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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 20 – November 19, 2023 800 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 323 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

    Apple to support RCS messaging standard next year

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    More people should write (2012)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    A Timeline of the OpenAI Board

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 41 stories

  1. OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

  2. Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted

  3. 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

  4. WeWork Goes Bankrupt

Show 10 more
  1. Seeing like a bank

  2. New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy

  3. Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts

  4. I face investigation for terrorism

  5. The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

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

  7. Startup CTO's Handbook

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

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

  10. Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem

Sports 40 stories

  1. Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year

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

Show 6 more
  1. Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

  2. Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive

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

  4. The real realtime preemption end game

  5. The fun factor of the video game Uplink

  6. Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy

Technology 595 stories

  1. Web FM synthesizer made with HTML5

  2. California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

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

Show 9 more
  1. A Timeline of the OpenAI Board

  2. Omegle 2009-2023

  3. The Cloud Computer

  4. Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

  5. I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]

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

  7. Gnome Receives €1M from German Government

  8. Cosmopolitan Third Edition

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

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign

  2. Show HN: DataSheetGrid, an Airtable-like React component

  3. 37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer

  4. Show HN: I spent 6 months building a C debugger as a 17-year-old

  5. Show HN: Inshellisense – IDE style shell autocomplete

  6. Show HN: Convert any screenshot into clean HTML code using GPT Vision (OSS tool)

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