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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close April 13 – April 20, 2024 181 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 111 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Americans lose millions to wire transfer fraud. Could banks do more to stop it?

"Their job is to protect our investments," said one man whose bank account was drained of $15,000. "Otherwise, what's the point of putting it with a bank?"

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Business 11 stories

  1. CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred

  2. Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes

  3. Goldene: A single atom layer of gold

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  1. A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)

  2. A shrub in Nepal supplies the raw material for the bank notes used in Japan

  3. AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

  4. Bitcoin Block 840000

Sports 5 stories

  1. Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula

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  1. Tax consequences of WIN95 team members keeping a piece of software for testing

  2. Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

  3. Show HN: Open Source TailwindCSS UI Components

Technology 147 stories

  1. Meta Llama 3

  2. This is a teenager

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  1. Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

  2. Obituary for a quiet life (2023)

  3. Descent 3 Source Code

  4. Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]

  5. A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii

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  1. Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

  2. Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit

  3. Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown

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