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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 26 – April 25, 2023 827 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 115 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    We Need To Talk About Vercel

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Sports

    Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 34 stories

  1. The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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

  3. Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” [pdf]

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

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  1. The biggest EV battery recycling plant in the US is open for business

  2. EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany

  3. Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping

  4. Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

  5. WebGPU Fundamentals

  6. OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over

  7. We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed

  8. FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaintext, without access controls

  9. Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code

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

Sports 35 stories

  1. If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed

  2. Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

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  1. The day Windows died

  2. Animated Drawings

  3. Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful

  4. Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage

  5. The Windows 11 Trash Party

  6. Show HN: I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills

Technology 615 stories

  1. Finetuning Large Language Models

  2. Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO

  3. Using ChatGPT Plugins with LLaMA

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  1. Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive

  2. Former Square CTO Bob Lee Stabbed to Death in Downtown San Francisco

  3. MRI brain images become 64M times sharper

  4. Bicycle

  5. Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

  6. Space Elevator

  7. The early days of Linux

  8. Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

  9. Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now

Entertainment 41 stories

  1. Show HN: ChatGDB – GPT-Powered GDB Assistant

  2. Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?

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  1. Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL

  2. Show HN: Tabby – A self-hosted GitHub Copilot

  3. Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (2003)

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

  5. Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers

  6. I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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