The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Why I Bought an Encyclopedia [703d] [hn]
• Show HN: Elles – A nicer /bin/ls [703d] [hn]
• From grep to SPLADE: a journey through semantic search [703d] [hn]
• Lamini Memory Tuning: 10x Fewer Hallucinations [703d] [hn]
• Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code [703d] [hn]
• The 'Compact' Version of Stable Diffusion 3 Is Generating Monstrous Human Bodies [703d] [hn]
• React 19 Breaks Async Composability [703d] [hn]
• California's wage gap is the biggest in the US [703d] [hn]
• Adobe employees slam the company over AI controversy: 'Avoid becoming like IBM' [703d] [hn]
• OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board [703d] [hn]
• Herbert A. Simon and Jorge Luis Borges About Free Will (2023) [703d] [hn]
• European Content Removal Laws Scrub the Internet of Legal Content [704d] [hn]
• Encodings for flattened heap values [704d] [hn]
• Unity Catalog: Open, Multi-Modal Catalog for Data and AI [704d] [hn]
• 'Noodle Rat' a New Cross-Platform Malware Targets Windows and Linux Systems [704d] [hn]
• Rent in Cities Skylines 2 was too high, so the devs removed landlords [704d] [hn]
• IKEA's retailer's solved global 'unhappy worker' crisis by raising salaries [704d] [hn]
• Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person [704d] [hn]
• Kavanaugh writes 9-0 opinion rejecting restriction on abortion pill access [pdf] [704d] [hn]
• Pay $1 to Hear Wu-Tang Clan’s Secret Album (Eventually) [704d] [hn]
• New algorithm discovers language just by watching videos [704d] [hn]
• 50 year old petrodollar pact between Saudi Arabia and US expires [704d] [hn]
• Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to use computers [704d] [hn]
• Chinese Yuan becomes Russia's main foreign currency, replacing Dollar and Euro [704d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Widespread Apathy? [704d] [hn]
• How Google is helping create a new model for clean energy [704d] [hn]
• Show HN: Paramount – Human Evals of AI Customer Support [704d] [hn]
• Beneath the AGI and Foundational Model Hype, Sober AI Is the Enterprise Default [704d] [hn]
• The "uncanny" is the experience of a loss of control [704d] [hn]
• The fastest path to African prosperity [704d] [hn]
• The Art of the Epigraph [704d] [hn]
• Anticipatory Anxiety [704d] [hn]
• An Empirical Study of Mamba-Based Language Models [704d] [hn]
• You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents [704d] [hn]
• Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize [704d] [hn]
• Postgres 17: Streaming I/O for sequential scans and ANALYZE [704d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What alternatives to Adobe products are you switching to? [704d] [hn]
• IntelliJ GitHub Plugin leaking credentials [704d] [hn]
• Phishing scammers impersonate AH employee to drain crypto wallets [704d] [hn]
• Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad [704d] [hn]
• Show HN: XDeck – An ad-blocking client app for macOS, like TweetDeck [704d] [hn]
• Supreme Court Upholds Broad Access to Abortion Pill Mifepristone [704d] [hn]
• AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor [704d] [hn]
• How do you cool a 100F city? [704d] [hn]
• MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec [704d] [hn]
• Why not just embed Neovim? [704d] [hn]
• US Supreme Court backs Starbucks over fired pro-union workers [704d] [hn]
• Iridescence in Meat Caused by Surface Gratings [704d] [hn]
• Wells Fargo Fires over a Dozen for 'Simulation of Keyboard Activity' [704d] [hn]
• Luma AI Dream Machine [704d] [hn]
• Wells Fargo Fires Over a Dozen for 'Simulation of Keyboard Activity' [704d] [hn]
• The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Architecture Deep Dive: Getting to Know Oryon [704d] [hn]
• Nvidia Conquers Latest AI Tests [704d] [hn]
• Show HN: Pathway – Build Mission Critical ETL and RAG in Python (NATO, F1 Used) [704d] [hn]
• Canada Imposes 5% Tax on Streaming to Fund Local News, Diverse Content [704d] [hn]
• Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative [704d] [hn]
• iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, requires opt-in [704d] [hn]
• Reworkd (YC S23) Is Hiring a founding back end/infrastructure engineer [704d] [hn]