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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 3 – July 3, 2019 834 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 27 · Issue 184 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startup idea checklist

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Smoltcp: A small TCP/IP stack in Rust

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    From Design Patterns to Category Theory (2017)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Startup idea checklist

  2. Facebook plans cryptocurrency debut

  3. Grubhub is using fake websites to drive up commission fees from real businesses

  4. GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

Show 10 more
  1. Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby

  2. The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature

  3. I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

  4. Powerless investors vote overwhelmingly to oust Mark Zuckerberg as chairman

  5. 150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019

  6. Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May

  7. Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street

  8. Google refunded $200 because I missed 5 lines of Code

  9. SoftBank could bring down the house?

  10. Voilà turns Jupyter notebooks to standalone web applications

Sports 32 stories

  1. Open Source Game Clones

  2. Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required

Show 6 more
  1. Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games

  2. I thought I made a hard game and then speedrunners destroyed it

  3. Why brilliant people lose their touch

  4. Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server

  5. Level Design Patterns in 2D Games

  6. ‘Pre-bunk’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation

Technology 639 stories

  1. On Jony Ive Leaving Apple

  2. Why Hong Kong Is Still Marching

  3. US Customs Database Of Traveler Photos Was Hacked And Stolen

Show 9 more
  1. Chinese authorities install app on phones of people entering Xinjiang

  2. Raspberry Pi 4

  3. Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles

  4. Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer

  5. Choose Boring Technology

  6. Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

  7. The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness

  8. “Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics”

  9. Sign In with Apple [video]

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Show HN: Hydra – Open-Source OAuth2 Server

  2. Show HN: This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech

  2. Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

  3. iOS 13 now shows you a map of where apps have been tracking you

  4. Show HN: Enviro+ for Raspberry Pi – Environmental sensors

  5. Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

  6. Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files

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