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The month's top story

Bank Failures Visualized

observablehq.com · 1 sources

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Gource – Animate your Git history

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 34 stories

  1. Bank Failures Visualized

    observablehq.com · 1 outlets

  2. JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank

    fdic.gov · 1 outlets

  3. Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” [pdf]

    ia601707.us.archive.or · 1 outlets

  4. The biggest EV battery recycling plant in the US is open for business

    canarymedia.com · 1 outlets

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  1. EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany

    economist.com · 1 outlets

  2. Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam

    blog.benjojo.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. WebGPU Fundamentals

    webgpufundamentals.org · 1 outlets

  5. OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  6. We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed

    redhat.com · 1 outlets

  7. FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaintext, without access controls

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code

    evidence.dev · 1 outlets

  9. Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  10. Investigating Linux phantom disk reads

    questdb.io · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

  1. If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed

    sbstatesman.com · 1 outlets

  2. Animated Drawings

    fairanimateddrawings.c · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  2. Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful

    tech.slashdot.org · 1 outlets

  3. The Windows 11 Trash Party

    birchtree.me · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games

    lost-at-sql.therobinlo · 2 outlets

  5. Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. Windows on Btrfs

    lilysthings.org · 1 outlets

Technology 607 stories

  1. Finetuning Large Language Models

    magazine.sebastianrasc · 7 outlets

  2. How to Design Programs 2nd Edition

    htdp.org · 1 outlets

  3. Google Cloud Europe service disruption

    nytimes.com · 6 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. MRI brain images become 64M times sharper

    arstechnica.com · 4 outlets

  2. Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”

    semianalysis.com · 1 outlets

  3. Space Elevator

    neal.fun · 1 outlets

  4. The early days of Linux

    lwn.net · 1 outlets

  5. Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens

    slate.com · 1 outlets

  7. The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

    eff.org · 2 outlets

  8. Clock

    oimo.io · 1 outlets

  9. Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%

    bugzilla.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. Show HN: ChatGDB – GPT-Powered GDB Assistant

    phind.com · 2 outlets

  2. Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Tabby – A self-hosted GitHub Copilot

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: The HN Recap – AI generated daily HN podcast

    stretch15.com · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: ScrapScript – A tiny functional language for sharable software

    scrapscript.org · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Homemade rocketship treehouse – hardware to custom OS

    rocket.jonh.net · 1 outlets

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