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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 26 – August 2, 2024 178 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 215 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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Top Stories 1 stories

  1. CNN Heroes Legal Disclosures 2024

Business 7 stories

  1. CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

  2. Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

  3. Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence

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  1. Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for YC startups

  2. Cardie – An open source business card designer and sharing platform

  3. Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard

  4. Federal regulator says Amazon can be held responsible for faulty goods

Sports 8 stories

  1. Stop Killing Games – European Citizens' Initiative

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

  2. My favorite tools and techniques for procedural gamedev

  3. Coinbase awarded a $500k bug bounty

Technology 139 stories

  1. Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election

  2. An experiment in UI density created with Svelte

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  1. FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python

  2. After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days

  3. Our audit of Homebrew

  4. One-man SaaS, 9 Years In

  5. Meta introduces Segment Anything Model 2

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)

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

  2. Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans

  3. Show HN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less

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