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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 9 – August 8, 2024 836 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 221 Get it by email ↓
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.

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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

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: Trayce – Network tab for Docker containers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 3 stories

  1. CNN Heroes Legal Disclosures 2024

    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

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

Business 51 stories

  1. Watch Financial News Now - BNN Bloomberg

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

  2. Panic at the Job Market

  3. CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

  4. Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright

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  1. Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

  2. The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script

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

  4. Generating sudokus for fun and no profit

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

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

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

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

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

  10. A search engine by and for the federal government

Sports 40 stories

  1. Stop Killing Games – European Citizens' Initiative

  2. CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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  1. Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones

  2. Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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

  4. Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game

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

  6. Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

Technology 579 stories

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

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

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

Show 9 more
  1. Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

  2. Open source AI is the path forward

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

  4. "We ran out of columns"

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

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

  7. Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs

  8. Starting Hospice

  9. Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript

Entertainment 47 stories

  1. Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator

  2. Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

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  1. Show HN: A video editing SDK that runs in the browser

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

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

  4. Show HN: 30ms latency screen sharing in Rust

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

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

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