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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 27 – June 26, 2024 845 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 26 · Issue 178 Get it by email ↓
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.

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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. Technology

    Every Way to Get Structured Output from LLMs

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Sports

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

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 14 stories

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

    The Supreme Court has issued a decision on whether the US Food and Drug Administration overstepped its authority by expanding access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

  2. When Social Security mistakenly overpays benefits, you might get a bill | 60 Minutes

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

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

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

  2. Confessions of a 1980s flight attendant

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

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

  5. Trump in Washington for meetings with Republican allies

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

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

  8. As Equals: Frequently Asked Questions

Business 34 stories

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

  2. Jury Finds Boeing Stole Tech from Electric Airplane Startup

  3. I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business

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

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

  2. Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says

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

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

  5. The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

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

  7. Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code

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

  9. Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres

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

Sports 37 stories

  1. Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts

  2. Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC

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  1. Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

  2. I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers

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

  4. My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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

  6. Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win

Technology 622 stories

  1. Google dropping continuous scroll in search results

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

  3. Microsoft charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling Teams

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

  2. FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

  3. TTE: Terminal Text Effects

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

  5. Lynn Conway has died

  6. After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL

  7. Safe Superintelligence Inc.

  8. Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now

  9. I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

Entertainment 41 stories

  1. Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code

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

  4. Show HN: I built a JavaScript-powered flipdisc display

  5. Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor

  6. Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management

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