top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-06-26

Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings

https://matan-h.com/google-has-a-secret-browser-hidden-inside-the-settings/

3 years ago

Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data

https://doubleagent.net/2023/05/21/a-car-battery-monitor-tracking-your-location

3 years ago

Show HN: Mofi – Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration

https://mofi.loud.red/

3 years ago

Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/06/26/europes-inflation-outlook-depends-on-how-corporate-profits-absorb-wage-gains

3 years ago

I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enterprise-linux

3 years ago

John Goodenough has died

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/goodenough-nobel-laureate-who-gave-the-world-li-ion-batteries-passes-away/article67010369.ece

3 years ago

Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas

https://www.thedrive.com/news/oregon-finally-legalizes-pumping-your-own-gas-after-72-years

3 years ago

Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/turmeric-lead-risk-detect/

3 years ago

U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high

https://text.npr.org/1184034017

3 years ago

JP Morgan fined by SEC for deleting email records

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/26/jp_morgan_fined_for_deleting/

3 years ago

The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/magazine/hotel-bars.html

3 years ago

P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)

https://enigma.hoerenberg.com/index.php?cat=Unbroken&page=P1030680

3 years ago

Text rendering hates you (2019)

https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/

3 years ago

Lasers enable satellite internet backbone, might remove need for deep-sea cables

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-lasers-enable-internet-backbone-satellite.html

3 years ago

Mycelite: SQLite extension to synchronize changes across SQLite instances

https://github.com/mycelial/mycelite

3 years ago

Why Britain doesn’t build

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-britain-doesnt-build

3 years ago

Devtools for mobile browsers

https://eruda.liriliri.io/

3 years ago

Suit alleges recreation.gov cluttered with junk fees, seeks millions in refunds

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2023/02/update-lawsuit-alleges-recreationgov-cluttered-junk-fees-seeks-refunds

3 years ago

ChatHN: Chat with Hacker News using OpenAI function calling

https://github.com/steven-tey/chathn

3 years ago

Why use OpenID Connect instead of plain OAuth2?

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/37818/why-use-openid-connect-instead-of-plain-oauth2/260519#260519

3 years ago

Magit

https://magit.vc

3 years ago

Reddit makes it impossible to delete PII, refuses to do it itself violating GDPR [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B0GGsDdyHI

3 years ago

The Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action for speeding up your Nix workflows

https://determinate.systems/posts/magic-nix-cache

3 years ago

Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/uk-police-blame-android-for-record-number-of-false-emergency-calls/

3 years ago

Databricks Strikes $1.3B Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML

https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-strikes-1-3-billion-deal-for-generative-ai-startup-mosaicml-fdcefc06

3 years ago

A messaging app startup that raised $200M shuts down afters users were 95% fake

https://fortune.com/2023/06/25/irl-shutting-down-startup-admits-95-percent-of-messaging-app-users-were-fake/

3 years ago

A response to the git.centos.org changes

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

3 years ago

A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews

https://interviewing.io/guides/hiring-process

3 years ago

Every factorial approximates a power

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/06/23/every-factorial-is-a-power/

3 years ago

Apple to Remove Nostr Damus from App Store for Bitcoin Tipping Feature

https://twitter.com/damusapp/status/1673326463297392640

3 years ago

New zine: How integers and floats work

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/23/new-zine--how-integers-and-floats-work/

3 years ago

Launch HN: Argonaut (YC S21) – Easily Deploy Apps and Infra to AWS and GCP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36480230

3 years ago

Physicists discover a new switch for superconductivity

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-physicists-superconductivity.html

3 years ago

A one-person oral history of Geocities HTML Chat (2022)

https://cohost.org/mcc/post/325362-a-one-person-oral-hi

3 years ago

Arduino Uno R4 WiFi

https://store.arduino.cc/products/uno-r4-wifi

3 years ago

Modern TLS/SSL on 16-bit Windows

https://www.dialup.net/wingpt/tls.html

3 years ago

Code the shortest path first

https://evanlh.com/posts/shortest_path_first_sdlc/

3 years ago

CS61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/archives.html

3 years ago

The world’s empty office buildings have become a debt time bomb

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-23/commercial-real-estate-reset-is-causing-distress-from-san-francisco-to-hong-kong

3 years ago

Authlib: Python Authentication

https://docs.authlib.org/en/latest/index.html

3 years ago

Kor: a half-baked prototype that "helps" you extract structured data using LLMs

https://github.com/eyurtsev/kor

3 years ago

Ancient Maya city was hidden in the jungle for more than 1k years

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-ancient-maya-city-was-hidden-in-the-jungle-for-over-1000-years-180982427/

3 years ago

Bloomsday: The library’s one-of-a-kind copy of “Ulysses”

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2023/06/bloomsday-the-librarys-one-of-a-kind-copy-of-ulysses/

3 years ago

The last day of Constantinople

https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2023/05/the-last-day-of-constantinople.html

3 years ago

Hunter-gatherer lifestyle fosters thriving gut microbiome

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02065-y

3 years ago

Working with Docker containers with the dexec bash script

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2023/06/26/dexec-docker/

3 years ago

Demystifying burnout – A deep dive into its symptoms and remedies

https://leadership.garden/demystifying-burnout/

3 years ago

Using Nginx to block Meta, Twitter and ChatGPT access to your sites

https://gist.github.com/dangovorenefekt/b187b30e59ed1b827515cdbc833bc1bf

3 years ago

Bitsavers Software Archive (2022)

https://bitsavers.org/

3 years ago

Show HN: I built a website to buy and sell used clothes in Indonesia

https://preloved.co.id/

3 years ago

Dysregulation of hypothalamic gene expression by soybean oil in mice (2020)

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/americas-most-widely-consumed-cooking-oil-causes-genetic-changes-brain

3 years ago

Scientists report world’s first X-ray of a single atom in Nature

https://www.ohio.edu/news/2023/05/scientists-report-worlds-first-x-ray-single-atom-nature

3 years ago

AWS to remove 62,000-message Simple Email Service ‘always free’ tier

https://devclass.com/2023/06/23/aws-to-remove-62000-message-simple-email-service-always-free-tier-from-august-2023/

3 years ago

EmacsConf 2023 Call for Participation

https://emacsconf.org/2023/cfp/

3 years ago

Estimated U.S. deer population, 1450 to 2016

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Estimated-US-Deer-Population-1450-to-2016-Year-2000-to-2016-estimated-from-combined_fig3_344865578

3 years ago

How to steal a masterpiece: Advice from the world’s greatest art thief

https://time.com/6286931/how-to-steal-a-masterpiece-advice-from-the-worlds-greatest-art-thief/

3 years ago

Show HN: Clang-uml – C++ to UML diagram generator based on Clang

https://github.com/bkryza/clang-uml

3 years ago

America aims for nuclear-power renaissance

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/06/25/america-aims-for-nuclear-power-renaissance

3 years ago

Adding Elixir to our Nextjs app (2022)

https://www.linen.dev/s/linen/t/8008310/building-a-chat-app-with-nextjs-and-elixir-table-of-content-

3 years ago

Irish Gov Makes Critizising Big Tech and Irish DPC a Crime

https://noyb.eu/en/irish-gov-makes-critizising-big-tech-and-irish-dpc-crime

3 years ago

Vectors are the new JSON in PostgreSQL

https://jkatz05.com/post/postgres/vectors-json-postgresql/

3 years ago

Exposing Floating Point (2019)

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/

3 years ago

Ex-FBI employee jailed for mishandling classified material

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/26/infosec_in_brief/

3 years ago