d] [hn]
• Global Firepower Index [763d] [hn]
• Difficulty levels of most European languages for Americans [763d] [hn]
• Prism (new Ruby parser) in 2024 [763d] [hn]
• Why Sweden abandoned its secret A-bomb project [763d] [hn]
• Please don't put checkmarks in checkboxes before I checked them [763d] [hn]
• Refuting Bloomberg's analysis: ChatGPT isn't racist, but it is bad at recruiting [763d] [hn]
• David Lynch presents 'A Thinking Room' [763d] [hn]
• We Need to Rewild the Internet [763d] [hn]
• Megalodon: Efficient LLM Pretraining and Inference with Unlimited Context Length [763d] [hn]
• NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security [763d] [hn]
• usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection [763d] [hn]
• AT&T Fiber Internet Privacy controls are horribly broken [763d] [hn]
• Hiring Full Stack Engineers at Apriora (YC W24) [763d] [hn]
• Redis Is Forked [763d] [hn]
• Learn OAuth by building a client with Node.js [763d] [hn]
• How to Stop Losing 17,500 Kidneys [763d] [hn]
• NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15B miles away [763d] [hn]
• Google DeepMind's Aloha Unleashed is pushing the boundaries of robot dexterity [763d] [hn]
• This is a teenager [763d] [hn]
• Firefox 125 [763d] [hn]
• Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2023 Award for Humane's AI Pin [763d] [hn]
• Amazon HQ2 was supposed to add jobs last year. It shed them instead [763d] [hn]
• US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass [763d] [hn]
• Palo Alto – Putting the Protecc in GlobalProtect (CVE-2024-3400) [763d] [hn]
• Half of Ireland's young people have low level of mental wellbeing [763d] [hn]
• Show HN: Term Typer – Learn a Language by Typing [763d] [hn]
• Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains [763d] [hn]
• Tech exec predicts 'AI girlfriends' will create $1B business [763d] [hn]
• Efficient gas boiler with real-time data [763d] [hn]
• Show HN: CloudCruise (YC W24) – Graph-Based Workflow Builder for Web Agents [763d] [hn]
• Launching Distributed Authorization [763d] [hn]
• The legal rule that computers are presumed to be operating correctly (2022) [pdf] [763d] [hn]
• Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK [763d] [hn]
• YouTube cracking down even harder to punish user for skipping ads [763d] [hn]
• People who don't want to learn how to program can always find a reason not to [763d] [hn]
• Founders need to be ruthless when chasing deals [763d] [hn]
• Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads [763d] [hn]
• A visual guide to Vision Transformer – A scroll story [763d] [hn]
• Product-Market Fit Isn't a Black Box – A New Framework to Help B2B Founders [763d] [hn]
• AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors [763d] [hn]
• Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Live Nation [763d] [hn]
• America's young men are blowing their money like never before [763d] [hn]
• Show HN: Search HN for interesting comment sections [763d] [hn]
• Ice to treat soft-tissue injuries contraindicated by creator of protocol [763d] [hn]
• Chip Startup Rivos Raises More Than $250M to Tap AI Boom [763d] [hn]
• Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB [763d] [hn]
• $10M in Gold Disguised as Machine Parts Seized from Cargo Plane [763d] [hn]