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The month's top story

Doctor who drove family off cliff fuels legal debate: Should attempted murder defendants get treatment instead of trial?

A doctor who was released from jail after driving his family off a cliff is being called the "poster child" for and against a California law that allows attempted murder defendants to get at-home mental health treatment instead of standing trial for alleged crimes.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Search: Roboto Mono

    13 of 30 days · 17 articles

  2. Technology

    We need visual programming. No, not like that

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Reverse Engineering for Everyone

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Top Stories 3 stories

  1. CNN Heroes Legal Disclosures 2024

    CNN · 1 outlets

    Eligibility: In order to be eligible for the CNN Heroes Awards Program (the "Awards Program"), nominees must be at least thirteen (13) years of age or older as of December 11, 2023.

  2. 3 alleged gang members and an associate charged in the fatal shooting of an off-duty LAPD officer

    CNN · 1 outlets

  3. What to do if your flight is canceled or delayed

    CNN · 1 outlets

Business 52 stories

  1. Watch Financial News Now - BNN Bloomberg

    BNN · 1 outlets

    BCE Inc (BCE:CT): Stock Price, Quote and News  BNN Bloomberg

  2. Panic at the Job Market

    matt.sh · 1 outlets

  3. CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

    clownstrike.lol · 1 outlets

  4. Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

    shwin.co · 1 outlets

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  1. Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence

    foreignpolicy.com · 1 outlets

  2. Generating sudokus for fun and no profit

    tn1ck.com · 1 outlets

  3. Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  4. I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)

    web.archive.org · 1 outlets

  5. The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO

    androidauthority.com · 1 outlets

  6. I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox

    jackkelly.name · 1 outlets

  7. Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  8. Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe

    psyche.co · 1 outlets

  9. A search engine by and for the federal government

    search.gov · 1 outlets

  10. Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions

    icpen.org · 1 outlets

Sports 37 stories

  1. Stop Killing Games – European Citizens' Initiative

    eci.ec.europa.eu · 3 outlets

  2. CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  2. Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

    jordaneldredge.com · 1 outlets

  3. Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason

    phoboslab.org · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game

    wheybags.com · 1 outlets

  5. DB Browser for SQLite (Windows, macOS, and Most Versions of Linux)

    sqlitebrowser.org · 1 outlets

  6. United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency

    fas.org · 1 outlets

Technology 576 stories

  1. Intel is selling defective 13-14th Gen CPUs

    community.intel.com · 7 outlets

  2. For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

    mstdn.social · 4 outlets

  3. The Making of Kino: You Can (Not) Build a Pro Video Camera App in Four Months

    Lux · 1 outlets

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  1. Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  2. Open source AI is the path forward

    about.fb.com · 1 outlets

  3. Reverse Engineering for Everyone

    conduition.io · 5 outlets

  4. Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub

    trufflesecurity.com · 1 outlets

  5. "We ran out of columns"

    jimmyhmiller.github.io · 1 outlets

  6. My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

    naya.lol · 1 outlets

  7. AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level

    deepmind.google · 1 outlets

  8. Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs

    docs.scale-lang.com · 1 outlets

  9. Starting Hospice

    jakeseliger.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 44 stories

  1. Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator

    netflixtechblog.com · 3 outlets

  2. Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

    bitbuilt.net · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS

    satyrn.app · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: Simulating 20M Particles in JavaScript

    dgerrells.com · 2 outlets

  3. Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

    haystackeditor.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Free e-book about WebGPU Programming

    shi-yan.github.io · 3 outlets

  5. Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator

    codeberg.org · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects

    github.com · 2 outlets

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