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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 7 – July 7, 2019 807 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 27 · Issue 188 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startup idea checklist

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    From Design Patterns to Category Theory (2017)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Raspberry Pi on Raspberry Pi

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Startup idea checklist

  2. Facebook plans cryptocurrency debut

  3. Grubhub is using fake websites to drive up commission fees from real businesses

  4. Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy

Show 10 more
  1. GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

  2. Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby

  3. The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature

  4. I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

  5. 150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019

  6. Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May

  7. Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street

  8. Google refunded $200 because I missed 5 lines of Code

  9. SoftBank could bring down the house?

  10. Voilà turns Jupyter notebooks to standalone web applications

Sports 35 stories

  1. YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

  2. Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?

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  1. A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy

  2. Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

  3. Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games

  4. I thought I made a hard game and then speedrunners destroyed it

  5. Why brilliant people lose their touch

  6. Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

Technology 602 stories

  1. On Jony Ive Leaving Apple

  2. Why Hong Kong Is Still Marching

  3. How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox

Show 9 more
  1. User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

  2. 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California

  3. US Customs Database Of Traveler Photos Was Hacked And Stolen

  4. Chinese authorities install app on phones of people entering Xinjiang

  5. Raspberry Pi 4

  6. Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles

  7. YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

  8. Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer

  9. Choose Boring Technology

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech

  2. Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

Show 6 more
  1. iOS 13 now shows you a map of where apps have been tracking you

  2. Show HN: Enviro+ for Raspberry Pi – Environmental sensors

  3. Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

  4. Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files

  5. The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (2017)

  6. Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL

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