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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 1 – August 8, 2023 186 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 220 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

"Glacial outburst" flooding destroys at least 2 buildings in Alaska

A home collapsed into a raging river swollen by waters from a glacial dam release north of the state capital of Juneau, the National Weather Service said.

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Business 5 stories

  1. Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

  2. My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

  3. CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

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  1. Uber posts first quarterly net profit

  2. Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project

Sports 9 stories

  1. Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

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  1. Unconfirmed video showing potential LK-99 sample exhibiting the Meissner effect

  2. The $1M shot that changed sports contests

  3. Emacs is my new window manager

Technology 152 stories

  1. Zoom's TOS Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out

  2. IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face

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  1. Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 – Slashdot

  2. A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

  3. Water

  4. A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team

  5. The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September

Entertainment 7 stories

  1. Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI

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  1. Show HN: Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres

  2. Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

  3. Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations

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