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2019-09-04
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 28 – September 4, 2019 192 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 247 Get it by email ↓
The week'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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Business 8 stories

  1. Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

  2. Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms

  3. Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine

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  1. Software Engineering Grads Lack the Skills Startups Need

  2. Pension funds may be wrecked in a future recession

  3. Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery

  4. Tesla Batteries Are Keeping Zimbabwe’s Economy Running

Sports 4 stories

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

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  1. The growing science of memory manipulation

  2. Windows X86-64 System Call Table

  3. SQL Window Functions

Technology 158 stories

  1. Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server

  2. Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app

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  1. A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

  2. A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 4

  3. John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]

  4. The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70

  5. Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Show HN: Array with Constant Time Access and Fast Insertion and Deletion

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  1. Show HN: Face Generator

  2. Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a factor of about 3x

  3. Show HN: Ackee – Self-hosted website analytics

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