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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 14 – August 13, 2024 812 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 226 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

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    A Linux kernel syscall implementation tracker

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only

    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 32 stories

  1. Crypto Currencies: prices, changes, trading volume & daily charts - Yahoo Finance

    Commodities Futures: prices, changes, trading volume & daily charts  Yahoo Finance

  2. Panic at the Job Market

  3. CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

  4. Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional

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  1. NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon

  2. Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright

  3. Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

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

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

  6. Generating sudokus for fun and no profit

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

  8. AMD records its highest server market share in decades

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

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

Sports 39 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: A football/soccer pass visualizer made with Three.js

  5. Isometric Projection in Game Development

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

Technology 583 stories

  1. Intel Reports Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results

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

  3. Susan Wojcicki has died

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  1. Open source AI is the path forward

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

  3. "We ran out of columns"

  4. Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit

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

  6. Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs

  7. Starting Hospice

  8. Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript

  9. Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon

Entertainment 49 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: Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini

  4. Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks

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

  6. Show HN: SQLite Transaction Benchmarking Tool

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