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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 5 – March 6, 2024 820 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 10 · Issue 66 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Emma Hemming Willis says Bruce Willis' life is still "filled with joy"

She said she had been "triggered" by seeing a headline about her husband that claimed there was no more joy in his life.

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The Shen Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Sent – Simple plaintext presentation tool

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 2 stories

  1. Why didn't Gov. Newsom's CHP detail stop that retail theft he witnessed at Target?

  2. Workers who cut crushed quartz countertops say they are falling ill

Business 32 stories

  1. Airfoil

  2. Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished

  3. AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source

  4. Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

Show 10 more
  1. Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters

  2. I turned my open-source project into a full-time business

  3. OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed

  4. iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol

  5. YC: Requests for Startups

  6. Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D

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

  8. 'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien tech

  9. Training LLMs from ground zero as a startup

  10. I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test

Sports 34 stories

  1. Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey

  2. How video games use lookup tables

Show 6 more
  1. Sudo for Windows

  2. Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games

  3. Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]

  4. Ollama is now available on Windows in preview

  5. Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)

  6. Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal

Technology 625 stories

  1. Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]

  2. Private company landing on the moon today

  3. It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU

Show 9 more
  1. Sora: Creating video from text

  2. I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner

  3. Sent – Simple plaintext presentation tool

  4. European court favors strong encryption, calling it key to privacy rights

  5. Alexei Navalny has died

  6. Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

  7. Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero

  8. Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

  9. Gemini and Google's Culture

Entertainment 50 stories

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

  2. Show HN: R2R – Open-source framework for production-grade RAG

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML

  2. French court issues damages award for violation of GPL

  3. Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu

  4. Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute

  5. Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

  6. TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

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