The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Linux on the Web: Getting a handle on the files in the browser [799d] [hn]
• Real-Time Research: Top Reference Systems (Design Systems and UI Libs) 2023 [799d] [hn]
• WordPress blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms [799d] [hn]
• The Existential Risk of AGI [799d] [hn]
• The Scientist and the Warplane That Became Britain's Most Unlikely Airliner [799d] [hn]
• Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message [799d] [hn]
• Firefox accounts renamed Mozilla accounts [799d] [hn]
• Think in Analog, Capture in Digital [799d] [hn]
• Being Poor vs. Feeling Poor [799d] [hn]
• Show HN: mystery-o-matic offers a daily random murder mystery [799d] [hn]
• Lisp Badge [799d] [hn]
• Widely Accepted Mathematical Results That Were Later Shown to Be Wrong [799d] [hn]
• SWEET16: Interpreted byte-code instruction set invented by Steve Wozniak [799d] [hn]
• Netflix plans to open brick and mortar locations [799d] [hn]
• QNX Demo Disk screen shots [799d] [hn]
• Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 [799d] [hn]
• Ask HN: For those trying to hire how hard is it to find people currently? [799d] [hn]
• YouTube is cracking down on consumers' favorite loophole [799d] [hn]
• Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard for $69.7B [799d] [hn]
• The Welsh Punk Scene of the 1980S [799d] [hn]
• The Edith Hamilton Way [799d] [hn]
• Comcast deploys 2 Gbps symmetrical internet speeds via decades-old coaxial cable [799d] [hn]
• AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War [799d] [hn]
• Raymond Chen – What happened to the source code for The AppleSoft Compiler? [video] [799d] [hn]
• Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Account Executives [799d] [hn]
• Ferrari to accept crypto as payment for its cars in the US [799d] [hn]
• 3D-Printed Medical Equipment Makers Struggle to Save Lives in Gaza Under Siege [799d] [hn]
• Bitcoin stolen from FTX being converted to cash via "mixer" [799d] [hn]
• The Death of the Internet as a Haven for People with Autism [799d] [hn]
• Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends [799d] [hn]
• Germany's terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency [799d] [hn]
• Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021) [799d] [hn]
• Examining the silicon dies of the Intel 386 processor [799d] [hn]
• Google blocked Pixel 8 reviewers and owners from benchmarking the Tensor G3 chip [799d] [hn]
• Mindblowing Dissertations [799d] [hn]
• Paper posits ultradense asteroid 33 Polyhymnia has transuranic elements [799d] [hn]
• Eichmann in Jerusalem, Part I (February 8, 1963) [799d] [hn]
• Caltrans exec who protested a freeway expansion gets demoted [799d] [hn]
• FreeBSD 14.0-RC1 Now Available [799d] [hn]
• What SWE job hunting is like right now [799d] [hn]
• Humid Heat Can Kill Us Much Faster Than We Thought [799d] [hn]
• Calorie restriction in humans builds strong muscle and stimulates healthy aging [799d] [hn]
• Apple's new video reactions are making therapy awkward [799d] [hn]
• Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date [799d] [hn]
• Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date [799d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How to be a manager? Any good sources for learning how to delegate? [800d] [hn]
• The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back (2022) [800d] [hn]
• Antarctica: Ice shelves shrinking 'with no sign of recovery [800d] [hn]
• Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance [800d] [hn]
• California Allows Cities to Catch Speeding Drivers with Automated Cameras [800d] [hn]
• Cottage Computer Programming (2003?) [800d] [hn]
• Rust Compile Times and Code Graphs [800d] [hn]
• Fifteen Word Processor Commandments (1984) [800d] [hn]
• Snowden Archive – documents leaked by Snowden [800d] [hn]
• F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect [800d] [hn]
• Tumor-destroying sound waves receive FDA approval for liver treatment in humans [800d] [hn]
• Zoltar (YC S22) Is Hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineers in NYC [800d] [hn]
• Nevergrad: Python toolbox for performing gradient-free optimization [800d] [hn]
• Petition against EU chat control [800d] [hn]
• Kalman Filter Tutorial: Kalman Filter from the Ground Up [800d] [hn]
• Tuning Linux for Performance [800d] [hn]
• Walmart customers getting hostile at self-checkout – they blame anti-theft tech [800d] [hn]
• The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening [pdf] [800d] [hn]
• Book Review: How Our Roads Have Become an Invasive Species [800d] [hn]
• AMD Counter-Strikes Itself, Pulls Driver After Anti-Lag Feature Causes CS2 Bans [800d] [hn]
• The UK's Association to Horizon Europe and Copernicus [800d] [hn]
• All of ChatGPT's System Prompts [800d] [hn]
• Fcron Is the Best Cron [800d] [hn]
• Meticulous (YC S21) Is Hiring to Build AI for Testing [800d] [hn]
• UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years [800d] [hn]
• The average persons metabolism doesn't decline until 60 [800d] [hn]
• Louise Glück, Nobel-Winning Poet Who Explored Trauma and Loss, Dies at 80 [800d] [hn]
• Why I Eat Old Cheese (and Why You Should Too) (2020) [800d] [hn]
• Israel Deploys Semi-Autonomous Machine Gun Robot to Gaza Border (2021) [800d] [hn]
• Traditionally Horny [800d] [hn]
• Gsplat: CUDA accelerated rasterization of gaussians with Python bindings [800d] [hn]
• OpenBSD PF-based firewalls suffer differently from denial of service attacks [800d] [hn]
• It Is Time to End the War on Remote Work [800d] [hn]
• Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years [800d] [hn]
• 2023 Solar Eclipse – Oct 14 [800d] [hn]
• Multi-modal prompt injection image attacks against GPT-4V [800d] [hn]
• ChatGPT histories got leaked, again [800d] [hn]
• Washington's cryptocurrency lobby is scrambling to contain their "Hamas problem" [800d] [hn]
• Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program [800d] [hn]
• What Happens When Tony Hsieh Dies with $1B, with No Estate Planning [800d] [hn]
• You are onboarding developers wrong (Featuring Ambient Game Engine) [800d] [hn]
• Large Language Models Are Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasters [800d] [hn]
• X illegally fired employee who publicly challenged return-to-work plans [800d] [hn]
• How to cook ground meat perfectly without vision [800d] [hn]
• Learn Wayland by writing a GUI from scratch [800d] [hn]