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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 10 – July 10, 2020 822 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 192 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The End of the Redis Adventure

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Promnesia – an attempt to fix broken web history

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 37 stories

  1. The End of the Redis Adventure

  2. Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin

  3. Olympus quits camera business after 84 years

  4. For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

Show 10 more
  1. After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract

  2. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

  3. Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia

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

  5. Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr

  6. Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data

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

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

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

  10. What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture

Sports 29 stories

  1. Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event

  2. Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks

Show 6 more
  1. Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

  2. De-escalating social media conflict

  3. Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing

  4. Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores

  5. Video Games Are the Future of Education

  6. Windows98 Running in the Browser

Technology 632 stories

  1. Apple rejects appeal from email app Hey

  2. I Am Deleting the Blog

  3. Oppose the Earn IT Act

Show 9 more
  1. Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

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

  3. U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections

  4. India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps

  5. I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

  6. Mozilla VPN

  7. Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

  8. Teach Yourself Computer Science

  9. Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

Entertainment 46 stories

  1. Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

  2. Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

  2. Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations

  3. Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS

  4. YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

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

  6. Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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