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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 27 – May 27, 2024 787 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 148 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Pothole damage claims on California freeways triple while Caltrans payouts drop by half. Why?

A CBS News California investigation finds Caltrans only approved 1 out of every 25 damage claims from potholes and debris in the first half of 2023.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Compilers for free with weval

    7 of 30 days · 9 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

Top Stories 1 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 20 stories

  1. New startup sells coffee through SSH

    terminal.shop · 1 outlets

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

    x.com · 1 outlets

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

    statnews.com · 1 outlets

  4. Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

    londonstockexchange.co · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Online Cryptography Course (2017)

    crypto.stanford.edu · 1 outlets

  2. Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus

    ft.com · 1 outlets

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

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  4. Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)

    fraser.stlouisfed.org · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

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

    thebignewsletter.com · 1 outlets

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

    stateline.org · 1 outlets

  8. They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  9. Alice's adventures in a differentiable wonderland

    sscardapane.it · 1 outlets

  10. Gene banks aren’t enough to save the world’s food

    longnow.org · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

  1. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

    foto-webcam.eu · 1 outlets

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

    media.ccc.de · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    ntnbr.com · 1 outlets

  2. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

    windirstat.net · 1 outlets

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

    restoreprivacy.com · 1 outlets

  4. Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

    slate.com · 1 outlets

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

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

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

    about.winamp.com · 1 outlets

Technology 603 stories

  1. Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

    electrek.co · 3 outlets

  2. Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering

    build5nines.com · 2 outlets

  3. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

    vox.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Jan Leike resigns from OpenAI

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  2. FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

    docs.fcc.gov · 3 outlets

  3. Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

    newshub.co.nz · 2 outlets

  4. Compilers for free with weval

    theguardian.com · 9 outlets

  5. 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

    bbc.co.uk · 3 outlets

  6. GPT-4o

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  7. Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

    daylightcomputer.com · 1 outlets

  8. Veo

    deepmind.google · 1 outlets

  9. Apple introduces M4 chip

    apple.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Printing Music with CSS Grid

    cruncher.ch · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres

    play.google.com · 7 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: A WireGuard Powered Remote Shell

    github.com · 2 outlets

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

    blog.wilsonl.in · 1 outlets

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

    apps.npr.org · 1 outlets

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

    bandmatch.app · 1 outlets

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

    plsfix.co · 1 outlets

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