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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 19 – September 18, 2024 822 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 262 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    LLMs know more than what they say

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Today's news in 10 minutes

Business 30 stories

  1. Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn

  2. 2M users but no money in the bank

  3. Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn

  4. Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%

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

  2. Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash

  3. Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business

  4. Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?

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

  6. Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat

  7. Marketing to Engineers (2001)

  8. Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+

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

  10. Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography

Sports 37 stories

  1. Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

  2. Diffusion models are real-time game engines

Show 6 more
  1. Did you lose your AirPods?

  2. Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

  3. Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

  4. Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video]

  5. MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract

  6. Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

Technology 629 stories

  1. Thoughts on the Durov Arrest

  2. Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models

  3. AnandTech Farewell

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  1. The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

  2. How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)

  3. Bypassing airport security via SQL injection

  4. Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch

  5. Learning to Reason with LLMs

  6. We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi

  7. Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC

  8. Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

  9. I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

Entertainment 52 stories

  1. An NFC movie library for my kids

  2. Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system

  2. Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency

  3. How America's universities became debt factories

  4. Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch

  5. Show HN: Visualize database schemas with a single query

  6. ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator

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