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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 26 – September 25, 2017 805 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 39 · Issue 268 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What's So Bad About Posix I/O?

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Technical Book on Deep Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 61 stories

  1. Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

  2. HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece 

  3. Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe

  4. Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research

Show 10 more
  1. How the Bitcoins Were Stolen from Mt. Gox [video]

  2. Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you

  3. How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook

  4. Alphabet considers Lyft investment of about $1B

  5. Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation

  6. China's Central Bank Bans ICOs

  7. The Marketing Behind MongoDB

  8. Bitcoin is fiat money, too

  9. How Taser inserts itself into investigations involving its own weapons

  10. Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree

Sports 42 stories

  1. Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds

  2. Uber London loses licence to operate

Show 6 more
  1. We've failed: open access is winning and we must change our approach

  2. WinBtrfs – A Windows driver for the next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs

  3. Godot Engine – Free and open-source 2D and 3D game engine

  4. Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed

  5. Building a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life

  6. Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper

Technology 590 stories

  1. Mathematics of Machine Learning (2016)

  2. iPhone 8 Plus Camera Review

  3. EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border

Show 9 more
  1. W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns

  2. Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js

  3. Sublime Text 3.0

  4. A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it

  5. The Equifax Hack Didn't Have to Be This Bad

  6. DuckDuckGo vs Google

  7. Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch

  8. Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home

  9. Facebook recruiting and Unix systems

Entertainment 27 stories

  1. 24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012)

  2. Show HN: A neural net that critiques your logo

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Build A Personal Power Plant for $200

  2. Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving

  3. U.S. Navy to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscopes aboard submarines

  4. KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka

  5. Show HN: Moon – fast 7k Vue alternative

  6. Show HN: Nulis – Open Source Tree Editor for Writers

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