Hacker News on Monday, 22 May 2023

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of samwho.dev: Memory Allocation

Memory Allocation (samwho.dev)

1195 points by thecoppinger 3 years ago | 168 comments

An interactive blog post by Sam Rose visually explaining the basics of memory allocation, how simple allocators work, and techniques like free lists and fragmentation handling.

memory-allocation malloc allocators systems-programming

Screenshot of engineersneedart.com: Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple

Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple (engineersneedart.com)

710 points by chmaynard 3 years ago | 346 comments

Personal blog post by a retired Apple programmer of 26 years reflecting on returning to hobby programming after retirement.

retirement apple programming hobby-projects

Screenshot of github.com: Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages

Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages (github.com)

615 points by crakenzak 3 years ago | 193 comments

GitHub directory in Meta's fairseq repository containing code and models for Massive Multilingual Speech (MMS), covering ASR, TTS, and language ID for 1000+ languages.

speech-recognition meta-ai mms fairseq

Screenshot of wsj.com: Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.

Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.(wsj.com)

587 points by jaredwiener 3 years ago | 417 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that Meta was fined $1.3 billion by EU regulators over transferring European user data to the U.S.

meta gdpr eu-data-transfers privacy

Screenshot of wired.com: Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption

Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption (wired.com)

389 points by arkadiyt 3 years ago | 150 comments

Wired article reporting on a leaked EU document showing Spain supports banning end-to-end encryption amid the EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material.

end-to-end-encryption eu-csam-regulation spain european-union

Screenshot of stackoverflow.blog: Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it

Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it (stackoverflow.blog)

388 points by djha-skin 3 years ago | 150 comments

Stack Overflow blog post arguing that focused attention is essential for modern knowledge work and that constant alerts and interruptions undermine it.

productivity focus notifications developer-experience