The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• ChatGPT AI Can Be Fooled to Reveal Secrets [49d] [hn]
• Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted a Lot of This [49d] [hn]
• Reinforcement Learning to Train Large Language Models to Explain Human Decisions [49d] [hn]
• The US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state [49d] [hn]
• Simulating Time with Square-Root Space [49d] [hn]
• You Need Much Less Memory Than Time [49d] [hn]
• Coventry Very Light Rail [49d] [hn]
• Why Understanding Software Cycle Time Is Messy, Not Magic [49d] [hn]
• Stop Vibe Coding. Start Cyborg Coding [49d] [hn]
• Math Symbol Frequencies [49d] [hn]
• Convert Photos to Atkinson Dithering [49d] [hn]
• Joining Apple Computer [49d] [hn]
• Bill Atkinson Dies from Cancer at 74 [50d] [hn]
• Europe's Climate Urgency: Driven by Green Ideals or Fear of an African Refugees? [50d] [hn]
• Hollywood Is Already Using AI (and Hiding It) [50d] [hn]
• Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging It in 30 Minutes with Fray [50d] [hn]
• Who Needs a Belt 3D Printer When You Have a Treadmill? [50d] [hn]
• BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore [50d] [hn]
• Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude [50d] [hn]
• Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own [50d] [hn]
• I'm Wirecutter's Water-Quality Expert. I Don't Filter My Water [50d] [hn]
• OneText (YC W23) Is Hiring a DevOps/DBA Lead Engineer [50d] [hn]
• The Homelessness Experiment – or how to AI-proof your life [50d] [hn]
• Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) [50d] [hn]
• Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R (2024) [50d] [hn]
• Bill Atkinson has passed away [50d] [hn]
• PyOpticL – Code-to-CAD optical system engineering [50d] [hn]
• After Pornhub left France, this VPN saw a 1,000% surge in signups in 30 minutes [50d] [hn]
• Log-Linear Attention [50d] [hn]
• EFF to the FTC: DMCA Section 1201 Creates Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers [50d] [hn]
• Asimov and the Disease of Boredom (1964) [50d] [hn]
• Unfit for Work – The startling rise of disability in America [50d] [hn]
• The Spectacle of "Building" [50d] [hn]
• Hate Radio [50d] [hn]
• If it works, it's not AI: a commercial look at AI startups (1999) [50d] [hn]
• Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts [50d] [hn]
• What was Radiant AI, anyway? [50d] [hn]
• Taurine and Aging: Is There Anything to It? [50d] [hn]
• Gander (YC F24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers and Interns [50d] [hn]
• Uber Just Reinvented the Bus Again [50d] [hn]
• Why We're Moving on from Nix [50d] [hn]
• I started with a SQL question. He said "that's a dumb question." [50d] [hn]
• A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface [50d] [hn]
• Low-Level Optimization with Zig [50d] [hn]
• Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021) [50d] [hn]
• Ziina (YC W21) the Series A fintech is hiring product engineers [50d] [hn]
• I built a knowledge system that gives AI perfect codebase memory [50d] [hn]
• The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure [50d] [hn]
• Tesla AI VP Milan Kovac Resigns After 9 Years Leading FSD and Optimus Projects [50d] [hn]
• Good pixel art can be one-shotted by AI now [50d] [hn]
• Why are front end dev demand so high if front end development is easier? (2012) [50d] [hn]
• NASA delays next flight of Boeing's alternative to SpaceX Dragon [50d] [hn]
• Getting Past Procastination [50d] [hn]
• Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client [50d] [hn]
• Why Are Smokestacks So Tall? [50d] [hn]
• Why You Should Move Your Site Away from Weebly (YC W07) [50d] [hn]