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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 23 – August 22, 2024 821 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 235 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

    Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 2 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

  2. CNN Heroes Legal Disclosures 2024

    CNN · 1 outlets

Business 30 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. Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules

    reason.com · 1 outlets

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

    eff.org · 1 outlets

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

    flyingmag.com · 1 outlets

  2. Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

    shwin.co · 1 outlets

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

    jointhefollowup.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    foreignpolicy.com · 1 outlets

  7. Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%

    ostechnix.com · 2 outlets

  8. Generating sudokus for fun and no profit

    tn1ck.com · 1 outlets

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

    web.archive.org · 1 outlets

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

    androidauthority.com · 1 outlets

Sports 38 stories

  1. Stop Killing Games – European Citizens' Initiative

    eci.ec.europa.eu · 3 outlets

  2. Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

    jordaneldredge.com · 1 outlets

  2. MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract

    sparcopen.org · 1 outlets

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

    phoboslab.org · 1 outlets

  4. Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable

    matthewball.co · 1 outlets

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

    praachi.work · 1 outlets

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

    grandmasword.com · 2 outlets

Technology 596 stories

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

    Lux · 1 outlets

    A true story of indie app development: why we made the plunge to build our pro video camera app Kino in a few months, its whirlwind development, and many surprise twists.

  2. Susan Wojcicki has died

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  3. Open source AI is the path forward

    about.fb.com · 1 outlets

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

    trufflesecurity.com · 1 outlets

  2. "We ran out of columns"

    jimmyhmiller.github.io · 1 outlets

  3. I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

    switowski.com · 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. Every company should be owned by its employees

    elysian.press · 1 outlets

  9. Jake Seliger has died

    marginalrevolution.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 57 stories

  1. Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

    ytch.xyz · 1 outlets

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

    roometron.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    wdwnt.com · 1 outlets

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

    haystackeditor.com · 1 outlets

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

    pglite.dev · 2 outlets

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

    github.com · 2 outlets

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

    shi-yan.github.io · 2 outlets

  6. Show HN: Trayce – Network tab for Docker containers

    1fps.video · 3 outlets

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