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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close September 12 – September 19, 2023 179 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 262 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name?

A former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower and two pilots testified before Congress about the strange, seemingly inexplicable objects.

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Business 12 stories

  1. My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

  2. Building an economy simulator from scratch

  3. Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew

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  1. A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

  2. iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation

  3. The New Godot Development Fund

  4. How long it took different companies to find product-market fit

Sports 11 stories

  1. OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

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  1. Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize

  2. Mythbusters: Wing Commander I Edition

  3. Close to 2k environmental activists killed over last decade

Technology 141 stories

  1. The Tyranny of the Marginal User

  2. Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working

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  1. Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware

  2. Credit card debt collection

  3. I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

  4. iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

  5. Unity plan pricing and packaging updates

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative

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  1. Apple TV, now with more Tailscale

  2. Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability Training

  3. “Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases

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