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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 31 – January 30, 2024 792 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 30 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Some memories of Niklaus Wirth

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Slashing data transfer costs in AWS

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The Case for Rust in the base system

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 29 stories

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

  2. Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds

  3. Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC

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

Show 10 more
  1. Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization

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

  3. Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio

  4. Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)

  5. Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition

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

  7. Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse

  8. Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?

  9. I hacked a train toilet

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

Sports 37 stories

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

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

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  1. Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds

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

  3. Drawing.garden

  4. A* tricks for videogame path finding

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

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

Technology 601 stories

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

  2. Changes we're making to Google Assistant

  3. Losing my son

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  1. Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

  2. In loving memory of square checkbox

  3. Some memories of Niklaus Wirth

  4. What's that touchscreen in my room?

  5. 1D Pac-Man

  6. Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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

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

  9. Python 3.13 Gets a JIT

Entertainment 44 stories

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

  2. Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

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  1. Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

  2. On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney

  3. Show HN: Startup funding simulator

  4. Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser

  5. Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators

  6. We made an animated movie in 8kB

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