The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Redbox missed a multimillion-dollar payment it couldn't afford to miss [695d] [hn]
• MACH.2 Multi-Actuator Hard Drives [695d] [hn]
• Umbrella Cover Museum [695d] [hn]
• Technical Marvels, Part 3: The Yupana [695d] [hn]
• The End-of-Line Story (2004) [695d] [hn]
• The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 – The Silicon Underground [695d] [hn]
• Daylight Computer tablet review [695d] [hn]
• New heroes of spaceflight: Not the astronauts but the software nerds [695d] [hn]
• Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win [695d] [hn]
• Solving puzzles faster than humanly possible [695d] [hn]
• Hope without optimism – transcription of a talk by Dave Snowden (2022) [695d] [hn]
• SVG: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly [695d] [hn]
• Stanford student collects her Master's degree at the age of 105 [695d] [hn]
• The Vienna Secession: A History [695d] [hn]
• Uh-Oh: A story of SpaghettiOs and forgotten history [695d] [hn]
• NTS (TeX reimplementation in Java from 2001) still compiles under Java 16 [695d] [hn]
• Ontario Science Centre to close immediately [695d] [hn]
• Climate Zones [695d] [hn]
• GitHub – Karpathy/LLM101n: LLM101n: Let's Build a Storyteller [695d] [hn]
• Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments [695d] [hn]
• What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser? [695d] [hn]
• TSMC experimenting with rectangular wafers vs. round for more chips per wafer [695d] [hn]
• Migrating from Java 8 to Java 17: A Comprehensive Guide to New Features [695d] [hn]
• Why SMBs Don't Deploy SSO [695d] [hn]
• What good are whizzy new drugs if the world can't afford them? [695d] [hn]
• We now have even more evidence against the "ecocide" theory of Easter Island [695d] [hn]
• Huawei unveils its own programming language the "Cangjie" [695d] [hn]
• Ollama Release v0.1.45. Support DeepSeek-Coder-V2 [695d] [hn]
• A runaway plane took off by itself and spent 3 hours flying unpiloted in 1955 [695d] [hn]
• ChatGPT Fails to Understand Causation [695d] [hn]
• Kraken Says Hackers Turned to 'Extortion' After Exploiting Bug for $3M [695d] [hn]
• Thai Cabinet Formally Approves Bid for BRICS Membership [695d] [hn]
• Apple Intelligence Features Not Coming to Europe at Launch Due to DMA [695d] [hn]
• Babylon's Mystery Goddess [695d] [hn]
• CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux [695d] [hn]
• How to prolong lithium based batteries [695d] [hn]
• Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns [695d] [hn]
• Show HN: High-Frequency Trading and Market-Making Backtesting Tool with Examples [695d] [hn]
• Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F [695d] [hn]
• Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design [695d] [hn]
• McDonald's AI Drive-Thru debacle is a warning to us all [695d] [hn]
• 54 Humans in One 8-meter Gravitics Module [695d] [hn]
• Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? [695d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Midlife crisis, which direction to go with? [695d] [hn]
• OpenAI Acquires Rockset [695d] [hn]
• Fastly launches free developer accounts [695d] [hn]
• Reaching the Enchanted Forest [696d] [hn]
• How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number [696d] [hn]
• Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites [696d] [hn]
• Twitter and the Spread of Academic Knowledge [696d] [hn]
• Brain health is rooted in state of mind, finds study [696d] [hn]
• Why Innovation Heroes Are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization [696d] [hn]
• How does a computer/calculator compute logarithms? [696d] [hn]
• Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code [696d] [hn]
• FDA Expands Approval of Gene Therapy for Patients with Muscular Dystrophy [696d] [hn]
• From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction [696d] [hn]
• Show HN: Online OPML editor to manage subscription lists [696d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What indoor CO2 monitor do you recommend? [696d] [hn]
• It seems routine to see a bunch of browser User-Agents from the same IP [696d] [hn]
• Wireless power transfer system achieves 270-kilowatt charge [696d] [hn]
• The Migrants Spending $72,000 to Illegally Immigrate to the US [696d] [hn]
• Advanced Text Features and PDF [696d] [hn]
• Athelas (YC S16) Is Hiring a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer [696d] [hn]