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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 24 – August 23, 2018 831 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 235 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1

techcrunch.com · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Data Collection research

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Jason's Machine Learning 101

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine for China

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1

    techcrunch.com · 1 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. Startup School 2018 – Curriculum

    blog.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool

    gizmodo.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. Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow

    influxdata.com · 1 outlets

  5. Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation

    holloway.com · 1 outlets

  6. Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace

    litepaper.com · 1 outlets

  7. The Secret API of Banks

    gduverger.com · 1 outlets

  8. Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds

    businesswire.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

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

    quaxio.com · 1 outlets

  2. Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX

    phoronix.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    thedailybeast.com · 1 outlets

  2. EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

    archpaper.com · 1 outlets

  3. Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    gitlab.com · 1 outlets

  5. The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI

    gamedev.net · 1 outlets

  6. Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Technology 626 stories

  1. Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    letsencrypt.org · 1 outlets

  3. Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed

    perens.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  2. Amazon Dark Patterns

    netinstructions.com · 1 outlets

  3. The Bullshit Web

    pxlnv.com · 1 outlets

  4. Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  6. NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  7. Julia 1.0

    julialang.org · 1 outlets

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

    usenix.org · 1 outlets

  9. Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

    phys.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 49 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 · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers

    johnhw.github.io · 1 outlets

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

    layoutit.com · 2 outlets

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

    gist.github.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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