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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 29 – October 29, 2022 774 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 302 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

    Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    SingleFile version compatible with Manifest V3

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 33 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. TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

Show 10 more
  1. The Fundamentals of Control Theory

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

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

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

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

  6. From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate

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

  8. The 'attention economy' corrupts science

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

  10. Chess Investigation Finds U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times

Sports 25 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 macOS scanning and following downloaded QR codes has been retracted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 598 stories

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

  2. Sound

  3. Google is shutting down Stadia

Show 9 more
  1. GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion

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

  3. Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

  4. I help seniors with technology issues

  5. How fateful?

  6. Never trust a system that seems to be working

  7. Let's order strange things from NIST

  8. Pokemon Card Animation

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

Entertainment 41 stories

  1. Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

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

Show 6 more
  1. Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022

  2. Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator

  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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