The Mez Ledger
Menu
2022-12-21
Monthly Close

Monthly Close

The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 21 – December 21, 2022 801 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 355 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet?

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    The Rune Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: LearnGPT – Browse and share ChatGPT examples

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 36 stories

  1. Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet?

  2. BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads

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

  4. $7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt

Show 10 more
  1. TSMC ups Arizona investment from $12B to $40B with second semi fab

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

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

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

  5. Investigating Logan Paul's biggest scam [video]

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

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

  8. German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is incompatible with GDPR

  9. Binance is trying to calm investors, but its finances remain a mystery

  10. Soil in Midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1k times faster than it forms

Sports 39 stories

  1. Intentionally making close friends

  2. Recursive Game of Life

Show 6 more
  1. Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet

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

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

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

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

  6. There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge

Technology 575 stories

  1. ElonJet Is Now Suspended

  2. Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab

  3. Platform certificates used to sign malware

Show 9 more
  1. Valve Introduces Proton Next

  2. OCaml 5.0 Multicore is out

  3. Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

  4. John Carmack Leaves Meta

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

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

  7. I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion

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

  9. SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities

Entertainment 60 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: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas

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

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

  6. An interactive guide to Flexbox

the Monthly Close

You just read a month of news in four minutes.

Every Monday we rank what the world actually covered — by how many outlets ran it and how many days it stayed up — and send you the top of the pile. No takes, no ads.

One email a week. We confirm your address first. Unsubscribe in one click. We never sell the list.