top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-09-20

Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/carproblems.txt

a year ago

1667 upvotes – 506 comments

DALL·E 3

https://openai.com/dall-e-3

a year ago

704 upvotes – 505 comments

Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps

https://electric-sql.com/

a year ago

617 upvotes – 171 comments

FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-authorizes-zipline-deliver-commercial-packages-beyond-line-sight

a year ago

525 upvotes – 440 comments

Svelte 5: Runes

https://svelte.dev/blog/runes

a year ago

471 upvotes – 387 comments

My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

https://github.com/mig4ng/ublock-origin-filters

a year ago

469 upvotes – 185 comments

OpenTF is now OpenTofu

https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/296#issuecomment-1727171446

a year ago

438 upvotes – 246 comments

Toyota Research claims breakthrough in teaching robots new behaviors

https://www.tri.global/news/toyota-research-institute-unveils-breakthrough-teaching-robots-new-behaviors

a year ago

403 upvotes – 243 comments

78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code

https://jakobs.dev/solving-mnist-with-gzip/

a year ago

363 upvotes – 137 comments

We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/9/20/we-have-successfully-completed-our-migration-to-ram-only-vpn-infrastructure/

a year ago

360 upvotes – 187 comments

XML is better than YAML – Hear me out

https://changelog.com/posts/xml-better-than-yaml

a year ago

341 upvotes – 626 comments

Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal

https://harlequin.sh/

a year ago

309 upvotes – 58 comments

British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/20/british-journalist-held-by-police-at-luton-airport-for-five-hours-without-arrest

a year ago

291 upvotes – 247 comments

Gokrazy is cool

https://xeiaso.net/blog/gokrazy

a year ago

287 upvotes – 78 comments

Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/linux-gives-up-on-6-year-lts-thats-fine-for-pcs-bad-for-android/

a year ago

274 upvotes – 244 comments

‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit

https://www.fruitnet.com/main-navigation/less-than-half-fresh-produce-sold-globally-makes-any-profit/256025.article

a year ago

271 upvotes – 497 comments

Car showed pop-up while driving

https://glitterkitten.co.uk/@ellavescent/111091652921668380

a year ago

250 upvotes – 242 comments

Show HN: SeaGOAT – local, “AI-based” grep for semantic code search

https://github.com/kantord/SeaGOAT

a year ago

240 upvotes – 39 comments

Alameda lost tens of millions because of a fat fingering mistake

https://www.adityabaradwaj.com/part-2-the-fat-finger/

a year ago

235 upvotes – 187 comments

Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/09/19/badlib/

a year ago

219 upvotes – 155 comments
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