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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 26 – October 26, 2023 799 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 299 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

    How LSP could have been better

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    "No, it's less effort than that"

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Open Source Firmware Conference

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 34 stories

  1. John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

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

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

  4. I face investigation for terrorism

Show 10 more
  1. Startup CTO's Handbook

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

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

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

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

  6. Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing

  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. Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system?

Sports 35 stories

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

  2. HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly

Show 6 more
  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 608 stories

  1. Mistral 7B

  2. EU Chat Control Bill Postponed

  3. California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

Show 9 more
  1. How LSP could have been better

  2. LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

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

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

  5. WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

  6. Raspberry Pi 5

  7. Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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

  9. FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D

  2. Show HN: Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes

Show 6 more
  1. Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

  2. Show HN: Classic Video Poker

  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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