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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 15 – June 14, 2024 847 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 24 · Issue 166 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

    Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

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

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 10 stories

  1. June 13, 2024 Israel-Hamas war

    The US-backed Gaza ceasefire proposal doesn't meet Hamas' demands for an end to the war, a senior official has told CNN. Osama Hamdan also said that "no one has an idea" how many of the hostages held…

  2. Supreme Court maintains access to abortion pill in unanimous decision

  3. Biden and Zelensky lay out new US support for Ukraine

  4. Feeding Our Future audit finds Minnesota Dept. of Education's oversight "created opportunities for fraud"

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  1. Trump in Washington for meetings with Republican allies

  2. Are California's mental health courts successful? That depends on who you ask because there's no reliable data.

  3. House GOP votes to hold Attorney General Garland in contempt

  4. As Equals: Frequently Asked Questions

  5. News on the European election results 2024

  6. Five out of seven defendants in Feeding our Future fraud case found guilty of multiple counts

Business 33 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

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  1. Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says

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

  3. Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries

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

  5. The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

  6. Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

  7. Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

  8. AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor

  9. Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres

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

Sports 39 stories

  1. Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare

  2. I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it

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

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

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

  4. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

  5. Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

  6. Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs

Technology 637 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

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  1. Jan Leike resigns from OpenAI

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

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

  4. TTE: Terminal Text Effects

  5. Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity

  6. Lynn Conway has died

  7. After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL

  8. Gordon Bell has died

  9. I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code

  2. Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

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

  2. How actors remember their lines

  3. Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn

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

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

  6. NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching

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