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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 14 – December 14, 2023 815 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 348 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

    Lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The D Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    MemoryCache: Augmenting local AI with browser data

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 21 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. New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy

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  1. The Bond villain compliance strategy

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

  3. Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem

  4. Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition

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

  6. Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership

  7. OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

  8. Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses

  9. Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study

  10. Former GitHub CEO Friedman and Scale AI CEO Wang Declined OpenAI CEO Role

Sports 53 stories

  1. HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO

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

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  1. Epic vs. Google: Google Loses

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

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

  4. Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta

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

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

Technology 583 stories

  1. OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

  2. A secret deal let Spotify bypass Android's app store fees

  3. Large Language Model Course

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  1. The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity

  2. Demystifying Web Push Notifications

  3. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

  4. Reflecting on 18 Years at Google

  5. Gemini AI

  6. YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

  7. Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

  8. LLM Visualization

  9. Tiny volumetric display

Entertainment 44 stories

  1. Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android

  2. Show HN: How did your computer reach my server?

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  1. FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades

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

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

  4. Stripe live dashboard

  5. Nuclear Reactor Simulator

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

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