The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Ferrous Systems ends partnership with AdaCore [965d] [hn]
• Devs learn rival Godot engine in a week to poke fun at Unity [965d] [hn]
• Drive Like a Human: Rethinking Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models [965d] [hn]
• No need to send it back: Netflix posts its final DVDs to customers [965d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What entities out there provide open-source grants/funding? [965d] [hn]
• Factorio Friday Facts #378 – Trains on another level [965d] [hn]
• Obscura: The VPN that can't track your activity [965d] [hn]
• IRS consultant charged with disclosing tax return info to news organizations [965d] [hn]
• The fastest route to a climate turnaround is also less expensive [965d] [hn]
• Has a San Antonio Inventor Solved a Problem of Small-Scale Wind Power? [965d] [hn]
• Investigating a teen’s death on an ebike and the Rad brand’s safety [965d] [hn]
• Show HN: PDF Debugger – Inspect Structure of PDF Files [965d] [hn]
• Our New Observability Platform for 100B Logs [965d] [hn]
• Soviet computer has been forgotten for 30 years [video] [965d] [hn]
• New York City declares state of emergency amid flash floods [965d] [hn]
• Recommended Architectures for PostgreSQL in Kubernetes [965d] [hn]
• Linux Kernel Hardening Checker [965d] [hn]
• Meta in Myanmar [965d] [hn]
• Localtunnel – Expose Yourself to the World [965d] [hn]
• The Only Way to Know If GPT-4 Got Dumber [965d] [hn]
• Performance Evaluation of Rust Asynchronous Frameworks (2022) [965d] [hn]
• My elderly parents can't resist answering the phone [965d] [hn]
• Show HN: Insomnium – 100% local and privacy-focus fork of Insomnia API client [965d] [hn]
• Motocompacto from Honda, 3.7 inch wide Briefcase-form Electric Scooter [965d] [hn]
• Google RealFill: Authentic Image Completion Using Diffusion Models [965d] [hn]
• Homes “unaffordable” in 99% of nation for average American [965d] [hn]
• Have a complaint about CVS? So do pharmacists: Many just walked out [965d] [hn]
• High-Resolution Lidar Images of Rivers and Deltas [965d] [hn]
• If money rules the world – who rules money? (2008) [pdf] [965d] [hn]
• I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads [965d] [hn]
• Netflix Ships Last DVD [965d] [hn]
• 50 years later, is Two-Phase Locking the best we can do? [965d] [hn]
• When CEOs Are Paid for Bad Performance (2005) [965d] [hn]
• A scientific curiosity that happened to me [965d] [hn]
• How a Four-Day Workweek Works, from the Companies Pulling It Off [965d] [hn]
• Low-Code Programming Models [965d] [hn]
• Microsoft will stop old Windows keys from activating new Windows installs [965d] [hn]
• Farm robots inspired by ant brains [965d] [hn]
• Facebook/Meta blocks accounts for posting link to EFF privacy tips [965d] [hn]
• SIMH – Old Computer Emulator [965d] [hn]
• SIMD Everywhere Optimization from ARM Neon to RISC-V Vector Extensions [965d] [hn]
• UTM: An Apple hypervisor with some unique extra abilities [965d] [hn]
• Three Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu arrested in Singapore airport [965d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why does YubiCo need my private key? [965d] [hn]
• Privacy washing: Google claims to support privacy while lobbying against it [965d] [hn]
• Astronomers discover thousands of red galaxy hearts with powerful radio signals [965d] [hn]
• Simple math moves the needle [965d] [hn]
• Making a music library without a SPA [965d] [hn]
• A new Chrome 0-day is sending the Internet into a new chapter of Groundhog Day [965d] [hn]
• A peek into Argentina’s video game scene [965d] [hn]
• A new era for Arecibo: legendary observatory begins next phase [965d] [hn]
• Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe [965d] [hn]
• The Kakhovka Dam Disaster Revealed an Archaeological ‘Goldmine’ [965d] [hn]
• Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel and graphene [965d] [hn]
• Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent) [965d] [hn]
• Starting next year people will be able to drive home from their ophthalmologist [965d] [hn]
• Redditor uses ChatGPT to fix annoying Safari UI issue on macOS [965d] [hn]
• Official U.S. government information about the Global Positioning System (GPS) [965d] [hn]
• John Baez' Applied Category Theory Lectures [965d] [hn]
• $5k Google Jamboard dies in 2024–cloud-based apps will stop working, too [965d] [hn]
• Tim Sweeney on Layoffs at Epic [965d] [hn]
• UK quietly dismisses independent AI advisory board, alarming tech sector [965d] [hn]
• Encrypted Client Hello – the last puzzle piece to privacy [965d] [hn]
• Senator Dianne Feinstein dies aged 90 [965d] [hn]
• Fireblocks OSS Multi-Party Computation Library [965d] [hn]
• Publishing my first game using PICO-8 [965d] [hn]
• Senator Dianne Feinstein Dies at 90 [965d] [hn]
• You Can't Control Your Data in the Cloud [965d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What is the least obnoxious way to ask for cookie permissions? [965d] [hn]
• Ten weird things you can buy online [965d] [hn]
• Narrow tracks forcing trains to creep at walking pace on Boston's newest subway [965d] [hn]
• Loadsharers: Funding the Load Bearing Internet People [965d] [hn]
• Rimac unveils ‘most technically advanced BESS in the world’, SineStack [965d] [hn]
• Red Blob Games: Interactive visual explanations of math and algorithms [965d] [hn]
• Draggable objects [965d] [hn]
• Oleg Bartunov: My Postgres Story: Internationalization [965d] [hn]
• Saltwater is pushing its way up the Mississippi River [965d] [hn]
• Compile-time safety for enumerations in Go [965d] [hn]
• Search for phone signal caused oil spill, say Japanese investigators [965d] [hn]
• Press freedom means controlling the language of AI [965d] [hn]
• Swarm Cluster Identification [965d] [hn]
• iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues [965d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream? [965d] [hn]
• MMO Architecture: Source of truth, Dataflows, I/O bottlenecks and how to solve [965d] [hn]