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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close September 28 – October 5, 2023 180 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 278 Get it by email ↓
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The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”

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Business 12 stories

  1. The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”

  2. ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

  3. D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect

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  1. US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells

  2. OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

  3. Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their libraries

  4. Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Federal Court rules

Sports 7 stories

  1. Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)

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  1. VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

  2. Influxdb made the switch from Go to Rust

  3. Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff

Technology 145 stories

  1. WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

  2. Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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  1. Draggable objects

  2. What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023

  3. Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It

  4. An interactive intro to CRDTs

  5. Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

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  1. Show HN: Classic Video Poker

  2. Efficient streaming language models with attention sinks

  3. Show HN: Generative Fill with AI and 3D

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