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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 30 – October 30, 2019 822 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 303 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf]

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Rejected from YC (Again)

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Why some software developers hate Agile

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 41 stories

  1. Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

  2. WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO

  3. Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency

  4. Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says

Show 10 more
  1. Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained

  2. Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

  3. Mozilla’s 18-month effort to market without Facebook

  4. Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Giant of Fraud

  5. U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups

  6. Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor

  7. Fundamentals of Python Programming [pdf]

  8. Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors embrace Saudi Arabia again

  9. AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering

  10. The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market

Sports 36 stories

  1. NBA Events in China Disrupted over Hong Kong Tweet

  2. Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home

Show 6 more
  1. Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

  2. Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

  3. IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program

  4. The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender

  5. NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts

  6. LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles

Technology 633 stories

  1. Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

  2. 'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology

  3. Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?

Show 9 more
  1. Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car sales in The Netherlands

  2. Rejected from YC (Again)

  3. Ken Thompson's Unix Password

  4. Firefox 70

  5. TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free

  6. I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

  7. NordVPN confirms it was hacked

  8. Broken

  9. Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption

Entertainment 26 stories

  1. Show HN: Bel

  2. Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

Show 6 more
  1. After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web

  2. Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project

  3. Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China

  4. Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook

  5. Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM

  6. Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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