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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 31 – February 7, 2024 194 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 38 Get it by email ↓
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Workers who cut crushed quartz countertops say they are falling ill

In homes across America, engineered stone countertops are a common sight. However, a hidden danger lurks in the production of these popular kitchen features.

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Business 12 stories

  1. 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

  2. Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO

  3. "Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks

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  1. Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine

  2. Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance

  3. Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses

  4. Learnings from our years of Kubernetes in production

Sports 3 stories

  1. Tailwind color palette generator

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  1. Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

  2. Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)

Technology 161 stories

  1. Infinite Craft

  2. Relativistic Spaceship

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  1. A reasonable configuration language

  2. SQL for data scientists in 100 queries

  3. Google has another secret browser

  4. Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time

  5. Making a PDF that's larger than Germany

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll

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  1. TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

  2. Show HN: Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model

  3. Show HN: filippo.io/mlkem768 – Post-Quantum Cryptography for the Go Ecosystem

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