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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 9 – April 8, 2023 821 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 14 · Issue 98 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank

What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Load LLaMA Models Instantly

    9 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Technology

    Build Your Own Redis with C/C++

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank

  2. Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

  3. The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

  4. CFTC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao [pdf]

Show 10 more
  1. My startup banking story

  2. CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation

  3. Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market

  4. Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping

  5. SEC charges crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and his companies for fraud

  6. Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI

  7. Banking in uncertain times

  8. Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia

  9. Starbucks CEO will work a shift at the company’s cafes once a month

  10. America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars

Sports 37 stories

  1. If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed

  2. Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

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  1. The day Windows died

  2. Bob Metcalfe wins Turing Award

  3. DPReview.com to close

  4. UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years

  5. Alpaca: A strong open-source instruction-following model

  6. Lego violates GPL by keep Blender-based BrickLink Studio source closed (2021)

Technology 582 stories

  1. LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

  2. Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO

  3. ChatGPT and Code Interpreter = Magic

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  1. Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive

  2. Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof

  3. Former Square CTO Bob Lee Stabbed to Death in Downtown San Francisco

  4. Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

  5. GPT-4

  6. Bicycle

  7. Gordon Moore has died

  8. Secret ChatGPT plugins can be revealed by removing a parameter from an API call

  9. Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

Entertainment 44 stories

  1. Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

  2. Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos

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  1. Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook

  2. The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux

  3. Show HN: Generate styled web pages with just Python

  4. Show HN: Tabby – A self-hosted GitHub Copilot

  5. Apple Music Classical

  6. Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON

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