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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 25 – July 25, 2023 815 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 30 · Issue 206 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Man awaits sentencing in crossbow plot to kill Queen Elizabeth

Jaswant Singh Chail was detained on the Windsor Castle grounds on Christmas Day 2021 with a loaded crossbow.

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Awk Programming Language

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Sports

    Windows: A software engineering odyssey (2000)

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Prince William launches project to "finally end homelessness" in U.K.

Business 37 stories

  1. FedNow Is Live

  2. Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

  3. Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company

  4. Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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  1. FedEx Accused of Largest Odometer Rollback Fraud in History with Used Vans

  2. Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud

  3. Illegal Life Pro Tip: Want to ruin your competitor's business?

  4. Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm

  5. Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Branch Members Owning Stock

  6. Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books

  7. Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

  8. Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it

  9. Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress

  10. The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

Sports 38 stories

  1. The Password Game

  2. Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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  1. More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

  2. Valve is not willing to publish games with AI generated content anymore?

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

  4. New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable

  5. InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion

  6. Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing

Technology 627 stories

  1. A 32-Bit Computer Inside Terraria [video]

  2. Threads, an Instagram app

  3. Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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  1. Kevin Mitnick has died

  2. Llama 2

  3. macOS command-line tools you might not know about

  4. Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers

  5. Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption

  6. Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

  7. Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

  8. Zenbleed

  9. Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine

  2. Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

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  1. Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

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

  3. Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal

  4. Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

  5. Alt-F4 #65 – Factorio visualizer in Unreal Engine 5

  6. A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]

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