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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close September 4 – September 11, 2024 200 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 37 · Issue 255 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. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

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

  4. Video - BNN Bloomberg

Sports 11 stories

  1. Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

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  1. Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

  2. Core: an experimental new way to write videogames

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

Technology 162 stories

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

  2. Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined

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  1. GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar

  2. James Earl Jones has died

  3. QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

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

  5. Why GitHub won

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. An NFC movie library for my kids

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  1. Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o

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

  3. Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf]

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