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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 15 – December 15, 2024 841 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 350 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Naval Academy Can Use Race in Admissions, Judge Rules

The ruling rejected a bid to extend the reach of a Supreme Court decision that banned race-conscious college admissions.

WSJ · 1 sources

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Luon programming language

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    OpenAI Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    The Starlark Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 8 stories

  1. American Students’ Math Skills Slide Down World Rankings

    WSJ · 1 outlets

    Global test scores show U.S. students are still struggling after the pandemic.

  2. Trump’s School-Choice Agenda Hits Pushback From Red-State Voters

    WSJ · 1 outlets

  3. The Sand Wars Dividing Cranberry Growers and Their Neighbors

    WSJ · 1 outlets

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

    WSJ · 1 outlets

Show 4 more

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 28 stories

  1. What we know about CEO shooting suspect

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  3. Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers

    news.alvaroduran.com · 1 outlets

  4. Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  2. Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  3. GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  4. TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court

    cnbc.com · 2 outlets

  5. Install postmarketOS on Android phone and use Docker as a home server

    crackoverflow.com · 1 outlets

  6. Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO

    businesswire.com · 1 outlets

  7. Debanking (and Debunking?)

    bitsaboutmoney.com · 1 outlets

  8. I tried every top email marketing tool

    sitebuilderreport.com · 1 outlets

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

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  10. AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells

    newscenter.lbl.gov · 1 outlets

Sports 45 stories

  1. My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

    armaansahni.com · 1 outlets

  2. Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history

    lichess.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Frosted glass from games to the web

    tyleo.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify

    5-million-devs.netlify · 1 outlets

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

    firehose3d.theo.io · 1 outlets

  4. Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf]

    drive.google.com · 1 outlets

  5. Teen mathematicians tie knots through a mind-blowing fractal

    quantamagazine.org · 1 outlets

  6. OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe

    openttd.org · 1 outlets

Technology 621 stories

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

    wral.com · 2 outlets

  2. OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment

    mercurynews.com · 2 outlets

  3. QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support

    phoronix.com · 4 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    labs.ripe.net · 2 outlets

  2. The cheapest Sonos sales and deals for February 2025

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  3. IMG_0001

    walzr.com · 1 outlets

  4. Every V4 UUID

    everyuuid.com · 1 outlets

  5. Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

    continueandpersist.org · 1 outlets

  6. Willow, Our Quantum Chip

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  7. Advent of Code 2024

    adventofcode.com · 1 outlets

  8. Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

    oldmapsonline.org · 1 outlets

  9. DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

    bloomberg.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 57 stories

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

    lanparty.house · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die

    play.google.com · 3 outlets

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  1. Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder

    velofuso.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Book and change flights with one email

    github.com · 3 outlets

  3. Show HN: Ternary Computer System

    github.com · 2 outlets

  4. The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory

    downtowndougbrown.com · 1 outlets

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

    sportingnews.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank

    github.com · 2 outlets

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