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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close September 29 – October 6, 2023 191 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 279 Get it by email ↓
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The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”

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Business 11 stories

  1. The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”

  2. ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

  3. Krita fund has no corporate support

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

  2. US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells

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

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

Sports 8 stories

  1. HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly

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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 158 stories

  1. Draggable objects

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

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  1. Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It

  2. An interactive intro to CRDTs

  3. Where does my computer get the time from?

  4. Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)

  5. Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted

Entertainment 9 stories

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

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  1. Show HN: Classic Video Poker

  2. Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps

  3. Efficient streaming language models with attention sinks

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