The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Common pesticides in food reducing sperm count worldwide, study says [917d] [hn]
• The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America' [917d] [hn]
• Scintillocartography [917d] [hn]
• "Grand Ball Given by the Whales," Vanity Fair, April 20, 1861 [917d] [hn]
• We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount Ones Are the Way [917d] [hn]
• Double-Checking Dawkins [917d] [hn]
• Ford F-150 Lightning Breezes Up Obstacle Where Tesla Cybertruck Struggled [917d] [hn]
• Fixing bug 109595 makes MySQL almost 4X faster on the Insert Benchmark [917d] [hn]
• Meta allows ads saying 2020 election was rigged on Facebook and Instagram [917d] [hn]
• Push ifs up and fors down [917d] [hn]
• Language models and linguistic theories beyond words [917d] [hn]
• Porting Stunt Car Racer to the Apple II [917d] [hn]
• Blender 16yo winner of UK younganimator of the year [917d] [hn]
• NTSB Calls for Technology to Reduce Speeding in All New Cars [917d] [hn]
• Plane forced to turn back to JFK after horse breaks loose onboard [917d] [hn]
• Is my toddler a stochastic parrot? [917d] [hn]
• Price paid for offshore power to rise by 50% [917d] [hn]
• Give up 70% of the way through the hyperstitious slur cascade [917d] [hn]
• Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians [918d] [hn]
• Firefox Is Going to Try and Ship with Wayland Enabled by Default [918d] [hn]
• Australia's overuse of antibiotics driving rate of drug-resistant infections [918d] [hn]
• David Attenborough is now narrating my life [918d] [hn]
• The Religion of Science and Its Consequences [918d] [hn]
• Azure announces new AI optimized VM series featuring AMD's flagship MI300X GPU [918d] [hn]
• Demoscene [918d] [hn]
• Inflation Appears to Be Over [918d] [hn]
• Running Redshift at Scale [918d] [hn]
• Godot Engine GPT [918d] [hn]
• Intro to Multi-Object Tracking [918d] [hn]
• Android isn't cool with teenagers, and that's a big problem [918d] [hn]
• Diskomator – NVMe-TCP at your fingertips [918d] [hn]
• Tangram Vision packs AI skills onto HiFi 3D sensor [918d] [hn]
• The Decline of Usability: Revisited [918d] [hn]
• Companies with Flexible Remote Work Policies Outperform on Revenue Growth [918d] [hn]
• Silicon Valley's worldview is not just an ideology; it's a personality disorder [918d] [hn]
• Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken? [918d] [hn]
• In Illinois, a Warden Tried to Fix an Abusive Prison. He Faced Death Threats [918d] [hn]
• Learning about b-trees in Factorio [918d] [hn]
• Microsoft producing custom "Azure Cobalt" chips for cloud AI workloads [918d] [hn]
• Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop [918d] [hn]
• Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away [918d] [hn]
• Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with RTO policy [918d] [hn]
• Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost [918d] [hn]
• The battle over right to repair is a fight over your car's data [918d] [hn]
• On Cultures That Build (2020) [918d] [hn]
• AI tool helps ecologists monitor rare birds through their songs [918d] [hn]
• Comets that 'bounce' from planet to planet could spread life across the universe [918d] [hn]
• The first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud [918d] [hn]
• The Principle of Least Power (2007) [918d] [hn]
• Show HN: Watermelon – open-source copilot for code review [918d] [hn]
• Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat? [918d] [hn]
• James Webb Space Telescope finds 2 of the most distant galaxies ever seen [918d] [hn]
• Confessions of a Startup Founder's Wife [918d] [hn]
• I Visited over 120 EV Chargers: Why So Many Were Broken [918d] [hn]
• I visited over 120 EV chargers: why so many were broken [918d] [hn]
• M1076 Analog Matrix Processor [918d] [hn]
• AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first time: Google study [918d] [hn]
• US surgeons perform first whole eye transplant [918d] [hn]
• Canned food went from military rations to fancy appetizers [918d] [hn]
• Show HN: MonkeyPatch – Cheap, fast and predictable LLM functions in Python [918d] [hn]
• ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education [918d] [hn]
• Eyes on the Solar System/JPL [918d] [hn]
• FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban' [918d] [hn]
• Google paid $8B to make its apps default on Samsung phones [918d] [hn]
• The Small Website Discoverability Crisis [918d] [hn]
• The 'Georgists' Are Out and they want to tax your land [918d] [hn]
• A defined process for project post mortem review (1996) [918d] [hn]
• COBOL for GCC Development [918d] [hn]
• Don't Spy EU [918d] [hn]
• WASM by Example [918d] [hn]
• The Python Sofware Foundation Receives Wonderfully Welcoming Award from GitHub [918d] [hn]
• We don't do DST at this company [918d] [hn]
• Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer [918d] [hn]