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The month's top story

Lawmakers demanding answers about Caltrans denied damage claims

In response to a CBS News California Investigation, California lawmakers are demanding answers from Caltrans and considering legislation to fix Caltrans' damage claim process.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    A 100x speedup with unsafe Python

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 22 stories

  1. I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business

    mtlynch.io · 1 outlets

  2. Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    x.com · 1 outlets

  4. Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

    londonstockexchange.co · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  2. Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  3. The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City

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

    stateline.org · 1 outlets

  7. Researchers cracked an 11-year-old password to a $3M crypto wallet

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  8. How Running a Business Changes the Way You Think (2011)

    kalzumeus.com · 1 outlets

  9. How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business

    fortune.com · 1 outlets

  10. Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg

    phoronix.com · 1 outlets

Sports 33 stories

  1. Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare

    doublepulsar.com · 3 outlets

  2. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

    foto-webcam.eu · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    media.ccc.de · 1 outlets

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

    ntnbr.com · 1 outlets

  3. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

    windirstat.net · 1 outlets

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

    restoreprivacy.com · 1 outlets

  5. Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

    slate.com · 1 outlets

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

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

Technology 615 stories

  1. Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

    sparktoro.com · 9 outlets

  2. The OpenAI board was right

    businessinsider.com · 3 outlets

  3. Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering

    build5nines.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

    vox.com · 1 outlets

  2. Jan Leike resigns from OpenAI

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  3. Slack AI Training with Customer Data

    theguardian.com · 3 outlets

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

    bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

  5. GPT-4o

    openai.com · 1 outlets

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

    daylightcomputer.com · 1 outlets

  7. TTE: Terminal Text Effects

    chrisbuilds.github.io · 2 outlets

  8. Veo

    deepmind.google · 1 outlets

  9. Apple introduces M4 chip

    apple.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: Serverless Postgres

    delve.a9.io · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time

    shademap.app · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. How actors remember their lines

    thereader.mitpress.mit · 1 outlets

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

    blog.wilsonl.in · 1 outlets

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

    apps.npr.org · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative

    grooved.okat.best · 6 outlets

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

    plsfix.co · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years

    dillo-browser.github.i · 1 outlets

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