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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 16 – December 23, 2023 184 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 357 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 8 stories

  1. Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

  2. Fedora Asahi Remix

  3. Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges

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  1. Flipboard Begins to Federate

  2. Handbook of Applied Cryptography

  3. Many VCs have stopped investing this year

  4. Beeper vs. Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation

Sports 11 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 154 stories

  1. ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

  2. How big is YouTube?

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

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

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

  4. From Nand to Tetris (2017)

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

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

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

  2. They want you to forget what a film looks like

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

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