The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Apple's Simple Strategy to Beat Burnout: Freedom [990d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Best intro to programming book for 2nd graders? [990d] [hn]
• Measure wind speed and direction with ultrasonic anemometer and Arduino [990d] [hn]
• Multiple Notepad++ Flaws Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code [990d] [hn]
• Oscilloscope watch ships after 10 years on kickstarter [990d] [hn]
• Emacs Bedrock: A minimal Emacs starter kit [990d] [hn]
• Rust crate rg typosquatting/redirect to ripgrep [990d] [hn]
• The Lies in Your Grocery Store, and the Laywer Who Can't Stomach Them [990d] [hn]
• Designing a cursor for augmented reality [990d] [hn]
• The Apple $2T Economy [990d] [hn]
• WASM: Big deal or little deal? [990d] [hn]
• Geoff Chappell has passed away [990d] [hn]
• Wine 8.15 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS [990d] [hn]
• LLM now provides tools for working with embeddings [990d] [hn]
• Why discord is switching from go to rust (2020) [990d] [hn]
• When tech says ‘no’ [990d] [hn]
• Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste [990d] [hn]
• Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python [990d] [hn]
• .KKRIEGER – Fully Functional Sci-Fi FPS into Just 96kb [990d] [hn]
• Spectrolite – Mac app to make colorful risograph prints and zines more easily [990d] [hn]
• Latch bio: “We work six days a week” [990d] [hn]
• Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow [990d] [hn]
• Chinchilla’s Death [990d] [hn]
• Tidal Energy Is Not Renewable [990d] [hn]
• Geo Guesser identifies the location and seat number from an aerial shot [990d] [hn]
• Secret Government Telephone Numbers [990d] [hn]
• Extreme El Niño weather switched off South American's carbon sink [990d] [hn]
• Mechanisms of scent-tracking in humans [990d] [hn]
• Red lights over the Pacific – August 2014 (2014) [990d] [hn]
• Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents [990d] [hn]
• The Airbnb Bubble Popping Will Pop the Housing Bubble [990d] [hn]
• Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures [990d] [hn]
• Can We Talk to Whales? [990d] [hn]
• An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve [990d] [hn]
• Refact LLM: New 1.6B code model reaches 32% HumanEval and is SOTA for the size [990d] [hn]
• What Is Residual Vector Quantization? [990d] [hn]
• Jitsi Meet Abandons Anonimity Promise [990d] [hn]
• DSLs Are a Waste of Time [990d] [hn]
• Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64 [990d] [hn]
• Ask HN: In person industry tours and site visits [990d] [hn]
• VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code [990d] [hn]
• Show HN: finetune LLMs via the Finetuning Hub [990d] [hn]
• You Don't Need to “Learn” Svelte: Embracing the Simplicity of JavaScript [990d] [hn]
• Antioxidants such as Vitamin C found to spur cancer growth and metastasis [990d] [hn]
• Antioxidants found to spur cancer growth and metastasis in mice [990d] [hn]
• The mobile game funding a revolution in Myanmar [990d] [hn]
• I Worked in Federal Prison Sweatshops for 23 Cents an Hour [990d] [hn]
• Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in 1694 [990d] [hn]
• Computing Power Used to Be Measured in 'Kilo-Girls' [990d] [hn]
• Titanium spikes kill superbugs drug-free by ripping them apart [990d] [hn]
• Is macOS’s new XProtect behavioural security preparing to go live? [990d] [hn]
• TinyLlama project aims to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3T tokens [990d] [hn]
• How Accurate Were EPAs Predictions of climate change from 40 years ago? [990d] [hn]
• I built a Plane Spotter in 120 secs with ChatGPT [990d] [hn]