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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 21 – October 21, 2023 803 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 294 Get it by email ↓
The month'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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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    "No, it's less effort than that"

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Leantime: Open-Source Jira Alternative

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 35 stories

  1. John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

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

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

  2. Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?

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

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

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

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

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

  8. ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

  9. Krita fund has no corporate support

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

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

  2. Open Source does not win by being cheaper

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

  4. VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

  5. Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer

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

Technology 616 stories

  1. Mistral 7B

  2. Petition against EU chat control

  3. How LSP could have been better

Show 9 more
  1. LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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

  3. "No, it's less effort than that"

  4. WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

  5. Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

  6. Raspberry Pi 5

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

  8. Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

  9. Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro

Entertainment 39 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Classic Video Poker

  2. Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV

  3. Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

  4. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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

  6. "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming

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