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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 25 – August 24, 2024 806 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 237 Get it by email ↓
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August 23, 2024

CNN · 1 sources

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Public Work: a search engine for public domain images

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 2 stories

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

    CNN · 1 outlets

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

    CBS · 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

Show 10 more

  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. Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business

    jxnl.co · 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 37 stories

  1. Stop Killing Games – European Citizens' Initiative

    eci.ec.europa.eu · 3 outlets

  2. Did you lose your AirPods?

    alexyancey.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones

    bloomberg.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 593 stories

  1. Susan Wojcicki has died

    twitter.com · 2 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

Show 9 more

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

    deepmind.google · 1 outlets

  2. Starting Hospice

    jakeseliger.com · 1 outlets

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

    news.patreon.com · 3 outlets

  4. Jake Seliger has died

    marginalrevolution.com · 1 outlets

  5. Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election

    statmodeling.stat.colu · 1 outlets

  6. Renderings Created with Only a Pencil

    cybernetic.dev · 2 outlets

  7. Medieval

    teenage.engineering · 1 outlets

  8. FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python

    fastht.ml · 1 outlets

  9. After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days

    observationalhazard.co · 1 outlets

Entertainment 58 stories

  1. Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

    ytch.xyz · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase

    github.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    roometron.com · 2 outlets

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

    wdwnt.com · 1 outlets

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

    haystackeditor.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM

    pglite.dev · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    shi-yan.github.io · 2 outlets

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