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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 17 – July 24, 2020 198 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 30 · Issue 206 Get it by email ↓
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Business 15 stories

  1. Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products

  2. OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

  3. Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org

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  1. Nubank acquires Cognitect

  2. Suspect is arrested in grisly killing of tech CEO Fahim Saleh

  3. The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh

  4. Why are CEOs failing software engineers?

Sports 12 stories

  1. The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

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  1. OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

  2. Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities

  3. Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD

Technology 156 stories

  1. Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”

  2. Systems Design for Advanced Beginners

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  1. Cloudflare was down

  2. Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

  3. On Trouser Pockets

  4. Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database

  5. Invert, always, invert

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi

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  1. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

  2. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

  3. Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things

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