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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 17 – August 16, 2022 763 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 228 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

    Is this the end of social networking?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Crimes with Python's pattern matching

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Amazon to Acquire One Medical

    4 of 30 days · 4 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. CEO Shadow Program

  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. Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero

Sports 26 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. Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?

  5. Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case

  6. Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)

Technology 600 stories

  1. How to Estimate Distance Using Just Your Thumb

  2. I regret my website redesign

  3. Use one big server

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  1. Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones

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

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

  4. Glassdoor not so anonymous

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

  6. Librarian's Letter to Google Security

  7. What ever happened to the transhumanists?

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

  9. Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

Entertainment 31 stories

  1. US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

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

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

  2. Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

  3. Show HN: Reduce SQLite database size by up to 80% with transparent compression

  4. Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 years

  5. Horizon Linux: arm64 Linux patched to run programs for the Nintendo Switch

  6. “Logistics”, an 857-hour movie, tracks a pedometer from shop back to factory

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