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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 7 – November 6, 2021 782 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 310 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

An oral history of Bank Python

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: I built a sonar into my surfboard

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    How to get back into a hacked Facebook account

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. An oral history of Bank Python

  2. Apple Joins Blender Development Fund

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

  4. Gitlab from YC to IPO

Show 10 more
  1. Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks

  2. Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops

  3. First federal grant for psychedelic treatment research in 50 years

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

  5. Backblaze IPO

  6. US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist

  7. Remote OK Open Startup

  8. The Frame.work Marketplace Opened

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

  10. Backblaze S-1 IPO

Sports 30 stories

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

  2. Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff

Show 6 more
  1. Finishing my first game while working full-time

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

  3. Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is

  4. Proton wins appeal in Swiss court over surveillance laws

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

  6. How to win at CORS

Technology 604 stories

  1. Rust 1.56.0 and Rust 2021

  2. Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer

  3. Hetzner Cloud Goes US (Ashburn/VA)

Show 9 more
  1. IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

  2. Willingness to look stupid

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

  4. An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software

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

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

  7. Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found security flaw in state site

  8. Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

  9. Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California

Entertainment 32 stories

  1. Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

  2. Open Source Tractor

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: I built a sonar into my surfboard

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

  3. Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors

  4. YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent

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

  6. As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show

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