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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 24 – May 24, 2024 821 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 145 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Pothole damage claims on California freeways triple while Caltrans payouts drop by half. Why?

A CBS News California investigation finds Caltrans only approved 1 out of every 25 damage claims from potholes and debris in the first half of 2023.

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Compilers for free with weval

    6 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Llama3 implemented from scratch

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Commodore 64 runs AI to generate images

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 2 stories

  1. Deaf girl's parents amazed as gene therapy lets her hear for first time

  2. Using new AI, grieving moms discover California lawmakers killed popular fentanyl bill by not ​voting

Business 23 stories

  1. New startup sells coffee through SSH

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

  3. Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity

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

Show 10 more
  1. McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting

  2. Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

  3. Online Cryptography Course (2017)

  4. Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus

  5. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.

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

  7. Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)

  8. Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections

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

  10. Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies

Sports 37 stories

  1. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

  2. Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

Show 6 more
  1. Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]

  2. I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag

  3. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

  4. Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain

  5. Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

  6. Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports

Technology 632 stories

  1. Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

  2. Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering

  3. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

Show 9 more
  1. Jan Leike resigns from OpenAI

  2. FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

  3. Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

  4. Compilers for free with weval

  5. GPT-4o

  6. Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

  7. Veo

  8. Apple introduces M4 chip

  9. Gordon Bell has died

Entertainment 45 stories

  1. Printing Music with CSS Grid

  2. Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT

  2. Show HN: A WireGuard Powered Remote Shell

  3. Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun

  4. The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed

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

  6. Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

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