(I don't know that I've ever attempted to paste an emoji into HN before, and I'm rather glad to learn it strips them out, though they're fine in other contexts.)
Seems kind of biased to prevent some Unicode characters but not others. Those characters exist for a purpose: to more accurately convey human communication.
(I don't know that I've ever attempted to paste an emoji into HN before, and I'm rather glad to learn it strips them out, though they're fine in other contexts.)