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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close June 20 – June 27, 2024 201 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 26 · Issue 179 Get it by email ↓
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When Social Security mistakenly overpays benefits, you might get a bill | 60 Minutes

Each year, about a million people are told they owe the Social Security Administration money because the agency miscalculated their benefits and paid them too much.

CBS · 1 sources

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

    CNN · 1 outlets

Business 6 stories

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

    lemmy.world · 1 outlets

  2. Wc2: Investigates optimizing 'wc', the Unix word count program

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy

    taxfoundation.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Federal whistleblowers are entitled to damages of missed future pay, court rules

    govexec.com · 1 outlets

  2. Asynchronous Consensus Without Trusted Setup or Public-Key Cryptography

    eprint.iacr.org · 1 outlets

  3. The First Hedge Fund

    commoncog.com · 1 outlets

Sports 14 stories

  1. Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

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

    nbcnews.com · 1 outlets

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

    dropofahat.zone · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries

    rahulilango.com · 1 outlets

Technology 156 stories

  1. Claude 3.5 Sonnet

    anthropic.com · 2 outlets

  2. Microsoft charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling Teams

    apnews.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. One Million Checkboxes

    onemillioncheckboxes.c · 1 outlets

  3. Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

    danilafe.com · 1 outlets

  4. The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

    righto.com · 1 outlets

  5. Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites

    sansec.io · 2 outlets

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Show HN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG

    flipdisc.io · 2 outlets

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  1. Show HN: Dorkly – Open source feature flags

    v1.web-check.xyz · 2 outlets

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

    dotenvx.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times

    fastvoiceagent.cerebri · 2 outlets

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