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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 30 – August 6, 2021 191 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 218 Get it by email ↓
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Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization

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Business 12 stories

  1. Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization

  2. Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance

  3. Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

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  1. Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads

  2. Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster

  3. I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time

  4. Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity

Sports 13 stories

  1. WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel

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  1. The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games

  2. A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags

  3. Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

Technology 154 stories

  1. Expanded Protections for Children

  2. Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life

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  1. Scanning your iPhone for Pegasus

  2. The rise of never-ending job interviews

  3. Who Owns My Name?

  4. New in Git: switch and restore

  5. Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission

Entertainment 7 stories

  1. Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

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  1. Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

  2. Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase

  3. Show HN: Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C

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