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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 10 – August 17, 2023 176 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 229 Get it by email ↓
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Why an eye exam should be on your child's back-to-school checklist

Back-to-school season is a great time for kids to get an eye exam, doctors say, specially since school screenings can miss kids with vision problems.

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Business 5 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

  2. HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

  3. Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says

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  1. I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

  2. How to access BNN Bloomberg’s business coverage as Meta blocks news in Canada - BNN Bloomberg

Sports 8 stories

  1. A video game where you are an operating system

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  1. How a startup loses its spark

  2. Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models

  3. How do we save water: Stop growing alfalfa in Imperial County

Technology 142 stories

  1. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

  2. LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

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  1. Vim Boss

  2. Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator

  3. We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x

  4. Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use

  5. Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time

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  1. Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions

  2. Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute in the browser

  3. Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript

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