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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 18 – August 17, 2023 804 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 229 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Throw away your first draft of your code

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Selling open-source software

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    My deep learning rig (2022)

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 23 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

    cnbc.com · 3 outlets

  2. FedNow Is Live

    federalreserve.gov · 1 outlets

  3. Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

    noahpinion.blog · 1 outlets

  4. HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

    hashicorp.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Senators propose law that bans members of Congress from trading stocks

    wsj.com · 2 outlets

  2. Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books

    joinbookwyrm.com · 1 outlets

  3. Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?

    alicegg.tech · 1 outlets

  4. Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

    fedoramagazine.org · 1 outlets

  5. Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  6. How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  7. Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

    themessenger.com · 2 outlets

  8. My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

    getwaitlist.com · 1 outlets

  9. Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow

    jlericson.com · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Sports 36 stories

  1. A video game where you are an operating system

    plbrault.com · 1 outlets

  2. The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide

    eff.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt

    arxiv.org · 1 outlets

  2. How a startup loses its spark

    blog.johnqian.com · 1 outlets

  3. Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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

    darkreading.com · 1 outlets

  5. Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civics

    blogs.loc.gov · 1 outlets

  6. Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 595 stories

  1. Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

    neelc.org · 11 outlets

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

    explore.zoom.us · 4 outlets

  3. A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

    science.org · 4 outlets

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  1. Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  2. Throw away your first draft of your code

    techpowerup.com · 7 outlets

  3. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

    blog.archive.org · 2 outlets

  4. Overture Maps Foundation releases open map dataset

    newsroom.ibm.com · 3 outlets

  5. Shamir Secret Sharing

    max.levch.in · 1 outlets

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

    groups.google.com · 3 outlets

  7. Kevin Mitnick has died

    dignitymemorial.com · 1 outlets

  8. Llama 2

    ai.meta.com · 1 outlets

  9. LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

    nature.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Show HN: Ollama – Run LLMs on your Mac

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

    projectionlab.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

    sfcompute.org · 1 outlets

  2. Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

    my90stv.com · 1 outlets

  3. Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way

    github.com · 3 outlets

  4. Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot

    invoicedragon.com · 4 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

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