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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 3 – September 2, 2019 808 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 245 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything

The poor girl from the Great Smoky Mountains who became the glitzy queen of country glamour has always known what really matters

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    How to Start with Machine Learning

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1

  2. I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”

  3. Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

  4. Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets

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  1. AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans

  2. Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data

  3. Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs

  4. IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business

  5. Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest

  6. NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors

  7. WeWork Gets Tax Rebate Meant for Its Small-Business Tenants

  8. Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan? How Trade Works with Free-Floating Currency

  9. U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss

  10. Monsanto Effort to Defund Cancer Researchers

Sports 26 stories

  1. Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

  2. Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours

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  1. Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode

  2. Useless Windows 10 Features

  3. Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day

  4. Wine on Windows 10

  5. The Paxos Algorithm, or How to Win a Turing Award

  6. I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games

Technology 612 stories

  1. Information operations directed at Hong Kong

  2. WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company

  3. Intel and Rust: The Future of Systems Programming [video]

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  1. How Facebook Tracks You on Android (2018) [video]

  2. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

  3. Introducing nushell

  4. Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020

  5. Ebola Is Now Curable

  6. All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people

  7. I Miss Microsoft Encarta

  8. Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’

  9. Terminating Service for 8Chan

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web

  2. Show HN: Personal Management System

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  1. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist

  2. WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

  3. Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator

  4. Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library

  5. Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me

  6. Show HN: Wave-based non-line-of-sight computational imaging in Julia

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