The Mez Ledger
Menu
2018-08-06
Monthly Close

Monthly Close

The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 7 – August 6, 2018 795 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 218 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

YC Startup School Library

Also covering this startupschool.orgYC Startup School Library
2Outlets
2Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Foundations Machine Learning

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What if people were paid for their data?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 37 stories

  1. YC Startup School Library

  2. AMD stock rises after best earnings in 7 years

  3. PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding

  4. Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself

Show 10 more
  1. Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds

  2. Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%

  3. The Stock Market Is Shrinking

  4. Bank of America questions customer’s citizenship, freezes accounts

  5. JavaScript fundamentals before learning React

  6. SRE Fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs

  7. Former Apple Employee Charged with Theft of Autonomous Car Project Trade Secrets

  8. GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms 50-50 R&D pact

  9. The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan

  10. German court issues first GDPR ruling

Sports 46 stories

  1. A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet

  2. How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions

Show 6 more
  1. Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat

  2. Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python

  3. How to beat LinkedIn: The Game

  4. iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2

  5. Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine

  6. Illegal Production and Use of Banned CFC-11 in China's Foam Blowing Industry

Technology 592 stories

  1. Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

  2. “I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

  3. Google Maps is no longer a flat map

Show 9 more
  1. Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar

  2. Learn how to design large-scale systems

  3. Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars

  4. Amazon Dark Patterns

  5. The Bullshit Web

  6. Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

  7. What Elon Musk Should Learn from the Thailand Cave Rescue

  8. The European Commission versus Android

  9. MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

  2. Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git

Show 6 more
  1. My adventures getting Disney’s Moana island scene to render well with Pbrt

  2. Show HN: Router7 – A pure-Go implementation of a small home internet router

  3. Show HN: Owl, a new kind of parser generator

  4. Show HN: Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres

  5. Show HN: Online challenge: Build a CPU from scratch

  6. Algorithm recovers speech from a potato-chip bag filmed through glass (2014)

the Monthly Close

You just read a month of news in four minutes.

Every Monday we rank what the world actually covered — by how many outlets ran it and how many days it stayed up — and send you the top of the pile. No takes, no ads.

One email a week. We confirm your address first. Unsubscribe in one click. We never sell the list.