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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 12 – September 11, 2020 810 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 37 · Issue 255 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Using Microsoft Word with Git

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: My notes on Working with Go

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store

  2. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

  3. Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?

  4. Let employees sell their equity

Show 10 more
  1. SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

  2. Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants

  3. The Case of the Top Secret iPod

  4. FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices

  5. Zoom still don't understand GDPR

  6. Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation

  7. Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

  8. Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California

  9. Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap

  10. Citibank's $900M Blunder

Sports 27 stories

  1. Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

  2. Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

Show 6 more
  1. Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better

  2. Winamp Skin Museum

  3. Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

  4. A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React

  5. Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government

  6. Controllable Video Sprites That Appear Like Professional Tennis Players

Technology 613 stories

  1. Apple, Epic, and the App Store

  2. Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park

  3. Apple ordered to pay retail workers for security screening time [pdf]

Show 9 more
  1. Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease

  2. Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

  3. Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal

  4. American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time

  5. Mozilla Lifeboat

  6. ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

  7. Africa declared free of wild polio

  8. I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35

  9. Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Factorio 1.0

  2. Nuclear Reactor Development History

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs

  2. Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code

  3. Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes

  4. Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut

  5. Tower Defense with a twist: all towers must be positioned with CSS Flexbox

  6. Show HN: Healthcare Is Dumb

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