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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 22 – November 21, 2021 786 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 325 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

    Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Dummy display for Apple Silicon Macs to achieve custom resolutions

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    The benefits of staying off social media

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. An oral history of Bank Python

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

  3. Business Essentials

  4. Crypto Wash Trading

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

  4. Backblaze IPO

  5. US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist

  6. How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend

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

  8. Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit

  9. Fundamentals of Piano Practice

  10. Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps

Sports 35 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. Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

  5. Finishing my first game while working full-time

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

Technology 607 stories

  1. Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust

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

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

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  1. Hetzner Cloud Goes US (Ashburn/VA)

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

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

  4. Making the dislike count private across YouTube

  5. But What's Up with That ¥?

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

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

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

  9. Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language

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

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  1. Show HN: Long Range E-Bike

  2. Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors

  3. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website

  4. Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

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

  6. Show HN: I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts

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