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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 11 – November 10, 2017 826 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 45 · Issue 314 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm

What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft

    8 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    The trouble with text-only email

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 52 stories

  1. Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm

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

  3. The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business

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

Show 10 more
  1. Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business

  2. BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin competitor Chia

  3. Segwit2x Bitcoin Fork Suspended

  4. After the end of the startup era

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

  6. Kremlin Cash Behind Yuri Milner’s Twitter and Facebook Investments

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

  8. Yes, but what does your startup do?

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

  10. Writing a basic x86-64 JIT compiler from scratch in stock Python

Sports 27 stories

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

  2. LineageOS for microG – Access Google services without closed software

Show 6 more
  1. Business questions engineers should ask when interviewing at ML/AI companies

  2. NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

  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. Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award

Technology 611 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. Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft

  2. Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX

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

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

  5. Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web

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

  7. DevDocs API Documentation

  8. Documenting the Web together

  9. Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook

Entertainment 41 stories

  1. I have no side code projects to show you

  2. Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Metaballs

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

  3. Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends

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

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

  6. LA Times barred from Disney movies after report on corporate welfare

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