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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 6 – February 5, 2024 789 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 36 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 38 stories

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

  2. 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

  3. Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO

  4. Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC

Show 10 more
  1. Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes

  2. Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine

  3. Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization

  4. Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio

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

  6. Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)

  7. Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition

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

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

  10. Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?

Sports 32 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games

  2. Drawing.garden

  3. Tailwind color palette generator

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

  5. Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

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

Technology 596 stories

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

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

  3. Changes we're making to Google Assistant

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  1. Losing my son

  2. Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

  3. In loving memory of square checkbox

  4. What's that touchscreen in my room?

  5. Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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

  7. Infinite Craft

  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 HTMX Playground 100% in the browser

  2. Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

Show 6 more
  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. Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators

  5. We made an animated movie in 8kB

  6. Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch

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