The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Google contractors vote to unionize in historic landslide election [1123d] [hn]
• Dick Morrell: Amazon Users Advised to Reset Passwords Amid Echo Privacy Concerns [1123d] [hn]
• Family as Machine: Film and Cybernetic Kinship in Suburban America (2017) [pdf] [1123d] [hn]
• Observable Plot: The JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization [1123d] [hn]
• The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature [1123d] [hn]
• The Sad Story of OAuth 2.0 and Open Standards [1123d] [hn]
• Massive geothermal apartment complex is going up in Brooklyn, first of its kind [1123d] [hn]
• Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes again delays start of 11-year prison term [1123d] [hn]
• Microsoft TableTransformer [1123d] [hn]
• DeepDoctection [1123d] [hn]
• 'Indiana Jones 5' will feature a de-aged Harrison Ford for the first 25 minutes [1123d] [hn]
• Meta Q1 2023 Earning Results [1123d] [hn]
• BOE Chief Economist Says Britons ‘Need to Accept’ They’re Worse Off [1123d] [hn]
• Building the Pocket CO2 Project [1123d] [hn]
• Performance excuses debunked [1123d] [hn]
• Linen.dev: The 500KB Slack Alternative [1123d] [hn]
• TSMC’s 3-Nm Push Faces Tool Struggles [1124d] [hn]
• Deep Floyd Text-to-Image Model Release [1124d] [hn]
• Creating AI assistant with GPT and Ruby and Redis using embeddings [1124d] [hn]
• Update Millions of Records in Rails [1124d] [hn]
• HDR-NeRF: High Dynamic Range Neural Radiance Fields [1124d] [hn]
• The part of Postgres we hate the most: Multi-version concurrency control [1124d] [hn]
• SpaceX, Rogers to connect mobiles phones to satellites in remote Canadian areas [1124d] [hn]
• Database branching: three-way merge for schema changes [1124d] [hn]
• Activeloop (YC S18): Hiring Engineers for a Multi-Modal Vector Database for AI [1124d] [hn]
• Activeloop (YC S18): Hiring Engineers for a Multi-Modal Vector Database for AI [1124d] [hn]
• The Wealth Gap in Science: How Your Parents's Income Affects Your Career [1124d] [hn]
• Schools are ditching homework, deadlines in favor of ‘equitable grading’ [1124d] [hn]
• Supreme Court will decide if all home equity may be forfeited for unpaid taxes [1124d] [hn]
• Transmeta Crusoe: The Most Interesting Processor to Ever Exist? [1124d] [hn]
• Why Did Google Brain Exist? [1124d] [hn]
• A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques [1124d] [hn]
• Someone Has to Run the Fabs [1124d] [hn]
• Mastodon Has Already Won [1124d] [hn]
• Quantifying ChatGPT’s Gender Bias [1124d] [hn]
• Microsoft Edge Is Leaking the Sites You Visit to Bing [1124d] [hn]
• DJI Mavic 3 Pro [1124d] [hn]
• Starbucks Claims $181M in Revenue from Unused Gift Cards (2022) [1124d] [hn]
• Sweden launches research rocket, accidentally hits Norway [1124d] [hn]
• Bringing Memory Safety to sudo and su [1124d] [hn]
• Colorado becomes first to pass ‘right to repair’ for farmers [1124d] [hn]
• Lessons by 3blue1brown [1124d] [hn]
• The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down [1124d] [hn]
• Payments 101 for a Developer [1124d] [hn]
• An Edible Rechargeable Battery [1124d] [hn]
• Mastodon Is Doomed [1124d] [hn]
• Show HN: Learn German with Short Stories [1124d] [hn]
• How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it [1124d] [hn]
• Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (2013) [1124d] [hn]
• Why is OAuth still hard in 2023? [1124d] [hn]
• UK Regulator Blocks Microsoft's $70B Activision Blizzard Acquisition [1124d] [hn]
• Britain blocks Microsoft’s $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard [1124d] [hn]
• Netflix to invest $2.5B in South Korea to make TV shows, movies [1124d] [hn]
• Bottom line, a college degree is worth the cost and then some [1124d] [hn]
• The Role of Diet on the Gut Microbiome, Mood and Happiness [1124d] [hn]
• Tesla Again Paints a Misleading Story with Their Crash Data [1124d] [hn]
• What I learned unsubscribing from 22 newspapers [1124d] [hn]
• Show HN: Use Quizzes as Lead Magnets – EmbedQuiz [1124d] [hn]
• A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth) [1124d] [hn]
• Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070 [1124d] [hn]
• Kalshi (YC W19) Is Hiring [1124d] [hn]