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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 1 – October 31, 2017 818 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 304 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The trouble with text-only email

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Zig Programming Language 0.1.1: First beta release

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 52 stories

  1. Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web

  2. “Startup” asks internship applicant to build their app before phone screen

  3. Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business

  4. Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time

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  1. After the end of the startup era

  2. MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO

  3. Librem 5 Phone Funded

  4. Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

  5. Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Beginners

  6. ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network

  7. Fresh Horrors from Equifax CEO Richard Smith's Congressional Hearing

  8. AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings

  9. Call for help: fund GIMP development and Libre animation

  10. Chevy Bolt: the First Practical, Mass-Market Electric Vehicle

Sports 27 stories

  1. Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile

  2. Mathematical games interesting to both you and a five-year-old child

Show 6 more
  1. How the Elderly Lose Their Rights

  2. Handmade Hero – A complete game live-coded from scratch

  3. Pencil and Paper Games

  4. Japanese Vending Machines at Night Juxtaposed with a Wintry Hokkaido Landscape

  5. Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping

  6. Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017

Technology 625 stories

  1. Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist

  2. Text Editor: Data Structures

  3. One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks

Show 9 more
  1. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017

  2. Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced

  3. Keybase launches encrypted Git

  4. Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse

  5. US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data

  6. DevDocs API Documentation

  7. Documenting the Web together

  8. Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway

  9. PostgreSQL 10 Released

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. I have no side code projects to show you

  2. Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Metaballs

  2. If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

  3. Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble for Its New Weedkiller

  4. Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music

  5. Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

  6. Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performance by 50%

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