The Mez Ledger
Menu
2024-06-26
Weekly Close

Weekly Close

The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close June 19 – June 26, 2024 188 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 26 · Issue 178 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

When Social Security mistakenly overpays benefits, you might get a bill | 60 Minutes

Each year, about a million people are told they owe the Social Security Administration money because the agency miscalculated their benefits and paid them too much.

1Outlets
1Articles

Top Stories 3 stories

  1. The planet is getting hotter fast. This is what happens to your body in extreme heat

  2. The Juneteenth flag is full of symbols. Here's what they mean

Show 1 more
  1. June 18 2024: US heat wave news

Business 5 stories

  1. Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code

  2. Wc2: Investigates optimizing 'wc', the Unix word count program

  3. Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy

Show 2 more
  1. Asynchronous Consensus Without Trusted Setup or Public-Key Cryptography

  2. The First Hedge Fund

Sports 15 stories

  1. Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11

Show 3 more
  1. Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

  2. I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers

  3. Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries

Technology 148 stories

  1. Microsoft charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling Teams

  2. Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Show 5 more
  1. EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control

  2. Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

  3. Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

  4. The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

  5. Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Show HN: I built a JavaScript-powered flipdisc display

Show 3 more
  1. Show HN: Dorkly – Open source feature flags

  2. Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management

  3. Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

the Weekly Close

You just read a week of news in ninety seconds.

Every Monday we rank what the world actually covered — by how many outlets ran it and how many days it stayed up — and send you the top of the pile. No takes, no ads.

One email a week. We confirm your address first. Unsubscribe in one click. We never sell the list.