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The month in reviewVol. 23 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 290 2023-10-17
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 17 – October 17, 2023 805 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 290 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.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Sports

    Install Windows the Arch Linux Way

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Problems with homemade billing systems

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

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

    adayinthelifeof.nl · 1 outlets

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

    thebignewsletter.com · 1 outlets

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

    anthropic.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    rechargenews.com · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  4. Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

    paulstamatiou.com · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

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

    maxread.substack.com · 1 outlets

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

    power-technology.com · 1 outlets

  8. ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

    d3.harvard.edu · 1 outlets

  9. Krita fund has no corporate support

    fund.krita.org · 1 outlets

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

    neowin.net · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

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

    raverie-us.github.io · 1 outlets

  2. HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly

    blog.apnic.net · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    openra.net · 1 outlets

  2. Open Source does not win by being cheaper

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    punkx.org · 1 outlets

  4. Install Windows the Arch Linux Way

    veracrypt.fr · 3 outlets

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

    ounapuu.ee · 1 outlets

  6. Influxdb made the switch from Go to Rust

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

Technology 613 stories

  1. Mistral 7B

    mistral.ai · 2 outlets

  2. Petition against EU chat control

    berthub.eu · 5 outlets

  3. How LSP could have been better

    theverge.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

    npr.org · 2 outlets

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

    cloud.google.com · 3 outlets

  3. Passive Solar Water Desalination

    news.mit.edu · 3 outlets

  4. WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

    jamesbvaughan.com · 1 outlets

  5. Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

    blog.kagi.com · 1 outlets

  6. Raspberry Pi 5

    raspberrypi.com · 1 outlets

  7. Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

    cs.cmu.edu · 1 outlets

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

    audio-video.gnu.org · 2 outlets

  9. Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

    jenson.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Show HN: Rapidpages – OSS alternative to vercel's v0

    github.com · 3 outlets

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

    electric-sql.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    nobelprize.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Classic Video Poker

    lfgslots.com · 1 outlets

  3. Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV

    japantimes.co.jp · 1 outlets

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

    eliot.blog · 2 outlets

  5. Apple TV, now with more Tailscale

    tailscale.com · 1 outlets

  6. "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming

    blog.jgc.org · 1 outlets

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