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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 19 – August 18, 2018 802 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 230 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

AMD stock rises after best earnings in 7 years

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1Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Jason's Machine Learning 101

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    From Google to the world: the Kubernetes origin story

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    To Persuade Someone, Look Emotional

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. AMD stock rises after best earnings in 7 years

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

  3. Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool

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

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

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

  3. Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation

  4. The Secret API of Banks

  5. Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds

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

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

  8. YC Startup School Library

  9. The Stock Market Is Shrinking

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

Sports 45 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

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  1. EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

  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. The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI

  6. Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine

Technology 587 stories

  1. Google tracks your movements, like it or not

  2. Google Maps is no longer a flat map

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

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  1. Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars

  2. Amazon Dark Patterns

  3. The Bullshit Web

  4. Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

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

  6. NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

  7. Julia 1.0

  8. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

  9. Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

Entertainment 49 stories

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

  2. Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster

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

  2. Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git

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

  4. Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

  5. Show HN: Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C

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

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