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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 4 – August 3, 2020 797 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 216 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Writing a file system from scratch in Rust

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Code only says what it does

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 48 stories

  1. Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

  2. When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]

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

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

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

  2. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

  3. Nubank acquires Cognitect

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

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

  6. Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit

  7. Google to Invest $10B in India

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

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

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

Technology 598 stories

  1. Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources

  2. IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux

  3. Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack

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  1. Code only says what it does

  2. Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

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

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

  5. Del.icio.us

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

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

  8. Nvidia is now worth more than Intel

  9. Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. I recorded vlogs to show how I built side projects

  2. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

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  1. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

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

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

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

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

  6. Show HN: High performance X11 animated wallpapers

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