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2020-07-07
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close June 30 – July 7, 2020 184 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 189 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

The End of the Redis Adventure

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Business 11 stories

  1. The End of the Redis Adventure

  2. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

  3. Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?

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  1. Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater

  2. Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal

  3. Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users

  4. Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1

Sports 6 stories

  1. De-escalating social media conflict

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  1. I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua

  2. Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust

  3. Kongregate closed to new games, shutting down forums and chat

Technology 150 stories

  1. Oppose the Earn IT Act

  2. Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

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  1. Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips

  2. Websites that look like desktop GUIs

  3. LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

  4. 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

  5. DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

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  1. Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

  2. Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

  3. Show HN: I built a desktop radiation monitor with Raspberry Pi, brass and wood

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