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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 27 – October 27, 2022 776 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 300 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Never trust a system that seems to be working

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    SingleFile version compatible with Manifest V3

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Google Broke Image Search for Creative Commons

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 32 stories

  1. Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown

  2. LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape

  3. Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit

  4. Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding

Show 10 more
  1. TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

  2. The Fundamentals of Control Theory

  3. Celsius Execs Cashed Out $40M in Crypto Before Halting Withdrawals for Customers

  4. Hyundai investigating child labor in its U.S. supply chain

  5. Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

  6. As Covid hit, Washington officials traded stocks with exquisite timing

  7. From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate

  8. An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets

  9. The 'attention economy' corrupts science

  10. San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet

Sports 24 stories

  1. macOS scanning and following downloaded QR codes has been retracted

  2. Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year

Show 6 more
  1. What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames

  2. A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

  3. How Wine works 101

  4. Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study

  5. Why are there so few dead bugs on windshields these days?

  6. Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra

Technology 602 stories

  1. New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

  2. Sound

  3. Someone is pretending to be me

Show 9 more
  1. Google is shutting down Stadia

  2. GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion

  3. The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (1961)

  4. Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

  5. I help seniors with technology issues

  6. How fateful?

  7. Never trust a system that seems to be working

  8. Let's order strange things from NIST

  9. Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print

Entertainment 41 stories

  1. Show HN: Linen – Open-source Slack for communities

  2. Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator

  2. RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs

  3. Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots

  4. The deception of “buying” digital movies

  5. Show HN: Circumflex, browse HN in your terminal

  6. Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court

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