The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The history and future of workplace automation [552d] [hn]
• Y Combinator backs its first defense startup, Ares Industries [552d] [hn]
• Realistic Synthetic UGC: A Scaffolding Approach to Generating Online Discussions [552d] [hn]
• Bootstrap a Linux system from a 512 byte binary seed with 170 steps [552d] [hn]
• Pavel Durov and the Blackberry Ratchet [552d] [hn]
• Real-world uplift modelling with significance-based uplift trees [pdf] [552d] [hn]
• Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off [552d] [hn]
• San Francisco officials weigh in on departure of X headquarters: 'Good riddance' [552d] [hn]
• Show HN: Z80 Sans [552d] [hn]
• Rollstack (YC W23) Is Hiring TypeScript Engineers – US/Canada (East Coast Only) [552d] [hn]
• Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C? [552d] [hn]
• Pi Pico 2 Extreme Teardown [552d] [hn]
• The Power of Attraction: How Beauty Influences Startup Investments [552d] [hn]
• Olivetti Programma 101: At the Origins of the Personal Computer – Inexhibit [552d] [hn]
• Fermi Resonance and the Quantum Mechanical Basis of Global Warming [552d] [hn]
• Big Pharma claims lower prices means giving up miracle medications. Ignore them [552d] [hn]
• MacOS X Malware Development [552d] [hn]
• Essays: NSA Surveillance: A Guide to Staying Secure – Schneier on Security [552d] [hn]
• Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? [552d] [hn]
• Stripe Data vs. Open‐Source Alternatives: A MRR Example [552d] [hn]
• Telegram: We abide by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act [552d] [hn]
• Why is a Guillotine blade diagonal? [552d] [hn]
• Extracting Pre-Post Correlations for Meta-Analyses of Repeated Measures Designs [552d] [hn]
• Los Angeles is in a 4-year sprint to deliver a car-free 2028 Olympics [552d] [hn]
• GenAI diminishes creativity instead of inspiration [552d] [hn]
• TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them [552d] [hn]
• An AWS IAM Security Tooling Reference [552d] [hn]
• Fossils are found all over, but what made them was a mystery [552d] [hn]
• The art of programming and why I won't use LLM [552d] [hn]
• Fair Source licensing is the worst thing to happen to open source-definitely ma [552d] [hn]
• Bananas almost went extinct 70 years ago – Now a deadly fungus is trying again [552d] [hn]
• Linux Pipes Are Slow [552d] [hn]
• Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI [552d] [hn]
• Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing [552d] [hn]
• BuffDB is a Rust library to simplify multi-plexing on edge devices [552d] [hn]
• A Guide to Flamewarriors [552d] [hn]
• Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible [552d] [hn]
• Apple Approves iDOS Emulator [552d] [hn]
• Emulating the Early Macintosh Floppy Drive [552d] [hn]
• Rnote – Sketch and take handwritten notes [552d] [hn]
• Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021) [552d] [hn]
• Apple Explores Robotics in Search of Life Beyond the iPhone [552d] [hn]
• Programming terrain from scratch using C++ and OpenGL by Shamus Young (2006) [552d] [hn]
• Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn [552d] [hn]
• Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third [552d] [hn]
• From Datalog to SVG [552d] [hn]
• How de-Googled is Lineage OS? [552d] [hn]
• Why Does Elisp Suck [552d] [hn]
• 4.6M Voter and Election Documents Exposed Online by Technology Contractor [552d] [hn]
• The Tao of Unicode Sparklines [552d] [hn]
• Things I Learned from Doing Triathlon in My 70s [552d] [hn]
• Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: A General Overview [552d] [hn]
• Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache [552d] [hn]
• Acorn – Use Laravel Inside WordPress [552d] [hn]
• Strandbeest [552d] [hn]
• Scientists achieve more than 98% efficiency removing nanoplastics from water [552d] [hn]
• NASA's Starliner decision was the right one, but it's a crushing blow for Boeing [552d] [hn]
• Sticker on caption phone says that using the captions can be illegal. Why? [552d] [hn]
• Guide to Error Handling in Rust [552d] [hn]
• MavenGate gets it all wrong and hurts open source [552d] [hn]
• Show HN: Cursor AI Rules Directory (Open Source) [552d] [hn]
• European iPhones are more fun now [552d] [hn]
• How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers [552d] [hn]
• Open Source Gerrymandering (2019) [552d] [hn]
• Neurotechnology Numbers Worth Knowing [553d] [hn]
• Ruby's official documentation just got a new look [553d] [hn]
• Transfer energy from nitrogen to argon enables 2-wayl cascaded lasing in air [553d] [hn]
• Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this [553d] [hn]
• Postgres as a Search Engine [553d] [hn]
• Serpent OS Prealpha0 Released [553d] [hn]
• Looming Liability Machines (LLMs) [553d] [hn]