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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 6 – December 6, 2024 829 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 49 · Issue 341 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

American Students’ Math Skills Slide Down World Rankings

Global test scores show U.S. students are still struggling after the pandemic.

WSJ · 1 sources

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google banned me from Google Voice

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    The Borgo Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 7 stories

  1. Trump’s School-Choice Agenda Hits Pushback From Red-State Voters

    WSJ · 1 outlets

    Defeat of state ballot measures suggests a divide between Republican lawmakers and voters.

  2. The Sand Wars Dividing Cranberry Growers and Their Neighbors

    WSJ · 1 outlets

  3. Top Colleges by Size in the Western U.S.

    WSJ · 1 outlets

  4. Pentagon solves 1 UFO mystery but still probing case of "large orange orb"

    CBS · 1 outlets

Show 3 more

  1. Texts reveal efforts to bribe juror in pandemic fraud case, prosecutors say

    CBS · 1 outlets

  2. Ex-boyfriend and fiancée behind fatal stabbing, shooting of Texas mom

    CBS · 1 outlets

  3. Family of teen killed in hate crime attack stand up for their son

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 25 stories

  1. Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers

    news.alvaroduran.com · 1 outlets

  3. Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  4. Mind-Bending Soviet Era Oil Rig City on the Caspian Sea

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Federal Court Says Dismantling a Phone to Install Firmware Isn't a 'Search'

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  2. Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO

    businesswire.com · 1 outlets

  3. FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  4. Apple threatened workers over their talk about pay and remote work, feds charge

    mercurynews.com · 1 outlets

  5. I tried every top email marketing tool

    sitebuilderreport.com · 1 outlets

  6. Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  7. AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells

    newscenter.lbl.gov · 1 outlets

  8. UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

  9. The business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies

    sfgate.com · 1 outlets

  10. Oxford accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

Sports 43 stories

  1. Passport Photos

    maxsiedentopf.com · 1 outlets

  2. My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

    armaansahni.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Frosted glass from games to the web

    tyleo.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

    pikuma.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify

    5-million-devs.netlify · 1 outlets

  4. The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver

    firehose3d.theo.io · 1 outlets

  5. Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf]

    drive.google.com · 1 outlets

  6. Teen mathematicians tie knots through a mind-blowing fractal

    quantamagazine.org · 1 outlets

Technology 619 stories

  1. Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State

    wral.com · 2 outlets

  2. Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

    dynomight.substack.com · 3 outlets

  3. Intel Launches Arc B-Series Graphics Cards

    phoronix.com · 4 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

    labs.ripe.net · 2 outlets

  2. The cheapest Sonos sales and deals for February 2025

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  3. IMG_0416

    ben-mini.com · 1 outlets

  4. MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

    jan.miksovsky.com · 1 outlets

  5. The Onion buys Infowars

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  6. IMG_0001

    walzr.com · 1 outlets

  7. How I ship projects at big tech companies

    seangoedecke.com · 1 outlets

  8. Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

    continueandpersist.org · 1 outlets

  9. Advent of Code 2024

    adventofcode.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 56 stories

  1. Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes

    lanparty.house · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

    play.google.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: I am Building a Producthunt alternative

    jamcorder.com · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: Book and change flights with one email

    github.com · 2 outlets

  3. Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE

    github.com · 3 outlets

  4. The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory

    downtowndougbrown.com · 1 outlets

  5. Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

    sportingnews.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank

    github.com · 3 outlets

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