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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 6 – July 6, 2021 802 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 27 · Issue 187 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

karpathy.github.io · 1 sources

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    GitHub Copilot regurgitates valid secrets

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Command Line Interface for Signal

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    1970s mainframe RPGs we can no longer play

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 37 stories

  1. A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

    karpathy.github.io · 1 outlets

  2. Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  4. Django for Startup Founders: A better software architecture for SaaS startups

    alexkrupp.typepad.com · 1 outlets

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  1. El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

  3. The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  5. Stockfish 14

    stockfishchess.org · 1 outlets

  6. What happens in an IPO? – Part 1

    bayesianinvestor.com · 2 outlets

  7. Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app

    abc.net.au · 1 outlets

  8. Tiny Acquisitions

    tinyacquisitions.com · 1 outlets

  9. DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside

    justice.gov · 1 outlets

  10. Binance banned from doing business in UK

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Sports 31 stories

  1. YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch

    thedailybeast.com · 2 outlets

  2. Wayfinder – a relaxing 'art game' in the browser

    wayfinder.nfb.ca · 1 outlets

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  1. FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  2. Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  3. Microsoft announces Windows 11

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  4. Only Windows 11 Pro will let you install Windows 11 with a local account

    ntdotdev.wordpress.com · 2 outlets

  5. SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon

    cryptoslate.com · 1 outlets

  6. Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Technology 621 stories

  1. Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right

    engineering.thebluegro · 2 outlets

  2. Organicmaps: Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers

    github.com · 2 outlets

  3. Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

    intuitiveexplanations. · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. GitHub Copilot regurgitates valid secrets

    copilot.github.com · 5 outlets

  2. A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

    kleinbottle.com · 1 outlets

  3. John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  4. I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka

    gentlydownthe.stream · 1 outlets

  5. The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

    casparwre.de · 1 outlets

  6. Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  7. WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  8. Reddit’s disrespectful design

    ognjen.io · 1 outlets

  9. What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages

    fastly.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

    tannerv.com · 1 outlets

  2. Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen

    play.google.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

    insidermag.net · 1 outlets

  2. No More Movies

    jayriverlong.github.io · 1 outlets

  3. Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors

    farms.com · 1 outlets

  4. HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors

    feed-me-up-scotty.vinc · 1 outlets

  6. TDD from the Factorio Team

    factorio.com · 1 outlets

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