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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 8 – June 7, 2024 796 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 23 · Issue 159 Get it by email ↓
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.

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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    L(O*62).ONG: Make your URL longer

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Making EC2 boot time faster

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 25 stories

  1. FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing

  2. Jury Finds Boeing Stole Tech from Electric Airplane Startup

  3. I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business

  4. Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem

Show 10 more
  1. Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

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

  3. Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

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

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

  6. The Moral Economy of the Shire

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

  8. Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)

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

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

Sports 39 stories

  1. Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare

  2. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

Show 6 more
  1. I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it

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

  3. AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

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

  5. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

  6. Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

Technology 598 stories

  1. Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

  2. The OpenAI board was right

  3. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

Show 9 more
  1. Jan Leike resigns from OpenAI

  2. Slack AI Training with Customer Data

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

  4. GPT-4o

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

  6. TTE: Terminal Text Effects

  7. Veo

  8. After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL

  9. Gordon Bell has died

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: Serverless Postgres

  2. Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time

  2. How actors remember their lines

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

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

  5. Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM

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

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