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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 26 – August 2, 2016 200 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 215 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Losing our business – we didn’t see it coming

Business 19 stories

  1. Losing our business – we didn’t see it coming

  2. Cracking the Adventure Time cipher

  3. Ireland jails three top bankers over 2008 banking meltdown

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  1. Berlin’s Startup Hub Wants to Prove It’s More Than Just a Scene

  2. Google Profits Surge on Strong Ad Demand

  3. Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business

  4. Protecting Free Speech: Why Yelp Is Marking Businesses That Sue Their Customers

Sports 9 stories

  1. Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production

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  1. Mercedes-Benz shows off the first fully electric heavy urban transport truck

  2. Scythe, the most-hyped board game of 2016, delivers

  3. New attack that cripples HTTPS crypto works on Macs, Windows, and Linux

Technology 153 stories

  1. Why we lost Uber as a user

  2. LastPass autofill exploit

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  1. The hidden base that could have ended the world

  2. Seymour Papert has died

  3. Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL

  4. Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel

  5. Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes

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  1. Inside Tesla's gigantic Gigafactory

  2. What makes music sound “good?”

  3. Show HN: A simple infinite world in WebGL

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