Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings(matan-h.com)
874 points by matan-h | 295 comments
Blog post describing a hidden web browser reachable through Android's Google "Manage my account" popup that can bypass parental controls.
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Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data(doubleagent.net)
649 points by x1sec | 267 comments
Blog post reverse engineering a BLE car battery monitor whose app sends GPS, cell tower and Wi-Fi location data to servers in Hong Kong and China.
Show HN: Mofi – Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration(mofi.loud.red)
615 points by jaflo | 149 comments
Landing page for Mofi, a free web app that shortens or lengthens a song to a target duration by detecting repeating audio patterns.
Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation(imf.org)
407 points by ClumsyPilot | 302 comments
IMF Blog 'Chart of the Week' post on how rising corporate profits accounted for almost half of Europe's inflation increase and how wage gains may be absorbed.
John Goodenough has died(thehindubusinessline.com)
403 points by epistasis | 94 comments
Hindu BusinessLine news report on the death of John Goodenough, the Nobel laureate who co-invented the lithium-ion battery.
Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas(thedrive.com)
389 points by PaulHoule | 420 comments
The Drive news article reporting that Oregon has legalized self-service gas pumping after a 72-year ban.
I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)(jeffgeerling.com)
382 points by stargrave | 265 comments
Jeff Geerling blog post and video explaining why he is dropping support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux after Red Hat restricted access to RHEL source code.
Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh(stanmed.stanford.edu)
370 points by coopernewby | 171 comments
Stanford Medicine Magazine article on how Stanford researchers traced lead poisoning in Bangladesh to lead chromate added to turmeric by spice sellers.
Text rendering hates you (2019)(faultlore.com)
256 points by subset | 104 comments
Why Britain doesn’t build(worksinprogress.co)
212 points by Twixes | 378 comments
Devtools for mobile browsers(eruda.liriliri.io)
208 points by latonz | 45 comments
How Integers and Floats Work(jvns.ca)
133 points by signa11 | 74 comments
Modern TLS/SSL on 16-bit Windows(dialup.net)
127 points by todsacerdoti | 17 comments
Arduino Uno R4 WiFi(store.arduino.cc)
127 points by matthewfelgate | 90 comments
Code the shortest path first(evanlh.com)
125 points by evanlh | 102 comments
Magit(magit.vc)
114 points by swatson741 | 23 comments
The last day of Constantinople(blogs.bl.uk)
97 points by benbreen | 68 comments
Exposing Floating Point (2019)(ciechanow.ski)
61 points by eindiran | 17 comments
