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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 5 – November 4, 2024 818 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 45 · Issue 309 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The Internet Archive is back online

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 23 stories

  1. Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI

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

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

  4. FLOSS/fund for free and open source projects

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  1. Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

  2. Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds

  3. Goldman and Apple 'illegally sidestepped' obligations to credit-card customers

  4. The AI Investment Boom

  5. Gross Apple Marketing

  6. Ibis: Federated Wikipedia alternative

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

  8. Don't let dicts spoil your code

  9. Adventures in algorithmic trading on the Runescape Grand Exchange

  10. Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair

Sports 33 stories

  1. Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages

  2. Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

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

  2. Show HN: Open-source Counter-Strike-like game

  3. Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components

  4. NandGame – Build a computer from scratch

  5. Classic 3D videogame shadow techniques

  6. Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published

Technology 630 stories

  1. Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris

  2. ATL: A layer to run Android apps on Linux

  3. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024

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  1. Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA

  2. Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC's click-to-cancel rule

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

  4. ChatGPT Search

  5. Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

  6. First images from Euclid are in

  7. Busy Status Bar

  8. Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back

  9. Apple acquires Pixelmator

Entertainment 56 stories

  1. AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

  2. Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo

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  1. Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell

  2. Show HN: HTML for People

  3. Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

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

  5. Show HN: RF Hunter – Find hidden cameras and other devices

  6. Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

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