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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 15 – December 22, 2023 193 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 356 Get it by email ↓
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When Social Security mistakenly overpays benefits, you might get a bill | 60 Minutes

Each year, about a million people are told they owe the Social Security Administration money because the agency miscalculated their benefits and paid them too much.

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Business 9 stories

  1. Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

  2. Database Fundamentals

  3. Fedora Asahi Remix

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  1. Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges

  2. Flipboard Begins to Federate

  3. Handbook of Applied Cryptography

  4. Many VCs have stopped investing this year

Sports 10 stories

  1. Show HN: I'm open-sourcing my game engine

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  1. My failed attempt at using a closet as an office

  2. Solar and wind to top coal power in US for first time in 2024

  3. Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship

Technology 162 stories

  1. ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

  2. Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time

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  1. Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs

  2. James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus

  3. I bricked my Christmas lights

  4. Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms

  5. How to learn chess as an adult (2021)

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle

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  1. Show HN: Microagents: Agents capable of self-editing their prompts / Python code

  2. Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

  3. Show HN: Get any piece of Google Earth as a single normalized glTF 3D model

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