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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 1 – July 31, 2023 803 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 212 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

FedNow Is Live

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Red Programming Language

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Is the aircraft in this image real?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: Free AI-based music demixing in the browser

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 32 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

Show 10 more
  1. Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud

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

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

  4. Senators propose law that bans members of Congress from trading stocks

  5. Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books

  6. Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?

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

  10. StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100

Sports 35 stories

  1. The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide

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

Show 6 more
  1. New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable

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

  3. Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing

  4. Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux

  5. ‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders

  6. AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare

Technology 609 stories

  1. Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

  2. Threads, an Instagram app

  3. Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

Show 9 more
  1. Kevin Mitnick has died

  2. Llama 2

  3. Is the aircraft in this image real?

  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. Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium

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

  8. Zenbleed

  9. Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot

  2. Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

  2. Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

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

  4. Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

  5. Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way

  6. Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge

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