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2018-10-11
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 11 – October 11, 2018 813 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 284 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Study: Google is the biggest beneficiary of the GDPR

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Deep learning experiments in OCaml

    8 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    What Could You Build with $10k?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    A Programming Language Underdog

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. Study: Google is the biggest beneficiary of the GDPR

  2. An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s

  3. Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

  4. Instagram’s CEO

Show 10 more
  1. Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint

  2. Startups I Want to Fund

  3. Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless

  4. The United States Is Now the Largest Global Crude Oil Producer

  5. Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29

  6. Snapchat CEO’s leaked memo on survival

  7. Honda will use GM’s self-driving technology, invests in Cruise

  8. WhatsApp founder says Facebook used him to get its acquisition past EU regulator

  9. Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)

  10. H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies

Sports 32 stories

  1. Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows

  2. Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics

  2. Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

  3. Growing Our SaaS to $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money

  4. Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data

  5. How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

  6. Amazon Warehouse Workers Lose Bonuses, Stock Awards for Raises

Technology 612 stories

  1. Good Apple (Bad Apple Remix) on the Soviet BK-0010/11M

  2. Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

  3. Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks

Show 9 more
  1. Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch”

  2. Argue with your customers

  3. Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

  4. Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off

  5. Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

  6. Why I’m done with Chrome

  7. EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’

  8. Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

  9. EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

Entertainment 25 stories

  1. Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics

  2. Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: MicroMDM – Open Source MDM Server for Apple Devices

  2. 12 Factor CLI Apps

  3. Apple didn't delete that guy's movies – what really happened

  4. Show HN: TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals

  5. Show HN: Hacking slot machines with a buttonhole camera and brute-force search

  6. Show HN: Alan – a low-code application platform

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