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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 11 – August 10, 2020 799 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 223 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

twitter.com · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Writing a file system from scratch in Rust

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 53 stories

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

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

    maraoz.com · 1 outlets

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

    domainnamewire.com · 1 outlets

  2. Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments

    federalreserve.gov · 1 outlets

  3. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  4. Nubank acquires Cognitect

    cognitect.com · 1 outlets

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

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  6. Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit

    thirtythreeforty.net · 1 outlets

  7. Google to Invest $10B in India

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    store.pine64.org · 1 outlets

  10. Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund

    blender.org · 1 outlets

Sports 27 stories

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    window-swap.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    serhack.me · 1 outlets

  5. Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel

    mondaynote.com · 1 outlets

  6. Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business

    adamwathan.me · 1 outlets

Technology 608 stories

  1. Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  2. IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  3. Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack

    zdnet.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes

    buzzfeednews.com · 3 outlets

  2. Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias

    buzzfeednews.com · 1 outlets

  3. Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

    coindesk.com · 9 outlets

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

    hollywoodreporter.com · 2 outlets

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

    news.ncsu.edu · 1 outlets

  6. Del.icio.us

    del.icio.us · 1 outlets

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

    roguelazer.com · 1 outlets

  8. Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

    msn.com · 1 outlets

  9. Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

    storycreatorapp.com · 4 outlets

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

    mtlynch.io · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

    3d-book-css.netlify.ap · 4 outlets

  2. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

    fastcompany.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    vocodes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN

    hndex.org · 1 outlets

  6. Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]

    docs.house.gov · 1 outlets

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