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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 16 – October 16, 2024 833 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 290 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

OpenAI to become for-profit company

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1Articles

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app

    6 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Meta's open AI hardware vision

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Committing to Rust in the Kernel

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 31 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. Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power

Show 10 more
  1. Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit

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

  3. Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth

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

  5. FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

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

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

  8. Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash

  9. AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO

  10. US Trademark Office Cancels Marvel, DC's 'Super Hero' Marks

Sports 27 stories

  1. Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake

  2. Winamp Legacy player source code

Show 6 more
  1. World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating

  2. Show HN: Flyon UI – Tailwind Components Library

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

  4. Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations

  5. My first game with Carimbo, my homemade engine

  6. Game Programming in Prolog

Technology 637 stories

  1. Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

  2. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024

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

Show 9 more
  1. Bop Spotter

  2. Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA

  3. Why wordfreq will not be updated

  4. 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor

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

  6. Fraud, so much fraud

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

  8. I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock

  9. Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan

Entertainment 58 stories

  1. Meta Movie Gen

  2. AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

Show 6 more
  1. Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo

  2. Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app

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

  4. Show HN: HTML for People

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

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

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