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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 6 – June 5, 2024 804 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 23 · Issue 157 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Lawmakers demanding answers about Caltrans denied damage claims

In response to a CBS News California Investigation, California lawmakers are demanding answers from Caltrans and considering legislation to fix Caltrans' damage claim process.

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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Making EC2 boot time faster

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

Business 25 stories

  1. I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business

  2. Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem

  3. Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

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

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  1. Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

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

  3. Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process

  4. The Moral Economy of the Shire

  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. FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing

  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 38 stories

  1. Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare

  2. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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  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 606 stories

  1. Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

  2. The OpenAI board was right

  3. Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering

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  1. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

  2. Jan Leike resigns from OpenAI

  3. Slack AI Training with Customer Data

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

  5. GPT-4o

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

  7. TTE: Terminal Text Effects

  8. Veo

  9. Apple introduces M4 chip

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: Serverless Postgres

  2. Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

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  1. Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time

  2. How actors remember their lines

  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: Route your prompts to the best LLM

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

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