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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 8 – February 7, 2024 811 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 38 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What Happened to David Graeber?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Write a Letter to Your Future Self

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 41 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

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  1. "Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks

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

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

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

  5. Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio

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

  7. Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)

  8. Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition

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

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

Sports 30 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 612 stories

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

  2. Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands

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

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  1. Changes we're making to Google Assistant

  2. Losing my son

  3. Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

  4. In loving memory of square checkbox

  5. What's that touchscreen in my room?

  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. Infinite Craft

  9. Relativistic Spaceship

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll

  2. Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

Show 6 more
  1. Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

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

  3. Show HN: Startup funding simulator

  4. TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

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

  6. We made an animated movie in 8kB

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