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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 3 – May 3, 2024 809 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 124 Get it by email ↓
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Using new AI, grieving moms discover California lawmakers killed popular fentanyl bill by not ​voting

They fought for fentanyl legislation, but it was killed before lawmakers even got to vote. Four grieving moms wanted to know why. They're uncovering the truth using a new AI tool designed to help everyday Californians hold lawmakers accountable. They discovered powerful lawmakers killed the popular fentanyl bill by no…

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Answering Legal Questions with LLMs

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 32 stories

  1. The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework

    sequoiacap.com · 2 outlets

  2. New startup sells coffee through SSH

    terminal.shop · 1 outlets

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

    consumerfinance.gov · 1 outlets

  4. Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights

    abcnews.go.com · 1 outlets

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  1. McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  2. Online Cryptography Course (2017)

    crypto.stanford.edu · 1 outlets

  3. Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  4. Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders

    restofworld.org · 1 outlets

  5. Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes

    statnews.com · 1 outlets

  7. Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools

    androidauthority.com · 1 outlets

  8. Financial market applications of LLMs

    thegradient.pub · 1 outlets

  9. Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  10. They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Sports 26 stories

  1. Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

    loglog.games · 1 outlets

  2. I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

    tonoko.notion.site · 1 outlets

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  1. Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git

    ohmygit.org · 1 outlets

  2. Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  3. 1.18k drawings of plant root systems

    images.wur.nl · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty

    balanc3dgame.com · 1 outlets

  5. Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)

    retrocomputing.stackex · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 629 stories

  1. Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff

    electrek.co · 4 outlets

  2. AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  3. Browse Self-Hosted Software

    stalw.art · 4 outlets

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  1. German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

    blog.documentfoundatio · 2 outlets

  2. FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

    docs.fcc.gov · 4 outlets

  3. Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

    newshub.co.nz · 2 outlets

  4. Meta Llama 3

    llama.meta.com · 1 outlets

  5. The man who killed Google Search?

    wheresyoured.at · 1 outlets

  6. Equinox.space

    equinox.space · 1 outlets

  7. Mario meets Pareto

    mayerowitz.io · 1 outlets

  8. This is a teenager

    pudding.cool · 1 outlets

  9. Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

    tonsky.me · 1 outlets

Entertainment 46 stories

  1. Printing Music with CSS Grid

    cruncher.ch · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card

    paulbupejr.com · 5 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

    github.com · 2 outlets

  2. Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

    axleos.com · 2 outlets

  4. Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges

    fabiensanglard.net · 1 outlets

  5. Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator

    icode4.coffee · 2 outlets

  6. Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

    sonauto.ai · 1 outlets

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