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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close November 29 – December 6, 2023 173 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 49 · Issue 340 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board

Business 3 stories

  1. Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board

  2. The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore

  3. Tyrian purple: Ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold

Sports 8 stories

  1. Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation

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  1. I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate

  2. Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta

  3. Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown in the US and Europe

Technology 139 stories

  1. Large Language Model Course

  2. LLM Visualization

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  1. Tiny volumetric display

  2. Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops

  3. Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file

  4. You don't need JavaScript for that

  5. Visual Anagrams: Generating optical illusions with diffusion models

Entertainment 15 stories

  1. Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android

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  1. Show HN: How did your computer reach my server?

  2. Nuclear Reactor Simulator

  3. Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser

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