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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 6 – November 5, 2017 816 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 309 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The trouble with text-only email

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Functor-Oriented Programming

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    What is Nix and why you should try it

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 56 stories

  1. Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web

  2. “Startup” asks internship applicant to build their app before phone screen

  3. Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business

  4. Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time

Show 10 more
  1. After the end of the startup era

  2. Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

  3. MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO

  4. Yes, but what does your startup do?

  5. Librem 5 Phone Funded

  6. Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)

  7. Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Beginners

  8. Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally

  9. AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings

  10. Call for help: fund GIMP development and Libre animation

Sports 24 stories

  1. Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile

  2. Handmade Hero – A complete game live-coded from scratch

Show 6 more
  1. LineageOS for microG – Access Google services without closed software

  2. Pencil and Paper Games

  3. Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping

  4. Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017

  5. Craniopagus Twins Share a Brain and See Out of Each Others Eyes

  6. U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Action Suits

Technology 617 stories

  1. Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist

  2. Suggested Topics on Data Structures (2016) [pdf]

  3. A New Twist on Neural Networks

Show 9 more
  1. Functor-Oriented Programming

  2. Pixel 2 is hiding a custom Google SoC for image processing

  3. Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse

  4. Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web

  5. US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data

  6. DevDocs API Documentation

  7. Documenting the Web together

  8. Do you need a VPN?

  9. I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. I have no side code projects to show you

  2. Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Metaballs

  2. Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble for Its New Weedkiller

  3. Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music

  4. Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript charting with zero dependencies

  5. Show HN: Server.js – A modern Express alternative

  6. Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performance by 50%

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