The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Dr. Mengele, USA Style: Lessons from Human Rights Abuses Post-World War II [pdf] [566d] [hn]
• Wet-lab innovations will lead the AI revolution in biology [566d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Has anyone been able to contact Cloudflare Support in the last 5 days? [566d] [hn]
• Spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig [566d] [hn]
• User-defined Order in SQL (2018) [566d] [hn]
• Why brutalist buildings should stay, even if people think they're ugly [566d] [hn]
• The Record: Music before mass production [566d] [hn]
• Workers are stuck in place because everyone is too afraid of a recession to quit [566d] [hn]
• Piecing Together an Ancient Epic Was Slow Work. Until A.I. Got Involved [566d] [hn]
• Distributed == Relational [566d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What's Your Experience with eSIMs? [566d] [hn]
• National Popular Vote Interstate Compact [566d] [hn]
• NASA Investigation Finds Boeing Hindering Americans' Return to Moon [566d] [hn]
• History of Hacker News Search from 2007 to 2024 [566d] [hn]
• Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are Categorically Unconstitutional [566d] [hn]
• TP-Link GPL Code Center [566d] [hn]
• Entangled Photons Maintained Under New York Streets [566d] [hn]
• National Instruments acquired by Emerson [566d] [hn]
• Damn Vulnerable UEFI [566d] [hn]
• Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it's over [566d] [hn]
• Stop Relying on IF NOT EXISTS for Concurrent Index Creation in PostgreSQL [566d] [hn]
• SQL Injection Isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level [566d] [hn]
• San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents [566d] [hn]
• Callisto: Reverse polish notation programming language inspired by YSL-C3, Forth [566d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What are some "toy" projects you used to learn NN hands-on? [566d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Synnax (YC S24) – Unified Hardware Control and Sensor Data Streaming [566d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Synnax (YC S24) – Unified Hardware Control and Sensor Data Streaming [566d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a 3D bookshelf for ebooks [566d] [hn]
• Quote-unquote "macros" [566d] [hn]
• Britain to use "AI" to answer taxpayer's letters [566d] [hn]
• Takeaways from the Vision Pro After 6 Months [566d] [hn]
• Racetrack Memory May Arrive in 5-7 Years (2010) [566d] [hn]
• FCC seek comments on NextNav petition for rulemaking on lower 900MHz ISM band [566d] [hn]
• Tim Sweeney: " Now Apple is demanding a 30% cut of all Patreon DONATIONS [566d] [hn]
• ProhostAI (YC S24) Is Hiring [566d] [hn]
• Repair and Remain: How to do the slow, hard, good work of staying put [566d] [hn]
• NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation [566d] [hn]
• How Bank of America Ignores Its Own Rules to Prevent Dangerous Workloads [566d] [hn]
• Cancer Rates Are Rising in Young People [566d] [hn]
• New data shows violent crime dropping sharply in major U.S. cities [566d] [hn]
• The Geometric Tool That Solved Einstein's Relativity Problem [566d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why ChatGPT loves the word: "eager" so much? [566d] [hn]
• Genie: Best AI Software Engineer [566d] [hn]
• Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon [566d] [hn]
• Keeping Secrets (2014) [566d] [hn]
• X targeted with 9 privacy complaints after grabbing EU users' data for training [566d] [hn]
• Postgres.new [566d] [hn]
• New research on why Cahokia Mounds civilization left [566d] [hn]
• Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync [566d] [hn]
• Paris Agreement Thresholds Crossed [566d] [hn]
• Creating the largest protein-protein interaction dataset in the world [566d] [hn]
• Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme [566d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What code editors or IDE's are easily scriptable? [566d] [hn]
• New Apache Airflow Operators for Google Generative AI [566d] [hn]
• Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface [566d] [hn]
• A UX Designer Walks into a Tesla Bar – Scott Jenson [566d] [hn]
• AMD records its highest server market share in decades [566d] [hn]
• There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018) [566d] [hn]
• "Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers" [566d] [hn]
• Google Down [566d] [hn]
• What startup founders have in common [566d] [hn]
• Okay, I Like WezTerm [566d] [hn]
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about E. Coli (2008) [566d] [hn]
• Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail [566d] [hn]
• US Government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button [566d] [hn]
• They encouraged us to insulate our home. Now it's unmortgageable [566d] [hn]
• American IQs Are Dropping. Here's Why It Might Not Be a Bad Thing [566d] [hn]
• The Decline of Etiquette and the Rise of 'Boundaries' (2022) [566d] [hn]
• DEFCON attendees having mandatory daily room searches by conference block hotels [566d] [hn]
• Interstellar movie is implemented with Einstein's equations in 40k lines C++ [566d] [hn]
• Box2D 3.0 Released [566d] [hn]
• I Quit Spotify [566d] [hn]
• How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words? [566d] [hn]
• UN Cybercrime Convention to Overrule Bank Secrecy [566d] [hn]
• OnlyFans' porn juggernaut fueled by a deception [566d] [hn]
• GIL Become Optional in Python 3.13 [566d] [hn]
• Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer [566d] [hn]
• Show HN: Anycast+ – An AI-powered podcast app [566d] [hn]
• Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply [566d] [hn]
• Gaussian Splatting Slam [CVPR 2024] [566d] [hn]
• Show HN: Copy-Paste from Webflow into Webstudio [567d] [hn]
• Google is killing one of Chrome's biggest ad blockers [567d] [hn]
• How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop? [567d] [hn]
• Comma.ai: Refactoring for Growth [567d] [hn]
• AMD's processors have been shipping with a dangerous security bug [567d] [hn]