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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 26 – October 26, 2020 812 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 300 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Police are requesting data from smart speakers

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

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

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    How I remember what I learn

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network

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

  3. Congress should invest in open-source software

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

Show 10 more
  1. Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

  2. Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google

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

  4. Y Combinator Failed Startups

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

  6. Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp

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

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

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

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

Sports 24 stories

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

  2. Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good

Show 6 more
  1. When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

  2. Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS

  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. Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

Technology 636 stories

  1. Youtube-dl GitHub Template

  2. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

  3. Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors

Show 9 more
  1. U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

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

  3. AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

  4. Facebook Container for Firefox

  5. We Hacked Apple for 3 Months

  6. Bongo Cat

  7. Police are requesting data from smart speakers

  8. A warning about Glassdoor

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

Entertainment 42 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. Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

  6. Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones

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