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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 9 – October 9, 2024 819 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 283 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Full list of winners and nominees for the 2024 Emmy Awards

See the full list of winners and nominees from the 2024 Emmy Awards.

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi

    5 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Compiling to Assembly from Scratch

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 32 stories

  1. OpenAI to become for-profit company

  2. CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them

  3. Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host

  4. Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit

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  1. In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules

  2. Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth

  3. TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'

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 Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn

  5. Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping

  6. YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup

  7. Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash

  8. Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?

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

  10. AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO

Sports 28 stories

  1. Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake

  2. Winamp Legacy player source code

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  1. Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

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

  3. Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

  4. Show HN: Flyon UI – Tailwind Components Library

  5. I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

  6. Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations

Technology 627 stories

  1. Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

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

  3. Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

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  1. Bop Spotter

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

  3. Why wordfreq will not be updated

  4. Learning to Reason with LLMs

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

  6. Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC

  7. Fraud, so much fraud

  8. Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

  9. I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock

Entertainment 54 stories

  1. Meta Movie Gen

  2. Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]

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  1. Show HN: I've Built an Accounting System

  2. Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi

  3. FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies

  4. Show HN: Open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced Voice

  5. How America's universities became debt factories

  6. Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion

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