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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 23 – July 30, 2024 179 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 212 Get it by email ↓
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Doctor who drove family off cliff fuels legal debate: Should attempted murder defendants get treatment instead of trial?

A doctor who was released from jail after driving his family off a cliff is being called the "poster child" for and against a California law that allows attempted murder defendants to get at-home mental health treatment instead of standing trial for alleged crimes.

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  1. CNN Heroes Legal Disclosures 2024

Business 3 stories

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  3. Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016)

Sports 8 stories

  1. Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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  1. Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

  2. How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”

  3. My favorite tools and techniques for procedural gamedev

Technology 142 stories

  1. Open source AI is the path forward

  2. Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub

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  1. AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level

  2. Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript

  3. Every company should be owned by its employees

  4. An experiment in UI density created with Svelte

  5. FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

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  1. Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects

  2. Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool

  3. Show HN: Trayce – Network tab for Docker containers

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