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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 12 – December 12, 2022 787 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 346 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: LearnGPT – Browse and share ChatGPT examples

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    The Rune Programming Language

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

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

  3. Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals

  4. BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads

Show 10 more
  1. Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo

  2. $7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt

  3. Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

  4. TSMC ups Arizona investment from $12B to $40B with second semi fab

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

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

  7. Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market

  8. FTC seeks to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard

  9. Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests

  10. Legoland bond crisis threatens South Korea's economy

Sports 31 stories

  1. Intentionally making close friends

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

Show 6 more
  1. Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet

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

  3. Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game

  4. Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game

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

  6. Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation

Technology 593 stories

  1. Platform certificates used to sign malware

  2. Machine learning with Unix pipes

  3. Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups

Show 9 more
  1. Fred Brooks has died

  2. maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

  3. I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion

  4. People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”

  5. Open Source and Saying “No”

  6. FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident

  7. Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab

  8. Apple Rankings

  9. Tales of the M1 GPU

Entertainment 59 stories

  1. Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17' gets trailer and release date

  2. John Travolta and Kirstie Alley: A love story

Show 6 more
  1. Christine McVie's music: 5 songs to listen to in her honor

  2. Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT

  3. Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

  4. An interactive guide to Flexbox

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

  6. Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.

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