The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Show HN: A simple and powerful RSS reader for the web [557d] [hn]
• US Judge Strikes Down Ban on Worker 'Noncompete' Agreements [557d] [hn]
• Taichi: Productive, portable, and performant GPU programming in Python [557d] [hn]
• Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine [557d] [hn]
• An admittedly wandering defense of the SSO tax [557d] [hn]
• Judge orders removal of 1,000ft rotting ocean liner from Philadelphia pier [557d] [hn]
• OpenAI Partners with Condé Nast [557d] [hn]
• MIT expericence after canceling the full Elsevier journals contract [557d] [hn]
• Why Are Texas Interchanges So Tall? [557d] [hn]
• Zed AI [557d] [hn]
• Attackers can exfil data with Slack AI [557d] [hn]
• Condé Nast Signs Deal with OpenAI [557d] [hn]
• Uv 0.3 – Unified Python packaging [557d] [hn]
• Making Database Systems Usable [557d] [hn]
• 2d Circuit Holds Lawfully Possessed Gun Does Not Constitute Probable Cause [557d] [hn]
• Profiling Programming Language Learning [557d] [hn]
• Lago (OSS Usage Based Billing) Is Hiring a Head of Product Marketing (SF) [557d] [hn]
• Avoiding Sun as Dangerous as Smoking (2016) [557d] [hn]
• Reflecting on Transducers in Scheme [557d] [hn]
• The Harmless Pi-Hole Bug [557d] [hn]
• Higher ultraviolet light exposure is associated with lower mortality [557d] [hn]
• Rocket explodes during testing at UK's new spaceport in Shetland [557d] [hn]
• Dropbox Acquires Reclaim.ai [557d] [hn]
• Show HN: Tree-sitter Integration for Swift [557d] [hn]
• Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o [557d] [hn]
• Roc Lang – Elm but for everywhere [video] [557d] [hn]
• The AI photo editing era is here, and it's every person for themselves [557d] [hn]
• The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video] [557d] [hn]
• Can Digital Emulations (Plugins) Ever Be as Good as Analog Hardware? [557d] [hn]
• Launch HN: MinusX (YC S24) – AI assistant for data tools like Jupyter/Metabase [557d] [hn]
• Exposure to the Sun's UV radiation may be good for you [557d] [hn]
• Host Your Own Copilot [557d] [hn]
• Waymo now serves over 100k paid trips per week [557d] [hn]
• Stripe Built One of Silicon Valley's Best Engineering Teams (2013) [557d] [hn]
• The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown [557d] [hn]
• The world is relying on a flawed psychological test to fight racism (2017) [557d] [hn]
• The DA Says He's Innocent. He Might Spend Life in Prison Anyway [557d] [hn]
• Waiting Time Paradox or Why Is My Bus Always Late? [558d] [hn]
• Nasir Ahmed's digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible [558d] [hn]
• World’s oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, dies aged 117 [558d] [hn]
• Show HN: Visual Sudoku Solver in the Browser (With OpenCV and TensorFlow) [558d] [hn]
• 1953 US Navy training film on mechanical computers [video] [558d] [hn]
• Transformers for Ruby [558d] [hn]
• Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies into Its Web [558d] [hn]
• What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing? [558d] [hn]
• Toasts Are Bad UX [558d] [hn]
• Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in Your Inbox [558d] [hn]
• Writing Technical Documents Well [558d] [hn]
• A Lego Model of Capitalist Central Planning [558d] [hn]
• Copilot turns a court reporter into a child molester [558d] [hn]
• Foone gets a NUC binned by an AI startup [558d] [hn]
• &udm=14 for Safari (iOS/iPadOS) [558d] [hn]
• Go automatically downloads a newer toolchain if needed [558d] [hn]
• 'Model collapse'? An expert explains the rumours about an impending AI doom [558d] [hn]
• Mike Lynch's co-defendant in fraud trial 'fatally struck' by car while jogging [558d] [hn]
• Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor [558d] [hn]
• The U.S. Navy's $100M Checkbox (2019) [558d] [hn]
• Shapez2 Released [558d] [hn]
• 2024's Hugo Award Winners Announced [558d] [hn]
• Phrack 71 Released [558d] [hn]
• Sourcegraph Went Dark [558d] [hn]
• $50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU [558d] [hn]
• Show HN: I Made an AI Song Generator [558d] [hn]
• Neo Geo Dev: Fixed Point Numbers [558d] [hn]
• GM to Cut More Than 1k Software Engineers, Mostly in US [558d] [hn]
• The ribosome lowers the entropic penalty of protein folding [558d] [hn]
• Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives [558d] [hn]
• Artificial intelligence is losing hype [558d] [hn]
• Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineer (Remote) [558d] [hn]
• 6th-generation Waymo Driver [558d] [hn]
• So you want to build an embedded Linux system? [558d] [hn]
• Boeing Halts 777X Flight Tests over Damage Found in Engine Mount [558d] [hn]