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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 5 – September 4, 2024 828 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 248 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Today's news in 10 minutes

August 23, 2024

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Postgres as a Search Engine

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Writing a Rust compiler in C

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus

    3 of 30 days · 3 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 29 stories

  1. META_TITLE_QUOTE - Yahoo Finance

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

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

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon

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

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

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

  5. Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%

  6. Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business

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

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

  9. Marketing to Engineers (2001)

  10. Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+

Sports 37 stories

  1. Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

  2. Diffusion models are real-time game engines

Show 6 more
  1. Did you lose your AirPods?

  2. Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones

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

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

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

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

Technology 606 stories

  1. Thoughts on the Durov Arrest

  2. Susan Wojcicki has died

  3. AnandTech Farewell

Show 9 more
  1. The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

  2. Bypassing airport security via SQL injection

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

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

  5. Is My Blue Your Blue?

  6. Founder Mode

  7. Greppability is an underrated code metric

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

  9. Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop

Entertainment 65 stories

  1. Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

  2. Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase

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  1. Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments

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

  3. Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency

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

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

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

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