The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action [10d] [hn]
• JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon slams anti-RTO petition [10d] [hn]
• LM2: Large Memory Models [10d] [hn]
• OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site [10d] [hn]
• Hyperbound (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Full-Stack Engineer in SF [10d] [hn]
• Banksy Fights with Greeting Card Company for Control of His Trademark [10d] [hn]
• Open Source Software and Corporate Influence [10d] [hn]
• Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes [10d] [hn]
• Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB" [10d] [hn]
• AI can interpret animal emotions better than humans [10d] [hn]
• TSforge: Reverse Engineering the Windows Software Protection Platform [10d] [hn]
• The Death of the Web (2024) [10d] [hn]
• JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort. [10d] [hn]
• JPMorgan CEO: "I don't care how many people sign that f—ing [WFH] Petition" [10d] [hn]
• Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search [10d] [hn]
• MapTCHA, the open source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap [video] [10d] [hn]
• Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral [10d] [hn]
• Google fumbles Gemini Super Bowl ad's cheese statistic [10d] [hn]
• 'It's a money game to them':son takes on UnitedHealth over elderly father's care [10d] [hn]
• How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories [10d] [hn]
• Cybertrucks Are Deadlier Than Infamous Ford Pintos [10d] [hn]
• Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in [10d] [hn]
• Phind 2: Reinventing AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning [10d] [hn]
• Usaid funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts [10d] [hn]
• Do you need permission from the government to do independent research? [10d] [hn]
• Mysterious Palo Alto firewall reboots? You're not alone [10d] [hn]
• LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab [10d] [hn]
• Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data in AI, including DNA [10d] [hn]
• RFK Jr Will Be Confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services [10d] [hn]
• TSMC Faces Tough Choices Amid Rumors for Intel Foundry Collaboration [10d] [hn]
• White Hat Hackers Expose Iridium Satellite Security Flaws [10d] [hn]
• I built a failed startups goods website and named it VcSubsidized.com [10d] [hn]
• DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency [10d] [hn]
• Why is everyone trying to replace Software Engineers? [10d] [hn]
• Court Documents Shed New Light on DOGE Activity at Treasury Department [10d] [hn]
• Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead [10d] [hn]
• Magnetic field sorting of superconducting graphite particles with Tc>400K [10d] [hn]
• Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows [10d] [hn]
• U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say [10d] [hn]
• Are PhDs losing lustre? Why fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees [10d] [hn]
• Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook [10d] [hn]
• DOGE as a National Cyberattack [10d] [hn]
• Tennis great Steffi Graf got bitten by pickleball's 'fun factor' [10d] [hn]
• Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads [10d] [hn]
• Elizabeth Holmes' PR campaign continues [10d] [hn]
• Chrome browser bringing an IP address privacy tool to Incognito [11d] [hn]
• Reassessing Wayland [11d] [hn]
• Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker [11d] [hn]
• Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood [11d] [hn]
• Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids [11d] [hn]
• Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play? [11d] [hn]
• The Path to American Authoritarianism [11d] [hn]
• Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it [11d] [hn]
• Judge rules federal buyouts may have proceed [11d] [hn]
• TeX and Typst: Layout Models (2024) [11d] [hn]
• Health Insurers Deny 850M Claims a Year. The Few Who Appeal Often Win [11d] [hn]
• Apple Resumes Advertising on X [11d] [hn]
• Google Lighthouse recommends not embedding YouTube videos directly [11d] [hn]
• How to professionally say [11d] [hn]
• YouTube's New Hue [11d] [hn]
• Why cryptography is not based on NP-complete problems [11d] [hn]