The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Kotlin Coroutines vs. Threads Performance Benchmark [785d] [hn]
• Audioflare: An all-in-one AI audio playground using Cloudflare AI Workers [785d] [hn]
• Bacteria enhances host insect's fertility with implications for disease control [785d] [hn]
• The Emptiness of Literature Written for the Market [785d] [hn]
• Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware [785d] [hn]
• Writing for Professional and Technical Audiences [785d] [hn]
• Scientists Simulate Backward Time Travel Using Quantum Entanglement [785d] [hn]
• Project Bluefin Linux [785d] [hn]
• Algebra [785d] [hn]
• King Charles III signs off on Online Safety Act with unenforceable spying clause [785d] [hn]
• The Mystic Art of Gardening [785d] [hn]
• Can the language of proof assistants be used for general purpose programming? [785d] [hn]
• X Engineering Year Retrospective [785d] [hn]
• NASA Tech Breathes Life into Potentially Game-Changing Antenna Design [785d] [hn]
• Urban Outfitters is selling 'vintage retro' iPods [785d] [hn]
• SDRangel: Explore the electromagnetic spectrum with open source SDR software [785d] [hn]
• "Why Programming Languages Matter" by Andrew Black [video] [785d] [hn]
• Apple's Scary Fast event could spell the end of its Lightning port [785d] [hn]
• Android 14's user-profile data bug seems indistinguishable from ransomware [785d] [hn]
• New devices could change the way we measure blood pressure [785d] [hn]
• SBF testifies he knew 'basically nothing' about crypto before starting company [785d] [hn]
• Brev: Start fine-tuning and training models in < 10 minutes [785d] [hn]
• Bitcoin and carbon dioxide emissions: Evidence from daily production decisions [785d] [hn]
• iPods now considered vintage tech–so of course sold out at Urban Outfitters [785d] [hn]
• Images from the 2023 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition [785d] [hn]
• Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript [785d] [hn]
• The convolution empire strikes back [785d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Recommendations for Visiting the Japanese Countryside [785d] [hn]
• California population drain: State is hemorrhaging residents to other states [785d] [hn]
• Quadcopters Can Now Visually Track Targets More Effectively [785d] [hn]
• The downside of AI language translation [785d] [hn]
• Many millennials are worse off than their parents [785d] [hn]
• Microsoft disrupts email communication across climate change community [785d] [hn]
• "Introduction to Cybernetics" W. Ross Ashby (1956) [785d] [hn]
• Krita is now available on the macOS store [785d] [hn]
• Every trick Microsoft pulled to make you browse Edge instead of Chrome [785d] [hn]
• Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere [785d] [hn]
• The bacterial horror of hot-air hand dryers (2018) [785d] [hn]
• Generate images in one second on your Mac using a latent consistency model [785d] [hn]
• Why America Doesn't Build [785d] [hn]
• Show HN: Biblos – Semantic Bible Embedded Vector Search and Claude LLM [785d] [hn]
• 'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Nobel Prize-winning researcher [785d] [hn]
• Good LLM Validation Is Just Good Validation [785d] [hn]
• 18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't strain your eyes [785d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pākiki Proxy – An intercepting proxy for penetration testing [785d] [hn]
• Grammarly's OAuth Mistakes [785d] [hn]
• OpenBSD: Removing syscall(2) from libc and kernel [785d] [hn]
• The Xiaomi 14 with the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has a 32 to 64-bit translator [786d] [hn]
• Unprecedented Cryptosporidium Outbreak in UK [786d] [hn]
• EPA moves towards banning leaded aviation gas [786d] [hn]
• Show HN: A local Python prototyping tool for Jupyter and Streamlit [786d] [hn]
• US needs much more than the IRA to get to net zero by 2050 [786d] [hn]
• Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell [786d] [hn]
• Food and Generative AI [786d] [hn]
• Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop [786d] [hn]
• Show HN: Encrypt and upload files to IPFS from browser [786d] [hn]
• US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan posts derogatory to US [786d] [hn]
• Tesla owner who drove with 'arms folded' cleared of dangerous driving [786d] [hn]
• A third of chocolate products are high in heavy metals [786d] [hn]
• Sam Bankman-Fried is going to talk himself right into jail [786d] [hn]
• Show HN: ScratchDB – Open-Source Snowflake on ClickHouse [786d] [hn]
• How Soap Works: The Science Behind Handwashing [786d] [hn]
• Copying Is Not Theft [video] [786d] [hn]
• The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy [786d] [hn]
• Patching the libwebp vulnerability across the Python ecosystem [786d] [hn]
• Robotaxis 'do not belong in the city of Los Angeles,' lawmaker says [786d] [hn]
• Why Is the Django Admin "Ugly"? [786d] [hn]
• "Useless Ruby sugar": Pattern matching (Pt. 2) [786d] [hn]
• DreamCraft3D: Hierarchical 3D Generation with Bootstrapped Diffusion Prior [786d] [hn]
• Sam Bankman-Fried Is Going to Testify [786d] [hn]
• Study shows antibodies against PEG in 83% of the German population [786d] [hn]
• Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering [786d] [hn]
• Why you should probably be using SQLite [786d] [hn]
• 0 To 100 kph in 1 second [786d] [hn]
• Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked [786d] [hn]
• ECB holds key interest rate at 4% [786d] [hn]
• Self-Signed locally trusted certificates with cert-manager [786d] [hn]
• Tesla threatens to bring in strikebreakers as Swedish workers strike [786d] [hn]
• Upgradable Read Write Lock for Go [786d] [hn]
• Threads has "just under" 100M monthly active users [786d] [hn]
• Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper [786d] [hn]
• Let me tell you about me Gear Fabrication Syndrome [786d] [hn]
• How to draw beautiful software architecture diagrams (2022) [786d] [hn]
• Apple Faces Potential Watch Import Ban After Federal Trade Ruling [786d] [hn]
• On Bus Arbitration on the Unibus and QBUS (2017) [786d] [hn]
• My 2023 all-flash ZFS NAS (Network Storage) build [786d] [hn]
• Microsoft: Require user consent before sending any telemetry [786d] [hn]
• Generating Well-Typed Terms that are not "Useless" [pdf] [786d] [hn]
• Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet domain outlives the nation [786d] [hn]
• Limewash (2005) [pdf] [786d] [hn]
• Kaspersky: How to Catch a Wild Triangle [786d] [hn]
• My Left Kidney [786d] [hn]
• Cruise pauses driverless operations across all cities [786d] [hn]
• Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring a Chief of Staff [786d] [hn]
• Ceasing Print Publication of ACM Journals and Transactions [786d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Uncovered a Network of Scam Websites, How Do I Report Them to Google? [786d] [hn]