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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 23 – August 30, 2023 181 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 242 Get it by email ↓
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Consumers can face surprise bills from costly ambulance rides

Americans are protected from most surprise medical bills by the No Surprises Act that took effect last year. But there's one key item the legislation left out.

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Business 10 stories

  1. Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure

  2. Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia

  3. If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

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  1. Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’

  2. Adding water to Martian soil samples might have been a bad idea

  3. A venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops

  4. The median return of 2022's SPAC mergers: -82%

Sports 6 stories

  1. Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager

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  1. Growing scientific interest in vagus nerve stimulation

  2. DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility easier, but with higher stakes

  3. How far can you jump from a swing?

Technology 152 stories

  1. Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding

  2. iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines

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  1. Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

  2. OpenTF announces fork of Terraform

  3. ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is

  4. ChatGPT Enterprise

  5. E-ink is so Retropunk

Entertainment 7 stories

  1. Factorio: Space Age

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  1. Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf

  2. Intel shows 8 core 528 thread processor with silicon photonics

  3. Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web

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