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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 25 – February 1, 2024 197 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 32 Get it by email ↓
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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports

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Business 13 stories

  1. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports

  2. Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance

  3. Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition

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  1. CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

  2. I hacked a train toilet

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

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

Sports 8 stories

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

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

  2. Sxmo: Linux tiling window manager for phones

  3. .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

Technology 157 stories

  1. Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too

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

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  1. In loving memory of square checkbox

  2. Infinite Craft

  3. Pandoc

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

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

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

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  1. Show HN: Pong Wars

  2. Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners

  3. Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

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