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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 19 – July 19, 2023 801 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 29 · Issue 200 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. Technology

    The Awk Programming Language

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Google search's death by a thousand cuts

    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. Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

  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. 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. Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm

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

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

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

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

  9. The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

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

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

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

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

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

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

  6. New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable

Technology 621 stories

  1. A 32-Bit Computer Inside Terraria [video]

  2. Threads, an Instagram app

  3. Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

Show 9 more
  1. Llama 2

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

  3. Local async executors and why they should be the default

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

  5. Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

  6. Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

  7. Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

  8. Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors

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

Entertainment 30 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. 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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