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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close April 14 – April 21, 2024 188 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 112 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Americans lose millions to wire transfer fraud. Could banks do more to stop it?

"Their job is to protect our investments," said one man whose bank account was drained of $15,000. "Otherwise, what's the point of putting it with a bank?"

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Business 11 stories

  1. CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred

  2. Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes

  3. Financial market applications of LLMs

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  1. Goldene: A single atom layer of gold

  2. A shrub in Nepal supplies the raw material for the bank notes used in Japan

  3. AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

  4. Bitcoin Block 840000

Sports 5 stories

  1. Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop

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  1. Why everything is becoming a game

  2. Tax consequences of WIN95 team members keeping a piece of software for testing

  3. Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

Technology 155 stories

  1. Meta Llama 3

  2. This is a teenager

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  1. Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

  2. Descent 3 Source Code

  3. Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]

  4. A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'

  5. Daniel Dennett has died

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii

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  1. Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

  2. Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit

  3. Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown

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