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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 24 – January 31, 2024 188 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 31 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition

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Business 11 stories

  1. Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition

  2. CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

  3. I hacked a train toilet

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  1. Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)

  2. Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported

  3. Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures

  4. How we crowdfunded $750k for a giant book about keyboard history

Sports 9 stories

  1. OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public

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  1. Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games

  2. Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

  3. Sxmo: Linux tiling window manager for phones

Technology 151 stories

  1. Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too

  2. Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

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  1. In loving memory of square checkbox

  2. Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

  3. Pandoc

  4. I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions

  5. Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

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  1. Show HN: Startup funding simulator

  2. We made an animated movie in 8kB

  3. Show HN: Pong Wars

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