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1.		CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg (thedriven.io)
		1099 points by rippercushions on April 21, 2023 \| 843 comments
2.		The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos (eff.org)
		1264 points by glitcher on April 21, 2023 \| 463 comments
3.		The weird world of Windows file paths (fileside.app)
		435 points by sharevari on April 21, 2023 \| 285 comments
4.		Windows on Btrfs (lilysthings.org)
		503 points by susam on April 21, 2023 \| 231 comments
5.		Four-Byte Burger [video] (youtube.com)
		337 points by DamnInteresting on April 21, 2023 \| 89 comments
6.		Scaling Databases at Activision [pdf] (sched.com)
		241 points by ksec on April 21, 2023 \| 120 comments
7.		Show HN: We built a ClickHouse-based logging service (github.com/highlight)
		192 points by vadman97 on April 20, 2023 \| 110 comments
8.		The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements (rootsofprogress.org)
		166 points by feross on April 21, 2023 \| 139 comments
9.		Will boiling water ruin green tea? (myjapanesegreentea.com)
		207 points by tmtvl on April 21, 2023 \| 212 comments
10.		Show HN: TxtNet Browser – Browse the Web over SMS, No Wi-Fi/Mobile Data Needed (github.com/lukeaschenbrenner)
		234 points by lukeasch21 on April 21, 2023 \| 73 comments
11.		The “invented persona” behind the GISAID viral sequence database (science.org)
		103 points by Metacelsus on April 21, 2023 \| 47 comments
12.		Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web (president.mn)
		348 points by robin_reala on April 21, 2023 \| 208 comments
13.		Atari 800XL Remake (revive-machines.com)
		205 points by gtirloni on April 21, 2023 \| 168 comments
14.		GitHub Copilot emits GPL code (codeium.com)
		586 points by fortenforge on April 21, 2023 \| 370 comments
15.		Looplets: A Language for Structured Coiteration (acm.org)
		56 points by matt_d on April 21, 2023 \| 33 comments
16.		Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration (inkscape.org)
		382 points by unglaublich on April 21, 2023 \| 194 comments
17.		Introducing 'Trusted Publishers' (pypi.org)
		180 points by BerislavLopac on April 20, 2023 \| 71 comments
18.		AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (2010) (aolserver.github.io)
		203 points by marcodiego on April 21, 2023 \| 100 comments
19.		Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023 (newgrounds.com)
		267 points by rickdicker on April 21, 2023 \| 124 comments
20.		Glucomate: an app for people who record, track, and monitor their blood glucose (zachsim.one)
		175 points by thecosas on April 20, 2023 \| 76 comments
21.		Revisiting the Fast Inverse Square Root – Is It Still Useful? (hllmn.net)
		145 points by nhellman on April 20, 2023 \| 51 comments
22.		Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads (richg42.blogspot.com)
		191 points by ingve on April 21, 2023 \| 263 comments
23.		WebGPU GPT Model Demo (kmeans.org)
		154 points by b_mc2 on April 21, 2023 \| 29 comments
24.		OpenBSD: Viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver, added to -current (undeadly.org)
		105 points by peter_hansteen on April 21, 2023 \| 19 comments
25.		Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
		815 points by asim on April 21, 2023 \| 328 comments
26.		Show HN: Automatic prompt optimizer for LLMs (jina.ai)
		126 points by artex_xh on April 21, 2023 \| 55 comments
27.		Physicists discover that gravity can create light (phys.org)
		232 points by wglb on April 19, 2023 \| 105 comments
28.		Null Island is one of the most visited places on Earth, and it doesn’t exist (atlasobscura.com)
		141 points by pncnmnp on April 21, 2023 \| 87 comments
29.		Tech bosses are letting dictators censor what Americans see (thedailybeast.com)
		464 points by moose_man on April 21, 2023 \| 359 comments
30.		xPrize Wildfire – $11M Prize Competition (xprize.org)
		73 points by TheBlapse on April 21, 2023 \| 69 comments
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