The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• MiniDisc Hacking [806d] [hn]
• Why is California's population falling? Housing costs [806d] [hn]
• Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo [806d] [hn]
• RedHat is closing their security mailing list [806d] [hn]
• Forty Years of Programming [806d] [hn]
• US moves closer to underground testing of nuclear weapons without any explosions [806d] [hn]
• Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – The barrel file debacle [806d] [hn]
• Metals Fuse Together in Space [806d] [hn]
• The Algorithm for Precision Medicine, talk by Matthew Might [video] [806d] [hn]
• X strips headlines from news story links to improve their look [806d] [hn]
• Projects Innovating Around RISC-V [806d] [hn]
• Demo-Driven Development (2021) [806d] [hn]
• Thousands of young people are fleeing Toronto, economists: city will suffer [806d] [hn]
• Show HN: This is what social media could be [806d] [hn]
• The Performance Cost of Node.js and GraphQL [806d] [hn]
• Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users [806d] [hn]
• Fine-Tuning Mistral7B on Python Code [806d] [hn]
• Learning Nim: Write an Interpreter [video] [806d] [hn]
• Amazon launches Project Kuiper satellite internet prototypes [806d] [hn]
• Starlink carbon footprint up to 30 times size of land-based internet [806d] [hn]
• New study definitively confirms gulf stream weakening [806d] [hn]
• Ferrocene – Rust for Critical Systems [806d] [hn]
• Mitigations=off considered harmful or spurious SIGILL on AMD Zen4 [806d] [hn]
• The NYC's MTA 20 Year Needs Assessment Reminds Us They Can't Build [806d] [hn]
• New pipeline makes valuable organic acid from plants–saving money and emissions [806d] [hn]
• Email Steve Jobs sent to himself 1 year before his passing [806d] [hn]
• Writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge [806d] [hn]
• The Era of Startups Is Over [806d] [hn]
• Alternative open firmware for your IP camera [806d] [hn]
• The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod [806d] [hn]
• Zen 5's Leaked Slides [806d] [hn]
• Nobody Cares [806d] [hn]
• Calling Rust from Python [806d] [hn]
• Americans born in 2019 will spend 48% to 60% of lives on prescription medication [806d] [hn]
• Scaling Knative to 100K+ Webapps [806d] [hn]
• CA Gov. Newsom vetoes bill that would have decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms [806d] [hn]
• Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why [806d] [hn]
• Open Letter to the Linux World (2014) [806d] [hn]
• Things I just don't like about Git [806d] [hn]
• World EV Sales Now Equal 18% of World Auto Sales [806d] [hn]
• Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder [806d] [hn]
• World's fastest sailboat: Two wild designs hit the water for testing [806d] [hn]
• Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43% [806d] [hn]
• Strong Evidence Is Common [806d] [hn]
• Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator [806d] [hn]
• Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp [806d] [hn]
• CancelQuora [806d] [hn]
• Lessons from Bootstrapped Companies Founded by Software Engineers [806d] [hn]
• The big business of bachelorette party buses [806d] [hn]
• Stephen Fry Warns About the Dangers of Voice Clones [806d] [hn]
• 500 Lines or Less – Writing a useful program in fewer than 500 line code – AOSA [806d] [hn]
• A Raspberry Pi 5 is better than two Pi 4S [806d] [hn]
• Experts warn Letby inquiry of misreading stats to explain 'suspicious' deaths [806d] [hn]
• Why is Debian the way it is? [806d] [hn]
• Pg_bm25: Elastic-Quality Full Text Search Inside Postgres [806d] [hn]
• A more mature take on stateless Terraform [806d] [hn]
• Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you [806d] [hn]
• Amazon's Alexa Telling Users That 2020 Election Was Rigged [806d] [hn]
• Fury: 170x faster than JDK, blazing fast serialization by JIT and Zero-copy [806d] [hn]
• Questions to ask a teenager to start an important conversation [806d] [hn]
• How to Compete with Patreon [806d] [hn]
• A new basic taste joins sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami [806d] [hn]
• A Repairman's View of Portable Minidisc Recorders (2000) [806d] [hn]
• Does Market Timing Work? [806d] [hn]
• Microsoft launches new app store for Windows – from React to Shoelace, Lit, Vite [806d] [hn]
• How far did my post go on the Fediverse? [806d] [hn]
• Numbers in Various Languages [806d] [hn]
• My wife's company is mandating to tell them if I own Bitcoin [806d] [hn]
• Before Skynet and The Matrix, there was Colossus: The Forbin Project [806d] [hn]
• An implantable device could enable injection-free control of diabetes [806d] [hn]
• How a Social Network Fails [806d] [hn]
• Oil-Canning [807d] [hn]
• You're not going to like what comes after Pax Americana [807d] [hn]
• When 80 percent of US generals go to work for arms makers [807d] [hn]
• Organization Probably Doesn't Want to Improve Things [807d] [hn]
• Decomposing Language Models into Understandable Components [807d] [hn]
• Photo Tampering Throughout History [pdf] [807d] [hn]
• Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in California [807d] [hn]
• California nearly decriminalizes psychedelics – but governor hits brakes [807d] [hn]