The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The history and future of workplace automation [628d] [hn]
• Y Combinator backs its first defense startup, Ares Industries [628d] [hn]
• Realistic Synthetic UGC: A Scaffolding Approach to Generating Online Discussions [628d] [hn]
• Bootstrap a Linux system from a 512 byte binary seed with 170 steps [628d] [hn]
• Pavel Durov and the Blackberry Ratchet [628d] [hn]
• Real-world uplift modelling with significance-based uplift trees [pdf] [628d] [hn]
• Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off [628d] [hn]
• San Francisco officials weigh in on departure of X headquarters: 'Good riddance' [628d] [hn]
• Show HN: Z80 Sans [628d] [hn]
• Rollstack (YC W23) Is Hiring TypeScript Engineers – US/Canada (East Coast Only) [628d] [hn]
• Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C? [628d] [hn]
• Pi Pico 2 Extreme Teardown [628d] [hn]
• The Power of Attraction: How Beauty Influences Startup Investments [628d] [hn]
• Olivetti Programma 101: At the Origins of the Personal Computer – Inexhibit [628d] [hn]
• Fermi Resonance and the Quantum Mechanical Basis of Global Warming [628d] [hn]
• Big Pharma claims lower prices means giving up miracle medications. Ignore them [628d] [hn]
• MacOS X Malware Development [628d] [hn]
• Essays: NSA Surveillance: A Guide to Staying Secure – Schneier on Security [628d] [hn]
• Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? [628d] [hn]
• Stripe Data vs. Open‐Source Alternatives: A MRR Example [628d] [hn]
• Telegram: We abide by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act [628d] [hn]
• Why is a Guillotine blade diagonal? [628d] [hn]
• Extracting Pre-Post Correlations for Meta-Analyses of Repeated Measures Designs [628d] [hn]
• Los Angeles is in a 4-year sprint to deliver a car-free 2028 Olympics [628d] [hn]
• GenAI diminishes creativity instead of inspiration [628d] [hn]
• TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them [628d] [hn]
• An AWS IAM Security Tooling Reference [628d] [hn]
• Fossils are found all over, but what made them was a mystery [628d] [hn]
• The art of programming and why I won't use LLM [628d] [hn]
• Fair Source licensing is the worst thing to happen to open source-definitely ma [628d] [hn]
• Bananas almost went extinct 70 years ago – Now a deadly fungus is trying again [628d] [hn]
• Linux Pipes Are Slow [628d] [hn]
• Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI [628d] [hn]
• Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing [628d] [hn]
• BuffDB is a Rust library to simplify multi-plexing on edge devices [628d] [hn]
• A Guide to Flamewarriors [628d] [hn]
• Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible [628d] [hn]
• Apple Approves iDOS Emulator [628d] [hn]
• Emulating the Early Macintosh Floppy Drive [628d] [hn]
• Rnote – Sketch and take handwritten notes [628d] [hn]
• Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021) [628d] [hn]
• Apple Explores Robotics in Search of Life Beyond the iPhone [628d] [hn]
• Programming terrain from scratch using C++ and OpenGL by Shamus Young (2006) [628d] [hn]
• Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn [628d] [hn]
• Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third [628d] [hn]
• From Datalog to SVG [628d] [hn]
• How de-Googled is Lineage OS? [628d] [hn]
• Why Does Elisp Suck [628d] [hn]
• 4.6M Voter and Election Documents Exposed Online by Technology Contractor [628d] [hn]
• The Tao of Unicode Sparklines [628d] [hn]
• Things I Learned from Doing Triathlon in My 70s [628d] [hn]
• Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: A General Overview [629d] [hn]
• Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache [629d] [hn]
• Acorn – Use Laravel Inside WordPress [629d] [hn]
• Strandbeest [629d] [hn]
• Scientists achieve more than 98% efficiency removing nanoplastics from water [629d] [hn]
• NASA's Starliner decision was the right one, but it's a crushing blow for Boeing [629d] [hn]
• Sticker on caption phone says that using the captions can be illegal. Why? [629d] [hn]