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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 21 – December 21, 2023 809 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 355 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

When Social Security mistakenly overpays benefits, you might get a bill | 60 Minutes

Each year, about a million people are told they owe the Social Security Administration money because the agency miscalculated their benefits and paid them too much.

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Moving from relational data to events

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Godot: A Collaboration with Google and the Forge

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Extracting training data from ChatGPT

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Custer County triple homicide suspect in custody

Business 25 stories

  1. Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

  2. We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

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

  4. Database Fundamentals

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  1. The Bond villain compliance strategy

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

  3. Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition

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

  5. Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'

  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. Fedora Asahi Remix

Sports 56 stories

  1. HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO

  2. Epic vs. Google: Google Loses

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

  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. W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine

  6. Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)

Technology 588 stories

  1. Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and feuding

  2. Large Language Model Course

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

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  1. Demystifying Web Push Notifications

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

  3. Reflecting on 18 Years at Google

  4. Gemini AI

  5. LLM Visualization

  6. Tiny volumetric display

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

  8. Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

  9. Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?

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: Simulate 3D plants in the browser

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