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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 23 – December 23, 2023 804 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 357 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

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Extracting training data from ChatGPT

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Let it snow in your terminal

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 22 stories

  1. Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

  2. Database Fundamentals

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

  4. The Bond villain compliance strategy

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

  2. Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition

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

  4. Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership

  5. Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses

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

  7. Fedora Asahi Remix

  8. Learnings from fine-tuning LLM on my Telegram messages

  9. Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges

  10. We investigated France's mass profiling machine

Sports 54 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 599 stories

  1. Large Language Model Course

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

  3. Demystifying Web Push Notifications

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

  2. Gemini AI

  3. LLM Visualization

  4. Tiny volumetric display

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

  6. Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

  7. My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar

  8. Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

  9. ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

Entertainment 41 stories

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

  2. Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

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

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

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

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

  5. Stripe live dashboard

  6. Nuclear Reactor Simulator

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