The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Autonomous AI Agents Should Not Be Developed [158d] [hn]
• Consistent Jailbreaking Method in o1, o3, and 4o [158d] [hn]
• Obscure Islands I Find Interesting [158d] [hn]
• Portland's Exploding Liberty Bell [158d] [hn]
• Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build SOTA Agent Memory [158d] [hn]
• Show HN: ExpenseOwl – simple and beautiful self-hostedexpense tracker [158d] [hn]
• Long Covid impacting more than 1M children: CDC study suggests [158d] [hn]
• Show HN: Open-source Hacker News apps [158d] [hn]
• The Impact of AI on the Technical Interview Process [158d] [hn]
• The Purge – By Dan Rather and Team Steady [158d] [hn]
• Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019) [158d] [hn]
• Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments [159d] [hn]
• Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences [159d] [hn]
• Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities [159d] [hn]
• A Brief History of Code Signing at Mozilla [159d] [hn]
• Pantograph: A Fluid and Typed Structure Editor [159d] [hn]
• A German court rules: X must provide researchers access to data [159d] [hn]
• PropRise (YC S23) Is Hiring Our First Engineer [159d] [hn]
• Ketamine for Depression: How It Works [159d] [hn]
• The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency [159d] [hn]
• Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis (2019) [159d] [hn]
• Mysterious Radiation Belts Detected Around Earth After Epic Solar Storm [159d] [hn]
• A 16TB Mirror of Data.gov on Source.Coop [159d] [hn]
• Three-nanite: Unreal Nanite in Three.js [159d] [hn]
• The Age of Agent Experience [159d] [hn]
• Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing [159d] [hn]
• When Louis Armstrong Conquered Chicago [159d] [hn]
• Kokoro WebGPU: Real-time text-to-speech 100% locally in the browser [159d] [hn]
• Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid [159d] [hn]
• Noether's Theorem Revolutionized Physics [159d] [hn]
• Gleam v1.8.0 Released [159d] [hn]
• Feds Halt the National Electric Vehicle Charging Program [159d] [hn]
• AI dialogue analysis confirms movies have grown more violent over past 70 years [159d] [hn]
• How to help us build open source Pebble software [159d] [hn]
• Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math [159d] [hn]
• Personal Software Is Becoming a Trend [159d] [hn]
• Multiple security flaws found in DeepSeek iOS app, incl sending unencrypted data [159d] [hn]
• Fabrication Begins for Production OpenTitan Silicon – Google Open Source Blog [159d] [hn]
• Procedural Hydrology: Dynamic Lake and River Simulation (2020) [159d] [hn]
• Entity-Component-System Architecture in Kubernetes [159d] [hn]
• UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data [159d] [hn]
• Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Resigns from Linux Kernel [159d] [hn]
• Estonia to disconnect from the Russian-run electricity network on Saturday [159d] [hn]
• The Culture Scene Is Total Madness [159d] [hn]
• Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds [159d] [hn]
• Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor [159d] [hn]
• InspectMind AI (YC W24) Is Hiring for AI in Construction [159d] [hn]
• Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying [159d] [hn]
• OpenAI cofounder John Schulman is joining Mira Murati's startup [159d] [hn]
• Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data [159d] [hn]
• Copilot stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from GitHub [159d] [hn]
• Using pip to install a Large Language Model that's under 100MB [159d] [hn]
• Boeing reports Starliner losses of more than half a billion dollars in 2024 [159d] [hn]
• Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a city built on scams [159d] [hn]
• Scientists on alert as NOAA restricts contact with foreign nationals [159d] [hn]
• Is the use of reCAPTCHA GDPR-compliant? [159d] [hn]
• U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts [159d] [hn]
• Blocking the telemetry of Adobe apps [159d] [hn]
• How does life happen when there's barely any light? [159d] [hn]
• Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video] [159d] [hn]
• Google Fixes Android Kernel Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks [159d] [hn]
• Harvard preserving for public use data.gov datasets [159d] [hn]
• Gold-Medalist Performance in Solving Olympiad Geometry with AlphaGeometry2 [159d] [hn]
• HippoRAG: Neurobiologically Inspired Long-Term Memory for Large Language Models [159d] [hn]
• Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness? [159d] [hn]
• Show HN: I built an AI satirical news site because news was depressing me [159d] [hn]
• There May Not Be Aha Moment in R1-Zero-Like Training [159d] [hn]
• HTML Whitespace Is Broken [159d] [hn]
• Android XR will allow camera access like on the phone [159d] [hn]
• Search PPP Loans by Zip Code [159d] [hn]
• Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data [159d] [hn]
• Tesla Is Alienating the People It Needs Most: Study [159d] [hn]
• The LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers [159d] [hn]
• Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring of Daniel Penny to Its Investors [159d] [hn]
• Easy 6502 [159d] [hn]
• Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play [159d] [hn]
• Transformer Implemented Using Excel [159d] [hn]
• Elon Musk's Demolition Crew [159d] [hn]
• California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots [159d] [hn]
• You Can't "Win" in Tech Unless You Cheat [159d] [hn]
• The US Treasury Claimed Doge Technologist Didn't Have 'Write Access' When He Did [159d] [hn]
• White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation [159d] [hn]
• US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations [159d] [hn]