The Brutalist Report

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• Tales of Topological Qubits [896d] [hn]
• Services across England now lag far behind East Germany [896d] [hn]
• Research shows mouse and primate brains mature at the same pace [896d] [hn]
• Researchers have discovered magnetic monopoles [896d] [hn]
• Merlin Sound ID – Identify Birds Using Your Phone (How It Works) [896d] [hn]
• Anthropic Claude performance depends heavily on prompt style [896d] [hn]
• Gordon Freeman at the Olympic Games [896d] [hn]
• Danish pension fund to sell its Tesla shares over union dispute [896d] [hn]
• AMD MI300 Performance – Faster Than H100, but How Much? [896d] [hn]
• Don't Fall for Big Oil's Carbon Capture Deceptions [896d] [hn]
• K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system [896d] [hn]
• Unveiling secrets of the ESP32: creating an open-source Mac layer [896d] [hn]
• Spellbrush (YC W18), Hiring AI Anime Researchers and Gamedevs (Tokyo/SF) [896d] [hn]
• Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Connectors [896d] [hn]
• DiLoCo: Distributed Low-Communication Training of Language Models [896d] [hn]
• AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices [896d] [hn]
• Fukuoka court rules ban on dual nationality is constitutional [896d] [hn]
• Commuting time of more than 30 min one way linked to higher chance of depression [896d] [hn]
• Painting is Terribly Difficult [896d] [hn]
• Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2023 [896d] [hn]
• OpenAI setup a multi-million deal to buy chips from Altman-backed company [896d] [hn]
• My favorite restaurant served gas [896d] [hn]
• Quad9 Turns the Sony Case Around in Dresden [896d] [hn]
• Wikifunctions [896d] [hn]
• Physicists Find Seemingly Impossible Magnets with Just One Pole [896d] [hn]
• Data-Oriented Design [896d] [hn]
• OpenAI Switch Kit: Swap OpenAI with any open-source model [896d] [hn]
• W3C Leaves Twitter [896d] [hn]
• Show HN: Lume – automate data mappings using AI [896d] [hn]
• Spotlight: Sentry for Development [896d] [hn]
• Polymath Robotics (YC S22) Is Hiring Robotics Safety Engineer – San Francisco [896d] [hn]
• Flickypedia helps you put Flickr photos on Wikimedia Commons [896d] [hn]
• Gold Prices Are Hitting Records [896d] [hn]
• JetBrains AI Launch Event [video] [897d] [hn]
• Microsoft Will Eventually Start Charging You for Windows 10 Security Updates [897d] [hn]
• JetBrains AI [897d] [hn]
• Show HN: Winglang – a new Cloud-Oriented programming language [897d] [hn]
• Databases are the endgame for data-oriented design [897d] [hn]
• Getting Started with Axum – Rust's Most Popular Web Framework [897d] [hn]
• Show HN: CopilotKit- Build in-app AI chatbots and AI-powered Textareas [897d] [hn]
• Just about every Windows/Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack [897d] [hn]
• Enabling next-generation AI workloads: Announcing TPU v5p and AI Hypercomputer [897d] [hn]
• Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet [897d] [hn]
• Gemini – Google DeepMind [897d] [hn]
• Show HN: Why is the Amiga so beloved in the demoscene? (2023 essay) [897d] [hn]
• Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users [897d] [hn]
• Ask HN: How are quantum computing companies making money? [897d] [hn]
• Nim [897d] [hn]
• Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI's Shadowy Q* Project [897d] [hn]
• Jailbroken AI Chatbots Can Jailbreak Other Chatbots [897d] [hn]
• Serbia grants citizenship to Steve Wozniak [897d] [hn]
• Mold Course [897d] [hn]
• Playstation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks [897d] [hn]
• Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications -US senator [897d] [hn]
• Tesla (VP Vehicle Engineering) says Cybertruck likely to not make it to Europe [897d] [hn]
• EfficientSAM [897d] [hn]
• Norway Joins Denmark in Swedish Tesla Strike/Blockade [897d] [hn]
• Compressing Gaussian Splats [897d] [hn]
• Rethinking Serverless with Flame [897d] [hn]