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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 2 – January 1, 2023 783 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 1 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?

What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    The simplest app that makes money

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    The Pony Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 35 stories

  1. How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?

  2. Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift

  3. $7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt

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

Show 10 more
  1. Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B

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

  3. ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business

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

  5. AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off

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

  7. Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part I)

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

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

  10. Binance caught commingling funds between US and international exchanges

Sports 32 stories

  1. Recursive Game of Life

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

Show 6 more
  1. There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge

  2. Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

  3. Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone

  4. Argentina Wins the World Cup

  5. Ten influential programming languages (2020)

  6. Games people play with cash flow

Technology 565 stories

  1. ElonJet Is Now Suspended

  2. Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab

  3. Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable

Show 9 more
  1. OCaml 5.0 Multicore is out

  2. Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

  3. John Carmack Leaves Meta

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

  5. Thanks Dang, Happy Holidays

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

  7. SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities

  8. Draw SVG rope using JavaScript

  9. I still use Flash

Entertainment 53 stories

  1. John Travolta and Kirstie Alley: A love story

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas

  2. Show HN: Infisical – open-source secrets manager

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

  4. Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer

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

  6. Experian Vulnerability Shows Any Report with just SSN, DOB, ADR

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