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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 12 – November 11, 2023 812 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 45 · Issue 315 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Grammy-winning artist Jason Isbell talks about the craft of songwriting and his latest music

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jason Isbell sits down with CBS News anchor John Dickerson to discuss inspiration, gratitude and the craft of songwriting. Isbell talks about his latest music and performs an acoustic version of "Cast Iron Skillet."

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Let me tell you about me Gear Fabrication Syndrome

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Why Sacramento police are solving more car theft cases than other agencies nationwide

Business 40 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted

  2. WeWork Goes Bankrupt

  3. Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security

  4. Seeing like a bank

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  1. Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts

  2. I face investigation for terrorism

  3. The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

  4. Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy

  5. Startup CTO's Handbook

  6. Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic

  7. Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

  8. Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022

  9. Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

  10. Raspberry Pi receives strategic investment from Arm

Sports 36 stories

  1. GPT-4 Update: 32K Context Window Now for All Users

  2. Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

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  1. SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle

  2. Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization

  3. The fun factor of the video game Uplink

  4. Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer

  5. Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

  6. You Win or You Learn

Technology 610 stories

  1. EU Chat Control Bill Postponed

  2. California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

  3. "About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"

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  1. LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

  2. Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

  3. Omegle 2009-2023

  4. The Cloud Computer

  5. As I retire, my goal now is to release 40+ years of source code

  6. Gnome Receives €1M from German Government

  7. Cosmopolitan Third Edition

  8. Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

  9. New models and developer products

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D

  2. Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec

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  1. Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign

  2. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

  3. "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming

  4. Show HN: I built a virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons

  5. Show HN: Inshellisense – IDE style shell autocomplete

  6. After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads

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