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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 5 – August 4, 2018 816 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 216 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Foundations Machine Learning

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Cloud Downtime Postmortem

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 39 stories

  1. California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online

  2. YC Startup School Library

  3. AMD stock rises after best earnings in 7 years

  4. PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding

Show 10 more
  1. Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself

  2. Mark Zuckerberg and his empire of oily rags

  3. Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds

  4. Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%

  5. Bank of America questions customer’s citizenship, freezes accounts

  6. JavaScript fundamentals before learning React

  7. SRE Fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs

  8. Former Apple Employee Charged with Theft of Autonomous Car Project Trade Secrets

  9. GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms 50-50 R&D pact

  10. The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan

Sports 48 stories

  1. A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet

  2. How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions

Show 6 more
  1. Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat

  2. Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python

  3. How to beat LinkedIn: The Game

  4. iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2

  5. Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine

  6. Illegal Production and Use of Banned CFC-11 in China's Foam Blowing Industry

Technology 608 stories

  1. Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

  2. “I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

  3. EU copyright law proposal rejected

Show 9 more
  1. Google Maps is no longer a flat map

  2. Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar

  3. Learn how to design large-scale systems

  4. Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars

  5. Amazon Dark Patterns

  6. The Bullshit Web

  7. Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

  8. What Elon Musk Should Learn from the Thailand Cave Rescue

  9. The European Commission versus Android

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

  2. My adventures getting Disney’s Moana island scene to render well with Pbrt

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Router7 – A pure-Go implementation of a small home internet router

  2. Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams

  3. Show HN: Owl, a new kind of parser generator

  4. Show HN: Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres

  5. Show HN: Hacker News job trends

  6. Show HN: Online challenge: Build a CPU from scratch

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