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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 21 – September 20, 2018 820 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 263 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Consumer startups that said no to investor money

techcrunch.com · 2 sources

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What Companies Mean by Culture Fit

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    The Commons Clause doesn't help the commons

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Consumer startups that said no to investor money

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  2. An Intensive Introduction to Cryptography

    intensecrypto.org · 1 outlets

  3. All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders

    a16z.com · 2 outlets

  4. Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It

    open.buffer.com · 1 outlets

  2. Is the Lean Startup Dead?

    steveblank.com · 1 outlets

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

    influxdata.com · 1 outlets

  4. Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

    blogs.harvard.edu · 1 outlets

  5. Elastic files for an IPO

    sec.gov · 1 outlets

  6. Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  7. Amazon hits $1T market cap

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  8. Financial Modeling for Startups: An Introduction

    fivecastfinancial.com · 1 outlets

  9. The United States Is Now the Largest Global Crude Oil Producer

    eia.gov · 1 outlets

  10. We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Leaked on Twitter

    ghacks.net · 3 outlets

  2. Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

    phoronix.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack

    khn.org · 1 outlets

  4. Don't Steal Money from Day Traders Before They Lose It

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  5. A rogue Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery

    thehustle.co · 1 outlets

  6. Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses

    highscalability.com · 1 outlets

Technology 638 stories

  1. Teens who refuse to use social media

    theguardian.com · 3 outlets

  2. Argue with your customers

    github.com · 3 outlets

  3. Slow leak detected aboard Space Station

    blogs.esa.int · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution

    perens.com · 3 outlets

  2. Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off

    lore.kernel.org · 1 outlets

  3. EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  4. Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

    bugs.chromium.org · 1 outlets

  5. EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

    dw.com · 1 outlets

  6. Life in the Spanish city that banned cars

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  7. Google Dataset Search

    toolbox.google.com · 1 outlets

  8. Pandoc

    pandoc.org · 1 outlets

  9. Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism

    slatestarcodex.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 29 stories

  1. Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

    bitbucket.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: How privacy-friendly is your site?

    simpleanalytics.io · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

    sublimemerge.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book

    selectstarsql.com · 2 outlets

  3. Show HN: BuzzFeed open source SSO

    guitardashboard.com · 3 outlets

  4. Apple didn't delete that guy's movies – what really happened

    theoutline.com · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals

    techyaks.com · 1 outlets

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

    johnhw.github.io · 1 outlets

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