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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 17 – November 16, 2023 802 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 320 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

    Embeddings: What they are and why they matter

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    More people should write (2012)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

Business 39 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted

  2. WeWork Goes Bankrupt

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

  4. Seeing like a bank

Show 10 more
  1. Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts

  2. I face investigation for terrorism

  3. The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

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

  5. Startup CTO's Handbook

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

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

  8. Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022

  9. Raspberry Pi receives strategic investment from Arm

  10. Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing

Sports 36 stories

  1. Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year

  2. GPT-4 Update: 32K Context Window Now for All Users

Show 6 more
  1. Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

  2. SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle

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

  4. The fun factor of the video game Uplink

  5. U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game

  6. Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer

Technology 603 stories

  1. Web FM synthesizer made with HTML5

  2. California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

  3. Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

Show 9 more
  1. Omegle 2009-2023

  2. The Cloud Computer

  3. As I retire, my goal now is to release 40+ years of source code

  4. Gnome Receives €1M from German Government

  5. Cosmopolitan Third Edition

  6. Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

  7. New models and developer products

  8. I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars

  9. What I learned getting acquired by Google

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D

  2. Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

  2. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

  3. 37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer

  4. Show HN: I spent 6 months building a C debugger as a 17-year-old

  5. Show HN: Inshellisense – IDE style shell autocomplete

  6. Show HN: Convert any screenshot into clean HTML code using GPT Vision (OSS tool)

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