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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 15 – October 22, 2023 178 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 295 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Why Sacramento police are solving more car theft cases than other agencies nationwide

If your car is stolen, the odds are your car will be found but the person who stole it will almost never be arrested. But Sacramento PD has a higher arrest rate than most thanks to new technology and a dedicated team.

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Business 5 stories

  1. Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security

  2. Startup CTO's Handbook

  3. Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

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  1. Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

  2. Nonprofit hospitals skimp on charity while CEOs reap millions, report finds

Sports 10 stories

  1. Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization

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  1. Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer

  2. Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

  3. Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem

Technology 145 stories

  1. "About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"

  2. LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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  1. Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states

  2. Write more "useless" software

  3. We have used too many levels of abstractions

  4. Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident

  5. Commercially available chairs in Star Trek

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D

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  1. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

  2. Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts

  3. Universal cancer vaccine trial shows significant improvement in overall survival

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