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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 12 – December 12, 2023 800 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 346 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Custer County triple homicide suspect in custody

Three people are dead and another has been critically injured after a shooting Monday afternoon in Custer County, Colorado, over a property dispute.

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The D Programming Language

    5 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Understanding Deep Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 24 stories

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

  2. Emmet Shear statement as Interim CEO of OpenAI

  3. 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

  4. New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy

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  1. The Bond villain compliance strategy

  2. The feds' vehicle 'kill switch' mandate is a gross violation of privacy

  3. Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem

  4. Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition

  5. Candela P-12 taking off – Electric hydrofoiling passenger vessel [video]

  6. Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership

  7. OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

  8. Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government

  9. Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari

  10. Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses

Sports 51 stories

  1. HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO

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

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  1. Epic vs. Google: Google Loses

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

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

  4. Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta

  5. Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat

  6. Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive

Technology 579 stories

  1. OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

  2. A secret deal let Spotify bypass Android's app store fees

  3. Large Language Model Course

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  1. The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity

  2. Demystifying Web Push Notifications

  3. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

  4. Reflecting on 18 Years at Google

  5. Gemini AI

  6. YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox

  7. Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

  8. LLM Visualization

  9. Tiny volumetric display

Entertainment 40 stories

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

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

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  1. Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop

  2. Show HN: An open-source notification infrastructure

  3. Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada

  4. Stripe live dashboard

  5. Nuclear Reactor Simulator

  6. Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo

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