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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 7 – August 14, 2023 186 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 226 Get it by email ↓
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Why an eye exam should be on your child's back-to-school checklist

Back-to-school season is a great time for kids to get an eye exam, doctors say, specially since school screenings can miss kids with vision problems.

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Top Stories 1 stories

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

Business 5 stories

  1. HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

  2. Judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering

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

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

  2. I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

Sports 6 stories

  1. A video game where you are an operating system

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  1. How a startup loses its spark

  2. The $1M shot that changed sports contests

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

Technology 155 stories

  1. Your computer should say what you tell it to say

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

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  1. Downfall Attacks

  2. Vim Boss

  3. Uninstall the NightOwl app

  4. Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use

  5. Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser

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  1. Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python

  2. Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI

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

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