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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 9 – February 16, 2023 191 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 47 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Kidnapped and threatened with dynamite, bank manager forced to commit $360,000 robbery to save her daughter's life

A look into the evidence from the 2000 hostage situation and bank robbery that changed a mother and daughter's lives.

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Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Reclaiming History: Inside the 60 Minutes story as it unfolded in real time

Business 6 stories

  1. AMD Grabs over 30% CPU Market Share as Intel Continues to Decline

  2. Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace

  3. Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT

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  1. Does Google need a new CEO?

  2. WHO abandons plans for second phase of COVID-origins investigation

  3. Crypto exchange Kraken to shut staking service, pay $30M fine in SEC settlement

Sports 8 stories

  1. GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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  1. What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record

  2. I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle

  3. John Carmack goes off about online-only games being abandoned

Technology 147 stories

  1. Toxic gases connected to Ohio train derailment cause concern

  2. Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

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  1. A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy

  2. What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?

  3. Bing AI can't be trusted

  4. Last Flight Out

  5. So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool

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  1. Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks

  2. Turning a TV set-top box into a Linux computer (2022)

  3. Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

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