The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Can a pill prevent deaths from venomous snakebites? [869d] [hn]
• Coal and fossil fuel use in Germany at a record low for electricity in 2023 [869d] [hn]
• Delete or hide life-wasting apps [869d] [hn]
• Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023 [869d] [hn]
• Jonathan Katz: Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024 [869d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Has the tech recession affected you? [869d] [hn]
• QEMU AioContext removal and how it was done [869d] [hn]
• Why Are Tech Reporters Sleeping on the Biggest App Store Story? [869d] [hn]
• Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo Browser [869d] [hn]
• OpenIndiana Illumos Distro [869d] [hn]
• ParadeDB – PostgreSQL for Search [869d] [hn]
• Apple II Emulation Evaluation (2022) [869d] [hn]
• Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too [869d] [hn]
• CGA in 1024 colors - a new mode [869d] [hn]
• LLM spews nonsense in CVE report for curl [869d] [hn]
• Show HN: Better Seater: Wedding Seating Chart Optimizer [869d] [hn]
• Realtime Annotations and Visualizations in Live Coding Performance [869d] [hn]
• 1D Pac-Man [869d] [hn]
• Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models [869d] [hn]
• LinkedIn ad prices up as X plummets [869d] [hn]
• "First do it, then do it right, then do it better." [869d] [hn]
• First do it, then do it right, then do it better [869d] [hn]
• Chrultrabook Docs [869d] [hn]
• Spoonbill (2016–2013) [869d] [hn]
• Plan9/ThinkPad T420s (2021) [869d] [hn]
• Moving Git commits between repos [869d] [hn]
• 90x Faster Than Pgvector – Lantern's HNSW Index Creation Time [869d] [hn]
• Show HN: How do you OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python for free [869d] [hn]
• I've Implemented a RSS Reader [869d] [hn]
• In L.A., a new vision of incarceration proves rehabilitation works [869d] [hn]
• Was JavaScript made in 10 days? [869d] [hn]
• Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up [869d] [hn]
• Do It Yourself Blind Repair [869d] [hn]
• Double encryption: Analyzing the NSA/GCHQ arguments against hybrids [869d] [hn]
• Git Branches Have No Rules [869d] [hn]
• Online Job Posts Contain Little Wage Information [pdf] [869d] [hn]
• BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023 [869d] [hn]
• I Hate AI Licenses [869d] [hn]
• Apple starts 2024 with Barclays downgrade [869d] [hn]
• A Simulated Annealing FPGA Placer in Rust [869d] [hn]
• Hospitals ask courts to force cloud storage firm to return stolen data [869d] [hn]
• Homelab: Running Postgres on Kubernetes [869d] [hn]
• A Canadian payroll dependency chart [869d] [hn]
• What it will take to unleash the potential of geothermal power [869d] [hn]
• Distributed Inference and Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models over the Internet [869d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) [869d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024) [869d] [hn]
• Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply to AI Training [869d] [hn]
• The Infinite/Eternal Jukebox has been revived [869d] [hn]
• Best paper awards in computer science over the past 28 years (1996-2023) [869d] [hn]
• Thomas Cochrane [869d] [hn]
• What It's Like to Use Apple's Lockdown Mode [869d] [hn]
• MixRank (YC S11) Is Hiring Global Remote Software Engineers [869d] [hn]
• Antimacassar [869d] [hn]
• A New Blog for 2024 [869d] [hn]
• An Untold Story of LSD Psychotherapy in Communist Czechoslovakia [869d] [hn]
• Super-rich pick flats with private security as sales rise of £15M London homes [869d] [hn]
• Built and Android app that uses LLMs to learn stuff [869d] [hn]
• Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say [869d] [hn]
• Introduction to Plan 9 [869d] [hn]
• JAL A359 at Tokyo collided with Coast Guard DH8C on runway and burst into flames [869d] [hn]
• Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-fla [869d] [hn]
• Muppet babies will never be available on streaming due to studio copyright claim [869d] [hn]
• Universities Are Prioritizing Their Health Systems over Teaching [869d] [hn]
• LAN Mouse is a mouse and keyboard sharing software [869d] [hn]
• A new approach to local multiplayer / splitscreen perspective with raytracing [869d] [hn]
• Framework for identification of chaotic systems with symbolic regression [869d] [hn]
• Microsoft Copilot iOS App [869d] [hn]
• The Duplex watch escapement [869d] [hn]
• Reductive Thinking and the Unfairness of Spotify Payments [869d] [hn]
• After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] [869d] [hn]
• South Sudan's first female gynaecologist, Dr Idyoro Ojukwu [870d] [hn]
• Parallelising Heirarchical Small World Graphs [870d] [hn]
• How do we stop Meta in 2024? We fix the information loop [870d] [hn]
• Miracle escape as burning plane lands at Tokyo airport after collision [870d] [hn]