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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 26 – September 25, 2023 798 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 39 · Issue 268 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Landmark homeless lawsuit, The People vs. City of Sacramento, could impact policies statewide

The Sacramento County District Attorney's office is suing the City of Sacramento alleging the city failed to enforce the law and allowed the homeless crisis to become a public nuisance.

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Unity's Self-Combustion Engine

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 3 stories

  1. What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name?

    A former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower and two pilots testified before Congress about the strange, seemingly inexplicable objects.

  2. Pentagon launches website for declassified UFO information

  3. Consumers can face surprise bills from costly ambulance rides

Business 35 stories

  1. My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

  2. I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

  3. The boiling frog of digital freedom

  4. Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

Show 10 more
  1. Building an economy simulator from scratch

  2. Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?

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

  4. Results of technical investigations for Storm-0558 key acquisition

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

  6. Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew

  7. A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

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

  9. iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation

  10. EU fines Intel $400M for blocking AMD's market access

Sports 31 stories

  1. Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

  2. OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

Show 6 more
  1. Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

  2. Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome

  3. Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe

  4. Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize

  5. I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17

  6. Bitty Engine: An itty bitty game engine

Technology 625 stories

  1. FTC judge decides Intuit’s ‘free’ TurboTax ads misled consumers

  2. The Terraform Registry Terms of Service have been updated

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

Show 9 more
  1. Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

  2. Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

  3. The Tyranny of the Marginal User

  4. The worst programmer I know

  5. ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is

  6. NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild

  7. Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?

  8. Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

  9. Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor

Entertainment 35 stories

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

  2. Show HN: I automated half of my typing

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative

  2. Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps

  3. Show HN: Host a Website in the URL

  4. RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator

  5. Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV

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

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