top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-20

Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

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

3 years ago

DALL·E 3

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

3 years ago

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

https://electric-sql.com/

3 years ago

FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones

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

3 years ago

Svelte 5: Runes

https://svelte.dev/blog/runes

3 years ago

My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

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

3 years ago

OpenTF is now OpenTofu

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

3 years ago

Toyota Research claims breakthrough in teaching robots new behaviors

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

XML is better than YAML – Hear me out

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

3 years ago

Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal

https://harlequin.sh/

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Gokrazy is cool

https://xeiaso.net/blog/gokrazy

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

‘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

3 years ago

Car showed pop-up while driving

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

3 years ago

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

https://github.com/kantord/SeaGOAT

3 years ago

Alameda lost tens of millions because of a fat fingering mistake

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

We are not sustainable

https://frame.work/nl/en/blog/we-are-not-sustainable

3 years ago

A simple web server written in Awk

https://github.com/crossbowerbt/awk-webserver

3 years ago

Strada – Create fully native controls, driven by your web app

https://strada.hotwired.dev/

3 years ago

Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking (2018)

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/10/22/introduction-to-linux-interfaces-for-virtual-networking

3 years ago

Archaeologists discover oldest wooden structure

https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2023/09/20/archaeologists-discover-worlds-oldest-wooden-structure/

3 years ago

Show HN: Booklet – Async forums as an alternative to chat

https://www.booklet.group/

3 years ago

How Container Networking Works: Practical Explanation

https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/container-networking-is-simple/

3 years ago

Google settles account settings lawsuit less than one week after being filed [pdf]

https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Filed%20stamped%20Google%20Complaint.pdf

3 years ago

Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster

https://railsatscale.com/2023-09-18-ruby-3-3-s-yjit-runs-shopify-s-production-code-15-faster/

3 years ago

Median Household Income After Taxes Fell 8.8% in 2022

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/09/median-household-income.html

3 years ago

Cancer expert given experimental treatments for incurable brain tumour

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-20/melanoma-richard-scolyer-georgina-long-early-results/102879818

3 years ago

Boys and Men in the United States Are Struggling. The Left Should Talk About It

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/boys-men-work-despair-struggling-wages-education/

3 years ago

CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/18/lhc_infrastructure_monitoring/

3 years ago

Lean, Coq and other proof assistants: Visualising proofs as trees

https://lakesare.brick.do/lean-coq-isabel-and-their-proof-trees-yjnd2O2RgxwV

3 years ago

100 Parking Tickets (2004)

https://100parkingtickets.com/

3 years ago

MongoDB’s new query engine

https://laplab.me/posts/inside-new-query-engine-of-mongodb/

3 years ago

Rp2040 runs unmodified PalmOS 5.2.8

https://twitter.com/dmitrygr/status/1704350983877198013

3 years ago

Show HN: Mana Pool – Market for Magic Cards

https://manapool.com/

3 years ago

Framework – We are not sustainable

https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/we-are-not-sustainable

3 years ago

Shaving 40% Off Google’s B-Tree Implementation with Go Generics (2022)

https://www.scylladb.com/2022/04/27/shaving-40-off-googles-b-tree-implementation-with-go-generics/

3 years ago

Aldous Huxley's Deep Reflection

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/aldous-huxleys-deep-reflection/

3 years ago

Archaeologists find 500-year-old board game carved in ruins of Polish castle

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/archaeologists-find-500-year-old-board-game-carved-in-ruins-of-polish-castle/

3 years ago

Neurons in Large Language Models: Dead, N-Gram, Positional

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04827

3 years ago

Grouping digits in SQL

http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2023/09/20/grouping-digits-in-sql

3 years ago

Generative AI's Act Two

https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/generative-ai-act-two/

3 years ago

Q-Transformer: Scalable Reinforcement Learning via Autoregressive Q-Functions

https://q-transformer.github.io/

3 years ago

Writing HTML by hand

https://simblob.blogspot.com/2023/09/writing-html-by-hand.html

3 years ago

Ex-congressman convicted of insider trading before T-Mobile merger with Sprint

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/ex-lawmaker-convicted-insider-trading-t-mobile-merger-rcna74463

3 years ago

Why We're Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/wyze-security-breach/

3 years ago

SQL Join Flavors

https://antonz.org/sql-join/

3 years ago

SillycoValley: Write Code, Build Your Startup

https://sillycovalley.com/?myscore

3 years ago

Charlie Munger: Turning $2M Into $2T

https://fs.blog/turning-2-million-into-2-trillion/

3 years ago

This is a black and white photo, but an artist has drawn color lines through it

https://twitter.com/debbiediscovers/status/1155340262245163008

3 years ago

Angie – Drop-In Replacement for Nginx

https://github.com/webserver-llc/angie

3 years ago

First automatic JPEG-XL cloud service

https://www.gumlet.com/blog/jpeg-xl/

3 years ago

Being a bash developer in the 21st century (2021)

https://blog.barysas.eu/being-a-bash-programmer-in-the-xxi-st-century/

3 years ago

California orders bottled water firm to stop drawing from natural springs

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/20/california-bottled-water-arrowhead-springs

3 years ago

Algorithm-assisted discovery of an intrinsic order among mathematical constants

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/algorithm-assisted-discovery-of-an-intrinsic-order-among-mathematical-constants

3 years ago

Cache headers could probably be more aggressive

https://www.macarthur.me/posts/more-aggressive-cache-headers

3 years ago

Fine-grained caching strategies of dynamic queries

https://jensrantil.github.io/posts/fast-aggregate-queries-on-dynamic-data/

3 years ago

OpenTofu

https://opentofu.org/

3 years ago

Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/

3 years ago

New study disproves Leonardo da Vinci's 'rule of trees'

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-leonardo-da-vinci-trees.html

3 years ago

It'd Be Nice to Live in Less of a Gerontocracy

https://goodreason.substack.com/p/itd-be-nice-to-live-in-less-of-a

3 years ago

Show HN: Sheet Music Management App

https://github.com/Airsequel/Airsequel-Sheet-Music

3 years ago