The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Japanese steakhouse in Florida closes after customers test positive for meth [1043d] [hn]
• FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm [1043d] [hn]
• FTC Sends Civil Investigation Demand to OpenAI [pdf] [1043d] [hn]
• Someone crafted a redstone PC in Minecraft to play Minecraft inside Minecraft [1043d] [hn]
• The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright [1043d] [hn]
• WH Orders Selected Reserve and Certain IRR of the Armed Forces to Active Duty [1043d] [hn]
• SEO Expert Hired and Fired by Ashley Madison Turned on Company Promising Revenge [1043d] [hn]
• What Makes Something an Heirloom? [1043d] [hn]
• Benefit Layers: How to avoid sales fluff in devtools [1043d] [hn]
• Position-Driven Styles [1043d] [hn]
• Critical RCE found in popular Ghostscript open-source PDF library [1043d] [hn]
• Instant Messenger History: Lessons for the Threads Era of Social Media [1043d] [hn]
• Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas – for free, forever [1043d] [hn]
• Boston Mayor Wu Announces Residential Conversion Program for Office Buildings [1043d] [hn]
• Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough [1043d] [hn]
• Actors union will join writers on strike, shutting down Hollywood [1043d] [hn]
• Patching GCC to Build Portable Executables [1043d] [hn]
• Yammer/circuitbox: Circuit breaker built with large Ruby apps in mind [1043d] [hn]
• StabilityAI Cofounder Says CEO Tricked Him into Selling Stake for $100 [1043d] [hn]
• Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos [1043d] [hn]
• Buddy Pond Cloud Desktop [1043d] [hn]
• Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed [1043d] [hn]
• Cowboy rides to the rescue of VanMoof owners with app to unlock threatened bikes [1043d] [hn]
• CEO Announcement to the Netlify Team [1043d] [hn]
• Celsius Was Lying [1043d] [hn]
• New in Chrome 115 [1043d] [hn]
• ASTO Cloud: Utility Tokens for Analog Computing [1043d] [hn]
• Apple claims 99% iPhone 14 satisfaction. Is that possible? (No). We investigate [1043d] [hn]
• Can you beat Pokemon FireRed while blind and deaf? (2022) [video] [1043d] [hn]
• The FCC responds to my ATSC 3 encryption complaint – they want to hear from you [1043d] [hn]
• It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027 [1043d] [hn]
• Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS [1043d] [hn]
• John Boyd Compendium [1043d] [hn]
• We spent $20k on Google Play pre-registration ads [1043d] [hn]
• Passkeys will come at a cost [1043d] [hn]
• Judge gives Ripple partial win in SEC case over XRP cryptocurrency [1043d] [hn]
• OCI announces upcoming changes for registries [1043d] [hn]
• Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down [1043d] [hn]
• WW2 Meteorology [1043d] [hn]
• A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place [1043d] [hn]
• AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Shows Great AVX-512 Performance for Laptops / Mobile [1043d] [hn]
• Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud [1043d] [hn]
• Manuscript Textiles: Weaving the Thread of Faith [1043d] [hn]
• Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019) [1043d] [hn]
• “Sadly, I Think Godot Is a Scam. I'm Not Sure I Can Do This.” [1043d] [hn]
• TikTok ban bill in US faces changes after ByteDance spent $100M on lobbying [1043d] [hn]
• Faster Neural Networks Straight from JPEG [1043d] [hn]
• FDA Approves First Nonprescription Daily Oral Contraceptive [1043d] [hn]
• Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries [1043d] [hn]
• Is Design Dead? [1043d] [hn]
• Rust 1.71.0 [1043d] [hn]
• People helping Uyghur children struggling to build new lives in Turkey [1043d] [hn]
• Last week was the hottest ever recorded – here’s why we keep smashing records [1043d] [hn]
• Show HN: Open-source IAM Ory Kratos v1.0 with Passkeys, MFA and multi-region [1043d] [hn]
• ChatGPT Now Losing Users [1043d] [hn]
• Two new AI-based weather-forecasting systems challenging the status quo [1043d] [hn]
• Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever [1043d] [hn]
• Commercial Interests Petition FCC for High Power Allocation on Shortwave [1043d] [hn]
• When Work Didn’t Follow You Home [1043d] [hn]
• B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations [1043d] [hn]
• Cool but Obscure X11 Apps [1043d] [hn]
• Shopify discourages meetings by shaming employees with cost calculator [1043d] [hn]
• “Suburban sprawl is a much worse problem than skyscrapers” [1043d] [hn]
• Show HN: Hansei [1043d] [hn]
• A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb [1043d] [hn]
• Rapid Covid tests miss 90% of asymptomatic cases [1043d] [hn]
• VC firms face new scrutiny from LPs [1043d] [hn]
• Tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with Meta [1044d] [hn]
• Learning to Touch Type Again [1044d] [hn]
• Show HN: Free AI-based music demixing in the browser [1044d] [hn]