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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 16 – October 16, 2018 801 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 289 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

    A Programming Language Underdog

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Open Machine Learning Course

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 55 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. Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45

Show 10 more
  1. Instagram’s CEO

  2. Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint

  3. Startups I Want to Fund

  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. TinySeed – A Startup Accelerator Designed for Bootstrappers

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

Sports 28 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Growing Our SaaS to $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money

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

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

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

  5. Tailwind: A Utility-First CSS Framework

  6. Valley Forged: How One Man Made the Indie Video Game Sensation Stardew Valley

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

  3. Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest Hand Over Data

  4. Paul Allen has died

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

  6. Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

  7. Why I’m done with Chrome

  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: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

Show 6 more
  1. 12 Factor CLI Apps

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

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

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

  5. Show HN: Polar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging

  6. Study shows massive insect loss

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