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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 20 – November 19, 2022 782 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 323 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Probe finds failures in organ transplant system: "There's people dying"

"A lot of dialysis patients are sitting around like me just wondering, 'When will we get the call?'" said LaQuayia Goldring, who has been waiting seven years for a kidney transplant.

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What “work” looks like

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What chroot taught me about containers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

  2. Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile

  3. Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals

  4. FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns

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  1. FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall

  2. We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX

  3. Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet

  4. Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia fundraising banners

  5. Hyundai investigating child labor in its U.S. supply chain

  6. Why do we call it “boilerplate code?”

  7. As Covid hit, Washington officials traded stocks with exquisite timing

  8. Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

  9. Legoland bond crisis threatens South Korea's economy

  10. The currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention (1997)

Sports 26 stories

  1. Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

  2. Most buildings at MIT campus are remaining closed to the public

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  1. What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames

  2. A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

  3. Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

  4. Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other

  5. Why are there so few dead bugs on windshields these days?

  6. US annual inflation declines to 7.7% in October vs. 7.9% expected

Technology 599 stories

  1. Notion AI – waiting list signup

  2. New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

  3. Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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  1. Meta lays off 11,000 people

  2. Bubbles

  3. Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass

  4. Fred Brooks has died

  5. Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

  6. I help seniors with technology issues

  7. Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died

  8. Apple Rankings

  9. Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

  2. Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in

  2. Show HN: SadServers – Test your Linux troubleshooting skills

  3. Show HN: I made an offline-ready hiking trail companion app

  4. Show HN: Wa-tunnel – HTTP Tunneling through Whatsapp

  5. Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children

  6. Show HN: All-SVG websites with complex animation

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