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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 14 – July 21, 2020 197 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 30 · Issue 203 Get it by email ↓
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OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

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Business 12 stories

  1. OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

  2. Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org

  3. Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit

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  1. Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone

  2. Suspect is arrested in grisly killing of tech CEO Fahim Saleh

  3. The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh

  4. Why are CEOs failing software engineers?

Sports 9 stories

  1. The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

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  1. OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

  2. Poland puts computer game “This War of Mine” on school reading list

  3. Element wins deal to supply half a million licences to two German states

Technology 161 stories

  1. Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet

  2. Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study

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  1. Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad

  2. Why OKRs might not work at your company

  3. Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies

  4. Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”

  5. You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

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  1. Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?

  2. On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bonuses

  3. Show HN: Simple Ops – My new microstartup after three years of indie hacking

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