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2019-08-23
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 16 – August 23, 2019 200 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 235 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1

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Business 12 stories

  1. Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1

  2. I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”

  3. Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs

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  1. IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business

  2. Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan? How Trade Works with Free-Floating Currency

  3. U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss

  4. Japan surpasses China as largest foreign holder of US Treasurys

Sports 6 stories

  1. Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

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  1. Big Coal Plants Begin to Close

  2. Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading

  3. In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels

Technology 161 stories

  1. I Miss Microsoft Encarta

  2. Information operations directed at Hong Kong

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  1. How to Build Good Software

  2. WeWTF

  3. OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation

  4. Tech Interview Handbook

  5. How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file

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  1. Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library

  2. Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

  3. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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