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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 12 – May 12, 2023 821 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 132 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

    Health advisory on social media use in adolescence

    4 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

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

  2. Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam

  3. WebGPU Fundamentals

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

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

  6. Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code

  7. Intel Announces Layoffs After Paying $1.5B in Q1 Dividends

  8. Investigating Linux phantom disk reads

  9. Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research

  10. Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost

Sports 41 stories

  1. Animated Drawings

  2. When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think

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  1. 100K Context Windows

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

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

  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 619 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. See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS

  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. Load Balancing

  9. Datomic is Free

Entertainment 33 stories

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

  2. Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news

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

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

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

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

  5. Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians

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

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