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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 29 – November 28, 2024 846 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 48 · Issue 333 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The Sand Wars Dividing Cranberry Growers and Their Neighbors

Growers dig up local sand for their bogs. Neighbors say they have gone too far.

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Borgo Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Google banned me from Google Voice

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    The Data Engineering Handbook

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 5 stories

  1. Top Colleges by Size in the Western U.S.

    Claremont McKenna, Stanford and Berkeley head these lists from the WSJ/College Pulse ranking

  2. Pentagon solves 1 UFO mystery but still probing case of "large orange orb"

  3. Texts reveal efforts to bribe juror in pandemic fraud case, prosecutors say

  4. Ex-boyfriend and fiancée behind fatal stabbing, shooting of Texas mom

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  1. Family of teen killed in hate crime attack stand up for their son

Business 19 stories

  1. Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic

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

  3. Mind-Bending Soviet Era Oil Rig City on the Caspian Sea

  4. Gross Apple Marketing

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  1. FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan

  2. Apple threatened workers over their talk about pay and remote work, feds charge

  3. I tried every top email marketing tool

  4. Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges

  5. The business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies

  6. Oxford accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms

  7. Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released

  8. Deno vs. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark

  9. Computer Networking Fundamentals – Learning Series (2023)

  10. Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price

Sports 42 stories

  1. Trump wins presidency for second time

  2. Passport Photos

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

  2. Frosted glass from games to the web

  3. The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

  4. Show HN: Lyceum – An MMO game built with Zig and Erlang

  5. The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver

  6. NandGame – Build a computer from scratch

Technology 640 stories

  1. Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State

  2. Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

  3. Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division

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  1. Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

  2. The cheapest Sonos sales and deals for February 2025

  3. IMG_0416

  4. MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

  5. The Onion buys Infowars

  6. ChatGPT Search

  7. How I ship projects at big tech companies

  8. Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back

  9. DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

Entertainment 61 stories

  1. Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes

  2. Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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  1. Show HN: I am Building a Producthunt alternative

  2. Show HN: Convert any website into a React component

  3. Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

  4. Title drops in movies

  5. The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory

  6. Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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