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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 22 – May 22, 2024 801 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 143 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

    The man who killed Google Search?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Llama3 implemented from scratch

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Commodore 64 runs AI to generate images

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 23 stories

  1. New startup sells coffee through SSH

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

  3. Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity

  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. Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

  3. Online Cryptography Course (2017)

  4. Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus

  5. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.

  6. Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders

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

  8. Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)

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

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

Sports 33 stories

  1. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

  2. Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

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  1. Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]

  2. I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag

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

  4. Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

  5. Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports

  6. Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code

Technology 626 stories

  1. Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

  2. Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering

  3. Jan Leike resigns from OpenAI

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  1. FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

  2. Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

  3. Slack AI Training with Customer Data

  4. GPT-4o

  5. The man who killed Google Search?

  6. Veo

  7. Equinox.space

  8. Apple introduces M4 chip

  9. Gordon Bell has died

Entertainment 45 stories

  1. Printing Music with CSS Grid

  2. Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres

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  1. Show HN: A WireGuard Powered Remote Shell

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

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

  4. Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

  5. Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

  6. Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years

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