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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 18 – November 17, 2021 804 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 321 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

An oral history of Bank Python

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    How to get back into a hacked Facebook account

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Dummy display for Apple Silicon Macs to achieve custom resolutions

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. An oral history of Bank Python

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

  3. Business Essentials

  4. Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks

Show 10 more
  1. Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops

  2. The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

  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. How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend

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

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

  10. Backblaze S-1 IPO

Sports 33 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. Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker

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

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

  4. Finishing my first game while working full-time

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

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

Technology 618 stories

  1. Rust 1.56.0 and Rust 2021

  2. Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

  3. The benefits of staying off social media

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

  2. Hetzner Cloud Goes US (Ashburn/VA)

  3. “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

  4. Willingness to look stupid

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

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

  7. Making the dislike count private across YouTube

  8. But What's Up with That ¥?

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

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Long Range E-Bike

  2. Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors

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

  4. Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors

  5. YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent

  6. Show HN: Simple access to your music from the web

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