top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-10-02

What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023

https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/

2 years ago

Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It

https://soatok.blog/2023/10/02/return-to-office-is-bullshit-and-everyone-knows-it/

2 years ago

Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7

https://buildkite.com/blog/goodbye-integers-hello-uuids

2 years ago

Nomnoml

https://nomnoml.com/

2 years ago

Python 3.12

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3120/

2 years ago

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/

2 years ago

Exploiting the iPhone 4

https://axleos.com/exploiting-the-iphone-4-part-1-gaining-entry/

2 years ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739028

2 years ago

Efficient streaming language models with attention sinks

https://github.com/mit-han-lab/streaming-llm

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html

2 years ago

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

https://waxy.org/2023/10/weird-ai-yankovic-voice-cloning/

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

Predictive policing software terrible at predicting crimes

https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2023/10/02/predictive-policing-software-terrible-at-predicting-crimes

2 years ago

A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

https://jellyfin.org/posts/a-call-for-developers/

2 years ago

Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

https://floorp.app/en/

2 years ago

Open-source could finally get the world’s microscopes speaking the same language

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03064-9

2 years ago

One Revolution per Minute [video]

https://erikwernquist.com/one-revolution-per-minute

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739026

2 years ago

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

https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

2 years ago

Mastodon for Apple II

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/

2 years ago

How Google alters search queries to get at your wallet

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Chromebook Plus

https://blog.google/products/chromebooks/chromebook-plus/

2 years ago

Pg_branch: Experimental Postgres extension brings Neon-like branching

https://github.com/NAlexPear/pg_branch

2 years ago

Break-a-Scene: Extracting Multiple Concepts from a Single Image

https://omriavrahami.com/break-a-scene/

2 years ago

Slovenia’s beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-slovenian-beehouses

2 years ago

New group attacking iPhone encryption backed by US political dark-money network

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/01/apple-encryption-iphone-heat-initiative/

2 years ago

Mitochondrial DNA damage triggers spread of Parkinson’s disease-like pathology

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1003348

2 years ago

Stop Arguing over Elite Schools. Just Make Public Colleges Free

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tuition-free-public-college/

2 years ago

Show HN: OpenStatus – Open-source monitoring with incident managements

https://www.openstatus.dev

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

California’s math misadventure is about to go national

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/california-math-framework-algebra/675509/

2 years ago

Modos Paper Monitor (2022)

https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-monitor

2 years ago

How China's “debt traps” work

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-chinas-debt-traps-actually-work

2 years ago

Show HN: A new stdlib for Golang focusing on platform native support

https://github.com/primecitizens/pcz

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

JWST's first spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 planet

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-james-webb-space-telescope-spectrum.html

2 years ago

Sprite Lightning in High Definition

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231002.html

2 years ago

Building a DIY Pen Plotter

https://szymonkaliski.com/writing/2023-10-02-building-a-diy-pen-plotter/

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

My views on NeoHaskell

https://www.haskellforall.com/2023/10/my-views-on-neohaskell.html

2 years ago

Show HN: Anything World – AI for 3D auto-rigging and animation

https://anything.world/

2 years ago

Researchers mined Erowid and fed the entries to an AI

https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/the-great-psychedelic-experiment-erowid

2 years ago

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

https://epochemagazine.org/44/wilhelm-reich-on-pleasure-and-the-genesis-of-anxiety/

2 years ago

Crusty Windows

https://crustywindo.ws/Main_Page

2 years ago

The world needs computational social science

https://petterhol.me/2023/10/02/the-well-groomed-anarchists-why-the-world-needs-computational-social-science/

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Deep-Sea Octopus Nursery

https://nautil.us/the-worlds-first-known-deep-sea-octopus-nursery-401656/

2 years ago

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/

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery

https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/blog/release-4.0-db-backup-restore-import-export

2 years ago

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

2 years ago

Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear

https://www.rewind.ai/pendant

2 years ago

MotionLM: Multi-Agent Motion Forecasting as Language Modeling

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16534

2 years ago

James Webb Telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66974738

2 years ago

Chess and solution pool with linear programming (2018)

http://yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/2018/11/chess-and-solution-pool.html

2 years ago

Color for the color-challenged

https://ferdychristant.com/color-for-the-color-challenged-884c7aa04a56?gi=67a96925e6bd

2 years ago

Cat found after Lyft fiasco dragged on for days, Lyft to pay vet bills

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/tux-the-cat-found-after-lyft-fiasco-dragged-on-for-days-lyft-to-pay-vet-bills/

2 years ago