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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 11 – August 18, 2023 182 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 230 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

Business 9 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

  2. China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan

  3. Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable

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  1. Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems

  2. Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says

  3. I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter

  4. Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot

Sports 9 stories

  1. A video game where you are an operating system

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  1. How a startup loses its spark

  2. Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models

  3. How do we save water: Stop growing alfalfa in Imperial County

Technology 145 stories

  1. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

  2. SUSE to go private

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  1. LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

  2. Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator

  3. We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x

  4. Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use

  5. Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time

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  1. Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions

  2. Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript

  3. Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python

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