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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 28 – July 28, 2020 805 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 210 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

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Writing a file system from scratch in Rust

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 43 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. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

  2. Nubank acquires Cognitect

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

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

  5. Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit

  6. Google to Invest $10B in India

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

  8. Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund

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

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

Sports 32 stories

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

  2. De-escalating social media conflict

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

  2. OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

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

  4. Windows98 Running in the Browser

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

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

Technology 610 stories

  1. Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack

  2. GitHub was down

  3. Code only says what it does

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

  2. Oppose the Earn IT Act

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

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

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

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

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

  8. Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

  9. Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

Entertainment 37 stories

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

  2. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

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

  2. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

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

  4. YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

  5. Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices

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

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