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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 16 – March 17, 2024 806 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 11 · Issue 77 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

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    What Monks Know about Focus

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    DBeaver – open-source database client

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 26 stories

  1. Airfoil

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

  3. Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters

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

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  1. CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

  2. iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol

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

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

  5. Training LLMs from ground zero as a startup

  6. Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

  7. Why Isn't Taxpayer-Funded U.S. Broadband Mapping Data Owned by the Public?

  8. Google's threat model for post-quantum cryptography

  9. Fishing for oil and meat drives defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays

  10. Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up

Sports 40 stories

  1. Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS

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

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  1. How video games use lookup tables

  2. Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years

  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 604 stories

  1. Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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

  3. Private company landing on the moon today

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  1. Apple restores Epic's account in the EU

  2. Direct File officially opens in 12 pilot states

  3. Sent – Simple plaintext presentation tool

  4. Alexei Navalny has died

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

  6. DBeaver – open-source database client

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

  8. Spreadsheets are all you need

  9. Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

Entertainment 46 stories

  1. Show HN: SatCat5, the open-source FPGA Ethernet switch

  2. Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML

Show 6 more
  1. French court issues damages award for violation of GPL

  2. Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu

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

  4. Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub

  5. ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood

  6. Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires

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