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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 14 – July 14, 2020 800 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 29 · Issue 196 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The End of the Redis Adventure

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Text-Only Social Network

    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 44 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. Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design

  5. Google to Invest $10B in India

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

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

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

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

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

Sports 30 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. WindowSwap: View someone's window somewhere in the world

  6. Windows98 Running in the Browser

Technology 609 stories

  1. GitHub was down

  2. Apple rejects appeal from email app Hey

  3. I Am Deleting the Blog

Show 9 more
  1. Oppose the Earn IT Act

  2. Grant Imahara, ‘Mythbusters’ Host, Dies at 49

  3. Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

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

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

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

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

  8. Mozilla VPN

  9. Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

Entertainment 44 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: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator

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

  4. YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

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

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

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