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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 20 – August 19, 2023 803 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 231 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Selling open-source software

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Throw away your first draft of your code

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    My deep learning rig (2022)

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

Business 25 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

  2. FedNow Is Live

  3. HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

  4. Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?

Show 10 more
  1. Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

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

  3. China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan

  4. How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits

  5. Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable

  6. Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

  7. My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

  8. Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems

  9. Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow

  10. Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says

Sports 36 stories

  1. A video game where you are an operating system

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

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  1. Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt

  2. How a startup loses its spark

  3. Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

  4. Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models

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

  6. Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux

Technology 591 stories

  1. Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

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

  3. A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

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

  2. Throw away your first draft of your code

  3. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

  4. Overture Maps Foundation releases open map dataset

  5. Shamir Secret Sharing

  6. SUSE to go private

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

  8. LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

  9. I would rather see my books get pirated than this

Entertainment 42 stories

  1. Show HN: Ollama – Run LLMs on your Mac

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

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

  2. Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

  3. Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way

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

  5. Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions

  6. Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing

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