Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)(cs.cmu.edu)
1552 points by isomorph | 461 comments
A classic humorous anecdote about a car that seemingly wouldn't start only after its owner bought vanilla ice cream, hosted as a text file at CMU.
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Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps(electric-sql.com)
562 points by samwillis | 161 comments
Homepage of ElectricSQL, an open-source sync layer for building reactive, realtime, local-first apps on Postgres with active-active sync to SQLite.
DALL·E 3(openai.com)
476 points by davidbarker | 357 comments
OpenAI's product page announcing DALL·E 3, a text-to-image model that follows prompts with more nuance and detail than earlier versions.
FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones(faa.gov)
470 points by gok | 398 comments
FAA press release announcing authorization for Zipline to deliver commercial packages via drones flying beyond visual line of sight near Salt Lake City and Bentonville.
My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions(github.com)
414 points by mig4ng | 166 comments
A GitHub repository of personal uBlock Origin filter lists that hide distracting elements like feeds and recommendations on sites such as Twitter/X and LinkedIn.
Toyota Research claims breakthrough in teaching robots new behaviors(tri.global)
362 points by geox | 222 comments
Toyota Research Institute announcement of a claimed breakthrough in teaching robots new behaviors; the page returned a CloudFront 403 error.
OpenTF is now OpenTofu(github.com)
352 points by zoidb | 197 comments
GitHub page for the OpenTofu organization, the open source Terraform fork formerly called OpenTF, which urges HashiCorp to return Terraform to an open license.
Svelte 5: Runes(svelte.dev)
350 points by benmccann | 249 comments
Svelte team blog post from September 2023 introducing runes, a new reactivity system for Svelte 5.
78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code(jakobs.dev)
344 points by js98 | 131 comments
Blog post showing how to classify MNIST digits with about 78% accuracy using gzip compression distance in under 10 lines of code.
Gokrazy is cool(xeiaso.net)
244 points by ingve | 69 comments
A simple web server written in Awk(github.com)
182 points by keepamovin | 62 comments
We are not sustainable(frame.work)
173 points by mrzool | 85 comments
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MongoDB’s new query engine(laplab.me)
118 points by subset | 99 comments
Generative AI's Act Two(sequoiacap.com)
88 points by warthog | 62 comments
Grouping digits in SQL(peter.eisentraut.org)
85 points by ingve | 12 comments
Charlie Munger: Turning $2M Into $2T(fs.blog)
74 points by vikrum | 60 comments
OpenTofu(opentofu.org)
67 points by RyeCombinator | 11 comments
SQL Join Flavors(antonz.org)
65 points by nalgeon | 21 comments
Show HN: Sheet Music Management App(github.com)
60 points by adius | 26 comments
