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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 15 – November 14, 2020 811 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 319 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Lecture notes on RISC-V assembly

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Cool Machine Learning Books

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    From McDonald's to Google

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 30 stories

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

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

  3. Congress should invest in open-source software

  4. Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snubbed government leaders

Show 10 more
  1. Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

  2. San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses

  3. Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp

  4. Marketers are addicted to bad data

  5. U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road

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

  7. YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet

  8. Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years

  9. First Bitcoin “mixer” penalized for violating anti-money laundering laws

  10. U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid

Sports 34 stories

  1. AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

  2. Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.

Show 6 more
  1. “Before cancelling your subscription, you must agree to the following”

  2. Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

  3. Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health

  4. SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client

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

  6. Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved

Technology 644 stories

  1. Youtube-dl GitHub Template

  2. The Abundance of Silicon Valley

  3. Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors

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  1. Sean Connery has died

  2. Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms

  3. Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

  4. Will R Work on Apple Silicon?

  5. Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

  6. Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection

  7. How journalists use youtube-dl

  8. Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says

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

Entertainment 28 stories

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

  2. Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

Show 6 more
  1. NAT Slipstreaming

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

  3. Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

  4. Show HN: A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript

  5. Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

  6. How to create minimal music with code in any programming language

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