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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 18 – September 17, 2019 819 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 260 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

    Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Information operations directed at Hong Kong

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    exFAT in the Linux kernel

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

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

  2. Google’s GDPR Workaround

  3. 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

  4. California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees

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  1. Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

  2. 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google

  3. Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets

  4. Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’

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

  6. Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs

  7. Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil

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

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

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

Sports 30 stories

  1. Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

  2. Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

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  1. Useless Windows 10 Features

  2. Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

  3. WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources

  4. India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon

  5. Windows X86-64 System Call Table

  6. Irish Teenager Wins Global Science Award for Removing Microplastics from Water

Technology 607 stories

  1. Richard M. Stallman resigns

  2. How Apple's Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls

  3. New Google and Facebook Inquiries

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

  2. The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)

  3. California bans private prisons

  4. Sunsetting Python 2

  5. Introducing nushell

  6. How to do a code review

  7. Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses

  8. Favorite Interview Questions

  9. France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun

  2. Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

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  1. Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file

  2. WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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

  4. MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14

  5. Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News

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

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