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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 9 – July 9, 2019 819 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 190 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

    Clear is better than clever

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    From Design Patterns to Category Theory (2017)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Formatting floating point numbers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Startup idea checklist

  2. Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra

  3. RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

  4. African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone

Show 10 more
  1. Grubhub is using fake websites to drive up commission fees from real businesses

  2. Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy

  3. GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

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

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

  6. Exploring alternative funding models for the web

  7. 150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019

  8. Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing

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

  10. Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street

Sports 36 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 615 stories

  1. On Jony Ive Leaving Apple

  2. Why Hong Kong Is Still Marching

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

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  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. Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera

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

  9. Choose Boring Technology

Entertainment 34 stories

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

  2. Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

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

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

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

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

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

  6. Public Domain Movies

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