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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 12 – July 12, 2020 802 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 194 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The End of the Redis Adventure

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Linux kernel in-tree Rust support

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: Promnesia – an attempt to fix broken web history

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. The End of the Redis Adventure

  2. Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin

  3. Olympus quits camera business after 84 years

  4. For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

Show 10 more
  1. After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract

  2. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

  3. App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

  4. Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia

  5. Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?

  6. Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr

  7. Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data

  8. Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater

  9. Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal

  10. Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users

Sports 26 stories

  1. Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks

  2. Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

Show 6 more
  1. De-escalating social media conflict

  2. Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing

  3. Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores

  4. Video Games Are the Future of Education

  5. Windows98 Running in the Browser

  6. I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua

Technology 609 stories

  1. Apple rejects appeal from email app Hey

  2. I Am Deleting the Blog

  3. Oppose the Earn IT Act

Show 9 more
  1. Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

  2. LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

  3. U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections

  4. India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps

  5. I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

  6. Mozilla VPN

  7. Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

  8. Teach Yourself Computer Science

  9. Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

Entertainment 45 stories

  1. Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

  2. Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

  2. Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS

  3. YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

  4. Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

  5. Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

  6. Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

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