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2023-08-10
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 3 – August 10, 2023 191 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 222 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

"Glacial outburst" flooding destroys at least 2 buildings in Alaska

A home collapsed into a raging river swollen by waters from a glacial dam release north of the state capital of Juneau, the National Weather Service said.

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Business 4 stories

  1. Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

  2. My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

  3. Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp

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  1. CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

Sports 7 stories

  1. Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

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  1. The $1M shot that changed sports contests

  2. Winter temperatures above 35C in South America leave climatologists in disbelief

  3. Open-source canvas drawing web app, built using React

Technology 156 stories

  1. Zoom's TOS Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out

  2. Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work

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  1. Throw away your first draft of your code

  2. IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face

  3. Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 – Slashdot

  4. Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

  5. I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Show HN: Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres

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  1. Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

  2. Sync for Lemmy

  3. Show HN: Phind V2 – A GPT-4 agent that’s connected to the internet and your code

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