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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 5 – April 4, 2023 808 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 14 · Issue 94 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank

What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Making Python faster with Rust

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Framework 12th gen laptop review

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank

  2. Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

  3. Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake

  4. CFTC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao [pdf]

Show 10 more
  1. My startup banking story

  2. CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation

  3. Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market

  4. Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping

  5. SEC charges crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and his companies for fraud

  6. Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI

  7. Banking in uncertain times

  8. Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia

  9. Starbucks CEO will work a shift at the company’s cafes once a month

  10. Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

Sports 37 stories

  1. Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

  2. The day Windows died

Show 6 more
  1. Bob Metcalfe wins Turing Award

  2. DPReview.com to close

  3. UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years

  4. Alpaca: A strong open-source instruction-following model

  5. Lego violates GPL by keep Blender-based BrickLink Studio source closed (2021)

  6. Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game

Technology 593 stories

  1. LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

  2. ChatGPT and Code Interpreter = Magic

  3. Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive

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  1. Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof

  2. GPT-4

  3. Bicycle

  4. Gordon Moore has died

  5. Secret ChatGPT plugins can be revealed by removing a parameter from an API call

  6. Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

  7. What we know about the Apple Neural Engine

  8. Making Python faster with Rust

  9. We updated our RSA SSH host key

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos

  2. Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook

  2. The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux

  3. Show HN: Generate styled web pages with just Python

  4. Apple Music Classical

  5. Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON

  6. Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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