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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 11 – August 18, 2024 189 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 231 Get it by email ↓
The week'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?"

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Business 11 stories

  1. Top Daily Losses: US stocks posting the largest losses today - Yahoo Finance

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

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

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

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

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

  3. AMD records its highest server market share in decades

  4. Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'

Sports 12 stories

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

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  1. Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

  2. Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers

  3. I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)

Technology 134 stories

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

  2. Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

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  1. Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

  2. All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)

  3. There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)

  4. Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting

  5. How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40

Entertainment 19 stories

  1. Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

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

  2. Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync

  3. CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon

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