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The month's top story

June 18 2024: US heat wave news

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has disbanded the country's war cabinet, an Israeli official says, just over a week after opposition leader Benny Gantz withdrew from the body.

CNN · 1 sources

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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The new math of how large-scale order emerges

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 13 stories

  1. Lawmakers demanding answers about Caltrans denied damage claims

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

  2. Supreme Court maintains access to abortion pill in unanimous decision

    CNN · 1 outlets

  3. The planet is getting hotter fast. This is what happens to your body in extreme heat

    CNN · 1 outlets

  4. The Juneteenth flag is full of symbols. Here's what they mean

    CNN · 1 outlets

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  1. 'I know it happens': Boeing chief admits the company has retaliated against whistleblowers

    CNN · 1 outlets

  2. Confessions of a 1980s flight attendant

    CNN · 1 outlets

  3. Biden and Zelensky lay out new US support for Ukraine

    CNN · 1 outlets

  4. Feeding Our Future audit finds Minnesota Dept. of Education's oversight "created opportunities for fraud"

    CBS · 1 outlets

  5. Trump in Washington for meetings with Republican allies

    CNN · 1 outlets

  6. Are California's mental health courts successful? That depends on who you ask because there's no reliable data.

    CBS · 1 outlets

  7. House GOP votes to hold Attorney General Garland in contempt

    CNN · 1 outlets

  8. As Equals: Frequently Asked Questions

    CNN · 1 outlets

Business 34 stories

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

    entrepreneur.com · 2 outlets

  2. Jury Finds Boeing Stole Tech from Electric Airplane Startup

    seattletimes.com · 2 outlets

  3. I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business

    mtlynch.io · 1 outlets

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

    samcurry.net · 1 outlets

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  1. Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)

    freiheitsrechte.org · 1 outlets

  2. Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  5. The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

    writingruxandrabio.com · 1 outlets

  6. Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  7. AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

  8. Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres

    windytan.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  10. The Moral Economy of the Shire

    nathangoldwag.wordpres · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare

    doublepulsar.com · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: I made a pixel art editor for Windows desktop

    rahulilango.com · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it

    edw.is · 1 outlets

  2. Loop: Open-source macOS window manager

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game

    martincmartin.com · 1 outlets

  4. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

    windirstat.net · 1 outlets

  5. Ladybird browser spreads its wings

    lwn.net · 1 outlets

  6. Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs

    tech.lgbt · 1 outlets

Technology 627 stories

  1. Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

    sparktoro.com · 8 outlets

  2. Former OpenAI board member explains why they fired Sam Altman

    businessinsider.com · 3 outlets

  3. Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed

    blogs.windows.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

  2. FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

    ftc.gov · 2 outlets

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

    daylightcomputer.com · 1 outlets

  4. TTE: Terminal Text Effects

    chrisbuilds.github.io · 2 outlets

  5. Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity

    stefantheard.com · 1 outlets

  6. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

    vox.com · 1 outlets

  7. Lynn Conway has died

    en.wikipedia.org · 1 outlets

  8. After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL

    bessey.dev · 1 outlets

  9. Safe Superintelligence Inc.

    ssi.inc · 1 outlets

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code

    toaster.llc · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

    delve.a9.io · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    shademap.app · 1 outlets

  2. How actors remember their lines

    thereader.mitpress.mit · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn

    at.hn · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM

    grooved.okat.best · 4 outlets

  5. Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

    radius.to · 2 outlets

  6. Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

    papertalk.xyz · 1 outlets

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