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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 19 – September 18, 2019 829 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 261 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

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Information operations directed at Hong Kong

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Interview with Edward Snowden

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    exFAT in the Linux kernel

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 47 stories

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Google’s GDPR Workaround

    brave.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

    apple.com · 1 outlets

  3. 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  4. Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    shafyy.com · 1 outlets

  7. Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  8. Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil

    slate.com · 1 outlets

  9. NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

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

    accountingtoday.com · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

    jeff-vogel.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

  2. Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

    github.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Useless Windows 10 Features

    howtogeek.com · 1 outlets

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

    housebeautiful.com · 1 outlets

  3. WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  4. Cosmoteer: A starship design, simulation, and battle game

    cosmoteer.net · 1 outlets

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  6. Windows X86-64 System Call Table

    github.com · 2 outlets

Technology 610 stories

  1. Richard M. Stallman resigns

    fsf.org · 6 outlets

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

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  3. New Google and Facebook Inquiries

    m.youtube.com · 11 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Interview with Edward Snowden

    justice.gov · 4 outlets

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

    broadcast.listennotes. · 2 outlets

  4. California bans private prisons

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  5. Sunsetting Python 2

    python.org · 1 outlets

  6. Introducing nushell

    jonathanturner.org · 1 outlets

  7. How to do a code review

    google.github.io · 1 outlets

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

    medium.com · 3 outlets

  9. Favorite Interview Questions

    github.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 42 stories

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

    augmented-ui.com · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

    3dforreddit.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook

    ft.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 2 outlets

  3. WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

    wtfutil.com · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    pqina.nl · 2 outlets

  6. Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor

    gatesfoundation.org · 1 outlets

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