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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 23 – January 30, 2024 198 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 30 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes

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Business 10 stories

  1. Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes

  2. Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition

  3. I hacked a train toilet

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  1. Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)

  2. Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported

  3. Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures

  4. How we crowdfunded $750k for a giant book about keyboard history

Sports 10 stories

  1. OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public

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  1. Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games

  2. Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

  3. Show HN: I wished for a site with a growing list of math problems, I built it

Technology 162 stories

  1. Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

  2. In loving memory of square checkbox

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  1. Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

  2. Pandoc

  3. I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions

  4. Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step

  5. --libcurl

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

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  1. Show HN: Startup funding simulator

  2. We made an animated movie in 8kB

  3. Show HN: Pong Wars

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