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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 22 – October 22, 2024 820 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 296 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. Technology

    Meta's open AI hardware vision

    5 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: A fair Product Hunt alternative

    5 of 30 days · 8 articles

  3. Technology

    WordPress.org bans WP Engine

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 28 stories

  1. OpenAI to become for-profit company

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

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

  4. The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair

Show 10 more
  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. FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

  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. The AI Investment Boom

  8. AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO

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

  10. Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil

Sports 29 stories

  1. Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake

  2. Winamp Legacy player source code

Show 6 more
  1. Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

  2. World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating

  3. Show HN: Flyon UI – Tailwind Components Library

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

  5. Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published

  6. Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

Technology 628 stories

  1. Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

  2. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024

  3. Bop Spotter

Show 9 more
  1. Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA

  2. FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions

  3. 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor

  4. Fraud, so much fraud

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

  6. I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock

  7. First images from Euclid are in

  8. Busy Status Bar

  9. Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

Entertainment 53 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: A fair Product Hunt alternative

  3. Show HN: FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

  4. Show HN: HTML for People

  5. Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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

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