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1.		Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings (matan-h.com)
		914 points by matan-h on June 26, 2023 \| 312 comments
2.		Show HN: Mofi – Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration (loud.red)
		708 points by jaflo on June 26, 2023 \| 161 comments
3.		Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data (doubleagent.net)
		709 points by haxrob on June 26, 2023 \| 299 comments
4.		Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh (stanford.edu)
		408 points by coopernewby on June 26, 2023 \| 202 comments
5.		P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945) (hoerenberg.com)
		300 points by petecooper on June 26, 2023 \| 138 comments
6.		Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas (thedrive.com)
		426 points by PaulHoule on June 26, 2023 \| 462 comments
7.		Show HN: WinGPT – AI assistant for Windows 3.1 (dialup.net)
		382 points by dialupdotnet on June 25, 2023 \| 90 comments
8.		XML is the future (bitecode.dev)
		681 points by tannhaeuser on June 25, 2023 \| 397 comments
9.		Lasers enable satellite internet backbone, might remove need for deep-sea cables (techxplore.com)
		251 points by wglb on June 26, 2023 \| 257 comments
10.		Show HN: Open-source shooter which made it to AC: Valhalla and Skydio drones (github.com/teamhypersomnia)
		270 points by geneotech on June 25, 2023 \| 45 comments
11.		Text rendering hates you (2019) (faultlore.com)
		290 points by subset on June 26, 2023 \| 119 comments
12.		Like diffusion but faster: The Paella model for fast image generation (deeplearning.ai)
		150 points by webmaven on June 25, 2023 \| 44 comments
13.		Kor: a half-baked prototype that "helps" you extract structured data using LLMs (github.com/eyurtsev)
		123 points by BorisWilhelms on June 26, 2023 \| 15 comments
14.		Mycelite: SQLite extension to synchronize changes across SQLite instances (github.com/mycelial)
		248 points by thunderbong on June 26, 2023 \| 90 comments
15.		John Goodenough has died (thehindubusinessline.com)
		466 points by epistasis on June 26, 2023 \| 101 comments
16.		Why use OpenID Connect instead of plain OAuth2? (security.stackexchange.com)
		215 points by nathan-wailes on June 26, 2023 \| 78 comments
17.		Every factorial approximates a power (johndcook.com)
		164 points by warrenm on June 26, 2023 \| 64 comments
18.		ChatHN: Chat with Hacker News using OpenAI function calling (github.com/steven-tey)
		219 points by steventey on June 26, 2023 \| 66 comments
19.		The Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action for speeding up your Nix workflows (determinate.systems)
		195 points by biggestlou on June 26, 2023 \| 68 comments
20.		Why Britain doesn’t build (worksinprogress.co)
		246 points by Twixes on June 26, 2023 \| 506 comments
21.		Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Infra to AWS and GCP
		152 points by suryao on June 26, 2023 \| 76 comments
22.		Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation (imf.org)
		600 points by ClumsyPilot on June 26, 2023 \| 450 comments
23.		A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages (2009) (james-iry.blogspot.com)
		224 points by zdw on June 25, 2023 \| 65 comments
24.		Arduino Uno R4 WiFi (arduino.cc)
		144 points by matthewfelgate on June 26, 2023 \| 120 comments
25.		Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari (historytoday.com)
		108 points by tintinnabula on June 24, 2023 \| 86 comments
26.		JP Morgan fined by SEC for deleting email records (theregister.com)
		337 points by jjgreen on June 26, 2023 \| 236 comments
27.		Devtools for mobile browsers (liriliri.io)
		237 points by latonz on June 26, 2023 \| 46 comments
28.		Ancient Maya city was hidden in the jungle for more than 1k years (smithsonianmag.com)
		117 points by Brajeshwar on June 26, 2023 \| 29 comments
29.		I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux) (jeffgeerling.com)
		519 points by stargrave on June 26, 2023 \| 394 comments
30.		FAA issues ground stop for all DC-area airports due to equipment fire (fox5dc.com)
		110 points by mikequinlan on June 25, 2023 \| 62 comments
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