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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 24 – August 31, 2023 186 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 243 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 9 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. Meta throttles 404media investigation on drug ads, continues to advertise drugs

Sports 7 stories

  1. Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome

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  1. Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe

  2. High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers

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

Technology 154 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. OpenTF announces fork of Terraform

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

  3. ChatGPT Enterprise

  4. E-ink is so Retropunk

  5. Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Factorio: Space Age

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

  2. Show HN: I automated half of my typing

  3. RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator

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