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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 20 – July 20, 2024 831 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 29 · Issue 202 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

3 alleged gang members and an associate charged in the fatal shooting of an off-duty LAPD officer

Federal prosecutors charged three gang members and one gang associate Thursday in the fatal shooting of off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer Fernando Arroyos during an attempted robbery.

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Building and scaling Notion's data lake

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Brazil's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 7 stories

  1. What to do if your flight is canceled or delayed

    Here are some expert tips about what travelers should do when flights are delayed or canceled.

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

  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

Business 47 stories

  1. Watch Financial News Now - BNN Bloomberg

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

  2. Panic at the Job Market

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

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

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  1. Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)

  2. Python toolkit for quantitative finance

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

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

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

  6. A search engine by and for the federal government

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

  8. Federal whistleblowers are entitled to damages of missed future pay, court rules

  9. The golden age of scammers: AI-powered phishing

  10. Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%

Sports 38 stories

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

  2. CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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  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

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

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

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

Technology 601 stories

  1. Claude 3.5 Sonnet

  2. For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

  3. Making the Kinopio source code public

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

  2. Microsoft charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling Teams

  3. Brazil's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana

  4. Reverse-Engineering an IP Camera (2019)

  5. Why is Chile so long?

  6. My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

  7. Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs

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

  9. Jailbreaking RabbitOS

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

  2. Show HN: SQLite Transaction Benchmarking Tool

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: A Modern Palletization App

  2. Show HN: Simulating 20M Particles in JavaScript

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

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

  5. Show HN: Dorkly – Open source feature flags

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

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