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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close April 27 – May 4, 2024 180 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 125 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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Business 8 stories

  1. New startup sells coffee through SSH

  2. As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs

  3. Online Cryptography Course (2017)

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  1. Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus

  2. Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?

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

  4. Alice's adventures in a differentiable wonderland

Sports 6 stories

  1. Did we lose our way in making efficient software?

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  1. Claiming high user satisfaction, IRS will decide on renewing free tax site

  2. AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing

  3. How to install Linux from a Windows installer

Technology 142 stories

  1. Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

  2. FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

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  1. Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

  2. Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)

  3. Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail

  4. DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android

  5. Why SQLite Uses Bytecode

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Printing Music with CSS Grid

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  1. Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures

  2. Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU

  3. Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

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