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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 14 – October 14, 2023 813 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 287 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Landmark homeless lawsuit, The People vs. City of Sacramento, could impact policies statewide

The Sacramento County District Attorney's office is suing the City of Sacramento alleging the city failed to enforce the law and allowed the homeless crisis to become a public nuisance.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Unity's Self-Combustion Engine

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Problems with homemade billing systems

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Sports

    Install Windows the Arch Linux Way

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name?

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 41 stories

  1. My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

    csvbase.com · 1 outlets

  2. John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  3. I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

    adayinthelifeof.nl · 1 outlets

  4. The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”

    thebignewsletter.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

    anthropic.com · 1 outlets

  2. Building an economy simulator from scratch

    thomassimon.dev · 1 outlets

  3. Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification

    rechargenews.com · 1 outlets

  5. Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  6. Spain cancels Pegasus spyware investigation because Israel is not co-operating

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  7. A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

    maxread.substack.com · 1 outlets

  8. Investigation: 78% of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk“

    power-technology.com · 1 outlets

  9. ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

    d3.harvard.edu · 1 outlets

  10. Krita fund has no corporate support

    fund.krita.org · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM

    raverie-us.github.io · 1 outlets

  2. HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly

    blog.apnic.net · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

    openra.net · 1 outlets

  2. Open Source does not win by being cheaper

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize

    nature.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)

    punkx.org · 1 outlets

  5. Install Windows the Arch Linux Way

    veracrypt.fr · 3 outlets

  6. Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup

    ounapuu.ee · 1 outlets

Technology 615 stories

  1. Mistral 7B

    mistral.ai · 2 outlets

  2. Tainting the CSAM client-side scanning database

    berthub.eu · 4 outlets

  3. The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack

    cloud.google.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Passive Solar Water Desalination

    news.mit.edu · 3 outlets

  2. WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

    jamesbvaughan.com · 1 outlets

  3. Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

    blog.kagi.com · 1 outlets

  4. Raspberry Pi 5

    raspberrypi.com · 1 outlets

  5. Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

    cs.cmu.edu · 1 outlets

  6. The Tyranny of the Marginal User

    nothinghuman.substack. · 1 outlets

  7. A hacker's guide to language models [video]

    audio-video.gnu.org · 2 outlets

  8. Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

    jenson.org · 1 outlets

  9. Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative

    github.com · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps

    electric-sql.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

    nobelprize.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Classic Video Poker

    lfgslots.com · 1 outlets

  3. Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV

    japantimes.co.jp · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Generative Fill with AI and 3D

    eliot.blog · 2 outlets

  5. Apple TV, now with more Tailscale

    tailscale.com · 1 outlets

  6. Video streaming at scale with Kubernetes and RabbitMQ

    github.com · 2 outlets

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