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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close November 15 – November 22, 2022 174 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 47 · Issue 326 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

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Business 9 stories

  1. Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

  2. Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile

  3. Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia fundraising banners

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  1. Why do we call it “boilerplate code?”

  2. Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

  3. Legoland bond crisis threatens South Korea's economy

  4. While crypto bro scammed clients, reporters scammed readers

Sports 11 stories

  1. Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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  1. CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows

  2. Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

  3. Is wine fake?

Technology 137 stories

  1. Fred Brooks has died

  2. Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code

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  1. Apple Rankings

  2. Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE

  3. Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud

  4. Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client

  5. Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Show HN: A color picker for named web colors

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  1. Show HN: Haxophone

  2. FTX used corporate funds to purchase employee homes, new filing shows

  3. Music Mouse

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