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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 11 – October 11, 2023 798 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 284 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 October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Unity's Self-Combustion Engine

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Problems with homemade billing systems

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Sports

    Install Windows the Arch Linux Way

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

Business 41 stories

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

  2. John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

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

  4. The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”

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

  2. Building an economy simulator from scratch

  3. Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?

  4. Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification

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

  6. Spain cancels Pegasus spyware investigation because Israel is not co-operating

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

  8. Investigation: 78% of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk“

  9. ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

  10. Krita fund has no corporate support

Sports 32 stories

  1. Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM

  2. HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly

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

  2. Open Source does not win by being cheaper

  3. Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize

  4. Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)

  5. Install Windows the Arch Linux Way

  6. Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup

Technology 604 stories

  1. Mistral 7B

  2. The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack

  3. Passive Solar Water Desalination

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  1. WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

  2. Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

  3. Raspberry Pi 5

  4. Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

  5. The Tyranny of the Marginal User

  6. A hacker's guide to language models [video]

  7. Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

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

  9. Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)

Entertainment 37 stories

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

  2. Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps

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  1. Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

  2. Show HN: Classic Video Poker

  3. Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV

  4. Show HN: Generative Fill with AI and 3D

  5. Apple TV, now with more Tailscale

  6. Video streaming at scale with Kubernetes and RabbitMQ

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