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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 1 – December 1, 2021 786 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 48 · Issue 335 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

An oral history of Bank Python

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1Articles

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Making Emacs Popular Again (2020)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Your users will do what you make easy

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. An oral history of Bank Python

  2. Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs

  3. Business Essentials

  4. Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX

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  1. Crypto Wash Trading

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

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

  4. The Joy of Cryptography

  5. Backblaze IPO

  6. US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist

  7. The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto

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

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

  10. Bank transfers as a payment method

Sports 37 stories

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

  2. Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition

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

  2. Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money

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

  4. Winamp source code leak

  5. Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

  6. Finishing my first game while working full-time

Technology 614 stories

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

  2. Rust-CUDA: Fast GPU code fully in Rust

  3. Hetzner Cloud Goes US (Ashburn/VA)

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

  2. I resigned from Twitter

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

  4. Making the dislike count private across YouTube

  5. Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony

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

  7. Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap

  8. What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?

  9. Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

  2. Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org

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

  2. Show HN: Long Range E-Bike

  3. Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors

  4. Show HN: Randomly create beautiful website layouts

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

  6. OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware

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