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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 29 – February 28, 2024 810 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 59 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Why didn't Gov. Newsom's CHP detail stop that retail theft he witnessed at Target?

Also on Thursday, Democratic mayors are joining the fight to reform Proposition 47 despite California Gov. Gavin Newsom's opposition.

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Gemini and Google's Culture

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Dracula Theme for Hacker News

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Data structures as topological spaces (2002) [pdf]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Workers who cut crushed quartz countertops say they are falling ill

Business 38 stories

  1. Airfoil

  2. Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished

  3. AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source

  4. Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

Show 10 more
  1. Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters

  2. I turned my open-source project into a full-time business

  3. OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed

  4. iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol

  5. 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

  6. YC: Requests for Startups

  7. Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D

  8. Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO

  9. "Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks

  10. Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine

Sports 28 stories

  1. Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey

  2. How video games use lookup tables

Show 6 more
  1. Sudo for Windows

  2. Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games

  3. Tailwind color palette generator

  4. Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games

  5. Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

  6. Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

Technology 608 stories

  1. Private company landing on the moon today

  2. Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too

  3. Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands

Show 9 more
  1. The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps

  2. Sora: Creating video from text

  3. I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner

  4. Sent – Simple plaintext presentation tool

  5. European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption

  6. Alexei Navalny has died

  7. Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

  8. Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero

  9. Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

Entertainment 49 stories

  1. Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll

  2. Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML

Show 6 more
  1. Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu

  2. Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute

  3. Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

  4. TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

  5. Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub

  6. Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch

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