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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 31 – August 30, 2019 808 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 242 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1

techcrunch.com · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    How to Start with Machine Learning

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 48 stories

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  3. Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

    apple.com · 1 outlets

  4. Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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  1. AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  2. Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

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

    shafyy.com · 1 outlets

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

    accountingtoday.com · 1 outlets

  5. Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors

    esquire.com · 1 outlets

  7. WeWork Gets Tax Rebate Meant for Its Small-Business Tenants

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    cassandracapital.net · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  10. Monsanto Effort to Defund Cancer Researchers

    theintercept.com · 1 outlets

Sports 27 stories

  1. Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

    jeff-vogel.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

  2. Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours

    universetoday.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode

    heise.de · 1 outlets

  2. Useless Windows 10 Features

    howtogeek.com · 1 outlets

  3. Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day

    amonitoring.ru · 1 outlets

  4. Wine on Windows 10

    reddragdiva.dreamwidth · 1 outlets

  5. I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games

    jeff-vogel.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

  6. Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. They’re Back

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

Technology 612 stories

  1. Information operations directed at Hong Kong

    nytimes.com · 5 outlets

  2. WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company

    theverge.com · 3 outlets

  3. Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain

    crummy.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Intel and Rust: The Future of Systems Programming [video]

    m.youtube.com · 2 outlets

  2. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

    newyorker.com · 1 outlets

  3. Introducing nushell

    jonathanturner.org · 1 outlets

  4. Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years

    medium.com · 8 outlets

  5. Ebola Is Now Curable

    wired.com · 1 outlets

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

    medium.com · 2 outlets

  7. I Miss Microsoft Encarta

    hanselman.com · 1 outlets

  8. Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’

    quora.com · 1 outlets

  9. Terminating Service for 8Chan

    new.blog.cloudflare.co · 2 outlets

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Personal Management System

    github.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  2. WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

    wtfutil.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator

    divjoy.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me

    zecoda.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Wave-based non-line-of-sight computational imaging in Julia

    analytech-solutions.co · 1 outlets

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