The Brutalist Report

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• My favorite coding question to give candidates [925d] [hn]
• 20% of Millennials and 68% of Gen Z-ers still live with other family members [925d] [hn]
• Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony [925d] [hn]
• Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal [925d] [hn]
• Calif. tech investor's wedding trashed base of world-renowned landmark [925d] [hn]
• Infinite Context LLMs: Going Beyond RAG with Extended Minds [925d] [hn]
• Czech news crew in SF covering APEC robbed at gunpoint while filming [925d] [hn]
• Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI [925d] [hn]
• What if climate change meant not doom – but abundance? [925d] [hn]
• Low current around roots boosts plant growth [925d] [hn]
• We've learned nothing from the SolarWinds hack [925d] [hn]
• Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims [925d] [hn]
• Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code [925d] [hn]
• Inequalities, convergence, and continuity as "special deals" [925d] [hn]
• It's true. Your devices are listening to you [925d] [hn]
• Shopify Storefronts Are Down [925d] [hn]
• Discouraging the use of web application firewalls [925d] [hn]
• Future is quantum: universities look to train engineers for an emerging industry [925d] [hn]
• Principles are products of practice, not the reverse [925d] [hn]
• Reauthorizing Mass Surveillance Shouldn't Be Tied to Funding the Government [925d] [hn]
• PixArt-α:A New Open-Source Text-to-Image Model Challenging SDXL and Dalle·3 [925d] [hn]
• Panama Canal is so congested that one ship owner just paid $4M to skip the line [925d] [hn]
• Supreme Court of the United States Statement Regarding the Code of Conduct [pdf] [925d] [hn]
• Algorithms by Jeff Erickson [925d] [hn]
• The Supreme Court is adopting a code of ethics for the first time [925d] [hn]
• Ubuntu Pro Shenanigans [925d] [hn]
• AI Is a Terrifying Purveyor of Bullshit. Next Up: Fake Science [925d] [hn]
• Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari [925d] [hn]
• NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month [925d] [hn]
• You need a mental model of LLMs to build or use a LLM-based product [925d] [hn]
• Forests with multiple tree species are more effective as carbon sinks [925d] [hn]
• Show HN: Bitemporal, Binary JSON Database System and Event Store [925d] [hn]
• Show HN: SirixDB – Bitemporal binary JSON database system and event store [925d] [hn]
• Researchers identify 'switch' to activate cancer cell death [925d] [hn]
• Tell HN: LinkedIn has one of the worst dark patterns I have seen on the web [925d] [hn]
• How to Fathom Climate Change's Unfathomable Numbers [925d] [hn]
• AlmaLinux 9.3 Stable [925d] [hn]
• Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB [925d] [hn]
• Cosmological galaxy formation simulation software [925d] [hn]
• A Revolution in Computer Graphics Is Bringing 3D Reality Capture to the Masses [925d] [hn]
• Ray Dalio ran Bridgewater like the global strongmen he admired [925d] [hn]
• Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration [925d] [hn]
• Slow-Scan Television [925d] [hn]
• Smarter Summaries with Finetuning GPT-3.5 and Chain of Density [925d] [hn]
• BlackRock and housing: Setting the record straight [925d] [hn]
• HTML Web Components [925d] [hn]
• Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU [925d] [hn]
• The NYPD Is Using Drones 3X More Than It Used To [925d] [hn]
• Show HN: Twogether AI – Multi-Person Photo Generation API [925d] [hn]
• Black goo is the new oscilloscope: Love Hultén's ferrofluid synths [925d] [hn]
• Technofeudalism [925d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Does "trust" eliminate the need for code reviews? [925d] [hn]
• Unity announces layoffs despite increased revenue and reduced losses [925d] [hn]
• $1 Unistroke Recognizer [925d] [hn]
• To free the Baltic grid, old technology is new again [925d] [hn]
• Tragedy of return to hostile offices [925d] [hn]
• Cathode-Retro: A collection of shaders to emulate the display of an NTSC signal [925d] [hn]
• Micron Introduces 128 GB DDR5-8000 RDIMMs with Monolithic 32 GB Die [925d] [hn]
• Compressing Codebase Collocates [925d] [hn]
• Munich court tells Netflix to stop using H.265 video coding to stream UHD [925d] [hn]
• Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256 [925d] [hn]
• URL Explained – The Fundamentals [925d] [hn]
• Self-service: Booths supermarket puts staff back behind its tills [925d] [hn]
• Pistachio Billionaires Accused of Artwashing California's Water Crisis [925d] [hn]
• Ship Shape [925d] [hn]
• YouTube May Face Criminal Complaints in EU for Using Ad-Block Detection Scripts [925d] [hn]
• Vela incident (1979) [925d] [hn]
• Loro: Reimagine state management with CRDTs [926d] [hn]
• "I'm on the edge of revolt" – Internal Tech Emails [926d] [hn]
• Why IBX and Why Lazarus [926d] [hn]
• Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video] [926d] [hn]
• Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said; [926d] [hn]
• SRAM in AI: The Future of Memory [926d] [hn]
• From Aristocratic to Ordinary: Shifting Modes of Elite Distinction (2020) [926d] [hn]
• Trip Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting [926d] [hn]
• 10k Bounty for Rewriting Prettier in Rust [926d] [hn]
• Diamonds Suck [926d] [hn]
• Cuttlefish and Their Technicolor Dreamcoats [926d] [hn]
• Run LLMs on my own Mac fast and efficient Only 2 MBs [926d] [hn]
• Google pulls Fitbit from almost 30 markets [926d] [hn]
• Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is – and he knows who killed it [926d] [hn]
• More Dakka in Medicine [926d] [hn]
• String theory lied to us and now science communication is hard [video] [926d] [hn]
• Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3 [926d] [hn]
• Bangladesh removed lead from turmeric spice [926d] [hn]
• Learn PostScript by Doing (2005) [pdf] [926d] [hn]
• MLPerf training tests put Nvidia ahead, Intel close, and Google well behind [926d] [hn]
• Beg Bounties [926d] [hn]
• The Diamond World Takes Radical Steps to Stop a Pricing Plunge [926d] [hn]
• Show HN: Interactive AI Resume/LinkedIn for better networking/job hunting [926d] [hn]