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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 13 – November 12, 2021 787 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 45 · Issue 316 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

An oral history of Bank Python

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1Articles

What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    How to get back into a hacked Facebook account

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Paper Website: Start a tiny website from your notebook

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 49 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

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  1. Business Essentials

  2. Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks

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

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

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

  6. Backblaze IPO

  7. US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist

  8. Remote OK Open Startup

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

  10. The U.S. Treasury is buying private app data to target and investigate people

Sports 34 stories

  1. Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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

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

  2. Firefox is the 45th result when searching for “Firefox” on Windows Store

  3. Finishing my first game while working full-time

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

  5. Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8B fine

  6. October had the biggest U.S. inflation surge in more than 30 years

Technology 608 stories

  1. Rust 1.56.0 and Rust 2021

  2. The benefits of staying off social media

  3. Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust

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  1. Hetzner Cloud Goes US (Ashburn/VA)

  2. Willingness to look stupid

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

  4. Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community

  5. Making the dislike count private across YouTube

  6. But What's Up with That ¥?

  7. I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old

  8. Paper Website: Start a tiny website from your notebook

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

Entertainment 29 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors

  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: Simple access to your music from the web

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

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