The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet [429d] [hn]
• DOJ asks for judgement requiring Google to divest Chrome [pdf] [429d] [hn]
• Why do I find Rust inadequate for text compression codecs? [429d] [hn]
• How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? [430d] [hn]
• AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement [430d] [hn]
• Measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico now 208 cases, 2 deaths [430d] [hn]
• We found a DOGE guy at NASA because his Google Calendar was public [430d] [hn]
• Musk/DOGE efforts to sell off civil rights historical site [430d] [hn]
• Letta: Letta is a framework for creating LLM services with memory [430d] [hn]
• Monotype and Phototypesetting (2000) [pdf] [430d] [hn]
• From Prompt to Adventures:Creating Games with LLMs and Restate Durable Functions [430d] [hn]
• Virtual Punch Card Creator [430d] [hn]
• ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Rust Database Engineer [430d] [hn]
• Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere [430d] [hn]
• 'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability [430d] [hn]
• Deriving Muon [430d] [hn]
• No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard [430d] [hn]
• The Take It Down Act isn't a law, it's a weapon [430d] [hn]
• Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle [430d] [hn]
• Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder – and that of my colleague [430d] [hn]
• Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk [430d] [hn]
• Great software design looks underwhelming [430d] [hn]
• Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener [430d] [hn]
• Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video] [430d] [hn]
• Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools [430d] [hn]
• Two weak spots in Big Tech economics [430d] [hn]
• Impact of 8 lifestyle factors on mortality and life expectancy among US veterans [430d] [hn]
• Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI [430d] [hn]
• Extracting time series features: a powerful method from a obscure paper [pdf] [430d] [hn]
• WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely [430d] [hn]
• How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars [430d] [hn]
• First Porn, Now Skin Cream? 'Age Verification' Bills Are Out of Control [430d] [hn]
• Cliff Asness: The New 'Crypto Fort Knox' Is as Dumb as It Sounds [430d] [hn]
• AMD YOLO [430d] [hn]
• Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon [430d] [hn]