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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 1 – October 31, 2021 791 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 304 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Apple Joins Blender Development Fund

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1Articles

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Removing my site from Google search

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Apple Joins Blender Development Fund

  2. Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

  3. Gitlab from YC to IPO

  4. Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks

Show 10 more
  1. First federal grant for psychedelic treatment research in 50 years

  2. Bitcoin is a Ponzi

  3. Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account

  4. Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners

  5. Remote OK Open Startup

  6. The Frame.work Marketplace Opened

  7. The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks

  8. How does the economy work? A new Fed paper suggests nobody really knows

  9. Backblaze S-1 IPO

  10. FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews

Sports 29 stories

  1. How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%

  2. Coinbase Breach Notification

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  1. Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font

  2. Proton wins appeal in Swiss court over surveillance laws

  3. Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Win-10,11/macOS/Linux on Linux

  4. Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?

  5. How to win at CORS

  6. O&O ShutUp10++ – Free anti-spy tool for Windows 10, 11

Technology 603 stories

  1. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

  2. Facebook’s attempt to smear the whistleblower

  3. Rust 1.56.0 and Rust 2021

Show 9 more
  1. Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer

  2. What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?

  3. Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked

  4. IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

  5. Willingness to look stupid

  6. MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

  7. Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer

  8. Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension

  9. Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal

Entertainment 30 stories

  1. Open Source Tractor

  2. Show HN: I built a sonar into my surfboard

Show 6 more
  1. Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)

  2. Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player

  3. Show HN: YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine

  4. Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors

  5. YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent

  6. Show HN: Low-latency jamming over the internet

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