The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The False Promise of Open-sourced LLMs context length [1057d] [hn]
• We Analyzed 1,626 Banned Books Here's What We Found [1057d] [hn]
• Google's Epic Multi-Billion Dollar Ad Scam Makes Sense to Us [1057d] [hn]
• Concord bank offers a 100-year CD [1057d] [hn]
• BART ridership is still down nearly 70% from pre-Covid levels [1057d] [hn]
• Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions [1057d] [hn]
• English as the new programming language for Apache spark [1057d] [hn]
• Twitter removed API endpoints without any prior communication [1057d] [hn]
• Tell HN: 1Password 8.10.8 update corrupted data [1057d] [hn]
• Wayland is pretty good [1057d] [hn]
• A PyTorch Approach to ML Infrastructure [1057d] [hn]
• HyenaDNA: Long-Range Genomic Sequence Modeling (context length of 1M tokens) [1057d] [hn]
• The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies [1057d] [hn]
• Structures in C: From Basics to Memory Alignment [1057d] [hn]
• Why do men stupefy themselves? Leo Tolstoy on why we drink (2014) [1057d] [hn]
• Keeping Open Source Open [1057d] [hn]
• Fort Lauderdale saves nearly $350K after repurposing seaweed into planting soil [1057d] [hn]
• Now you can search on Google for free: Solution with API [1057d] [hn]
• Tesla Fleet Telemetry [1057d] [hn]
• Physicists Produce Neutrino Images of Milky Way Galaxy [1057d] [hn]
• The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration [1057d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How to switch software engineering domains [1057d] [hn]
• Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products [1057d] [hn]
• Mac Commands – Master your Mac with ease with this command reference [1057d] [hn]
• Google and Meta will stop showing Canadian sourced news [1057d] [hn]
• Gitlab AI is going head to head with GitHub Copilot [1057d] [hn]
• Journalists should invest in journalism startups, particularly now [1057d] [hn]
• Gorilla-CLI: LLMs for CLI including K8s/AWS/GCP/Azure/sed and 1500 APIs [1057d] [hn]
• Is GitHub Down? [1057d] [hn]
• Github.com is down [1057d] [hn]
• Towards an Adaptable Systems Architecture for Memory Tiering at Warehouse-Scale [1057d] [hn]
• Beware of Unreliable Data in Model Evaluation: A LLM Prompt Selection Case Study [1057d] [hn]
• Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry [1057d] [hn]
• FTC prepares “the big one,” a major lawsuit targeting Amazon’s core business [1057d] [hn]
• Building Boba AI: Lessons learnt in building an LLM-powered application [1057d] [hn]
• Key Terms for Speaking Distributed Systems and Temporal [1057d] [hn]
• An Interview with Marc Andreessen about AI and How You Change the World [1057d] [hn]
• What to know about a fake job scam impersonating Gitlab [1057d] [hn]
• Freshpaint (YC S19) Is Hiring Software Engineers to Build a HIPAA Data Platform [1057d] [hn]
• Valve bans games using AI generated graphics or text from Steam [1057d] [hn]
• Vassalization: How Russia’s War on Ukraine Transformed Transatlantic Relations [1057d] [hn]
• Aspartame is set to be declared a possible carcinogen [1057d] [hn]
• Airbnb rental revenues have plunged in some parts of the US, this chart suggests [1057d] [hn]
• Vickrey Auction [1057d] [hn]
• What If California's Dams Fail? [1057d] [hn]
• Show HN: Open-source code search with OpenAI's function calling [1057d] [hn]
• FTC reportedly plans major antitrust lawsuit against Amazon [1057d] [hn]
• The Left’s Campaign to Destroy the Supreme Court [1057d] [hn]
• Clog – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI [1057d] [hn]
• Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time [1057d] [hn]
• Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions [1057d] [hn]
• Water heavily polluted with PFAS in 15 km radius around Dordrecht chemical plant [1057d] [hn]
• The new desktop Outlook is a bad idea. Here's why [1057d] [hn]
• Oral History of Ed Fredkin (2006) [pdf] [1058d] [hn]
• Show HN: Build a discord/Slack bot to answer questions with your docs and GPT4 [1058d] [hn]
• No code payments automation is a lie [1058d] [hn]
• Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports [1058d] [hn]
• OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT [1058d] [hn]
• Programming Languages Going Above and Beyond [1058d] [hn]
• Scaling Linear's Sync Engine [1058d] [hn]
• Submarine expert tried to dissuade OceanGate CEO, from taking customers in Titan [1058d] [hn]
• Show HN: Hivekit – Geospatial app platform [1058d] [hn]
• Racket: The Lisp for the Modern Day [1058d] [hn]
• Last-minute Government amendment seeks to muzzle DPC critics (Ireland) [1058d] [hn]