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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 18 – August 17, 2024 819 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 230 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A mom with a license plate that reads 'PB4WEGO' wins a battle with the state to keep it

If you're a parent, the conversation with the kids as you head out the door for a car ride probably starts like this: "Did you go to the bathroom?"

CNN · 1 sources

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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

    From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Top Stories 4 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

    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 men…

  2. CNN Heroes Legal Disclosures 2024

    CNN · 1 outlets

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

    CNN · 1 outlets

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

    CNN · 1 outlets

Business 33 stories

  1. Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright

    Yahoo · 2 outlets

    Most Active Stock Options: option contracts with the highest trading volume  Yahoo Finance

  2. CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

    clownstrike.lol · 1 outlets

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

    eff.org · 1 outlets

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

    flyingmag.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

    shwin.co · 1 outlets

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

    jointhefollowup.com · 1 outlets

  3. CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  4. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    foreignpolicy.com · 1 outlets

  6. Generating sudokus for fun and no profit

    tn1ck.com · 1 outlets

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

    web.archive.org · 1 outlets

  8. AMD records its highest server market share in decades

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

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

    androidauthority.com · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

Sports 39 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. Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture

    praachi.work · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: A football/soccer pass visualizer made with Three.js

    grandmasword.com · 2 outlets

  6. Isometric Projection in Game Development

    pikuma.com · 1 outlets

Technology 585 stories

  1. Intel Reports Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results

    community.intel.com · 6 outlets

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

    Lux · 1 outlets

  3. Susan Wojcicki has died

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Open source AI is the path forward

    about.fb.com · 1 outlets

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

    trufflesecurity.com · 1 outlets

  3. "We ran out of columns"

    jimmyhmiller.github.io · 1 outlets

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

    deepmind.google · 1 outlets

  5. Starting Hospice

    jakeseliger.com · 1 outlets

  6. Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    news.patreon.com · 3 outlets

  8. Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  9. Every company should be owned by its employees

    elysian.press · 1 outlets

Entertainment 54 stories

  1. Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker

    netflixtechblog.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

    ytch.xyz · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

    bitbuilt.net · 1 outlets

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

    roometron.com · 3 outlets

  3. Disney seeks dismissal of wrongful death lawsuit citing waiver in Disney+ terms

    wdwnt.com · 1 outlets

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

    haystackeditor.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini

    pglite.dev · 2 outlets

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

    github.com · 2 outlets

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