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2019-08-06
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 30 – August 6, 2019 184 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 218 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Capital One data breach hits more than 100 million people

The hacker got information including credit scores and balances plus the Social Security numbers of about 140,000 customers

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Business 11 stories

  1. Employee happiness and business success are linked

  2. Norweigan oil fund

  3. Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007

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  1. We shouldn’t take peer review as the ‘gold standard’

  2. Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens

  3. Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades

  4. Bad Times in Tech? Not If You’re a Startup Serving Other Startups

Sports 4 stories

  1. Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again

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  1. Devilution – A web port of the original Diablo game

  2. U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs from Canada

  3. Dwindling CPAN Releases

Technology 161 stories

  1. All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people

  2. Terminating Service for 8Chan

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  1. How I Became a Machine Learning Practitioner

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  3. Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules

  4. Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts

  5. Build Your Own Text Editor

Entertainment 3 stories

  1. Show HN: Bild – A collection of parallel image processing algorithms in Go

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  1. Music Recommendations in Hyperbolic Space

  2. IBM Fired as Many as 100k in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows

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