The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted [187d] [hn]
• Police Use of Face Recognition Continues to Wrack Up Real-World Harms [188d] [hn]
• OpenAI funded FrontierMath Benchmarks and had access to the set [188d] [hn]
• Staffers unload on Amazon 'leadership' after return-to-office for desk shortage [188d] [hn]
• It's time to make computing personal again [188d] [hn]
• How do interruptions impact different software engineering activities [188d] [hn]
• TikTok's CEO used to work for Mark Zuckerberg as a Facebook intern [188d] [hn]
• Wildfires are erasing California's climate gains, research shows [188d] [hn]
• Hacking the Yamaha DX9 to Turn It into a DX7 (2023) [188d] [hn]
• All Lisp Indentation Schemes Are Ugly [188d] [hn]
• Please Don't Force Dark Mode on Users [188d] [hn]
• TikTok users posting cat videos do not threaten UK national security, minister [188d] [hn]
• Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds [188d] [hn]
• Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers? [188d] [hn]
• Philosophy Eats AI [188d] [hn]
• Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009) [188d] [hn]
• Using your Apple device as an access card in unsupported systems [188d] [hn]
• Zuckerberg appeared to know Llama trained on Libgen [188d] [hn]
• TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users [188d] [hn]
• TikTok Shut Down: Data Shows 85% Drop in US Access (and Surge to Alternatives) [188d] [hn]
• Lenovo has removed its iconic TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops [188d] [hn]
• The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++ [188d] [hn]
• Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi [188d] [hn]
• Calculator Forensics (2002) [188d] [hn]
• Coming soon: PhD-level super-agents [188d] [hn]
• Open Dylan [188d] [hn]
• Making glow-in-the-dark Strontium Aluminate [188d] [hn]
• Bob Dylan's drafts for Mr Tambourine Man sell for more than £400k [188d] [hn]
• About A comprehensive guide for Linux Network (Socket) programming [188d] [hn]
• A System for the Sixties-and-a-Half: The Toshiba Visicom COM-100 [188d] [hn]
• Japan's elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail [188d] [hn]
• Gaza ceasefire is now in effect [188d] [hn]
• Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley's half-sister, book reveals [188d] [hn]
• "The Traitors", a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson [188d] [hn]
• IsMyXFeedFcked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You [188d] [hn]
• Apple removed all ByteDance apps from the [US] App Store [188d] [hn]
• Haskell: A Great Procedural Language [188d] [hn]
• The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem [188d] [hn]
• A Novel 'Kiss and Capture' Event Gave Pluto Its Largest Moon, Charon [188d] [hn]
• Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge [188d] [hn]
• TikTok Goes Dark in the US [188d] [hn]
• Yek: Serialize your code repo (or part of it) to feed into any LLM [188d] [hn]
• Mark Zuckerberg blamed Sheryl Sandberg for Meta 'inclusivity' push: report [188d] [hn]
• Games Workshop and the big ambition of a miniatures business [188d] [hn]
• We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky [188d] [hn]
• Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM [188d] [hn]