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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 30 – August 29, 2024 826 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 242 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Today's news in 10 minutes

August 23, 2024

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Postgres as a Search Engine

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Public Work: a search engine for public domain images

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    JavaScript garbage collection and closures

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

Business 33 stories

  1. META_TITLE_QUOTE - Yahoo Finance

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

  2. CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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

  4. Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn

Show 10 more
  1. Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional

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

  3. Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

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

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

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

  7. Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%

  8. Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business

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

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

Sports 40 stories

  1. Stop Killing Games – European Citizens' Initiative

  2. Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

Show 6 more
  1. Diffusion models are real-time game engines

  2. Did you lose your AirPods?

  3. Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones

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

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

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

Technology 609 stories

  1. Thoughts on the Durov Arrest

  2. Susan Wojcicki has died

  3. Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch

Show 9 more
  1. "We ran out of columns"

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

  3. Starting Hospice

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

  5. Jake Seliger has died

  6. Grace Hopper, Nvidia's Halfway APU

  7. Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform

  8. Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election

  9. Medieval

Entertainment 56 stories

  1. Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

  2. Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: A video editing SDK that runs in the browser

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

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

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

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

  6. Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts

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