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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 16 – December 16, 2024 838 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 351 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Syrians celebrate end of Assad rule, look toward the future

Hope and uncertainty fill the streets of Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The challenges of rebuilding are enormous after years of civil war.

CBS · 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 10 stories

  1. Syria under Assad: Torment and torture

    CBS · 1 outlets

    Now that former President Bashar al-Assad has fled, Syria is looking toward its future. But before the country can plan for what's to come, its people want the world to be reminded of what has taken …

  2. Naval Academy Can Use Race in Admissions, Judge Rules

    WSJ · 1 outlets

  3. American Students’ Math Skills Slide Down World Rankings

    WSJ · 1 outlets

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

    WSJ · 1 outlets

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  1. The Sand Wars Dividing Cranberry Growers and Their Neighbors

    WSJ · 1 outlets

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

    WSJ · 1 outlets

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

  6. 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. Palm’s CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007)

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. Debanking (and Debunking?)

    bitsaboutmoney.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 46 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 617 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

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

    github.com · 2 outlets

  6. Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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