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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 12 – August 11, 2022 780 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 223 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Intel Microcode Decryptor

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Crimes with Python's pattern matching

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Amazon to Acquire One Medical

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Twitter confirms zero-day used to expose data of 5.4M accounts

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 34 stories

  1. Intel Microcode Decryptor

  2. EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

  3. NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government

  4. More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade

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  1. TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business

  2. House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report

  3. My business card runs Linux

  4. Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z

  5. Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding

  6. Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment

  7. How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing

  8. GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software

  9. AMD passes Intel in market cap

  10. Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment

Sports 31 stories

  1. Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme

  2. Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world

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  1. Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title

  2. Mindustry – Open-Source Game

  3. The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN

  4. Show HN: Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Returns

  5. Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case

  6. It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot

Technology 611 stories

  1. How to Estimate Distance Using Just Your Thumb

  2. I regret my website redesign

  3. Compare Webb's Images to Hubble

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  1. Use one big server

  2. Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones

  3. Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser

  4. I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

  5. Glassdoor not so anonymous

  6. Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

  7. Librarian's Letter to Google Security

  8. What ever happened to the transhumanists?

  9. I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

Entertainment 32 stories

  1. US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

  2. Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent

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  1. Show HN: Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux

  2. Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

  3. Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid

  4. Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

  5. Show HN: I built an app for when I talk too much in online meetings

  6. Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors

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