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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 9 – May 9, 2023 822 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 129 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Bank Failures Visualized

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    My shell setup with Fish and Tmux (2021)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    A look at Crystal, a programming language for humans

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 37 stories

  1. Bank Failures Visualized

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

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

  4. I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again

Show 10 more
  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. Intel Announces Layoffs After Paying $1.5B in Q1 Dividends

Sports 37 stories

  1. Animated Drawings

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

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

  2. The Windows 11 Trash Party

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

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

  5. Windows on Btrfs

  6. Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy

Technology 622 stories

  1. Finetuning Large Language Models

  2. Google Cloud Europe service disruption

  3. MRI brain images become 64M times sharper

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

  2. Space Elevator

  3. The early days of Linux

  4. Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

  5. Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens

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

  7. Clock

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

  9. Load Balancing

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers

  2. Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity

Show 6 more
  1. Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere

  2. Show HN: The HN Recap – AI generated daily HN podcast

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

  4. Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians

  5. Show HN: Homemade rocketship treehouse – hardware to custom OS

  6. Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years

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