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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 12 – January 11, 2024 802 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 02 · Issue 11 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 January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Text Editor: Data Structures

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  2. Technology

    Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 25 stories

  1. Carta doing unsolicited tender offer outreach to their customers' investors

  2. Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

  3. Database Fundamentals

  4. Costs of running a macOS app studio business

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  1. Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC

  2. With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise

  3. Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives

  4. Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio

  5. Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)

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

  7. SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Musk, Federal Agency Says

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

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

  10. Fedora Asahi Remix

Sports 39 stories

  1. Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29

  2. Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras

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  1. Drawing.garden

  2. A* tricks for videogame path finding

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

  4. Making small games, which is fun in itself

  5. Turing Complete is a game about computer science

  6. Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout

Technology 621 stories

  1. I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

  2. Google lays off hundreds in hardware, voice assistant teams

  3. Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024: Geek For Life

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  1. 1D Pac-Man

  2. In 2024, please switch to Firefox

  3. 4B If Statements

  4. Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

  5. DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching

  6. ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

  7. I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously

  8. Python 3.13 Gets a JIT

  9. Fixing Macs door to door

Entertainment 40 stories

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

  2. First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation

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  1. Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

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

  3. Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser

  4. Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)

  5. Show HN: FrameOS – operating system for single function smart frames

  6. Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle

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