The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The Documentation Tradeoff [91d] [hn]
• Happy Macs Gopher Site Back Online [91d] [hn]
• Carving the Super Nintendo Video System [91d] [hn]
• How to Compile Your Language – Guide to implement a modern compiler for language [91d] [hn]
• Pallene: A statically compiled companion language for Lua [91d] [hn]
• Nearly 2/3 of Home Listings Have Been Sitting on the Market Longer Than a Month [91d] [hn]
• Secure Boot useless on PCs from major vendors after key leak [91d] [hn]
• Planet eBook: free literature for your device [91d] [hn]
• Show HN: Vdm, a sane alternative to e.g. Git submodules [91d] [hn]
• The ocean floor is covered in naturally-occurring batteries that make oxygen [92d] [hn]
• The Smith-Prmier No. 1 Typewriter [92d] [hn]
• Ps aux written in bash without ever forking [92d] [hn]
• The Tech of Planetary Annihilation: ChronoCam [92d] [hn]
• Why Navajo is one of the most difficult languages on Earth [92d] [hn]
• The opulent world of six-figure kids birthday parties in Silicon Valley [92d] [hn]
• Be MacGyver [92d] [hn]
• 50th anniversary of Vannevar Bush's passing [92d] [hn]
• LeanDojo: Theorem Proving in Lean Using LLMs [92d] [hn]
• Can the moon influence human health? New research [92d] [hn]
• Low-cost open-source active electrode to measure EEG [92d] [hn]
• Rust for Rustaceans [92d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices? [92d] [hn]
• Higher-kinded bounded polymorphism in OCaml [92d] [hn]
• Compare 75 AI Models on 200 Prompts Side by Side [92d] [hn]
• FurtherAI (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Software Engineers in Bay Area [92d] [hn]
• Show HN: A football/soccer pass visualizer made with Three.js [92d] [hn]
• Don't blindly prefer `emplace_back` to `push_back` in C++ [92d] [hn]
• I will not do you a quick favour [92d] [hn]
• tolower() with AVX-512 [92d] [hn]
• A man's brain is like a little empty attic (1887) [92d] [hn]
• Apple Intelligence to Miss Initial iOS 18 Launch [92d] [hn]
• CrowdStrike offers partners $10 vouchers to say sorry – and they don't work [92d] [hn]
• Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident [92d] [hn]
• SDcard wear leveling and translation layers [92d] [hn]
• Governor Orders State Agencies to Clear Dangerous Homeless Camps [92d] [hn]
• The Wolfram Physics Project – An Approach to the Fundamental Theory of Physics [92d] [hn]
• William James and a Theory of Thinking [pdf] [92d] [hn]
• Greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level [92d] [hn]
• Local library has decades old server running,and they don't know what it's doing [92d] [hn]
• Dual-action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance nearly impossible [92d] [hn]
• Alzheimer's blood test catches 90% of early dementia cases, study finds [92d] [hn]
• How can a time traveler encrypt info so it's only decryptable after a given date [92d] [hn]
• Perfectionism – one of the biggest productivity killers in the eng industry [92d] [hn]
• The CMD FD-4000 Floppy Drive's Can Convert Disks from HD (1.4MB) to ED (3.2MB) [92d] [hn]
• What's trending on GitHub week ending July 28 2024 [92d] [hn]
• Italy's "Sun Motorway": the story of an exceptional infrastructure [92d] [hn]
• The Moon Is Made of Cheese [92d] [hn]
• Show HN: ThinkPost – split-panel note taking & brainstorming app for devs [92d] [hn]
• Dining Critic Tries Nutraloaf, the Prison Food for Misbehaving Inmates (2010] [92d] [hn]
• Stanhope (optical bijou) [92d] [hn]
• Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer [92d] [hn]
• An ordinary day with a Linux mobile device [92d] [hn]
• What we would've done differently in the first year of bootstrapping our company [92d] [hn]
• Complex systems emerge from simple rules [92d] [hn]
• An AI bot-war destroyed the online job market [92d] [hn]
• How Simultaneous Multithreading Works Under the Hood [92d] [hn]
• What Visa earnings tell us about the state of the payments industry [92d] [hn]
• My mental model of setf was wrong [92d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built an affordable service for growing your SaaS [92d] [hn]
• Understanding Airflow DAG and Task Concurrency on Google Cloud Composer [92d] [hn]
• Non-Obvious Prompt Engineering Guide [92d] [hn]
• Show HN: I made a tool to receive alerts when answers change [92d] [hn]
• NASA nears decision on what to do with Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft [92d] [hn]
• My Obsidian Note-Taking Workflow [92d] [hn]
• Rent control effects: An almost complete review of the literature [92d] [hn]
• 1% of people are responsible for 24% of the health spending in America [92d] [hn]
• Show HN: CeLLama – Single cell annotation with local Large Language Models [92d] [hn]
• My favorite tools and techniques for procedural gamedev [92d] [hn]
• What Was Cyberpunk? In Memoriam: 1980-2020 (2020) [92d] [hn]
• Why many studies wrongly claim it's healthy to drink a little alcohol [92d] [hn]
• As the Great Salt Lake dries up, it is emitting millions of tons of of CO2 [92d] [hn]
• As the Great Salt Lake dries up, it is emitting millions of tons of of CO2 [92d] [hn]
• A Time Traveler's Guide to the Stock Market [92d] [hn]
• Eating Foods with Xylitol Can Be a Risk to Your Heart [92d] [hn]
• Surprising element found in Tycho Brahe's alchemy lab confounds scientists [92d] [hn]
• CalcGPT [92d] [hn]
• SpaCy team back to an independent-minded self-sufficient company [92d] [hn]
• Hiding in plain sight: Modifying process names in Unix-like systems [92d] [hn]
• The irrational hungry judge effect revisited [92d] [hn]