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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close September 2 – September 9, 2024 195 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 37 · Issue 253 Get it by email ↓
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2M users but no money in the bank

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Business 7 stories

  1. 2M users but no money in the bank

  2. Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code

  3. The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constants change

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  1. The muscular imagination of Iain M. Banks: a future you might want

  2. Economist Eugene Fama: 'Efficient markets is a hypothesis. It's not reality

  3. The coming long-run slowdown in corporate profit growth and stock returns [pdf] (2023)

  4. Video - BNN Bloomberg

Sports 12 stories

  1. Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

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  1. Show HN: Defrag the Game

  2. Core: an experimental new way to write videogames

  3. Don't defer Close() on writable files (2017)

Technology 150 stories

  1. Is My Blue Your Blue?

  2. Greppability is an underrated code metric

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  1. The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive

  2. The Art of Finishing

  3. EUCLEAK Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series

  4. QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

  5. Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?

Entertainment 19 stories

  1. An NFC movie library for my kids

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  1. Show HN: An open-source implementation of AlphaFold3

  2. Show HN: Using SQL's Turing completeness to build Tetris

  3. Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization

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