The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Europeans Spend 575M Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year [262d] [hn]
• Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe [262d] [hn]
• In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024 [262d] [hn]
• Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# [262d] [hn]
• Beelink mini-PC docking station supports desktop GPU [262d] [hn]
• InspectMind AI (YC W24) Is Hiring for AI in Construction [262d] [hn]
• Valuing Humans in the Age of Superintelligence: HumaneRank [262d] [hn]
• S/Sed/Ed [262d] [hn]
• Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge [262d] [hn]
• Speeding up the Rust edit-build-run cycle [263d] [hn]
• Prompt Injecting Your Way to Shell: OpenAI's Containerized ChatGPT Environment [263d] [hn]
• OpenMP 6.0 [263d] [hn]
• Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF [263d] [hn]
• Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Feed You More AI Slop [263d] [hn]
• The Poor UX/UI of Major Cloud Providers: ECS/VMs Management [263d] [hn]
• Perplexity: Why We're Experimenting with Advertising [263d] [hn]
• How AI is beating VCs in their own game [263d] [hn]
• AI Progress Stalls as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Hit Roadblocks [263d] [hn]
• Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess [263d] [hn]
• Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess [263d] [hn]
• MindsDB (YC W20) Is Hiring an Operations Analyst [263d] [hn]
• O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers' time [263d] [hn]
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• Origin private file system – MDN [263d] [hn]
• The Corpus of United States State Statutes–Design, Construction and Use [263d] [hn]
• AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive [263d] [hn]
• On Building Git for Lawyers [263d] [hn]
• Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Watches Its Step [video] [263d] [hn]
• Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads [263d] [hn]
• We can all be AI engineers – and we can do it with open source models [263d] [hn]
• Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs [263d] [hn]
• PyPI now supports digital attestations [263d] [hn]
• The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction [263d] [hn]
• The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy [263d] [hn]
• How the Ivy League Broke America [263d] [hn]
• A memory leak in Apple's Network Extension framework [263d] [hn]
• Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World [263d] [hn]
• Keycloak took 10 months to fix a 2FA bypass [263d] [hn]
• Open-Source Software Is in Crisis [263d] [hn]
• Hosting a hobby project without credit card and How I did it [263d] [hn]
• MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia [263d] [hn]
• I Regret Ever Open Sourcing Java – Jill Malony Ratkevic [263d] [hn]
• The geometry of data: the missing metric tensor and the Stein score [Part II] [263d] [hn]
• Amazon Haul–a broad selection of products $20 or less [263d] [hn]
• SQLite Index Visualization [263d] [hn]
• The closest open-source alternatives to Notion and Miro [263d] [hn]
• DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration [263d] [hn]
• Async Await Is the Worst Thing to Happen to Programming [263d] [hn]
• Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory [263d] [hn]
• BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners [263d] [hn]
• WebVM 2.0: A complete Linux Desktop Environment in the browser via WebAssembly [263d] [hn]
• Lessons from My First Exit [263d] [hn]
• Vanessa Freudenberg's SqueakJS Paper Wins ACM Sigplan Most Notable Paper Award [pdf] [263d] [hn]
• I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100 [263d] [hn]
• GOG's Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing on the Classics [263d] [hn]
• Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art [video] [263d] [hn]
• An Oral History of "We Built This City," the Worst Song of All Time (2016) [263d] [hn]
• Go-Safeweb [263d] [hn]
• JSON for Classic C++ [263d] [hn]
• Windows Kills SMB Speeds When Using Tailscale [263d] [hn]
• Looking for a Job Is Tough [263d] [hn]
• PRC Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure [263d] [hn]
• NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool [263d] [hn]
• YouTube Premium Showing Ads [263d] [hn]