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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 24 – August 23, 2023 810 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 235 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

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    My deep learning rig (2022)

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Throw away your first draft of your code

    4 of 30 days · 4 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. HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

  3. Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?

  4. Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

Show 10 more
  1. Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

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

  3. The feds asked TikTok for lots of domestic spying features

  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 40 stories

  1. A video game where you are an operating system

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

Show 6 more
  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. Windy.com: global weather website with live filters

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

Technology 602 stories

  1. eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive

  2. Without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil

  3. A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

Show 9 more
  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. The first conformant M1 GPU driver

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time

  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. The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency

  4. Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way

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

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

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