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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 30 – February 6, 2023 175 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 37 Get it by email ↓
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Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s

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Business 13 stories

  1. Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s

  2. Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend

  3. W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

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  1. I lost $209k of my own money trying to start a business

  2. J&J can’t use bankruptcy to resolve talc-injury lawsuits, appeals court rules

  3. The Market for Lemons

  4. Fedora now has frame pointers

Sports 6 stories

  1. Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress

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  1. I want to lose every debate

  2. De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM

  3. Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise taxi to stop it

Technology 139 stories

  1. Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says

  2. Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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  1. Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

  2. Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

  3. ChatGPT Plus

  4. AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

  5. Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

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  1. Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative

  2. Show HN: Glidesort, a new stable sort in Rust up to ~4x faster for random data

  3. ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time

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