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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 17 – August 24, 2024 188 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 237 Get it by email ↓
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August 23, 2024

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Business 5 stories

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

  2. Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%

  3. Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business

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

  2. ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database

Sports 6 stories

  1. Did you lose your AirPods?

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

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

  3. Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel

Technology 155 stories

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

  2. Xapian: Open source search engine library

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  1. DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters

  2. Toasts are bad UX

  3. Calling All Hackers

  4. 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted

  5. Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase

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  1. Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue

  2. ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator

  3. Show HN: A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files

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