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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 14 – July 14, 2023 799 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 195 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

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Google search's death by a thousand cuts

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Sports

    Windows: A software engineering odyssey (2000)

    3 of 30 days · 3 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 40 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

Show 10 more
  1. FedEx Accused of Largest Odometer Rollback Fraud in History with Used Vans

  2. Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud

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

  4. Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

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

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

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

  8. The Rot Economy

  9. StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100

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

Sports 34 stories

  1. The Password Game

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

Show 6 more
  1. Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

  2. Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet

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

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

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

  6. Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

Technology 610 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. Every person on the planet should have their own website

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

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

  6. Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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

  8. Try: run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system

  9. Implementing Wordle in the Firefox address bar

Entertainment 33 stories

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

  2. Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Mofi – Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration

  2. Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal

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

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

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

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

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