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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 11 – July 11, 2023 786 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 192 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Man awaits sentencing in crossbow plot to kill Queen Elizabeth

Jaswant Singh Chail was detained on the Windsor Castle grounds on Christmas Day 2021 with a loaded crossbow.

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The Reddit blackout will continue

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 2 stories

  1. Prince William launches project to "finally end homelessness" in U.K.

  2. Scientists warn rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers will impact us all

Business 38 stories

  1. Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps

  2. Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company

  3. Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

  4. Mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business

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  1. Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates

  2. FedEx Accused of Largest Odometer Rollback Fraud in History with Used Vans

  3. Illegal Life Pro Tip: Want to ruin your competitor's business?

  4. Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it

  5. Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now'

  6. Open source AI is critical – Hugging Face CEO before US Congress

  7. The Rot Economy

  8. EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling

  9. Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout

  10. Instant Brands, maker of Instant Pot and Pyrex cookware, files for bankruptcy

Sports 32 stories

  1. The Password Game

  2. Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

Show 6 more
  1. McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

  2. Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

  3. Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet

  4. More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

  5. Valve is not willing to publish games with AI generated content anymore?

  6. Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation

Technology 602 stories

  1. Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

  2. Milk-V Duo: A $9 RISC-V Computer

  3. Threads, an Instagram app

Show 9 more
  1. Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

  2. macOS command-line tools you might not know about

  3. Reddit Strike Has Started

  4. The Reddit blackout will continue

  5. Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located

  6. The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”

  7. Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

  8. Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

  9. When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option

Entertainment 27 stories

  1. Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback

  2. Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

  2. Show HN: Mofi – Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration

  3. Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

  4. Alt-F4 #65 – Factorio visualizer in Unreal Engine 5

  5. A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]

  6. Apple VisionOS Simulator streaming wirelessly to Meta Quest headset

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