The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• 6502 – Guideline to Reverse Engineering (how to read die shots) [pdf] [751d] [hn]
• Block* and AgentFormer – Playing with blocks and Transformers (yay) [751d] [hn]
• The Essence of Compiling with Continuations (1993) [pdf] [751d] [hn]
• Haystack DB – 10x faster than FAISS with binary embeddings by default [751d] [hn]
• Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre [751d] [hn]
• Personal Computing Paves the Way for Personal Library Science [751d] [hn]
• DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game [751d] [hn]
• Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act [751d] [hn]
• Building MS-DOS 4.00 on FreeDOS [video] [751d] [hn]
• Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to eliminate E2E UI tests [751d] [hn]
• My Homemade Metal Lathe Project [751d] [hn]
• Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B [751d] [hn]
• Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility [751d] [hn]
• Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands [751d] [hn]
• 'Catastrophic grid failure' a possibility for Texas solar/wind/battery storage [751d] [hn]
• Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules [751d] [hn]
• Google surpasses $2T market cap [751d] [hn]
• The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with large cars [751d] [hn]
• OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computers [751d] [hn]
• A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp [751d] [hn]
• Williams-Sonoma fined $3.18M for falsely labeling products 'Made in USA' [751d] [hn]
• The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific paper [751d] [hn]
• Bloomberg: "Strong possibility" of M4 debuting on May 7 with new iPad Pro [751d] [hn]
• Trial of the effects of kefir on behaviour, sleep and the microbiome in ADHD [751d] [hn]
• Did we lose our way in making efficient software? – ~30 MB doc file vs. browser [751d] [hn]
• Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine [751d] [hn]
• Tales from an Attic [751d] [hn]
• The unstallable plane that stalled [751d] [hn]
• LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large Models [751d] [hn]
• Should the stock market never close? [751d] [hn]
• Show HN: Docker-phobia: Analyze Docker image size with a treemap [751d] [hn]
• George Stephenson [751d] [hn]
• Reentry – An Orbital Simulator [751d] [hn]
• Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree [751d] [hn]