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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 13 – November 12, 2020 817 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 317 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Cool Machine Learning Books

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Will R Work on Apple Silicon?

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 29 stories

  1. PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network

  2. RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

  3. Congress should invest in open-source software

  4. Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

Show 10 more
  1. San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses

  2. Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp

  3. I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers, fake Reddit/HN accts

  4. Marketers are addicted to bad data

  5. U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road

  6. Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B

  7. YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet

  8. Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years

  9. First Bitcoin “mixer” penalized for violating anti-money laundering laws

  10. U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid

Sports 36 stories

  1. AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

  2. Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.

Show 6 more
  1. “Before cancelling your subscription, you must agree to the following”

  2. Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

  3. Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health

  4. SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client

  5. Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good

  6. Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved

Technology 640 stories

  1. Youtube-dl GitHub Template

  2. The Abundance of Silicon Valley

  3. Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors

Show 9 more
  1. Sean Connery has died

  2. Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms

  3. Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

  4. Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

  5. Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection

  6. How journalists use youtube-dl

  7. Zoom Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption Offering

  8. U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

  9. EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]

Entertainment 28 stories

  1. Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?

  2. Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

Show 6 more
  1. NAT Slipstreaming

  2. Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

  3. Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones

  4. Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon

  5. Show HN: My book, The Common Lisp Condition System

  6. Show HN: Low-Level Academy, an explorable systems programming course

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