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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 20 – April 19, 2024 808 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 110 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 32 stories

  1. The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework

  2. Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

  3. CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred

  4. Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta

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  1. Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

  2. OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund

  3. Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

  4. Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet

  5. A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing

  6. Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes

  7. Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools

  8. Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding

  9. Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy?

  10. US Government funds pilot project for heated sand energy storage

Sports 30 stories

  1. Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

  2. Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git

Show 6 more
  1. Everyone is John: A competitive roleplaying game for three or more people (2002)

  2. Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula

  3. 1.18k drawings of plant root systems

  4. Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them

  5. Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)

  6. The window for great-grandmothers is closing

Technology 610 stories

  1. AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

  2. Going in circles without a real-time clock

  3. Browse Self-Hosted Software

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  1. German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

  2. Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise

  3. U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

  4. Meta Llama 3

  5. Mario meets Pareto

  6. This is a teenager

  7. Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

  8. 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

  9. Obituary for a quiet life (2023)

Entertainment 54 stories

  1. Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card

  2. Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

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  1. Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii

  2. Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

  3. Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS

  4. Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy

  5. Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator

  6. Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

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