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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 26 – December 26, 2023 807 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 360 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

    Lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Let it snow in your terminal

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    A data corruption bug in OpenZFS?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 24 stories

  1. Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

  2. Database Fundamentals

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

  4. Costs of running a macOS app studio business

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  1. Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition

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

  3. Fed court rules for retired engineer told by state to not talk about math

  4. Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership

  5. How can Santa keep his lists when the GDPR is around?

  6. Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses

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

  8. Fedora Asahi Remix

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

  10. Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges

Sports 50 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. W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine

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

  6. Whisky: Wine supercharged with the power of Apple's game porting toolkit

Technology 606 stories

  1. Large Language Model Course

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

  3. Governments spying on Apple, Google users through 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 38 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. Nuclear Reactor Simulator

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

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