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Unicode – Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default? (2011)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-perl-avoid-utf-8-by-default
10•Tomte•7h ago

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jiehong•5h ago
I think it’s still mostly true for Perl 5 in 2025, but raku did change a lots of defaults.

Few people use raku, though, while Perl 5.32+ comes pre-installed mostly everywhere (except windows).

Ask HN: As a foreigner in the US, how do you find filing taxes here?

1•blackhaj7•1m ago•0 comments

2025.20: Product Dreams and Marketplace Realities

https://stratechery.com/2025/product-dreams-and-marketplace-realities/
1•feross•2m ago•0 comments

Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/16/neal_stephenson_ai_evolution/
1•pseudolus•4m ago•0 comments

The Remarkable Underground Voyages of Michel Siffre

https://www.thequantumcat.space/p/the-remarkable-underground-voyages
1•verzali•4m ago•0 comments

A Critical Examination of Prayers

https://www.rxjourney.net/a-critical-examination-of-prayers
1•bertblaast•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Great GitHub Nix Disk Space Heist

https://wimpysworld.com/posts/nothing-but-nix-github-actions/
1•flexiondotorg•7m ago•0 comments

Repair Time Requirements to Prevent Data Resurrection in Cassandra and Scylla

https://msun.io/cassandra-scylla-repairs/index.html
2•datahoarder•7m ago•0 comments

Banksy famed warehouse wall heart art to support heart health

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/banksy-famed-warehouse-wall-heart-art-to-support-heart-health
1•geox•8m ago•0 comments

Renewable power reversing China's emissions growth

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/analysis-shows-that-chinas-emissions-are-dropping-due-to-renewables/
2•rbanffy•10m ago•0 comments

LR Scheduler Playground

https://lr-scheduler-playground.streamlit.app
1•yllberisha•11m ago•0 comments

Is AI-assisted coding an incident magnet?

https://leaddev.com/software-quality/ai-assisted-coding-incident-magnet
1•sylvainkalache•12m ago•0 comments

Men worse off than women for 20 top health problems worldwide

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-men-worse-women-health-problems.html
1•PaulHoule•14m ago•0 comments

Qwen 3 1.7B running locally on mobile at 30 tokens/s

https://twitter.com/swmansion/status/1920134833520427169
2•chmjkb•14m ago•0 comments

I built a platform to find tech conferences, discounts, and ticket giveaways

https://www.tech.tickets/
1•danthebaker•15m ago•1 comments

OSR Development Community

https://community.osr.com/
1•notepad0x90•16m ago•0 comments

Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew with Duct Tape, Dies at 95

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/space/ed-smylie-dead.html
1•sohkamyung•17m ago•1 comments

Postman is logging all your secrets and environment variables

https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your-secrets-and-environment-variables-9c316e92d424
5•primitivesuave•18m ago•1 comments

We graded 19 LLMs on SQL. You graded us

https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/we-graded-19-llms-on-sql-you-graded-us
2•_peregrine_•20m ago•0 comments

Be Productively Pessimistic

https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/be-productively-pessimistic
1•kiyanwang•21m ago•0 comments

What News Is (and Isn't) According to Americans

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/05/13/what-is-news/
1•gmays•22m ago•0 comments

‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/karen-hao-empire-of-ai-excerpt/682798/
3•vinhnx•24m ago•0 comments

Xilos: Private AI Infrastructure (Query Router with Rules Engine)

https://xilos.ai
1•pshimso•27m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Is Microsoft moving away from powerful creative Surface devices?

1•Nerd_Nest•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI powered pitch decks fact checking tool for investors

http://coreworking.tilda.ws
1•Ivan_Zhbanov•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Intlayer – flexible internationalization for React, Next.js and Vue

https://intlayer.org
1•aypineau•36m ago•0 comments

Microbes in Gowanus teach lessons on fighting industrial pollution

https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/microbes-brooklyn-superfund-site-teach-lessons-fighting-industrial-pollution
1•eatonphil•37m ago•0 comments

Bill that would require big tech to pay OR newsrooms advances despite opposition

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/05/bill-that-would-require-big-tech-to-pay-oregon-newsrooms-advances-despite-industry-opposition.html
3•docdeek•39m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Tech startups with business co-founder full-time MBA student?

1•neilv•39m ago•0 comments

Sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/16/universal_credit_commons_committee/
2•rntn•39m ago•0 comments

Effort and Challenges in Building Embedded Audio DSP Software Across Platforms

https://switchboard.audio/hub/building-embedded-audio-dsp/
1•trolleycrash•40m ago•0 comments