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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 24 – July 24, 2020 809 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 30 · Issue 206 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The End of the Redis Adventure

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1Articles

What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    KDE Slimbook: Linux Laptop with Ryzen 4000

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. The End of the Redis Adventure

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

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin

  2. Olympus quits camera business after 84 years

  3. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

  4. Nubank acquires Cognitect

  5. App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

  6. Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design

  7. Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit

  8. Google to Invest $10B in India

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

  10. Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone

Sports 36 stories

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

  2. Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

Show 6 more
  1. De-escalating social media conflict

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

  3. Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing

  4. OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

  5. Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores

  6. WindowSwap: View someone's window somewhere in the world

Technology 610 stories

  1. GitHub was down

  2. Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet

  3. Oppose the Earn IT Act

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  1. Grant Imahara, ‘Mythbusters’ Host, Dies at 49

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

  3. Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study

  4. U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

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

  6. Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad

  7. Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

  8. Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

  9. Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly

Entertainment 41 stories

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

  2. Show HN: Map33.js – a library to build 3D maps with Three.js

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

  2. Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

  3. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

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

  5. YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

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

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