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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 2 – May 2, 2023 809 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 122 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    From deep to long learning?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    We Need To Talk About Vercel

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Google Cloud Europe service disruption

    4 of 30 days · 7 articles

Business 30 stories

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

  2. JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank

  3. Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” [pdf]

  4. The biggest EV battery recycling plant in the US is open for business

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  1. EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany

  2. Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping

  3. Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

  4. Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam

  5. WebGPU Fundamentals

  6. OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over

  7. We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed

  8. FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaintext, without access controls

  9. Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code

  10. Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost

Sports 36 stories

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

  2. The day Windows died

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  1. Animated Drawings

  2. Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

  3. Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful

  4. Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage

  5. The Windows 11 Trash Party

  6. Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games

Technology 610 stories

  1. Finetuning Large Language Models

  2. Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO

  3. How to Design Programs 2nd Edition

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

  2. Google Cloud Europe service disruption

  3. MRI brain images become 64M times sharper

  4. Space Elevator

  5. The early days of Linux

  6. Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

  7. Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens

  8. The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

  9. Clock

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Show HN: ChatGDB – GPT-Powered GDB Assistant

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

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  1. Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity

  2. Show HN: Learn German with Short Stories

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

  4. Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere

  5. Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

  6. Junk drawer phone as a music streaming server

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