The Mez Ledger
Menu
2023-09-18
Weekly Close

Weekly Close

The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close September 11 – September 18, 2023 180 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 261 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name?

A former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower and two pilots testified before Congress about the strange, seemingly inexplicable objects.

1Outlets
1Articles

Business 9 stories

  1. My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

  2. Building an economy simulator from scratch

  3. A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

Show 4 more
  1. iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation

  2. The New Godot Development Fund

  3. How long it took different companies to find product-market fit

  4. Chili Oil Notes

Sports 8 stories

  1. OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

Show 3 more
  1. Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize

  2. Close to 2k environmental activists killed over last decade

  3. Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR

Technology 149 stories

  1. The Tyranny of the Marginal User

  2. Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working

Show 5 more
  1. Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware

  2. Credit card debt collection

  3. I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

  4. iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

  5. Unity plan pricing and packaging updates

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative

Show 3 more
  1. Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability Training

  2. Show HN: Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting in WebGL

  3. “Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases

the Weekly Close

You just read a week of news in ninety seconds.

Every Monday we rank what the world actually covered — by how many outlets ran it and how many days it stayed up — and send you the top of the pile. No takes, no ads.

One email a week. We confirm your address first. Unsubscribe in one click. We never sell the list.