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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 2 – July 9, 2020 176 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 191 Get it by email ↓
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Business 9 stories

  1. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

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

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

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

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

  3. Bitcoin From Scratch – Part 1

  4. MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars

Sports 7 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. XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint

Technology 145 stories

  1. Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

  2. Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

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  1. Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting

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

  3. Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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

  5. 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

Entertainment 11 stories

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

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

  2. Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

  3. Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine

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