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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 23 – August 22, 2018 820 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 234 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Jason's Machine Learning 101

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Data Collection research

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine for China

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1

  2. AMD stock rises after best earnings in 7 years

  3. Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers

  4. Startup School 2018 – Curriculum

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  1. Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool

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

  3. Bash Infinity: Standard library and boilerplate framework for Bash

  4. Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation

  5. Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace

  6. The Secret API of Banks

  7. Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds

  8. New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers

  9. Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused Amazon alternative

  10. The Stock Market Is Shrinking

Sports 33 stories

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

  2. Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX

Show 6 more
  1. How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions

  2. EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

  3. Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python

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

  5. The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI

  6. Traveling the World on a Third World Passport

Technology 613 stories

  1. Google tracks your movements, like it or not

  2. Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store

  3. Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs

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  1. Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars

  2. Amazon Dark Patterns

  3. The Bullshit Web

  4. Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

  5. Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate

  6. NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

  7. Julia 1.0

  8. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

  9. Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

Entertainment 50 stories

  1. Show HN: Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding

  2. Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster

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  1. Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++

  2. Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git

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

  4. Show HN: Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C

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

  6. Show HN: Make a business model canvas in your browser

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