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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 5 – December 5, 2023 802 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 49 · Issue 339 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Custer County triple homicide suspect in custody

Three people are dead and another has been critically injured after a shooting Monday afternoon in Custer County, Colorado, over a property dispute.

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The D Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Apple to support RCS messaging standard next year

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Understanding Deep Learning

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 35 stories

  1. Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board

  2. Emmet Shear statement as Interim CEO of OpenAI

  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. The Bond villain compliance strategy

  5. The feds' vehicle 'kill switch' mandate is a gross violation of privacy

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

  7. Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem

  8. Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition

  9. Candela P-12 taking off – Electric hydrofoiling passenger vessel [video]

  10. Apple's Trademark Exploit

Sports 43 stories

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

  2. Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation

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  1. Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials

  2. I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate

  3. Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta

  4. Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat

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

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

Technology 583 stories

  1. OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

  2. The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

  3. How did people deal with punch cards?

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  1. Large Language Model Course

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

  3. Omegle 2009-2023

  4. Reflecting on 18 Years at Google

  5. Archived YouTube Video Finder

  6. Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

  7. LLM Visualization

  8. Tiny volumetric display

  9. Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disastrous

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop

  2. Show HN: An open-source notification infrastructure

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  1. Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada

  2. Stripe live dashboard

  3. Nuclear Reactor Simulator

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

  5. 37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer

  6. Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser

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