The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write [266d] [hn]
• Converted a MacBook into a PC [266d] [hn]
• Tinfoil.com – Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds [266d] [hn]
• Misguided Apple Intelligence ads [266d] [hn]
• How I ship projects at big tech companies [266d] [hn]
• YubiKey still selling old stock with vulnerable firmware [266d] [hn]
• I Don't Have Spotify [266d] [hn]
• Improving Steam Client Stability on Linux [266d] [hn]
• Visualizing World War II [266d] [hn]
• High Levels of Banned PFAS Detected in Hershey's Packaging [266d] [hn]
• Gym Class VR (YC W22) Is Hiring Mobile Gameplay Lead [266d] [hn]
• Homage to Alexander Grothendieck [266d] [hn]
• Foundry worker puts wet scrap metal into furnace [266d] [hn]
• The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed [266d] [hn]
• Security Is a Useless Controls Problem [266d] [hn]
• Testing the Z80 Chip with a 1970s Beauty [266d] [hn]
• PGQueuer v0.15.0 Released – Now with Recurring Job Scheduling [266d] [hn]
• 'Brain stars' store our memories like a microscopic filing cabinet [266d] [hn]
• LICENSE.TXT [video] [266d] [hn]
• Genetically engineered cellular nanoparticles for biomedical applications (2023) [266d] [hn]
• Every Arthouse Buff You Know Is Pirating Films [266d] [hn]
• YouTube Terminates Popular Retro Gaming Channel Without Warning [266d] [hn]
• Show HN: Flash Kitty – Archive of Adobe/Macromedia Flash Movies from Flash Kit [266d] [hn]
• Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform [266d] [hn]
• Optimizing a WebGPU Kernel to 1TFLOP of Performance [266d] [hn]
• The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google [266d] [hn]
• The Doodle Theorem, and Beyond [266d] [hn]
• The Surprising Effectiveness of Test-Time Training for Abstract Reasoning [pdf] [266d] [hn]
• The surprising effectiveness of test-time training for abstract reasoning [pdf] [266d] [hn]
• New elliptic curve breaks 18-year-old record [266d] [hn]
• TinyTroupe, a new LLM-powered multiagent persona simulation Python library [266d] [hn]
• Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir [video] [266d] [hn]
• Inside the $20M business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies [266d] [hn]
• Did Scientists Revive an Extinct Animal or Just Breed a Less Stripey Zebra? [266d] [hn]
• DuckDuckGo AI Chat [266d] [hn]
• Microscope Museum [266d] [hn]
• A hot day, a fan provides little benefit when the temperature exceeds 35°C [266d] [hn]
• Binary vector embeddings are so cool [266d] [hn]
• AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now open source [266d] [hn]
• AlphaFold 3 Code [266d] [hn]
• The Silurian Hypothesis [266d] [hn]
• ERP rollout at Europe's largest local council slammed [266d] [hn]
• How Chordcat Works, a Chord Naming Algorithm [266d] [hn]
• Haven (YC W23) Is Hiring [266d] [hn]
• A sit-down with Ubuntu founder Mark 'SABDFL' Shuttleworth [266d] [hn]
• Implementing Order-Independent Transparency [266d] [hn]
• How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day [266d] [hn]
• Decoding Hera [266d] [hn]
• Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser [266d] [hn]
• Inside M4 chips: P cores [266d] [hn]
• SST: Container Support [266d] [hn]
• Java-Based No-Code and Low-Code Application Bootstrapping Tools Review [266d] [hn]
• Mattel apologises after Wicked movie dolls link to porn site on packaging [266d] [hn]
• TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA [266d] [hn]
• Apple courier may have stolen 2 MacBooks, ... Apple is not going to help [266d] [hn]
• I Sent an Ethernet Packet [266d] [hn]
• Elephant learned to use a hose as a shower. Then her rival sought revenge [266d] [hn]
• OpenAI's new "Orion" model reportedly shows small gains over GPT-4 [266d] [hn]
• Apple threatened workers over their talk about pay and remote work, feds charge [266d] [hn]
• Virtual Windows 3.11 Computer [266d] [hn]
• MDN Browser Support Timelines [266d] [hn]
• Show HN: Krita RGBA Tech – Bringing Realistic Metal to Life in Open-Source Art [267d] [hn]
• Welcome to the Antarctic Fire Department [267d] [hn]
• Who Would Support Deploying the Military to Domestic Protests? [267d] [hn]
• Evolving a NoSQL Database Schema [267d] [hn]
• Standing Desk Might Be as Bad as Sitting All Day [267d] [hn]
• Chegg Is on Its Last Legs After ChatGPT Sent Its Stock Down 99% [267d] [hn]