The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Reducing the cost of a single Google Cloud Dataflow Pipeline by Over 60% [12d] [hn]
• 1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day [12d] [hn]
• Mayor Adams' office directs NYC agencies to launch Bluesky accounts amid growth [12d] [hn]
• You can now use your itch.io subdomain as your Bluesky handle [12d] [hn]
• SQL style guide by Simon Holywell [12d] [hn]
• Omnivision-968M: Vision Language Model with 9x Tokens Reduction for Edge Devices [12d] [hn]
• Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200 [12d] [hn]
• New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm [12d] [hn]
• When the U.S. Forest Service's budget shrinks, who pumps campground toilets? [12d] [hn]
• Attestations: A new generation of signatures on PyPI [12d] [hn]
• Are We PEP740 Yet? [12d] [hn]
• Matrix Client Tutorial [12d] [hn]
• Europeans Spend 575M Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year [13d] [hn]
• Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe [13d] [hn]
• In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024 [13d] [hn]
• Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# [13d] [hn]
• Beelink mini-PC docking station supports desktop GPU [13d] [hn]
• InspectMind AI (YC W24) Is Hiring for AI in Construction [13d] [hn]
• Valuing Humans in the Age of Superintelligence: HumaneRank [13d] [hn]
• S/Sed/Ed [13d] [hn]
• Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge [13d] [hn]
• Speeding up the Rust edit-build-run cycle [13d] [hn]
• Prompt Injecting Your Way to Shell: OpenAI's Containerized ChatGPT Environment [13d] [hn]
• OpenMP 6.0 [13d] [hn]
• Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF [13d] [hn]
• Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Feed You More AI Slop [13d] [hn]
• The Poor UX/UI of Major Cloud Providers: ECS/VMs Management [13d] [hn]
• Perplexity: Why We're Experimenting with Advertising [13d] [hn]
• How AI is beating VCs in their own game [13d] [hn]
• AI Progress Stalls as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Hit Roadblocks [13d] [hn]
• Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess [13d] [hn]
• Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess [13d] [hn]
• MindsDB (YC W20) Is Hiring an Operations Analyst [13d] [hn]
• O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers' time [13d] [hn]
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• Origin private file system – MDN [13d] [hn]
• The Corpus of United States State Statutes–Design, Construction and Use [13d] [hn]
• AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive [13d] [hn]
• On Building Git for Lawyers [13d] [hn]
• Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Watches Its Step [video] [13d] [hn]
• Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads [13d] [hn]
• We can all be AI engineers – and we can do it with open source models [13d] [hn]
• Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs [13d] [hn]
• PyPI now supports digital attestations [13d] [hn]
• The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction [13d] [hn]
• The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy [13d] [hn]
• How the Ivy League Broke America [13d] [hn]
• A memory leak in Apple's Network Extension framework [13d] [hn]
• Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World [13d] [hn]
• Keycloak took 10 months to fix a 2FA bypass [13d] [hn]
• Open-Source Software Is in Crisis [13d] [hn]
• Hosting a hobby project without credit card and How I did it [13d] [hn]
• MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia [13d] [hn]
• I Regret Ever Open Sourcing Java – Jill Malony Ratkevic [13d] [hn]
• The geometry of data: the missing metric tensor and the Stein score [Part II] [13d] [hn]
• Amazon Haul–a broad selection of products $20 or less [13d] [hn]
• SQLite Index Visualization [13d] [hn]
• The closest open-source alternatives to Notion and Miro [13d] [hn]
• DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration [13d] [hn]
• Async Await Is the Worst Thing to Happen to Programming [13d] [hn]
• Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory [13d] [hn]
• BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners [13d] [hn]