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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 30 – May 30, 2024 811 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 151 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. Entertainment

    Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Llama3 implemented from scratch

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering

    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 26 stories

  1. I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business

  2. New startup sells coffee through SSH

  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. Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

  2. Online Cryptography Course (2017)

  3. Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus

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

  5. The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City

  6. Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)

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

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

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

  10. Researchers cracked an 11-year-old password to a $3M crypto wallet

Sports 32 stories

  1. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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

Show 6 more
  1. I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag

  2. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

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

  4. Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

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

  6. Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code

Technology 609 stories

  1. Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

  2. Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

  3. The OpenAI board was right

Show 9 more
  1. Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering

  2. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

  3. Jan Leike resigns from OpenAI

  4. Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

  5. Slack AI Training with Customer Data

  6. 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

  7. GPT-4o

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

  9. TTE: Terminal Text Effects

Entertainment 46 stories

  1. Printing Music with CSS Grid

  2. How actors remember their lines

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Serverless Postgres

  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: I made an open-source Loom alternative

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

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