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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 13 – July 13, 2024 845 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 195 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Dharmesh Patel, driver accused in Devil's Slide plunge, released to outpatient treatment instead of trial

Instead of facing trial for attempted murder, the Pasadena doctor accused of trying to kill his wife and kids by driving their Tesla off a cliff​ was released on Monday.

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Using SIMD for Parallel Processing in Rust

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Brazil's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 14 stories

  1. June 18 2024: US heat wave news

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has disbanded the country's war cabinet, an Israeli official says, just over a week after opposition leader Benny Gantz withdrew from the body.

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

  3. US job growth slowed in June, latest employment data shows

  4. Dare to bare: 24 of the world's best nude beaches

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  1. Glastonbury Festival fashion history: Remember when Kate Moss wore rain boots?

  2. Case dismissed against teenage cousin of Uvalde school shooter for allegedly threatening school shooting

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

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

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

  6. 'I know it happens': Boeing chief admits the company has retaliated against whistleblowers

  7. Confessions of a 1980s flight attendant

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

Business 46 stories

  1. Watch Financial News Now - BNN Bloomberg

    BCE Inc (BCE:CT): Stock Price, Quote and News  BNN Bloomberg

  2. Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

  3. Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)

  4. Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says

Show 10 more
  1. Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

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

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

  4. Python toolkit for quantitative finance

  5. I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox

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

  7. An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about solving hard problems

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

  9. FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got into Boeing and Airbus jets

  10. Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions

Sports 32 stories

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

  2. Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

Show 6 more
  1. I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers

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

  3. My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

  4. Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative

  5. Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win

  6. Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful

Technology 621 stories

  1. Claude 3.5 Sonnet

  2. Making the Kinopio source code public

  3. Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

Show 9 more
  1. Microsoft charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling Teams

  2. Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed

  3. Brazil's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana

  4. FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

  5. Reverse engineering a restaurant pager system

  6. Why is Chile so long?

  7. Safe Superintelligence Inc.

  8. Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now

  9. We need visual programming. No, not like that

Entertainment 31 stories

  1. Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

  2. Show HN: SQLite Database Explorer

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG

  2. Show HN: A Modern Palletization App

  3. Show HN: Simulating 20M Particles in JavaScript

  4. Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws

  5. Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times

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

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