The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• All-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots [10d] [hn]
• The decline and fall of the British economy [10d] [hn]
• Phased Array [10d] [hn]
• Contain – CSS Cascading Style Sheets – MDN [10d] [hn]
• King Arthur's ancient trail across Britain [10d] [hn]
• DIMM vs. Udimm vs. Rdimm vs. Sodimm vs. Cudimm: What's the Difference? [10d] [hn]
• Discord API Errors [10d] [hn]
• Appreciation of the mark-all-as-read button [10d] [hn]
• Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (1940) [10d] [hn]
• Distributed Systems 4th Edition [10d] [hn]
• Why does the same font look better on macOS? [10d] [hn]
• CSS Gets a New Logo: and It Uses the Color `Rebeccapurple` [10d] [hn]
• Why on Earth do we have 29.97fps? [10d] [hn]
• I Learned to Stop Being a "Chill Girl" and Start Being Me [10d] [hn]
• Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe [10d] [hn]
• IPv6 networks do apparently get probed [10d] [hn]
• How AI Could Break the Career Ladder [10d] [hn]
• One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit [10d] [hn]
• Xogot – Godot for iPad [10d] [hn]
• Safety in an Unsafe World [10d] [hn]
• Pentagon fails 7th audit in a row but says progress made [10d] [hn]
• Meteorite 200 times larger than one that killed dinosaurs reset early life [10d] [hn]
• James Gleick's Chaos: The Software [10d] [hn]
• Stop Making Me Memorize the Borrow Checker [10d] [hn]
• Microsoft and My Tinfoil Journey [10d] [hn]
• Teach Yourself to Echolocate [10d] [hn]
• SmoothLLM: Defending Large Language Models Against Jailbreaking Attacks [10d] [hn]
• The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver [10d] [hn]
• Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day [10d] [hn]
• Judge Blocks The Onion Bid for Alex Jones's InfoWars [10d] [hn]
• JavaScript dos and donts Mu-An Chiou [10d] [hn]
• Bluesky is receiving about 3k reports/hour [10d] [hn]
• AI isn't unleashing imaginations, it's outsourcing them. The purpose is profit [10d] [hn]
• Give Up GitHub [10d] [hn]
• Logica – Declarative logic programming language for data [10d] [hn]
• Blizzard-made Warcraft 1&2 remasters look like Zynga games made by blind duck [10d] [hn]
• Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open after crash [10d] [hn]
• New haptic patch transmits complexity of touch to the skin [10d] [hn]
• James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity [10d] [hn]
• Military's UFO-hunting aerial surveillance system detailed in report [10d] [hn]
• Statistical Rethinking (2024 Edition) [10d] [hn]
• Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law [10d] [hn]
• SICP The only computer science book worth reading twice (2010) [10d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What open source projects need help? [10d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Is there a [blazing fast] alternative to homebrew for macOS yet? [10d] [hn]
• Astronomers find 2 galaxies aligned where their gravity acts as a compound lens [10d] [hn]
• M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS [10d] [hn]
• A Case Against the Placebo Effect [10d] [hn]
• The easiest way to create a README [10d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties [11d] [hn]
• Apple Smells Blood in the Water [11d] [hn]
• Netflix streaming issues leaving Mike Tyson-Jake Paul viewers livid [11d] [hn]
• The Bluesky Bubble: This is a relapse, not a fix [11d] [hn]
• Thoughtworks Technology Radar Oct 2024 – From Coding Assistance to AI Evolution [11d] [hn]
• Dtype_dispatch: a macro that defines macros that define enums and match them [11d] [hn]
• Casio has released a ring in the form of its iconic watch [11d] [hn]
• Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools [11d] [hn]
• E/acc as a religion:A Technologist's Right to Choose [11d] [hn]
• YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design [11d] [hn]
• DuckDB Optimizers: The Low-Key MVP [11d] [hn]
• Show HN: Android Dev Quest – A puzzle game solvable only using developer tools [11d] [hn]
• Numpyro: Probabilistic programming with NumPy powered by Jax [11d] [hn]
• Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016) [11d] [hn]
• Micromelo Undatus [11d] [hn]
• Artificial Intelligence for Quantum Computing [11d] [hn]
• Uno Platform Studio: GUI Designer for Cross-Platform .NET Applications [11d] [hn]
• The Structure of a Worldview [11d] [hn]
• Yggdrasil Network [11d] [hn]
• C Compiler to SPIR-V [11d] [hn]
• Show HN: ZQDGR a Script Runner for Golang [11d] [hn]
• Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot [11d] [hn]