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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 5 – August 12, 2020 189 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 225 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Company pauses plan to send 9,000 back to office after pushback

Epic Systems, a medical records software company, "is going to have to adhere by the same rules as everyone else," a local official said.

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Business 14 stories

  1. Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments

  2. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

  3. CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better

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  1. Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says

  2. Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

  3. Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law

  4. Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf]

Sports 4 stories

  1. Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust

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  1. Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies

  2. Drivers who keep their windows down are exposed to 80 percent more air pollution

  3. Emulating Windows system calls in Linux

Technology 151 stories

  1. Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias

  2. Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

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  1. Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

  2. 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions

  3. Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime

  4. Frances Allen has died

  5. Single Page Applications using Rust

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN

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  1. Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]

  2. That coworker who never stops refactoring

  3. Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix

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