Hacker News on Monday, 2 October 2023

What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023(tonsky.me)

851 points by mrzool 3 years ago | 498 comments

Nikita Prokopov's (tonsky) blog post explaining the essentials of Unicode that software developers should know in 2023, updating Joel Spolsky's classic essay.

Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It(soatok.blog)

651 points by Kye 3 years ago | 587 comments

A Dhole Moments blog post by Soatok arguing that corporate return-to-office mandates are unjustified and everyone knows it.

Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7(buildkite.com)

643 points by juanfatas 3 years ago | 321 comments

Buildkite blog post explaining their move from integer primary keys to time-ordered UUIDv7 identifiers.

Nomnoml(nomnoml.com)

639 points by mono-bob 3 years ago | 155 comments

Nomnoml is a web tool that renders UML-style diagrams from a simple text syntax, shown with a live editor and example pirate diagram.

Python 3.12(python.org)

529 points by qsort 3 years ago | 251 comments

Official python.org release page for Python 3.12.0, released October 2, 2023, describing major new features compared to 3.11.

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman(nobelprize.org)

520 points by OskarS 3 years ago | 314 comments

Official Nobel Prize press release announcing the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for mRNA vaccine discoveries.

Exploiting the iPhone 4(axleos.com)

508 points by codyd51 3 years ago | 62 comments

First part of a blog series by Phillip Tennen on building gala, an iOS 4 jailbreak for the iPhone 4, covering how initial code execution was gained.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)

440 points by whoishiring 3 years ago | 426 comments

Monthly Hacker News Ask HN thread for October 2023 where companies post job openings, with guidelines on location, remote, and visa details.

Efficient streaming language models with attention sinks(github.com)

401 points by guywithabowtie 3 years ago | 65 comments

GitHub repository from MIT HAN Lab for StreamingLLM, code for efficient streaming language models using attention sinks.

Microsoft Defender was flagging Tor browser as a trojan and removing it(deform.co)

331 points by chatmasta 3 years ago | 95 comments

News article reporting that Microsoft Defender misidentified the Tor Browser as a trojan and removed it from users' systems.

VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux(veracrypt.fr)

297 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 145 comments

First blood test for dozens of hereditary cancers approved by FDA(insideprecisionmedicine.com)

297 points by birriel 3 years ago | 109 comments

Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning(waxy.org)

297 points by waxpancake 3 years ago | 170 comments

Predictive policing software terrible at predicting crimes(themarkup.org)

279 points by AndrewDucker 3 years ago | 14 comments

Open-source could finally get the world’s microscopes speaking the same language(nature.com)

238 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 60 comments

Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan(floorp.app)

224 points by microflash 3 years ago | 146 comments

One Revolution per Minute [video](erikwernquist.com)

215 points by 0xf00ff00f 3 years ago | 113 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)

208 points by whoishiring 3 years ago | 379 comments

A Call for Developers – Jellyfin(jellyfin.org)

204 points by tetris11 3 years ago | 60 comments

Mastodon for Apple II(colino.net)

196 points by kirubakaran 3 years ago | 45 comments

Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat’s AI into solving security puzzle(arstechnica.com)

190 points by computerliker 3 years ago | 127 comments

Chromebook Plus(blog.google)

188 points by mikece 3 years ago | 270 comments

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (2019)(inkandswitch.com)

186 points by Jtsummers 3 years ago | 32 comments

Microsoft CEO testifies that Google’s power in search is ubiquitous(nytimes.com)

183 points by wunderland 3 years ago | 190 comments

Break-a-Scene: Extracting Multiple Concepts from a Single Image(omriavrahami.com)

178 points by breakascene 3 years ago | 29 comments

Pg_branch: Experimental Postgres extension brings Neon-like branching(github.com)

173 points by bx376 3 years ago | 46 comments

Slovenia’s beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art(atlasobscura.com)

167 points by Thevet 3 years ago | 17 comments

Mitochondrial DNA damage triggers spread of Parkinson’s disease-like pathology(eurekalert.org)

165 points by geox 3 years ago | 26 comments

Show HN: OpenStatus – Open-source monitoring with incident managements(openstatus.dev)

152 points by tibozaurus 3 years ago | 60 comments

32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine(randomascii.wordpress.com)

152 points by nikbackm 3 years ago | 56 comments

Modos Paper Monitor (2022)(modos.tech)

140 points by denvaar 3 years ago | 60 comments

Show HN: A new stdlib for Golang focusing on platform native support(github.com)

138 points by Leotard6963 3 years ago | 67 comments

JWST's first spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 planet(phys.org)

131 points by wglb 3 years ago | 48 comments

New group attacking iPhone encryption backed by US political dark-money network(theintercept.com)

130 points by mikece 3 years ago | 22 comments

The short life of New York City’s first skyscraper(ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)

129 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 38 comments

Building a DIY Pen Plotter(szymonkaliski.com)

127 points by tobr 3 years ago | 48 comments

Sprite Lightning in High Definition(apod.nasa.gov)

123 points by Breadmaker 3 years ago | 11 comments

Stop Arguing over Elite Schools. Just Make Public Colleges Free(thenation.com)

122 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 142 comments

Arm’s Cortex A510: Two Kids in a Trench Coat(chipsandcheese.com)

115 points by picture 3 years ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Anything World – AI for 3D auto-rigging and animation(anything.world)

113 points by mov 3 years ago | 40 comments

How China's “debt traps” work(noahpinion.blog)

110 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 84 comments

Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet(wired.com)

105 points by cdme 3 years ago | 64 comments

Researchers mined Erowid and fed the entries to an AI(pioneerworks.org)

101 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 93 comments

My views on NeoHaskell(haskellforall.com)

101 points by galfarragem 3 years ago | 66 comments

Wilhelm Reich on pleasure and the genesis of anxiety (2021)(epochemagazine.org)

96 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 60 comments

The world needs computational social science(petterhol.me)

94 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 68 comments

Deep-Sea Octopus Nursery(nautil.us)

91 points by dnetesn 3 years ago | 13 comments

California’s math misadventure is about to go national(theatlantic.com)

89 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 79 comments

Days of Awe: The clinical trial drug that might save my husband's life(bessstillman.substack.com)

86 points by LaurenSerino 3 years ago | 28 comments

Crusty Windows(crustywindo.ws)

85 points by unleaded 3 years ago | 38 comments

Americans Saved $1.1T Less Than Previously Thought from 2017-2022(bloomberg.com)

84 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 62 comments

Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance LMs to Smart Devices(stability.ai)

83 points by kelseyfrog 3 years ago | 37 comments

MotionLM: Multi-Agent Motion Forecasting as Language Modeling(arxiv.org)

81 points by bpierre 3 years ago | 2 comments

Chess and solution pool with linear programming (2018)(yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com)

73 points by cpp_frog 3 years ago | 2 comments

Color for the color-challenged(ferdychristant.com)

73 points by azan-n 3 years ago | 22 comments

Archaeologists Uncover 9,500-Year-Old Woven Baskets and Europe’s Oldest Sandals(smithsonianmag.com)

72 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 19 comments

DOE: Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Virtual Power Plants(liftoff.energy.gov)

71 points by vikrum 3 years ago | 67 comments

Finally, an MOS 7600/7601 Video Game Array data sheet(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

69 points by zdw 3 years ago | 0 comments

Major airline faces backlash after using ghost flights to exploit legal loophole(news.yahoo.com)

69 points by isaacfrond 3 years ago | 65 comments

Amsterdam preparing to lower speed limit to 30 kilometers per hour(nltimes.nl)

67 points by the-dude 3 years ago | 75 comments