The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Google DeepMind's AI successor predicts how 71M mutations cause disease [826d] [hn]
• Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method [826d] [hn]
• The AI Explosion Might Never Happen [826d] [hn]
• Webring Technology [826d] [hn]
• Humans Have Exceeded Six of the Nine Boundaries Keeping Earth Habitable [826d] [hn]
• Show HN: Spirals – Generate beautiful AI spiral art with one click [826d] [hn]
• The Genius Bar in a country where iPhones can’t legally be sold [826d] [hn]
• Smashing the state machine: the true potential of web race conditions [826d] [hn]
• Secretions (1992) [826d] [hn]
• UniFree: Migrate Unity projects to other engines [826d] [hn]
• Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) [826d] [hn]
• Nushell 0.85 [826d] [hn]
• The Princeton researchers calling out ‘AI snake oil’ [826d] [hn]
• Special-Use Domain Names [826d] [hn]
• The Paradox of Control [826d] [hn]
• Programming Is Hard [826d] [hn]
• ReinetteII+.py, an Apple II plus emulator in Python [826d] [hn]
• Circles Do Not Exist [826d] [hn]
• Apache Pinot 1.0 [826d] [hn]
• Show HN: I'm building a tool to practice numbers in Arabic [826d] [hn]
• Simple Open-Source Java Virtual Machine in C [826d] [hn]
• Fixing for Loops in Go 1.22 [826d] [hn]
• Pink diamonds erupted to Earth’s surface after early supercontinent’s breakup [826d] [hn]
• Contrastive Decoding Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models [826d] [hn]
• A Hands-On Introduction to Machine Learning for non-Computer Science Majors [826d] [hn]
• Google ad exec: “it is a worse user experience to not have ads on the page” [826d] [hn]
• Faster Sorting Beyond DeepMind’s AlphaDev [826d] [hn]
• Notes on Existential Risk from Artificial Superintelligence [826d] [hn]
• RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1) [826d] [hn]
• World’s most powerful X-ray laser will ‘film’ chemical reactions [826d] [hn]
• MariaDB to be acquired by Runa Cap? [826d] [hn]
• Agentscript: Agent Based Modeling in the Browser [826d] [hn]
• We Can't Compete with AI Girlfriends [826d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dialoqbase – open-source chatbot creation platform (LangChain wrapper) [826d] [hn]
• NFS > FUSE: Why We Built Our Own NFS Server in Rust [826d] [hn]
• iFixit – We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score [826d] [hn]
• How do shared library collisions break? (2022) [826d] [hn]
• One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows [826d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dittofeed – 1-Click deploy, self-host Mailchimp alternative [826d] [hn]
• Google quietly raised ad prices to boost search revenue [826d] [hn]
• MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says [826d] [hn]
• How many medical studies are faked or flawed? [826d] [hn]
• UK Parliament passes Online Safety Bill [826d] [hn]
• Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres [826d] [hn]
• Why does water change the speed of electricity? [video] [826d] [hn]
• Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol [826d] [hn]
• Show HN: Symphony – Use GPT-4 to call functions in sequence [826d] [hn]
• Influence of dietary lipid upon ultraviolet light-carcinogenesis [826d] [hn]
• Graph Neural Networks Use Graphs When They Shouldn't [826d] [hn]
• Yash Shorthand System [826d] [hn]
• Always Bump Downwards (2019) [826d] [hn]
• Show HN: Graphite – Stacked Diffs on GitHub [826d] [hn]
• Plug and socket types around the world [826d] [hn]
• Counting Ghosts: A case for abandoning web analytics [826d] [hn]
• The Physical Process That Powers a New Type of Generative AI [826d] [hn]
• GraalVM for JDK 21 is here [826d] [hn]
• Is the End of Aids in Sight? [827d] [hn]
• Getting into Pinball [827d] [hn]
• There's an Alternative to the Infinite Scroll [827d] [hn]
• Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor [827d] [hn]
• BMW's Ultimate Driving Machine, for Driving Through Gunfire and Grenades [827d] [hn]
• Musk Wanted to Spy on Drivers to Defend Tesla from Lawsuits [827d] [hn]
• Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage [827d] [hn]
• JDK 21 Release Notes [827d] [hn]
• Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts about the assassination of a Sikh leader [827d] [hn]
• Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets [827d] [hn]
• OpenJDK JDK 21 General-Availability Release [827d] [hn]
• Historical maps probably helped cause World War I [827d] [hn]
• Java 21 Released [827d] [hn]
• Larry Lessig's theory: our society is governed by four forces [827d] [hn]
• Improving your online privacy: An update [827d] [hn]
• Russell Brand blocked from making money on YouTube [827d] [hn]
• YouTube Blocks Russell Brand from Making Money Through Its Platform [827d] [hn]
• 64-Bit Bank Balances ‘Ought to Be Enough for Anybody’? [827d] [hn]
• The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary [827d] [hn]
• Danish artist told to repay museum €67,000 after turning in blank canvasses [827d] [hn]
• SimulaVR $1.2M short of the project's total cost [827d] [hn]
• The path to detecting extraterrestrial life with astrophotonics [827d] [hn]
• Lies My Calculator and Computer Told Me [pdf] [827d] [hn]
• VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III [827d] [hn]
• Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers [827d] [hn]
• Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services [827d] [hn]
• Web Apps Are Better Than No Apps [827d] [hn]
• Safety Gate: the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products [827d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What low code platforms are worth using? [827d] [hn]
• 1k Met Police officers suspended or on restricted duties [827d] [hn]
• Gitlab Critical Security Release: 16.3.4 and 16.2.7 [827d] [hn]
• Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email [827d] [hn]
• Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer [827d] [hn]
• Show HN: Whiz – A copilot for your terminal [827d] [hn]
• I digitalized Berlin's registration form [827d] [hn]
• U.K. finally rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme [827d] [hn]
• Opera's browser is now available with chess baked in [827d] [hn]
• Windows Subsystem for Linux gets new 'mirrored' network mode [827d] [hn]
• GCC Preparing to Introduce “-Fhardened” Security Hardening Option [827d] [hn]
• A Line at a Time: The Atari 2600, Now with S-Video [827d] [hn]
• Forty years of GNU and the free software movement [827d] [hn]
• OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps [827d] [hn]
• iOS 17 [827d] [hn]
• A basic guide to using Asian names [827d] [hn]