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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 21 – February 20, 2024 801 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 51 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Why didn't Gov. Newsom's CHP detail stop that retail theft he witnessed at Target?

Also on Thursday, Democratic mayors are joining the fight to reform Proposition 47 despite California Gov. Gavin Newsom's opposition.

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    An RNG that runs in your brain

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Video generation models as world simulators

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Dracula Theme for Hacker News

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Workers who cut crushed quartz countertops say they are falling ill

Business 38 stories

  1. AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source

  2. Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

  3. OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed

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

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  1. YC: Requests for Startups

  2. Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D

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

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

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

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

  7. I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test

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

  9. Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition

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

Sports 31 stories

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

  2. Sudo for Windows

Show 6 more
  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. Tailwind color palette generator

  4. Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games

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

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

Technology 599 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. The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps

Show 9 more
  1. Sora: Creating video from text

  2. I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner

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

  4. In loving memory of square checkbox

  5. European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption

  6. Alexei Navalny has died

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

  8. Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5

  9. Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret

Entertainment 48 stories

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

  2. Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML

Show 6 more
  1. Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

  2. Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute

  3. Show HN: Startup funding simulator

  4. TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

  5. We made an animated movie in 8kB

  6. Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China

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