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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 17 – September 16, 2024 811 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 260 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Postgres as a Search Engine

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode"

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Today's news in 10 minutes

Business 28 stories

  1. Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules

  2. Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn

  3. 2M users but no money in the bank

  4. Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn

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  1. Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%

  2. Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code

  3. Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business

  4. Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?

  5. The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constants change

  6. Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat

  7. Marketing to Engineers (2001)

  8. Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+

  9. The muscular imagination of Iain M. Banks: a future you might want

  10. Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography

Sports 38 stories

  1. Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team

  2. Diffusion models are real-time game engines

Show 6 more
  1. Did you lose your AirPods?

  2. Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

  3. Keyhole – Forge own Windows Store licenses

  4. Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video]

  5. MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract

  6. Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable

Technology 619 stories

  1. Thoughts on the Durov Arrest

  2. Mr and Mrs Smith season 2: what we know so far about the hit Prime Video show's return

  3. Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models

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  1. AnandTech Farewell

  2. The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

  3. How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)

  4. Bypassing airport security via SQL injection

  5. Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch

  6. Learning to Reason with LLMs

  7. We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi

  8. I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

  9. Is My Blue Your Blue?

Entertainment 50 stories

  1. An NFC movie library for my kids

  2. Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system

  2. Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency

  3. How America's universities became debt factories

  4. Porting SBCL to the Nintendo Switch

  5. Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue

  6. Show HN: Visualize database schemas with a single query

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