The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• A Social History of Jell-O Salad (2023) [812d] [hn]
• StarCoder 2 is a code-generating AI that runs on most GPUs [812d] [hn]
• The financial value of open source software [812d] [hn]
• Optimize sgemm on RISC-V platform [812d] [hn]
• Tuxedo Computers [812d] [hn]
• Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play [812d] [hn]
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says Its Malfunctioning Gemini AI Is 'Unacceptable' [812d] [hn]
• Scientists find genetic signature of Down syndrome in ancient bones [812d] [hn]
• HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD [812d] [hn]
• Apple Orders 'Neuromancer' Series [812d] [hn]
• Show HN: CriticalPath – Advanced Profiler for Android [812d] [hn]
• How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future [812d] [hn]
• AI Terms Explained [812d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Best way to sell $1 digital product? [812d] [hn]
• EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030 [812d] [hn]
• An HTML Switch Control [812d] [hn]
• The Apple Vision Pro Is Unrepairable? [video] [812d] [hn]
• Why Is Panera Exempted from California's New Minimum Wage Law? [812d] [hn]
• United States White House Report on Memory Safe Programming [pdf] [812d] [hn]
• Why South Korean women aren't having babies [812d] [hn]
• Stripe Now Requires Physical Biz Address That Isn't a Ups Box [812d] [hn]
• Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion [812d] [hn]
• The Yak Shave [812d] [hn]
• OpenCollective Shutting Down [812d] [hn]
• "Dune" and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages [812d] [hn]
• The Roguelike Rule of Thumb [812d] [hn]
• Aviator (YC S21) is hiring an extrovert hacker [812d] [hn]
• 2024 MIT Integration Bee – Finals [video] [812d] [hn]
• Epic Games hit by 189GB hack, including login and payment info [812d] [hn]
• Americans to Get $5k to Shop Under New Bill [812d] [hn]
• Transcript of "Attacks on Anonymity Systems: The Theory" (2003) [812d] [hn]
• Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution [812d] [hn]
• MicroZig: Unified abstraction layer and HAL for Zig on several microcontrollers [812d] [hn]
• The $25B Kroger-Albertsons Merger Is Going to Fail [812d] [hn]
• RAR 7.0 Released [812d] [hn]
• Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics [812d] [hn]
• Globe Explorer [812d] [hn]
• Calendar Meeting Links Used to Spread Mac Malware [812d] [hn]
• How The Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets [812d] [hn]
• Show HN: Kalosm an embeddable framework for pre-trained models in Rust [812d] [hn]
• Biden orders crackdown on selling Americans' personal data abroad [812d] [hn]
• Vyxal: A code-golfing language experience [812d] [hn]
• Man in remission from blood cancer and HIV after remarkable treatment [812d] [hn]
• South Fork Wind, the first US complete utility-scale offshore wind farm [812d] [hn]
• Man Convicted for Trying to Help Undercover Game Wardens Recover a Deer Drone [812d] [hn]
• Pql, a pipelined query language that compiles to SQL (written in Go) [812d] [hn]
• The Tech Industry Doesn't Understand Consent – Opt-Out Is Not Consent [812d] [hn]
• US Government Buying Legally Available Consumer Data on US Citizens [812d] [hn]
• Two Chinese Supercomputers (With Mystery Hardware Components) Go Online [812d] [hn]
• River: A Reverse Proxy Built on Pingora [812d] [hn]
• Call-Center Firm Sinks on Klarna Claims AI Is Doing Agents' Jobs [812d] [hn]
• Broadcom CEO pay award jumps 164% to $160.8M [812d] [hn]
• Orbital reentry from 17000mph looks like dropping out of hyperspace [video] [812d] [hn]
• Supplanting matrices with Geometric Algebra in a forward 3D renderer [812d] [hn]
• Leaving Everything Behind For Elixir [Theo – t3․gg] [video] [812d] [hn]
• I'm Funded [812d] [hn]
• Wear OS "Hybrid" design has two OSes, two CPUs, "100 hour" battery life [812d] [hn]
• Wendy's will experiment with dynamic surge pricing for food in 2025 [812d] [hn]
• Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027 [812d] [hn]
• 'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien tech [812d] [hn]
• Qualcomm has open sourced more than 80 AI models [812d] [hn]
• Show HN: SlideSynth [812d] [hn]
• Show HN: SQL Workbench in the Browser [812d] [hn]
• Rewrite the VP9 codec library in Rust [812d] [hn]
• Let Everybody Sing [812d] [hn]
• VATSIM: The International Online Aviation Network [812d] [hn]
• Why I use Firefox [812d] [hn]
• SymPy: Symbolic Mathematics in Python [812d] [hn]
• The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk [812d] [hn]
• 46yr-old man claims to have a teen's body, wants to build nation of immortals [812d] [hn]
• Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral [812d] [hn]
• The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February [812d] [hn]