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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 1 – December 1, 2022 793 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 48 · Issue 335 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 December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What chroot taught me about containers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    The Rune Programming Language

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

  2. Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

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

  4. Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals

Show 10 more
  1. FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns

  2. BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads

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

  4. We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX

  5. Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo

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

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

  8. Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

  9. Legoland bond crisis threatens South Korea's economy

  10. While crypto bro scammed clients, reporters scammed readers

Sports 28 stories

  1. Intentionally making close friends

  2. Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

Show 6 more
  1. CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows

  2. Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game

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

  4. Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation

  5. Is wine fake?

  6. Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other

Technology 606 stories

  1. Notion AI – waiting list signup

  2. Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

  3. Meta lays off 11,000 people

Show 9 more
  1. Bubbles

  2. Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass

  3. Fred Brooks has died

  4. maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

  5. Stable Diffusion 2.0 on Mac and Linux via imaginAIry Python library

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

  7. Open Source and Saying “No”

  8. FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident

  9. Apple Rankings

Entertainment 50 stories

  1. Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays

  2. An interactive guide to Flexbox

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: A color picker for named web colors

  2. Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in

  3. Show HN: Haxophone

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

  5. Factorio runs on Apple Silicon

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

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