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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 22 – October 29, 2024 190 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 303 Get it by email ↓
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Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

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Business 6 stories

  1. Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

  2. Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds

  3. Goldman and Apple 'illegally sidestepped' obligations to credit-card customers

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  1. Ibis: Federated Wikipedia alternative

  2. Adventures in algorithmic trading on the Runescape Grand Exchange

  3. U.S. Consumer Watchdog Cautions Businesses on Surveillance of Workers

Sports 9 stories

  1. Show HN: Open-source Counter-Strike-like game

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  1. New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs

  2. The Influence of Japanese Archaeology on the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

  3. Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

Technology 153 stories

  1. Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris

  2. ATL: A layer to run Android apps on Linux

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  1. Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

  2. We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines

  3. Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3

  4. Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

  5. We're forking Flutter

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell

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  1. Show HN: RF Hunter – Find hidden cameras and other devices

  2. Show HN: Rust Web Framework

  3. Show HN: Wall-mounted diffusion mirror that turns reflections into paintings

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