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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close September 27 – October 4, 2023 181 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 277 Get it by email ↓
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ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

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Business 9 stories

  1. ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

  2. D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect

  3. OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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  1. Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their libraries

  2. Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Federal Court rules

  3. Microsoft CEO testifies that Google’s power in search is ubiquitous

  4. Costco gold bars are selling out within hours

Sports 8 stories

  1. Open Source does not win by being cheaper

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  1. Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)

  2. VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

  3. Influxdb made the switch from Go to Rust

Technology 147 stories

  1. Passive Solar Water Desalination

  2. WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

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  1. Raspberry Pi 5

  2. Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

  3. Draggable objects

  4. What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023

  5. Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

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  1. Efficient streaming language models with attention sinks

  2. Show HN: Generative Fill with AI and 3D

  3. Bandcamp has been sold to Songtradr. What does this mean for the musicians?

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