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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 13 – August 12, 2018 806 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 224 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

YC Startup School Library

blog.ycombinator.com · 2 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Jason's Machine Learning 101

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

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

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    To Persuade Someone, Look Emotional

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. YC Startup School Library

    blog.ycombinator.com · 2 outlets

  2. AMD stock rises after best earnings in 7 years

    marketwatch.com · 1 outlets

  3. Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  4. Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    quariety.com · 1 outlets

  2. Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself

    docs.browserless.io · 1 outlets

  3. Bash Infinity: Standard library and boilerplate framework for Bash

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation

    holloway.com · 1 outlets

  5. The Secret API of Banks

    gduverger.com · 1 outlets

  6. Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds

    businesswire.com · 1 outlets

  7. New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  8. Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused Amazon alternative

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  10. The Stock Market Is Shrinking

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Sports 48 stories

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

    quaxio.com · 1 outlets

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

    thedailybeast.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

    archpaper.com · 1 outlets

  2. Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat

    engineering.riotgames. · 1 outlets

  3. Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. How to beat LinkedIn: The Game

    theoutline.com · 1 outlets

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

    gitlab.com · 1 outlets

  6. Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine

    technologyreview.com · 1 outlets

Technology 591 stories

  1. Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

    krebsonsecurity.com · 2 outlets

  2. Google Maps is no longer a flat map

    inderapotheke.de · 3 outlets

  3. Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs

    letsencrypt.org · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Learn how to design large-scale systems

    github.com · 2 outlets

  2. Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. Amazon Dark Patterns

    netinstructions.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Bullshit Web

    pxlnv.com · 1 outlets

  5. Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  7. The European Commission versus Android

    europa.eu · 2 outlets

  8. Julia 1.0

    julialang.org · 1 outlets

  9. Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

    phys.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 45 stories

  1. Show HN: Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding

    ptsjs.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster

    tryretool.com · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++

    ultralig.ht · 2 outlets

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

    pharr.org · 1 outlets

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

    layoutit.com · 2 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Learn how to work remotely from people doing it every day

    remotehabits.com · 1 outlets

  6. Algorithm recovers speech from a potato-chip bag filmed through glass (2014)

    news.mit.edu · 1 outlets

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