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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 4 – October 4, 2024 818 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 278 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Full list of winners and nominees for the 2024 Emmy Awards

See the full list of winners and nominees from the 2024 Emmy Awards.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Things to know about the Great Wave

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 35 stories

  1. OpenAI to become for-profit company

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  2. CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them

    larslofgren.com · 1 outlets

  3. 2M users but no money in the bank

    exercism.org · 1 outlets

  4. Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host

    larslofgren.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit

    dmitry.gr · 1 outlets

  2. In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules

    atomsonly.news · 1 outlets

  3. Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth

    unfashionable.blog · 1 outlets

  4. TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

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 Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn

    blockchain.com · 1 outlets

  6. Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  7. YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    blog.jgc.org · 1 outlets

  9. Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash

    indystar.com · 1 outlets

  10. Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?

    hadijaveed.me · 1 outlets

Sports 31 stories

  1. Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake

    theatlantic.com · 1 outlets

  2. Winamp Legacy player source code

    github.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

    blogsystem5.substack.c · 1 outlets

  2. Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

    massgrave.dev · 1 outlets

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

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

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

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  5. I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

    apps.apple.com · 1 outlets

  6. Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

Technology 628 stories

  1. Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

    tomshardware.com · 2 outlets

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

    simonwillison.net · 3 outlets

  3. Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Bop Spotter

    walzr.com · 1 outlets

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

    simonwillison.net · 1 outlets

  3. Why wordfreq will not be updated

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Learning to Reason with LLMs

    openai.com · 2 outlets

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

    labs.watchtowr.com · 1 outlets

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

    timculpan.substack.com · 1 outlets

  7. Fraud, so much fraud

    science.org · 1 outlets

  8. Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public

    blog.cloudflare.com · 1 outlets

  9. I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock

    arslan.io · 1 outlets

Entertainment 50 stories

  1. An NFC movie library for my kids

    simplyexplained.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: I've Built an Accounting System

    hackaday.com · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting

    wealthfolio.app · 5 outlets

  2. FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies

    ftc.gov · 1 outlets

  3. How America's universities became debt factories

    anandsanwal.me · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion

    container-desktop.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: qrframe – generate beautiful qr codes with javascript code

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia

    musicbrainz.org · 1 outlets

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