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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 27 – August 26, 2022 773 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 238 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    To Hell with Facebook (2021)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Functional Reactive Programming

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 30 stories

  1. Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay

  2. “Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC

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

  4. Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year

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

  2. CEO Shadow Program

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

  4. AMD passes Intel in market cap

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

  6. Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps

  7. Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)

  8. Want to Start a Startup, as a Software Engineer? Sell Something Online

  9. U.S. Treasury sanctions virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash

  10. Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network

Sports 27 stories

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

  2. Mindustry – Open-Source Game

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  1. The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN

  2. The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool

  3. Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?

  4. Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case

  5. Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2

  6. Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)

Technology 608 stories

  1. Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

  2. Design the next iPhone

  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. Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit

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

  5. I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

  6. Librarian's Letter to Google Security

  7. What ever happened to the transhumanists?

  8. An odd discovery on Spotify

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

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

  2. Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn

Show 6 more
  1. Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]

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

  3. Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

  4. Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers

  5. Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

  6. Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor

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