The Brutalist Report

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• One index, two publishers and the global research economy [693d] [hn]
• Why do we still teach people to calculate? [693d] [hn]
• How to Do The Jhanas [693d] [hn]
• The semiotics of barbed wire fence [693d] [hn]
• The pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain [693d] [hn]
• I switched to Vim – and it took me only 6 years to learn it [693d] [hn]
• Writing an IR from Scratch and survive to write a post [693d] [hn]
• The Crazy Economics of the Most Coveted Handbag [693d] [hn]
• LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground [693d] [hn]
• Getting 100% code coverage doesn't eliminate bugs [693d] [hn]
• Looking ahead to 30 years of FreeDOS [693d] [hn]
• Renga 1.26 – An XMPP client for HaikuOS [693d] [hn]
• Top Libraries to Accelerate LLM Building [693d] [hn]
• The Encyclopedia Project, or How to Know in the Age of AI [693d] [hn]
• Porting Python to a $3 smartwatch [video] [693d] [hn]
• Traffic noise hurts children's brains [693d] [hn]
• Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years [693d] [hn]
• Deriving Dependently-Typed OOP from First Principles [693d] [hn]
• Y combinator codex [693d] [hn]
• How electronic ignition works and also how to make a spark plug play music [693d] [hn]
• Some fundraisers pay >90% of the funds to themselves [693d] [hn]
• Ask HN: What's the oldest file on your computer? [693d] [hn]
• Review of Linux on Minisforum V3 AMD Ryzen Tablet [693d] [hn]
• Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy [693d] [hn]
• Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off [693d] [hn]
• Show HN: Tsellm: Interactive SQLite shell with LLM support [693d] [hn]
• 82 Copies of Shakespeare's First Folio on Display at Folger Shakespeare Library [693d] [hn]
• Why Mount Rainier is the US volcano keeping scientists up at night [693d] [hn]
• Wikipedia: 97% of all articles lead to Philosophy [693d] [hn]
• Optimizing the Roc parser/compiler with data-oriented design [693d] [hn]
• I'm Switching from Laravel to Rails [693d] [hn]
• First we shape our social graph, then it shapes us (2022) [693d] [hn]
• The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets [693d] [hn]
• How automotive radar measures the velocity of objects [693d] [hn]
• Stamp: A Mini-Language for Templates [693d] [hn]
• Audit finds NYPD spent thousands of police hours on unconfirmed gunshot alerts [693d] [hn]
• US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban [693d] [hn]
• G'mic 3.4.0: Image Processing in Its Prime [693d] [hn]
• B-Trees Require Fewer Comparisons Than Balanced Binary Search Trees [693d] [hn]
• Inside Netflix's bet on advanced video encoding [693d] [hn]
• Three ways to think about Go channels [693d] [hn]
• Arbitrary shell command evaluation in Org Mode (GNU Emacs) [693d] [hn]
• Citizens to End SuperPACs [693d] [hn]
• Batteries as a Military Enabler [693d] [hn]
• Traffic engineers build roads inviting crashes on outdated research, faulty data [694d] [hn]
• Picolisp a Railroad Simulation [694d] [hn]
• California AI bill becomes a lightning rod–for safety advocates and devs alike [694d] [hn]
• SquirrelFS: Using the Rust compiler to check file-system crash consistency [694d] [hn]
• How GE Helped Launch The Computing Language That Changed The World (2019) [694d] [hn]
• A Person of Compute [694d] [hn]
• Show HN: I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers [694d] [hn]
• Asynchronous Consensus Without Trusted Setup or Public-Key Cryptography [694d] [hn]
• Group actions and hashing unordered multisets (2021) [694d] [hn]
• I found an 8 years old bug in Xorg [694d] [hn]
• "We argue that mitochondria are the processor of the cell" (2022) [694d] [hn]
• The Blank Sheet Method: From Passive Reading to Active Learning [694d] [hn]
• Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM [694d] [hn]