The Brutalist Report

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• Wind power and solar photovoltaics have higher energy returns than fossil fuels [714d] [hn]
• Scientists confirm that pasteurisation effectively inactivates influenza viruses [714d] [hn]
• Psychedelics are challenging the standard of randomized controlled trials [714d] [hn]
• Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle [714d] [hn]
• The Future Is Retro – ModRetro [714d] [hn]
• Whiteboard interviews are a test of obedience, not intelligence [714d] [hn]
• New theory suggests time is an illusion created by quantum entanglement [714d] [hn]
• Special-Use Domain 'Home.arpa.' [714d] [hn]
• SnapMagic (YC S15), the AI copilot for electronics, is hiring a PM [714d] [hn]
• Python's many command-line utilities [714d] [hn]
• Show HN: Keyword Research Tool Without Fuzz [714d] [hn]
• Grokfast: Accelerated Grokking by Amplifying Slow Gradients [714d] [hn]
• Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm' [714d] [hn]
• Sam Altman, Lately [714d] [hn]
• Oldest largest German Minecraft server shut down and open sourced everything [714d] [hn]
• The Moral Economy of the Shire [714d] [hn]
• Microwave Drills from Nuclear Fusion Tech Find Geothermal Energy Application [714d] [hn]
• Nigeria suffers national power outage as labor unions shut down grid [714d] [hn]
• It's Time to Take Phones Away from Students [714d] [hn]
• UMD study: N95 masks nearly perfect at blocking Covid [714d] [hn]
• Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language [714d] [hn]
• Ozempic (semaglutide) associated with a 50-56% reduction in alcohol addiction [714d] [hn]
• ModRetro [714d] [hn]
• If English was written like Chinese (1999) [714d] [hn]
• Shared Memory Versioning to improve slow interactions [714d] [hn]
• The Most Disturbing Places We've Found Microplastics So Far [714d] [hn]
• X has new rules that officially allow porn [714d] [hn]
• The Alaska Supreme Court Takes Aerial Surveillance's Threat to Privacy Seriously [714d] [hn]
• Trellis (YC W24) is hiring Founding-Eng to build ETL for unstructured data with AI [714d] [hn]
• Why YC Went to DC [714d] [hn]
• Cirkoban: Sokoban meets cellular automata written in Scheme [714d] [hn]
• Posthog – open-source analytics and UX research tool [714d] [hn]
• Go East from Seattle [714d] [hn]
• Feynman Computer Science Lecture – Hardware, Software, Heuristics (1985) [video] [714d] [hn]
• Mamba-2 – State Space Duality [714d] [hn]
• Show HN: Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager [714d] [hn]
• Diving into Domain-Specific Languages: A Practical Guide for Developers [714d] [hn]
• Ogma: Interpretable Symbolic General Problem-Solving Model [714d] [hn]
• Physicists create a Bose-Einstein condensate [714d] [hn]
• The Rise and Fall of a 17th-Century Status Symbol (2015) [714d] [hn]
• Consumer Electronics Control [714d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) [714d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024) [714d] [hn]
• The Decline of the User Interface [714d] [hn]
• Spotify is increasing US prices again [714d] [hn]
• Linux Mint Disabling Unverified Flatpaks by Default [714d] [hn]
• NASA+ [714d] [hn]
• FBI Raids Big Corporate Landlord over Nationwide Rent Hikes [714d] [hn]
• What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came? [714d] [hn]
• AI Will Increase the Quantity–and Quality–of Phishing Scams [714d] [hn]
• Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life [714d] [hn]
• AWS Chalice [714d] [hn]
• Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor [714d] [hn]
• Dealing with "New" Old Data [714d] [hn]
• Generate an OpenSCAD case template from a KiCAD PCB [714d] [hn]
• Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman [714d] [hn]
• How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1? [714d] [hn]