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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 15 – September 14, 2020 799 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 258 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Interview with Paul Graham

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Using Microsoft Word with Git

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Apple, Epic, and the App Store

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 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. How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

Show 10 more
  1. Let employees sell their equity

  2. SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

  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. Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic

  9. Governments should adopt and invest in FOSS

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

Sports 27 stories

  1. Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

  2. Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better

Show 6 more
  1. Winamp Skin Museum

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

  3. Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.

  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 617 stories

  1. Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere

  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. Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

  3. Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

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

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

  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 39 stories

  1. Nuclear Reactor Development History

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code

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

  3. Show HN: Healthcare Is Dumb

  4. Factorio and Software Engineering

  5. Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

  6. Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation

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