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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 17 – May 17, 2023 816 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 137 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Vice files for Bankruptcy

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    My shell setup with Fish and Tmux (2021)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Google keeps failing its Nest customers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 36 stories

  1. Vice files for Bankruptcy

  2. Bank Failures Visualized

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter

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

  3. Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam

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

  5. Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code

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

  7. Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”

  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 46 stories

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

  2. 100K Context Windows

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  1. Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy

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

  3. The Windows 11 Trash Party

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

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

  6. Windows on Btrfs

Technology 614 stories

  1. GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt

  2. StableLM: A new open-source language model

  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. 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. Datomic is Free

  9. Bard coding update with Colab exporting

Entertainment 30 stories

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

  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: Homemade rocketship treehouse – hardware to custom OS

  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. Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years

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