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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 2 – March 4, 2023 811 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 63 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 March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The paper that made ChatGPT possible

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Noya – A new kind of design tool

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)

    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 42 stories

  1. Most data work seems fundamentally worthless

  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. Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phenomena'

  3. AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

  4. Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge

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

  6. Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market

  7. What I Learned Reading 1k Investor Reports

  8. Does Google need a new CEO?

  9. North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year

  10. Revenue is easy, profit is harder

Sports 30 stories

  1. OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows

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

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

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

  5. Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game

  6. I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle

Technology 608 stories

  1. Toxic gases connected to Ohio train derailment cause concern

  2. The Online Safety Bill: An attack on encryption

  3. Open source implementation for LLaMA-based ChatGPT

Show 9 more
  1. Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says

  2. Bug identified after Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off

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

  4. Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit

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

  6. Visual design rules you can safely follow

  7. Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone

  8. A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy

  9. Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

Entertainment 39 stories

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

  2. Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: AskHN

  2. Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More

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

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

  5. Show HN: Mox - Modern full-featured low-maintenance self-hosted mail server

  6. Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years

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