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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 14 – May 14, 2024 785 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 135 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Using new AI, grieving moms discover California lawmakers killed popular fentanyl bill by not ​voting

They fought for fentanyl legislation, but it was killed before lawmakers even got to vote. Four grieving moms wanted to know why. They're uncovering the truth using a new AI tool designed to help everyday Californians hold lawmakers accountable. They discovered powerful lawmakers killed the popular fentanyl bill by no…

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Earth Online: non-stop satellite monitoring platform

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    FTC adopts a comprehensive ban on new noncompetes with all workers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

Business 29 stories

  1. New startup sells coffee through SSH

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

  3. Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights

  4. As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs

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  1. McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting

  2. Online Cryptography Course (2017)

  3. Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus

  4. Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders

  5. Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media

  6. Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes

  7. Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections

  8. Financial market applications of LLMs

  9. Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?

  10. Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies

Sports 25 stories

  1. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

  2. Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

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  1. I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

  2. Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain

  3. Show HN: Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty

  4. NYU professors who defended vaping didn't disclose ties to Juul

  5. Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game

  6. Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop

Technology 621 stories

  1. Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff

  2. Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering

  3. FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

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  1. Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

  2. Google Cloud accidentally deletes customer's account

  3. GPT-4o

  4. Meta Llama 3

  5. The man who killed Google Search?

  6. Equinox.space

  7. Apple introduces M4 chip

  8. This is a teenager

  9. Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

Entertainment 46 stories

  1. Printing Music with CSS Grid

  2. Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres

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  1. Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii

  2. Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

  3. Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges

  4. Show HN: A WireGuard Powered Remote Shell

  5. Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun

  6. The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed

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