The Brutalist Report

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A Walk with LuaJIT [8d] [hn]
PyTorch 101: Understanding Graphs, Automatic Differentiation and Autograd [8d] [hn]
How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail [8d] [hn]
Batched reward model inference and Best-of-N sampling [8d] [hn]
Retro beige PC case goes from April Fools' joke to retail [8d] [hn]
Iumenta: A generic framework for animal digital twins [8d] [hn]
Rats Learned to Drive–and They Love It [8d] [hn]
Hyrumtoken: A Go package to encrypt pagination tokens [8d] [hn]
Sequin: A powerful little tool for inspecting ANSI escape sequences [8d] [hn]
Maslow 4: Large format CNC routing made accessible [8d] [hn]
'Achilles heel' of antibiotic-resistant bacteria discovered [8d] [hn]
Why I Hate the Index Finger (1980) [8d] [hn]
Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference [8d] [hn]
Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn [8d] [hn]
Show HN: Nosia – Privacy-Focused AI to Run Models on Your Own Data and Device [8d] [hn]
Show HN: Venmo Unofficial API [8d] [hn]
Finland and Germany on the severed undersea cable in the Baltic Sea [8d] [hn]
Traits are a local maximum [8d] [hn]
DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Off Chrome to Break Search Monopoly [8d] [hn]
Valve developers discuss why Half Life 2: Episode 3 was abandoned [8d] [hn]
Scientific American's departing editor helped degrade science [8d] [hn]
Undersea cable between Germany and Finland severed [8d] [hn]
Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool [8d] [hn]
You Don't Know Jack about Bandwidth [8d] [hn]
Trieve (YC W24) Is Hiring a software engineer to build OpenAPI tooling [8d] [hn]
Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink [8d] [hn]
DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data [8d] [hn]
Europeans spend 575M hours clicking on cookie banners a year [8d] [hn]
Ben Affleck's a surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video [8d] [hn]
End-to-End Tour of Text Layout/Rendering (2015) [8d] [hn]
Finland and Lithuania Report Severed Undersea Data Cables [8d] [hn]
AMD Now Has More Compute on the Top500 Than Nvidia [8d] [hn]
The tragedy of trying to run an old node project [8d] [hn]
Thoughts on Bluesky [8d] [hn]
Things you didn't know about Google Scholar [8d] [hn]
Unreal 5.5 is a big deal [video] [8d] [hn]
Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank [8d] [hn]
Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes [8d] [hn]
MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server [8d] [hn]
Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud fs [8d] [hn]
A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers [8d] [hn]
Qwen2.5 Turbo extends context length to 1M tokens [8d] [hn]
Nordic neighbours release new advice on surviving war [8d] [hn]
Coincidences that make our existence possible [8d] [hn]
A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor [8d] [hn]
Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence [8d] [hn]
Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming [8d] [hn]
The Skyline algorithm for packing 2D rectangles [8d] [hn]
November 1861: Chalmers' under Channel railway [8d] [hn]
The most helpful charity isn't what you think [8d] [hn]
Mystery fault takes out undersea internet cable between Germany and Finland [8d] [hn]
Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis [8d] [hn]
Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -RF [8d] [hn]
Nothing-up-my-sleeve number [8d] [hn]
$500k Pay, Easy Hours: How Dermatology Became the 'It' Job in Medicine [8d] [hn]
Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework [9d] [hn]
Why is European productivity so poor and how can it be improved? [9d] [hn]
Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data [9d] [hn]
CPython's Garbage Collector and Its Impact on Application Performance [9d] [hn]
I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind [9d] [hn]
AMD Radeon Pro W7700 Running on Raspberry Pi [9d] [hn]
GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Latent Diffusion for 3D Generation [9d] [hn]
LLaVA-O1: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step [9d] [hn]
Wall Street Bankers Spot a Fat Payday in $1T AI Hysteria [9d] [hn]
M4 chips: E and P cores [9d] [hn]
How Hard Should Your Employer Work to Retain You? [9d] [hn]
Ask HN: Is there any license that is designed to exclude LLMs? [9d] [hn]
Reactive HTML Notebooks [9d] [hn]
Show HN: World's Radio – Listen to Radio Stations Worldwide [9d] [hn]