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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 29 – October 29, 2020 818 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 303 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Web Scraping with JavaScript

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Police are requesting data from smart speakers

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Why hasn't prefab construction taken over?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 37 stories

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

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

  3. RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

  4. Congress should invest in open-source software

Show 10 more
  1. ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

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

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

  4. Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

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

  6. Y Combinator Failed Startups

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

  8. Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp

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

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

Sports 23 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. Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by Factorio

  5. Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters

  6. Chewing Food More Thoroughly Results in Reduced Insulin Output (2013)

Technology 643 stories

  1. Youtube-dl GitHub Template

  2. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

  3. Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors

Show 9 more
  1. Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

  2. How journalists use youtube-dl

  3. U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

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

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

  6. Facebook Container for Firefox

  7. We Hacked Apple for 3 Months

  8. Bongo Cat

  9. Police are requesting data from smart speakers

Entertainment 40 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. Say goodbye to hold music

  2. What is the best dumb TV?

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

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

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

  6. Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon

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