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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 4 – August 3, 2023 809 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 215 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

FedNow Is Live

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Red Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Entertainment

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

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 33 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. Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm

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

  4. Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books

  5. Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?

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

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

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

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

  10. Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

Sports 39 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. Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt

  2. New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable

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

  4. Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing

  5. Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civics

  6. Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux

Technology 606 stories

  1. Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

  2. Is the aircraft in this image real?

  3. CSS findings from the Threads app

Show 9 more
  1. Kevin Mitnick has died

  2. Llama 2

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

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

  5. Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium

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

  7. Zenbleed

  8. Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

  9. Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be

Entertainment 42 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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