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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 31 – August 30, 2023 801 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 242 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Consumers can face surprise bills from costly ambulance rides

Americans are protected from most surprise medical bills by the No Surprises Act that took effect last year. But there's one key item the legislation left out.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Selling open-source software

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    New Map APIs from Google

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Throw away your first draft of your code

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 2 stories

  1. Why an eye exam should be on your child's back-to-school checklist

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 29 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

    cnbc.com · 3 outlets

  2. HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

    hashicorp.com · 1 outlets

  3. Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure

    juxt.pro · 1 outlets

  4. Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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  1. If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

    fedoramagazine.org · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  4. China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  5. The feds asked TikTok for lots of domestic spying features

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  6. Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’

    undark.org · 1 outlets

  7. Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  8. My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

    getwaitlist.com · 1 outlets

  9. Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems

    tokio.rs · 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. Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt

    arxiv.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. How a startup loses its spark

    blog.johnqian.com · 1 outlets

  2. Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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

    darkreading.com · 1 outlets

  4. Windy.com: global weather website with live filters

    windy.com · 1 outlets

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

    blogs.loc.gov · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Just intonation keyboard – play music without knowing music

    ad8e.pages.dev · 1 outlets

Technology 605 stories

  1. A place where no humans will tread for 100k years

    explore.zoom.us · 6 outlets

  2. Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models

    ai.meta.com · 3 outlets

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

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Throw away your first draft of your code

    techpowerup.com · 4 outlets

  2. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

    blog.archive.org · 2 outlets

  3. iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines

    404media.co · 2 outlets

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

    newsroom.ibm.com · 1 outlets

  5. Shamir Secret Sharing

    max.levch.in · 1 outlets

  6. SUSE to go private

    suse.com · 2 outlets

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

    groups.google.com · 3 outlets

  8. A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

    arxiv.org · 2 outlets

  9. LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

    nature.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Factorio: Space Age

    factorio.com · 1 outlets

  2. Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf

    ericdraken.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    github.com · 2 outlets

  2. The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency

    blog.owulveryck.info · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing

    news.gallup.com · 1 outlets

  5. Intel shows 8 core 528 thread processor with silicon photonics

    servethehome.com · 1 outlets

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

    ofrak.com · 1 outlets

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