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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 12 – October 19, 2023 183 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 292 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Why Sacramento police are solving more car theft cases than other agencies nationwide

If your car is stolen, the odds are your car will be found but the person who stole it will almost never be arrested. But Sacramento PD has a higher arrest rate than most thanks to new technology and a dedicated team.

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Business 6 stories

  1. Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security

  2. Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

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

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  1. The AI research job market

  2. Vercel employee used customer information to pursue a personal trademark matter

  3. The Price-Fixing Economy

Sports 8 stories

  1. Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization

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  1. One game, by one man, on six platforms: The good, the bad and the ugly

  2. Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem

  3. iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles

Technology 145 stories

  1. Petition against EU chat control

  2. "About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"

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  1. LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

  2. First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student

  3. Scrollbars are becoming a problem

  4. Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states

  5. Write more "useless" software

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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  1. "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming

  2. Show HN: I built a virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons

  3. Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends

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