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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 30 – September 29, 2022 787 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 39 · Issue 272 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The last person standing in the floppy disk business

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Stable Diffusion animation

    15 of 30 days · 21 articles

  2. Technology

    Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    From Common Lisp to Julia

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 35 stories

  1. The last person standing in the floppy disk business

  2. “Secrets” about the consumer audio business you may find interesting

  3. Uber investigating breach of its computer systems

  4. Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding

Show 10 more
  1. Increase: Banking API

  2. GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge

  3. Apple is top funder of lobby group that says it represents small developers

  4. Judge rules Facebook parent Meta intentionally violated campaign finance laws

  5. Want to found a startup? Work at one first

  6. What to read to understand central banking

  7. The anatomy of an ML-powered stock picking engine

  8. Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

  9. Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms

  10. Sudden disturbing moves for IT in large companies, mandated by CEOs

Sports 25 stories

  1. Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices

  2. Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B

Show 6 more
  1. Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way

  2. Former world champion reveals that she was ordered to lose Olympic semi-final

  3. W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth

  4. Tether ordered to produce documents showing backing of USDT [pdf]

  5. Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?

  6. The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game

Technology 617 stories

  1. IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

  2. Fork of the popular “I don't care about cookies” extension

  3. Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules

Show 9 more
  1. Stable Diffusion animation

  2. Dear Chess World

  3. Queen Elizabeth II has died

  4. Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

  5. Someone is pretending to be me

  6. After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel

  7. Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI

  8. Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar

  9. Nightdrive

Entertainment 29 stories

  1. Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle

  2. Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI

  2. The journey to Nintendo Switch

  3. Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds

  4. Show HN: Quake 1 ported to the Apple Watch

  5. RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs

  6. Show HN: Wavvy – web-based audio editor (Audacity port)

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