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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 5 – May 5, 2023 819 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 125 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 May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    A look at Crystal, a programming language for humans

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 35 stories

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

  2. Bank Failures Visualized

  3. JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank

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

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

  4. Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam

  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. Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

Sports 36 stories

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

  2. Animated Drawings

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  1. Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

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

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

  4. The Windows 11 Trash Party

  5. Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games

  6. Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules

Technology 614 stories

  1. Finetuning Large Language Models

  2. How to Design Programs 2nd Edition

  3. Google Cloud Europe service disruption

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  1. MRI brain images become 64M times sharper

  2. Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”

  3. Space Elevator

  4. The early days of Linux

  5. Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

  6. Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens

  7. The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

  8. Clock

  9. Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%

Entertainment 33 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity

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

  3. Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere

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

  5. Junk drawer phone as a music streaming server

  6. Show HN: ScrapScript – A tiny functional language for sharable software

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