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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close November 12 – November 19, 2023 185 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 323 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

Business 7 stories

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

  2. 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

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

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  1. Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem

  2. Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government

  3. Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari

  4. Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims

Sports 10 stories

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

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

  2. The real realtime preemption end game

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

Technology 143 stories

  1. A Timeline of the OpenAI Board

  2. Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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

  2. Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

  3. HTML First

  4. I think I need to go lie down

  5. Apple to support RCS messaging standard next year

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Show HN: Open-source digital stylus with six degrees of freedom

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  1. Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo

  2. 37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer

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

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