The Brutalist Report

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• Executive order on Smithsonian targets funding programs with 'improper ideology' [410d] [hn]
• US administration revokes $11B in funding for addiction, mental health care [410d] [hn]
• Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life [410d] [hn]
• Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi [410d] [hn]
• Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia [410d] [hn]
• Anthropic Economic Index: Insights from Claude 3.7 Sonnet [410d] [hn]
• Emacs Solo: A Surprise System Crafters Live Demo [410d] [hn]
• Asking Good Questions Is Harder Than Giving Great Answers [410d] [hn]
• Writing an HTTP Server in Go from Scratch: Part 2 [410d] [hn]
• Golang on the Playstation 2 [410d] [hn]
• I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs [410d] [hn]
• Take this on call and shove it [410d] [hn]
• Revyl (YC F24) Is Hiring a Front End Engineer Intern [410d] [hn]
• We are building the next DocuSign [410d] [hn]
• Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf] [410d] [hn]
• The Leader of the LeetCode Rebellion: An Interview with Roy Lee [410d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dish: A lightweight HTTP and TCP socket monitoring tool written in Go [410d] [hn]
• How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) [410d] [hn]
• HDMI Musings: YCbCr color subsampling, Dolby Vision MEL/FEL, and and5V injection [410d] [hn]
• I tried making artificial sunlight at home [410d] [hn]
• Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com [410d] [hn]
• SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever [410d] [hn]
• NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts [410d] [hn]
• AI models miss disease in Black and female patients [410d] [hn]
• Clean, a formal verification DSL for ZK circuits in Lean4 [410d] [hn]
• A language for building concurrent software with confidence [410d] [hn]
• Parameter-Free KV Cache Compression for Memory-Efficient Long-Context LLMs [410d] [hn]
• B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers Begin Unannounced Deployment to Diego Garcia [410d] [hn]
• California bill aims to phase out harmful ultra-processed foods in schools [410d] [hn]
• Show HN: Xorq – open-source Python-first Pandas-style pipelines [410d] [hn]
• Alkanes on Mars [410d] [hn]
• Abundance Isn't Going to Happen Unless Politicians Are Scared of the Status Quo [410d] [hn]
• Tracing the thoughts of a large language model [410d] [hn]
• Zoom bias: The social costs of having a 'tinny' sound during video conferences [410d] [hn]
• Vibe marketing prompts for OpenAI's new model [411d] [hn]
• People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI, study says otherwise [411d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants [411d] [hn]
• Mud, water and wood: The system that kept a 1604-year-old city afloat [411d] [hn]
• How the American Medical Association Screws Doctors [411d] [hn]
• Thinner Films Conduct Better Than Copper [411d] [hn]
• Building a modern durable execution engine from first principles [411d] [hn]
• Netlify deploys hundreds of thousands of Next.js sites – here's what challenging [411d] [hn]
• A Special Year at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum [411d] [hn]
• What went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute? [411d] [hn]
• Crawl Order and Disorder [411d] [hn]
• A filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark's self-image [411d] [hn]
• Blasting Past WebP - An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit [411d] [hn]
• Show HN: StoffelVM – A WIP VM for Multiparty Computation [411d] [hn]
• Craniometrix (YC W22) Is Hiring [411d] [hn]