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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 20 – October 20, 2020 816 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 294 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Police are requesting data from smart speakers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? (2016)

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What if you knew how computers work? (2015)

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead

  2. Congress should invest in open-source software

  3. ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

  4. Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

Show 10 more
  1. Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google

  2. AT&T is selling your phone calls and text messages to marketers, how to opt out

  3. Y Combinator Failed Startups

  4. Reddit's Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street

  5. Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp

  6. I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers, fake Reddit/HN accts

  7. How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup

  8. Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B

  9. China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO

  10. Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup

Sports 23 stories

  1. Windows XP source code has leaked

  2. A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company

Show 6 more
  1. MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating

  2. When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

  3. Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition

  4. The SaaS website content you need to close sales

  5. Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by Factorio

  6. Swift on Windows

Technology 643 stories

  1. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

  2. Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

  3. Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus

Show 9 more
  1. AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

  2. We Hacked Apple for 3 Months

  3. Police are requesting data from smart speakers

  4. I no longer build software

  5. On the Use of a Life

  6. A warning about Glassdoor

  7. Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay

  8. Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption

  9. Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: I made a computer vision addon for Blender

  2. Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

Show 6 more
  1. Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads

  2. Say goodbye to hold music

  3. What is the best dumb TV?

  4. Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest

  5. FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks

  6. Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

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