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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 2 – May 9, 2021 193 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 129 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay

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Business 10 stories

  1. Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay

  2. How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions

  3. Starting a crypto project

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  1. Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada

  2. Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers

  3. Evidence from leaked account data on how elites use offshore banking [pdf]

  4. Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches

Sports 7 stories

  1. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

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  1. How Tech Loses Out

  2. Tiny Wins

  3. WinBox: Window manager in a web browser

Technology 161 stories

  1. Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster

  2. LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

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  1. Crazy New Ideas

  2. I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

  3. Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

  4. ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs

  5. Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

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  1. Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React

  2. Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar

  3. Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale

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