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2018-10-13
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 13 – October 13, 2018 801 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 286 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

    Open Machine Learning Course

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    What Could You Build with $10k?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 51 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. Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States

  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. TinySeed – A Startup Accelerator Designed for Bootstrappers

Sports 31 stories

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

  2. Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics

Show 6 more
  1. Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

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

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

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

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

  6. Tailwind: A Utility-First CSS Framework

Technology 602 stories

  1. How China Systematically Pries Technology from U.S. Companies

  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. Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix

  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. Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

  8. EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

  9. Facebook Isn’t Sorry, It Just Wants Your Data

Entertainment 24 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. Show HN: TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals

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

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

  6. Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is doing throttling

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