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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 16 – December 16, 2022 793 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 350 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: LearnGPT – Browse and share ChatGPT examples

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    The Rune Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 35 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

  2. Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

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

  4. BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads

Show 10 more
  1. Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo

  2. $7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt

  3. TSMC ups Arizona investment from $12B to $40B with second semi fab

  4. Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B

  5. Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market

  6. FTC seeks to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard

  7. Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests

  8. Legoland bond crisis threatens South Korea's economy

  9. While crypto bro scammed clients, reporters scammed readers

  10. Federal court requires Amazon to stop firing employees for protected activities

Sports 33 stories

  1. Intentionally making close friends

  2. Recursive Game of Life

Show 6 more
  1. Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

  2. Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet

  3. CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows

  4. Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game

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

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

Technology 585 stories

  1. ElonJet Is Now Suspended

  2. Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab

  3. Platform certificates used to sign malware

Show 9 more
  1. Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

  2. Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups

  3. Fred Brooks has died

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

  5. I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion

  6. People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”

  7. SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities

  8. Twitter is suspending journalists who cover Elon

  9. Open Source and Saying “No”

Entertainment 57 stories

  1. Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17' gets trailer and release date

  2. John Travolta and Kirstie Alley: A love story

Show 6 more
  1. Christine McVie's music: 5 songs to listen to in her honor

  2. Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music

  3. Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT

  4. Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

  5. An interactive guide to Flexbox

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

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