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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 30 – October 30, 2020 827 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 304 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

reuters.com · 1 sources

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1Articles

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

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Why hasn't prefab construction taken over?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 36 stories

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  4. Congress should invest in open-source software

    brookings.edu · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    techspot.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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

    framablog.org · 1 outlets

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

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  6. Y Combinator Failed Startups

    failory.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  8. Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    canny.io · 1 outlets

Sports 25 stories

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

    gamespot.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    zdnet.com · 1 outlets

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

    p01.org · 1 outlets

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

    shapez.io · 1 outlets

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

    startplaying.games · 1 outlets

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

    blog.coinbase.com · 1 outlets

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

    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go · 1 outlets

Technology 649 stories

  1. Youtube-dl GitHub Template

    github.com · 6 outlets

  2. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

    nobelprize.org · 1 outlets

  3. Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors

    matrix.org · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

    rachelbythebay.com · 1 outlets

  2. How journalists use youtube-dl

    freedom.press · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    iphoneincanada.ca · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  6. Facebook Container for Firefox

    mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  7. We Hacked Apple for 3 Months

    samcurry.net · 1 outlets

  8. My Resignation from the Intercept

    greenwald.substack.com · 1 outlets

  9. Bongo Cat

    bongo.cat · 1 outlets

Entertainment 41 stories

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

    typelit.io · 2 outlets

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

    buyforlifeproducts.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?

    mockmechanics.com · 1 outlets

  2. Say goodbye to hold music

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  3. What is the best dumb TV?

    pointerclicker.com · 1 outlets

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

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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

    peripherii.com · 1 outlets

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

    insider.com · 1 outlets

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