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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 14 – January 13, 2024 802 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 02 · Issue 13 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Moving from relational data to events

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Text Editor: Data Structures

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 26 stories

  1. Carta doing unsolicited tender offer outreach to their customers' investors

  2. Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

  3. Database Fundamentals

  4. Costs of running a macOS app studio business

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  1. Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC

  2. With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise

  3. Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives

  4. Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio

  5. Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)

  6. Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'

  7. SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Musk, Federal Agency Says

  8. Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?

  9. Fed court rules for retired engineer told by state to not talk about math

  10. How can Santa keep his lists when the GDPR is around?

Sports 39 stories

  1. Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29

  2. Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras

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  1. Drawing.garden

  2. A* tricks for videogame path finding

  3. Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling

  4. Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)

  5. Making small games, which is fun in itself

  6. Turing Complete is a game about computer science

Technology 625 stories

  1. I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

  2. eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case

  3. Changes we're making to Google Assistant

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  1. Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024: Geek For Life

  2. 1D Pac-Man

  3. In 2024, please switch to Firefox

  4. 4B If Statements

  5. I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

  6. Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

  7. DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching

  8. ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

  9. I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously

Entertainment 36 stories

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

  2. First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation

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  1. Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

  2. Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser

  3. Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)

  4. Show HN: FrameOS – operating system for single function smart frames

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

  6. Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise

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