989
555
What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023
https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
a year ago
926
885
Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
https://soatok.blog/2023/10/02/return-to-office-is-bullshit-and-everyone-knows-it/
726
363
Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
https://buildkite.com/blog/goodbye-integers-hello-uuids
682
161
Nomnoml
https://nomnoml.com/
652
328
Python 3.12
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3120/
590
351
Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/
556
74
Exploiting the iPhone 4
https://axleos.com/exploiting-the-iphone-4-part-1-gaining-entry/
475
646
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739028
421
66
Efficient streaming language models with attention sinks
https://github.com/mit-han-lab/streaming-llm
400
127
Microsoft Defender was flagging Tor browser as a trojan and removing it
https://deform.co/microsoft-defender-flags-tor-browser-as-a-trojan-and-removes-it-from-the-system/
384
198
VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html
197
Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
https://waxy.org/2023/10/weird-ai-yankovic-voice-cloning/
324
120
First blood test for dozens of hereditary cancers approved by FDA
https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/oncology/first-blood-test-for-dozens-of-hereditary-cancers-approved-by-fda/
301
437
Predictive policing software terrible at predicting crimes
https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2023/10/02/predictive-policing-software-terrible-at-predicting-crimes
A Call for Developers – Jellyfin
https://jellyfin.org/posts/a-call-for-developers/
269
192
Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan
https://floorp.app/en/
263
69
Open-source could finally get the world’s microscopes speaking the same language
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03064-9
255
158
One Revolution per Minute [video]
https://erikwernquist.com/one-revolution-per-minute
244
157
Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat’s AI into solving security puzzle
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/sob-story-about-dead-grandma-tricks-microsoft-ai-into-solving-captcha/
235
578
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739026
227
50
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (2019)
https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
222
48
Mastodon for Apple II
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/
207
122
How Google alters search queries to get at your wallet
https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/
204
Microsoft CEO testifies that Google’s power in search is ubiquitous
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/technology/microsoft-ceo-testifies-google-search.html
201
306
Chromebook Plus
https://blog.google/products/chromebooks/chromebook-plus/
193
67
Pg_branch: Experimental Postgres extension brings Neon-like branching
https://github.com/NAlexPear/pg_branch
39
Break-a-Scene: Extracting Multiple Concepts from a Single Image
https://omriavrahami.com/break-a-scene/
191
30
Slovenia’s beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-slovenian-beehouses
182
38
New group attacking iPhone encryption backed by US political dark-money network
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/01/apple-encryption-iphone-heat-initiative/
181
32
Mitochondrial DNA damage triggers spread of Parkinson’s disease-like pathology
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1003348
177
280
Stop Arguing over Elite Schools. Just Make Public Colleges Free
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tuition-free-public-college/
171
68
Show HN: OpenStatus – Open-source monitoring with incident managements
https://www.openstatus.dev
170
100
32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2023/10/01/32-mib-working-sets-on-a-64-gib-machine/#more-4032
165
187
California’s math misadventure is about to go national
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/california-math-framework-algebra/675509/
73
Modos Paper Monitor (2022)
https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-monitor
189
How China's “debt traps” work
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-chinas-debt-traps-actually-work
154
82
Show HN: A new stdlib for Golang focusing on platform native support
https://github.com/primecitizens/pcz
143
40
The short life of New York City’s first skyscraper
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/the-short-forgotten-life-of-new-york-citys-first-skyscraper/
141
57
JWST's first spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 planet
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-james-webb-space-telescope-spectrum.html
140
12
Sprite Lightning in High Definition
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231002.html
139
53
Building a DIY Pen Plotter
https://szymonkaliski.com/writing/2023-10-02-building-a-diy-pen-plotter/
130
Arm’s Cortex A510: Two Kids in a Trench Coat
https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/10/01/arms-cortex-a510-two-kids-in-a-trench-coat/
124
43
Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance LMs to Smart Devices
https://stability.ai/blog/stable-lm-3b-sustainable-high-performance-language-models-smart-devices
93
My views on NeoHaskell
https://www.haskellforall.com/2023/10/my-views-on-neohaskell.html
123
51
Show HN: Anything World – AI for 3D auto-rigging and animation
https://anything.world/
117
106
Researchers mined Erowid and fed the entries to an AI
https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/the-great-psychedelic-experiment-erowid
110
88
Wilhelm Reich on pleasure and the genesis of anxiety (2021)
https://epochemagazine.org/44/wilhelm-reich-on-pleasure-and-the-genesis-of-anxiety/
107
47
Crusty Windows
https://crustywindo.ws/Main_Page
105
46
Days of Awe: The clinical trial drug that might save my husband's life
https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/days-of-awe-the-clinical-trial-drug
79
The world needs computational social science
https://petterhol.me/2023/10/02/the-well-groomed-anarchists-why-the-world-needs-computational-social-science/
104
Americans Saved $1.1T Less Than Previously Thought from 2017-2022
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-28/americans-saved-1-1-trillion-less-than-thought-from-2017-2022
Qatar Airways flying near-empty planes in Australia to exploit legal loophole
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/09/ghost-flights-qatar-airways-flying-near-empty-planes-in-australia-to-exploit-legal-loophole
97
15
Deep-Sea Octopus Nursery
https://nautil.us/the-worlds-first-known-deep-sea-octopus-nursery-401656/
78
On Learning to Program with LLMs
https://www.se-radio.net/2023/09/se-radio-582-leo-porter-and-daniel-zingaro-on-using-llms-in-the-classroom/
Amsterdam preparing to lower speed limit to 30 kilometers per hour
https://nltimes.nl/2023/10/02/amsterdam-preparing-lower-speed-limit-30-kilometers-per-hour
91
45
Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery
https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/blog/release-4.0-db-backup-restore-import-export
89
151
Apple will no longer fix the $17,000 gold Apple Watch
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/2/23900158/apple-watch-edition-gold-2015-obsolete-unsupported-beyonce