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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 1 – October 8, 2023 193 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 281 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

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

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Business 10 stories

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

  2. Krita fund has no corporate support

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

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

  2. FTX "insurance fund" calculated by multiplying trading volume by random number

  3. Microsoft CEO testifies that Google’s power in search is ubiquitous

  4. MyPowerbank hacks Santander bikes so London's homeless can charge their phones

Sports 9 stories

  1. HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly

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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. Show HN: DotBigBang – Multiplayer game engine with 120fps and 2 second load time

Technology 157 stories

  1. Making Hard Things Easy

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

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  1. Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It

  2. An interactive intro to CRDTs

  3. Where does my computer get the time from?

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

  5. Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7

Entertainment 11 stories

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

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  1. Show HN: Classic Video Poker

  2. Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps

  3. Efficient streaming language models with attention sinks

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