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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 21 – February 20, 2023 785 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 51 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Kidnapped and threatened with dynamite, bank manager forced to commit $360,000 robbery to save her daughter's life

A look into the evidence from the 2000 hostage situation and bank robbery that changed a mother and daughter's lives.

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    TIL you can de-obfuscate code with ChatGPT

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    The paper that made ChatGPT possible

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The entire prompt of Microsoft Bing Chat?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Reclaiming History: Inside the 60 Minutes story as it unfolded in real time

Business 41 stories

  1. Evidence that Adani Group has engaged in stock manipulation and accounting fraud

  2. AMD Grabs over 30% CPU Market Share as Intel Continues to Decline

  3. Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace

  4. Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT

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  1. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

  2. Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s

  3. Tech CEOs Should Be Held Accountable, or Even Fired, Amid Layoffs

  4. Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend

  5. Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill

  6. Does Google need a new CEO?

  7. W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

  8. I lost $209k of my own money trying to start a business

  9. Revenue is easy, profit is harder

  10. PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever

Sports 28 stories

  1. The window trick of Las Vegas hotels

  2. GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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  1. Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress

  2. Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows

  3. Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control

  4. I want to lose every debate

  5. De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM

  6. What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record

Technology 590 stories

  1. AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

  2. Toxic gases connected to Ohio train derailment cause concern

  3. Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says

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  1. New Hulu movies: the biggest films to stream in February 2025

  2. Pwning the all Google phone with a non-Google bug

  3. Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

  4. Visual design rules you can safely follow

  5. A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy

  6. Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

  7. Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

  8. Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

  9. Forking Chrome to render in a terminal

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. MusicLM: Generating music from text

  2. Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

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  1. Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

  2. Show HN: Open-source OAuth service for 40+ APIs

  3. Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

  4. Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More

  5. Show HN: Noya – A new kind of design tool

  6. Google's Bard shows incorrect information in its launch ad

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