The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Give Me Back My Sunsets! The time Instagram wrongly banned me [739d] [hn]
• Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications [739d] [hn]
• A Record of Old Kashgar [739d] [hn]
• C2PA from the Attacker's Perspective [739d] [hn]
• Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark' [739d] [hn]
• No Country Should Be Making Speech Rules for the World [739d] [hn]
• NASA's Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes [739d] [hn]
• The World Has (Probably) Passed Peak Pollution [739d] [hn]
• Life-like particle system [739d] [hn]
• Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail [739d] [hn]
• Google Cloud accidentally deletes customer's account [739d] [hn]
• Microsoft's $1M Vote of Confidence in Rust's Future [739d] [hn]
• Protobuf Editions are here: don't panic [739d] [hn]
• Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants [739d] [hn]
• How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy? [739d] [hn]
• The Ridiculous History of 'OK' [739d] [hn]
• Does mining for batteries erase the climate benefits of EVs? No, and here's why [739d] [hn]
• NASA's Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months [739d] [hn]
• Palantir Supplies Israel with New Tools Since Hamas War Started [739d] [hn]
• Evidence on the presence and history of assortative mating [739d] [hn]
• DNSecure – a configuration tool of DoT and DoH for iOS and iPadOS [740d] [hn]
• It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time [740d] [hn]
• Sean Baxter: Safe C++ [video] [740d] [hn]
• The Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT [740d] [hn]
• Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts [740d] [hn]
• Leaked Deck Reveals How OpenAI Is Pitching Publisher Partnerships [740d] [hn]
• Buckets of Parquet Files Are Awful [740d] [hn]
• Tesla Quietly Removes All U.S. Job Postings [740d] [hn]
• Leaked FBI Email Reportedly Shows Desperation to Justify Warrantless Wiretaps [740d] [hn]
• Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies [740d] [hn]
• High prices are not the main cause of low fertility rates in cities [740d] [hn]
• Machine Super Intelligence [pdf] [740d] [hn]
• ESP32 Drum Synth Machine [740d] [hn]
• Show HN: Ellipsis – Automated PR reviews and bug fixes [740d] [hn]
• Blade Runner [740d] [hn]
• Neuralink's First Human Brain-Chip Implant Appeared Flawless,There Was a Problem [740d] [hn]
• The new REPL in Python 3.13 [740d] [hn]
• AI comes for YouTube's thumbnail industry [740d] [hn]
• Show HN: An open source alternative to some of Slack AI's premium features [740d] [hn]
• Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done [740d] [hn]
• Syncing Postgres Partitions to Parquet in S3 in Crunchy Bridge for Analytics [740d] [hn]
• How NASA Is Hacking Voyager 1 Back to Life [740d] [hn]
• A Brief History of the First Planetarium [740d] [hn]
• Breaking Signal Messenger's Post-Compromise Security Through a Malicious Device [pdf] [740d] [hn]
• Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise [740d] [hn]
• Civic Honesty Around the Globe (2019) [pdf] [740d] [hn]
• Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant's oil ties [740d] [hn]
• VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding [740d] [hn]
• Hertz Charges Tesla Model 3 Renter $277 Fee for Gas [740d] [hn]
• Walkthrough of a Minimal Vision Transformer (ViT) [740d] [hn]
• New AI Tools Predict How Life's Building Blocks Assemble [740d] [hn]
• No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data [740d] [hn]
• Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun [740d] [hn]
• FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users [740d] [hn]
• Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres [740d] [hn]
• The deep ocean photographer that captured a 'living fossil' [740d] [hn]
• Stack Overflow Community Is Not Happy with the OpenAI Deal [740d] [hn]
• Show HN: Timmerse.com (YC W22) Easily create immersive real-time interactions [740d] [hn]