The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Why did Mozilla remove XUL add-ons? (2020) [1201d] [hn]
• GitHub and EFF back YouTube ripper in legal battle with the RIAA [1201d] [hn]
• Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust [1201d] [hn]
• A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs [1201d] [hn]
• ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI [1201d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? [1201d] [hn]
• TikTok lays off all employees in India [1201d] [hn]
• Galileo AI – Copilot for interface design [1201d] [hn]
• Live Briefing on Alaska Aerial Object Shoot-Down [1201d] [hn]
• US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast [1201d] [hn]
• U.S. shoots down 'high-altitude object' over Alaskan airspace, White House says [1201d] [hn]
• The Astonishing Transformation of Austin [1201d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”? [1201d] [hn]
• Money Laundering and AML Compliance [1201d] [hn]
• The Inference Cost of Search Disruption – Large Language Model Cost Analysis [1201d] [hn]
• On Academic Freedom [1201d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? [1201d] [hn]
• What crappy beer demand tells us about the economy [1201d] [hn]
• Understanding and Coding the Self-Attention Mechanism of Large Language Models [1201d] [hn]
• Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream [1201d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Are people considering moving off of Fly.io? [1201d] [hn]
• QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed [1201d] [hn]
• California will give $2000 if owners convert their ICE cars to EV [1201d] [hn]
• Everything I believed about nuclear waste was wrong [1201d] [hn]
• The Wi Flag -Turns out some players in Asheron's Call were born unlucky [1201d] [hn]
• Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution [1201d] [hn]
• Most Crypto Developers Aren't Working on Bitcoin or Ethereum [1201d] [hn]
• AI assistants: The convenient crutch for new developers or a recipe for disaster [1201d] [hn]
• Molnupiravir Mutations in the Wild [1201d] [hn]
• JavE – Java ASCII Versatile Editor [1201d] [hn]
• DuckDB – in-process SQL OLAP database management system [1201d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why aren't laptops evaluated with a plot of performance vs. fan noise? [1201d] [hn]
• Manticore 6.0.0 – a faster alternative to Elasticsearch in C++ [1201d] [hn]
• How a Zig IDE Could Work [1201d] [hn]
• External Garbage Collection in Ruby [1201d] [hn]
• Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI [1201d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dslcad a programming language and interpreter for building 3D models [1201d] [hn]
• Is Seattle a 15-minute city? It depends on where you want to walk [1201d] [hn]
• Apple Avoids Job Cuts Because It Didn’t Overhire Like Google and Amazon [1201d] [hn]
• Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code [1201d] [hn]
• My Fifth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder [1201d] [hn]
• Building an in-house on-call training program for your SRE team [1201d] [hn]
• “Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers [1201d] [hn]
• IDF teams rescue 10-year-old boy trapped under rubble for 100 hours in Turkey [1201d] [hn]
• Jira is awful, welcome to AJIR [1201d] [hn]
• Windows 11 is collecting more user data than you know [1201d] [hn]
• Roman Church Decorated with 4k Skeletons [1201d] [hn]
• How a Heat Pump Works [1201d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Whatever Happened To *Free*lancing? [1201d] [hn]
• FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure [1201d] [hn]
• The Balthazar laptop: An all-European RISC-V computer [1201d] [hn]
• Reactivity Without Virtual DOM [1201d] [hn]
• OpenBSD: Why and How [1201d] [hn]
• Individuals who share an ideology have more similar neural representations [1201d] [hn]
• Reverse engineering an e-paper pricetag [1201d] [hn]