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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 17 – August 16, 2024 817 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 229 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A mom with a license plate that reads 'PB4WEGO' wins a battle with the state to keep it

If you're a parent, the conversation with the kids as you head out the door for a car ride probably starts like this: "Did you go to the bathroom?"

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Search: Roboto Mono

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 4 stories

  1. 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 men…

  2. CNN Heroes Legal Disclosures 2024

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

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

Business 33 stories

  1. Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright

    Most Active Stock Options: option contracts with the highest trading volume  Yahoo Finance

  2. Panic at the Job Market

  3. CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

  4. Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional

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  1. NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon

  2. Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

  3. The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script

  4. CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office

  5. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk

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

  7. Generating sudokus for fun and no profit

  8. I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

  9. AMD records its highest server market share in decades

  10. The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO

Sports 38 stories

  1. Stop Killing Games – European Citizens' Initiative

  2. CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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  1. Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones

  2. Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

  3. Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason

  4. Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture

  5. Show HN: A football/soccer pass visualizer made with Three.js

  6. Isometric Projection in Game Development

Technology 579 stories

  1. Intel Reports Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results

  2. The Making of Kino: You Can (Not) Build a Pro Video Camera App in Four Months

  3. Susan Wojcicki has died

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  1. Open source AI is the path forward

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

  3. "We ran out of columns"

  4. Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit

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

  6. Starting Hospice

  7. Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript

  8. Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon

  9. Jailbreaking RabbitOS

Entertainment 54 stories

  1. Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker

  2. Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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  1. Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

  2. Show HN: A video editing SDK that runs in the browser

  3. Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms

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

  5. Show HN: Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini

  6. Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks

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