The Brutalist Report

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• Cheaper to rent in Barcelona and commute to London [15d] [hn]
• Defensive Communication (1961) [15d] [hn]
• The anomalous state of Uranus's magnetosphere during the Voyager 2 flyby [15d] [hn]
• I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering [15d] [hn]
• Leaving and Waving [15d] [hn]
• Bluesky adds 700k new members as users flee X after the US election [15d] [hn]
• Why California is still counting votes and how long it may take to finish [15d] [hn]
• Blame the Gerbils [15d] [hn]
• The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture [15d] [hn]
• Horse – The Organized Browser [15d] [hn]
• The transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades [15d] [hn]
• Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week [15d] [hn]
• Islands of the Feral Pigs [16d] [hn]
• This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats [16d] [hn]
• Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016) [16d] [hn]
• Visual inference exploration and experimentation playground [16d] [hn]
• What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres [16d] [hn]
• Avremu: An 8-Bit AVR Microcontroller Simulator Written in LaTeX [16d] [hn]
• One of the largest Godot projects is transitioning off of Godot [16d] [hn]
• Git and Jujutsu: In Miniature [16d] [hn]
• Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write [16d] [hn]
• Converted a MacBook into a PC [16d] [hn]
• Tinfoil.com – Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds [16d] [hn]
• Misguided Apple Intelligence ads [16d] [hn]
• How I ship projects at big tech companies [16d] [hn]
• YubiKey still selling old stock with vulnerable firmware [16d] [hn]
• I Don't Have Spotify [16d] [hn]
• Improving Steam Client Stability on Linux [16d] [hn]
• Visualizing World War II [16d] [hn]
• High Levels of Banned PFAS Detected in Hershey's Packaging [16d] [hn]
• Gym Class VR (YC W22) Is Hiring Mobile Gameplay Lead [16d] [hn]
• Homage to Alexander Grothendieck [16d] [hn]
• Foundry worker puts wet scrap metal into furnace [16d] [hn]
• The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed [16d] [hn]
• Security Is a Useless Controls Problem [16d] [hn]
• Testing the Z80 Chip with a 1970s Beauty [16d] [hn]
• PGQueuer v0.15.0 Released – Now with Recurring Job Scheduling [16d] [hn]
• 'Brain stars' store our memories like a microscopic filing cabinet [16d] [hn]
• LICENSE.TXT [video] [16d] [hn]
• Genetically engineered cellular nanoparticles for biomedical applications (2023) [16d] [hn]
• Every Arthouse Buff You Know Is Pirating Films [16d] [hn]
• YouTube Terminates Popular Retro Gaming Channel Without Warning [16d] [hn]
• Show HN: Flash Kitty – Archive of Adobe/Macromedia Flash Movies from Flash Kit [16d] [hn]
• Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform [16d] [hn]
• Optimizing a WebGPU Kernel to 1TFLOP of Performance [16d] [hn]
• The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google [16d] [hn]
• The Doodle Theorem, and Beyond [16d] [hn]
• The Surprising Effectiveness of Test-Time Training for Abstract Reasoning [pdf] [16d] [hn]
• The surprising effectiveness of test-time training for abstract reasoning [pdf] [16d] [hn]
• New elliptic curve breaks 18-year-old record [16d] [hn]
• TinyTroupe, a new LLM-powered multiagent persona simulation Python library [16d] [hn]
• Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir [video] [16d] [hn]
• Inside the $20M business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies [16d] [hn]
• Did Scientists Revive an Extinct Animal or Just Breed a Less Stripey Zebra? [16d] [hn]
• DuckDuckGo AI Chat [16d] [hn]
• Microscope Museum [16d] [hn]
• A hot day, a fan provides little benefit when the temperature exceeds 35°C [16d] [hn]
• Binary vector embeddings are so cool [16d] [hn]
• AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now open source [16d] [hn]
• AlphaFold 3 Code [16d] [hn]
• The Silurian Hypothesis [16d] [hn]
• ERP rollout at Europe's largest local council slammed [16d] [hn]
• How Chordcat Works, a Chord Naming Algorithm [16d] [hn]
• Haven (YC W23) Is Hiring [16d] [hn]
• A sit-down with Ubuntu founder Mark 'SABDFL' Shuttleworth [16d] [hn]
• Implementing Order-Independent Transparency [16d] [hn]
• How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day [16d] [hn]
• Decoding Hera [16d] [hn]
• Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser [16d] [hn]
• Inside M4 chips: P cores [16d] [hn]
• SST: Container Support [16d] [hn]
• Java-Based No-Code and Low-Code Application Bootstrapping Tools Review [16d] [hn]
• Mattel apologises after Wicked movie dolls link to porn site on packaging [16d] [hn]
• TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA [16d] [hn]