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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 2 – November 1, 2023 798 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 305 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Grammy-winning artist Jason Isbell talks about the craft of songwriting and his latest music

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jason Isbell sits down with CBS News anchor John Dickerson to discuss inspiration, gratitude and the craft of songwriting. Isbell talks about his latest music and performs an acoustic version of "Cast Iron Skillet."

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Open Source Firmware Conference

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Omnivore – free, open source, read-it-later App

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Why Sacramento police are solving more car theft cases than other agencies nationwide

Business 32 stories

  1. John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

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

  3. Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security

  4. I face investigation for terrorism

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  1. The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

  2. Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy

  3. Startup CTO's Handbook

  4. Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic

  5. Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

  6. Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification

  7. Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

  8. Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing

  9. Krita fund has no corporate support

  10. Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system?

Sports 37 stories

  1. HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly

  2. Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

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  1. Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization

  2. The fun factor of the video game Uplink

  3. Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer

  4. Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup

  5. Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

  6. One game, by one man, on six platforms: The good, the bad and the ugly

Technology 604 stories

  1. EU Chat Control Bill Postponed

  2. California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

  3. How LSP could have been better

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  1. LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

  2. The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack

  3. The Cloud Computer

  4. German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals

  5. Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro

  6. Making Hard Things Easy

  7. First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student

  8. I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars

  9. Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D

  2. Show HN: Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes

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  1. Show HN: Classic Video Poker

  2. Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign

  3. Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art

  4. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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

  6. "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming

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